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Yakubu Gowon
Nigerian politician and Military general
politician
military personnel
human rights activist
writer
Identity & names
- Given name
- first name or another given name of this person; values used with the property should not link disambiguations nor family names
Yakubu
Life & background
- Date of birth
- date on which the subject was born
October 19, 1934
- Country of citizenship
- the object is a country that recognizes the subject as its citizen
Nigeria
- Place of birth
- most specific known birth location of a person, animal or fictional character
Kanke
- Residence
- the place where the person is or has been, resident
London
- Residence
- the place where the person is or has been, resident
Lagos
- Spouse
- the subject has the object as their spouse (husband, wife, partner, etc.). Use "unmarried partner" (P451) for non-married companions
Victoria Gowon
Awards & recognition
- Award received
- award or recognition received by a person, organization or creative work
National Order of Niger
- Award received
- award or recognition received by a person, organization or creative work
Order of the Federal Republic
Other details
- BlackPast.org ID
- identifier for articles on BlackPast.org
global-african-history/gowon-general-yakubu-dan-yumma-1934
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
- identifier for an article in the online version of Brockhaus Enzyklopädie
gowon-yakubu
- Commons category
- name of the Wikimedia Commons category containing files related to this item (without the prefix "Category:")
Yakubu Gowon
- described by source
- work where this item is described
Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978)
- described by source
- work where this item is described
Dictionary of African Biography
- described by source
- work where this item is described
Africa: An Encyclopedic Reference
- Deutsche Biographie (GND) ID
- GND identifier for an item in the Deutsche Biographie
121014827
- educated at
- educational institution attended by subject
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
- educated at
- educational institution attended by subject
Staff College, Camberley
- educated at
- educational institution attended by subject
University of Warwick
- educated at
- educational institution attended by subject
Barewa College
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- identifier for an article in the online version of Encyclopædia Britannica
biography/Yakubu-Gowon
- Encyclopædia Universalis ID
- identifier for an article in the online version of Encyclopædia Universalis
yakubu-gowon
- FAST ID
- authority control identifier in WorldCat's “FAST Linked Data” authority file
12159
- GND ID
- identifier from an international authority file of names, subjects, and organizations
121014827
- Google Arts & Culture entity ID
- identifier for a person, event, place, or other entity on the Google Arts & Culture website
m02px53
- GTAA ID
- identifier for GTAA, a thesaurus used in audiovisual archives (NISV, EYE)
102262
- Hrvatska enciklopedija ID
- identifier for an article in the Croatian Encyclopedia (Hrvatska enciklopedija)
22896
- JRC Names ID
- ID in the "Joint Research Centre" (JRC) Names gazetteer, which provides spelling variants and "Europe Media Monitor" (EMM) information about the entity (220k news items per day)
11997
- Krugosvet article (archived)
- link to article of Russian-language online encyclopedia
istoriya/GOVON_YAKUBU.html
- languages spoken, written or signed
- language(s) that a person or a people speaks, writes or signs, including the native language(s)
English
- languages spoken, written or signed
- language(s) that a person or a people speaks, writes or signs, including the native language(s)
Nigerian Pidgin
- Lex ID
- identifier of an article in the online encyclopedia.lex.dk
Yakubu_Gowon
- Lur Encyclopedic Dictionary ID
- identifier for an entry in the Lur Hiztegi Entziklopedikoa (Lur Encyclopedic Dictionary)
02545/eu_g_2918/g2918
- member of political party
- the political party of which a person is or has been a member or otherwise affiliated
military dictatorship
- military branch
- branch to which this military unit, award, office, or person belongs, e.g. Royal Navy
Nigerian Army
- military or police rank
- military or police rank achieved by a person (should usually have a "start time" qualifier), or military or police rank associated with a position
general
- Munzinger person ID
- identifier on the Munzinger Archiv
00000011414
- name in native language
- name of a person in their native language
Yakubu Gowon
- National Library of Nigeria ID
- identifier for authority records in the National Library of Nigeria’s Semantic Name Authority Repository (NLN SNAR)
- National Library of Nigeria ID — Wikidata
- NE.se ID
- ID of article on the Swedish Nationalencyklopedin (NE.se) site
yakubu-gowon
- Notable Names Database ID
- identifier in the Notable Names Database, a biographical database: only for people entries
099/000111763
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
- identifier for an entry in the online release of the Online PWN Encyclopedia
3907072
- Oxford Reference overview ID
- identifier for an overview page for a topic in the Oxford Reference
20110803095902167
- position held
- subject currently or formerly holds the object position or public office
chairperson of the Organisation of African Unity
- position held
- subject currently or formerly holds the object position or public office
President of Nigeria
- position held
- subject currently or formerly holds the object position or public office
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nigeria
- position held
- subject currently or formerly holds the object position or public office
Chief of Army Staff
- Prabook ID
- identifier of a person in the Prabook database
728665
- Proleksis enciklopedija ID
- identifier for a topic in Proleksis enciklopedija
24092
- religion or worldview
- religion of a person, organization or religious building, or associated with this subject
Christianity
- sex or gender
- sex or gender identity of human or animal. For human: male, female, non-binary, intersex, transgender female, transgender male, agender, etc. For animal: male organism, female organism. Groups of same gender use subclass of (P279)
male
- SNAC ARK ID
- identifier for items in the Social Networks and Archival Context system
w6hk2hjg
- Store norske leksikon (Great Norwegian Encyclopedia) ID
- identifier of an article in the online encyclopedia snl.no
Yakubu_Gowon
- Treccani's Dizionario di Storia ID
- identifier for Dizionario di Storia ("Dictionary of History") by Treccani
yakubu-gowon
- Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID
- identifier for an item in the online edition of the Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija
yakubu-gowon
- WorldCat Entities ID
- identifier for a person, work, place, historical period, or event from the WorldCat Entities linked data service
E39PBJtMgXqr9CGmYJMWfFqYT3
- Yale LUX ID
- identifier for an entity in Yale's LUX cross collection knowledge graph
person/54c6f71d-45fa-46bd-ae65-82f9cf261ca7
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