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RACING DRIVER

Björn Waldegård

1943 - 2014

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Björn Waldegård (12 November 1943 – 29 August 2014) was a Swedish rally driver, and the winner of the World Rally Championship for drivers in 1979. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Björn Waldegård has received more than 127,625 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Björn Waldegård is the 95th most popular racing driver (up from 99th in 2019), the 269th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 281st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swedish Racing Driver.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Björn Waldegård ranks 95 out of 888. Before him are Luigi Fagioli, Tom Pryce, Jean-Pierre Beltoise, Elio de Angelis, Patrick Tambay, and Lucien Bianchi. After him are Ángel Nieto, David Purley, Thierry Sabine, Ricardo Rodríguez, Jo Bonnier, and Stig Blomqvist.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Björn Waldegård ranks 155. Before him are Armando Guebuza, David Soul, Richard Sennett, Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov, James Levine, and Richard S. Hamilton. After him are Clément Mouamba, Boris Gromov, Joan Manuel Serrat, Randy Newman, Stanley Kamel, and Bob Woodward. Among people deceased in 2014, Björn Waldegård ranks 102. Before him are Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia, David Easton, Sabah, Huber Matos, Alexander Imich, and Mário Coluna. After him are Alice Herz-Sommer, Lorna Wing, Richard Bull, Milan Galić, Tatiana Samoilova, and Leo Tindemans.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Björn Waldegård ranks 269 out of 1,612. Before him are Ingeborg Magnusdotter of Sweden (1277), Elsa Beskow (1874), Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland (1979), Árni Magnússon (1663), Hans Blix (1928), and Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871). After him are Erik Acharius (1757), Hjalmar Söderberg (1869), Thorbjörn Fälldin (1926), Oskar Klein (1894), Eva Ekeblad (1724), and Karin Boye (1900).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In Sweden

Among racing drivers born in Sweden, Björn Waldegård ranks 3. Before him are Keke Rosberg (1948) and Ronnie Peterson (1944). After him are Jo Bonnier (1930), Stig Blomqvist (1946), Ove Andersson (1938), Reine Wisell (1941), Stefan Johansson (1956), Gunnar Nilsson (1948), Slim Borgudd (1946), Kent Andersson (1942), and Conny Andersson (1939).

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