Muhammad Habibur Rahman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Muhammad Habibur Rahman

Chief Justice of Bangladesh Supreme Court

Date of Birth: 03-Dec-1930

Place of Birth: Murshidabad, West Bengal, India

Date of Death: 11-Jan-2014

Profession: judge, politician

Nationality: Pakistan, Bangladesh

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Muhammad Habibur Rahman (3 December 1928 – 11 January 2014) was a Chief Justice of Bangladesh Supreme Court in 1995.
He was the Chief Adviser of the 1996 caretaker government which oversaw the Seventh parliamentary elections in Bangladesh.
A language activist and advocate of the Bengali language, he wrote extensively and published eight books on the subject.
He played a significant role to implement Bengali in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh.
He wrote Jathashabdo (1974), the first thesaurus in the Bengali language.Rahman was awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1984 and Ekushey Padak in 2007 by the Government of Bangladesh.
He served as a Fellow of Bangla Academy, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh and Worcester College, Oxford.