Ruler · 1936 – 1981

Ziaur Rahman

Lived 1936 – 1981; politician, military personnel. President of Bangladesh (Bangladesh), 1977 – 1981.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 1936 – 1981; 45 years
In office: 4 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Bangladesh
Left it: killed in office; Wikidata's manner of death

President of Bangladesh

Bangladesh · the 8th of 22 dated reigns · 1971 – 2026

4 before

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman1975

Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad1975

Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem1975 – 1977

Ziaur Rahman1977 – 1981

Abdus Sattar1981 – 1982

A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury1982 – 1983

Hussain Muhammad Ershad1983 – 1990

11 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 1977 – 1981 · 4 years · came to it aged 41

Left it: killed in officeWikidata's manner of death: homicide; gunshot wound

In the early hours of the morning of 30 May, he was assassinated by a group of army officers.

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