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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. She had been seen as a likely candidate to succeed Göran Persson as Social Democratic party leader. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anna Lindh has received more than 539,176 page views. Her biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Anna Lindh is the 4,932nd most popular politician (up from 5,208th in 2019), the 193rd most popular biography from Sweden (up from 209th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular Swedish Politician.

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  • 3.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Anna Lindh ranks 4,932 out of 19,576. Before her are Alben W. Barkley, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, Nobuyuki Abe, Kaykaus II, An-Nasir Muhammad, and Shulgi. After her are Pavel Milyukov, Macky Sall, Henri, Prince of Condé, Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Al-Mustansir, and Labarna I.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Anna Lindh ranks 43. Before her are Marita Koch, Shane MacGowan, Ivo Josipović, Masayoshi Son, Michael Cretu, and Roch Marc Christian Kaboré. After her are Caroline Kennedy, Faustin-Archange Touadéra, John Turturro, Fran Drescher, Hwang Kyo-ahn, and Yuen Biao. Among people deceased in 2003, Anna Lindh ranks 53. Before her are Lee Yoo-hyung, Denis Thatcher, Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Waichiro Omura, Moktar Ould Daddah, and Frank Sheeran. After her are Rasul Gamzatov, Annemarie Schimmel, Valentin Pavlov, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Michael P. Anderson, and Georg Henrik von Wright.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Anna Lindh ranks 193 out of 1,879. Before her are Hans Blix (1928), Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland (1979), Bo Larsson (1944), Inge the Younger (1100), Britt Ekland (1942), and Vagn Walfrid Ekman (1874). After her are John I of Sweden (1201), Michael Nyqvist (1960), Sverker II of Sweden (1164), Sten Sture the Younger (1493), Ingvar Carlsson (1934), and Nicolai Gedda (1925).

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Among POLITICIANS In Sweden

Among politicians born in Sweden, Anna Lindh ranks 62. Before her are Sten Sture the Elder (1440), Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke (1865), Per Albin Hansson (1885), Carl Bildt (1949), Tage Erlander (1901), and Inge the Younger (1100). After her are John I of Sweden (1201), Sverker II of Sweden (1164), Sten Sture the Younger (1493), Ingvar Carlsson (1934), Birger, King of Sweden (1280), and Princess Sophie of Sweden (1801).

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