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POLITICIAN

Denis Healey

1917 - 2015

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Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey, (30 August 1917 – 3 October 2015) was a British Labour Party politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979 and as Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970; he remains the longest-serving Defence Secretary to date. He was a Member of Parliament from 1952 to 1992, and was Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1980 to 1983. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Denis Healey has received more than 1,148,653 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Denis Healey is the 15,953rd most popular politician (down from 13,968th in 2019), the 5,207th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,485th in 2019) and the 591st most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Denis Healey ranks 15,953 out of 15,577Before him are Caesar Rodney, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Alexei Nemov, Amlaíb, King of Scotland, Svenja Schulze, and Ursula Plassnik. After him are John Breckinridge, Alejandro Mayorkas, Janusz Lewandowski, Dennis Kucinich, Sahana Pradhan, and Mikola Statkevich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Denis Healey ranks 296Before him are Kamal Ranadive, Robert La Caze, Marcel Hansenne, Jack Lynch, Robert Merrill, and Audrey Totter. After him are W. T. Tutte, Laurie Scott, Fannie Lou Hamer, Hans Conried, Barbara Burke, and Irving Kaplansky. Among people deceased in 2015, Denis Healey ranks 438Before him are Andriy Kuzmenko, Jurelang Zedkaia, Harry Gallatin, Martin Milner, Brian Friel, and Jihadi John. After him are Hitoshi Saito, Ron Springett, Gene Fullmer, Eugenie Clark, Holly Woodlawn, and Peter Westbury.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Denis Healey ranks 5,207 out of 7,765Before him are Phyllida Lloyd (1957), Norman Whiteside (1965), Michael Park (1966), Allan Wells (1952), Hermione Gingold (1897), and Tony Crook (1920). After him are John Houghton (1931), Paul Cavanagh (1888), Andy Fairweather Low (1948), Steve Archibald (1956), W. T. Tutte (1917), and Jack Wild (1952).

Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Denis Healey ranks 591Before him are George Lansbury (1859), Paul Radmilovic (1886), Nick Leeson (1967), David Kelly (1944), Charles Rosher (1885), and Bernadette Devlin McAliskey (1947). After him are Kenneth Clarke (1940), Rhodri Morgan (1939), Dominic Raab (1974), George Galloway (1954), Reggie Pridmore (1886), and Michael Fallon (1952).