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Anna Lindh

1957 - 2003

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Ylva Anna Maria Lindh (19 June 1957 – 11 September 2003) was a Swedish Social Democratic politician and lawyer who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1998 until her death. She was also a Member of the Riksdag (member of parliament) for Södermanland County until her assassination. On 10 September 2003, four days before a referendum on replacing the Swedish krona with the euro as currency, Lindh was stabbed by Mijailo Mijailović at the NK department store in central Stockholm; she died the next morning at Karolinska University Hospital. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anna Lindh has received more than 494,126 page views. Her biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Anna Lindh is the 5,220th most popular politician (up from 5,424th in 2019), the 210th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 228th in 2019) and the 67th most popular Swedish Politician.

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  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Anna Lindh ranks 5,220 out of 15,577Before her are Huo Guang, Ahmose-Meritamun, Ferenc Deák, Nobuyuki Abe, Mihrişah Sultan, and Marek Edelman. After her are Suzanne, Duchess of Bourbon, Giovanni Gronchi, Marino Faliero, Taksony of Hungary, Hwang Jang-yop, and Rexhep Meidani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Anna Lindh ranks 42Before her are Nick Cave, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, Caroline Kennedy, John Turturro, Faustin-Archange Touadéra, and Ivo Josipović. After her are Masayoshi Son, Carrie Lam, Marita Koch, Stephen Fry, Hwang Kyo-ahn, and Fran Drescher. Among people deceased in 2003, Anna Lindh ranks 58Before her are Annemarie Schimmel, Bob Hope, Monique Wittig, Lee Yoo-hyung, Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza, and Walt Whitman Rostow. After her are John Schlesinger, Vasil Bykaŭ, Georg Henrik von Wright, Ilan Ramon, Michael P. Anderson, and Moktar Ould Daddah.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Anna Lindh ranks 210 out of 1,612Before her are Carl Bildt (1949), Stig Anderson (1931), Yngwie Malmsteen (1963), Maud Adams (1945), Salomon August Andrée (1854), and Eric X of Sweden (1180). After her are Blot-Sweyn (1001), Sverker II of Sweden (1164), Elizabeth Stride (1843), Jussi Björling (1911), Carl Gustaf Mosander (1797), and Gustav Horn, Count of Pori (1592).

Among POLITICIANS In Sweden

Among politicians born in Sweden, Anna Lindh ranks 67Before her are Per Albin Hansson (1885), Birger, King of Sweden (1280), Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke (1865), Sigvard Bernadotte (1907), Carl Bildt (1949), and Eric X of Sweden (1180). After her are Blot-Sweyn (1001), Sverker II of Sweden (1164), Canute II of Sweden (1200), Lennart Bernadotte (1909), Richeza of Poland, Queen of Sweden (1116), and Carl Johan Bernadotte (1916).