Fahd of Saudi Arabia
King of Saudi Arabia from 1982 to 2005
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- Historical Figures rank#118
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Lived 1921–2005, aged 84
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He ruled Saudi Arabia for 23 years — longer than any king before or since — though for the final decade a stroke left him largely absent while his half-brother ran the country in all but name.
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Born sometime between 1920 and 1923, Fahd bin Abdulaziz was the eighth son of the kingdom's founder and the eldest of the Sudairi Seven, a powerful bloc of brothers by the same mother. He climbed through the ministries — Education from 1953 to 1962 under King Saud, then Interior until 1975 — before becoming crown prince when his half-brother Khalid took the throne following King Faisal's assassination in 1975. Fahd was already the de facto leader during Khalid's reign, the ailing king a figure more than a force. When Khalid died in 1982, Fahd formally ascended and introduced the Basic Law in 1…
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