Ruler · 1918 – 1996

Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad

Lived 1918 – 1996; politician. President of Bangladesh (Bangladesh), 1975.

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Lived: 1918 – 1996; 78 years
Lines: 1; Bangladesh
Left it: deposed; the ruler's own article

President of Bangladesh

Bangladesh · the 6th of 22 dated reigns · 1971 – 2026

2 before

Abu Sayeed Chowdhury1972 – 1973

Mohammad Mohammadullah1973 – 1975

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman1975

Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad1975

Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem1975 – 1977

Ziaur Rahman1977 – 1981

Abdus Sattar1981 – 1982

13 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1975 · under a year · came to it aged 57

Left it: deposedread from the ruler's own article

On 3 November, he himself was deposed in another coup.

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