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Edward Gierek

1913 - 2001

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Edward Gierek (Polish pronunciation: [ˈɛdvart ˈɡʲɛrɛk]; 6 January 1913 – 29 July 2001) was a Polish Communist politician and de facto leader of Poland between 1970 and 1980. Gierek replaced Władysław Gomułka as First Secretary of the ruling Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) in the Polish People's Republic in 1970. He is known for opening communist Poland to the Western Bloc and for his economic policies based on foreign loans. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Gierek has received more than 392,197 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Edward Gierek is the 4,551st most popular politician (up from 5,104th in 2019), the 258th most popular biography from Poland (up from 293rd in 2019) and the 69th most popular Polish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Edward Gierek ranks 4,551 out of 15,577Before him are Eleanor of Alburquerque, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Agrippa Postumus, Marie Anne de Mailly, Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg, and Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. After him are José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Choe Ryong-hae, Victorinus, Margaret of Bavaria, Al-Muqanna, and Taejodae of Goguryeo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Edward Gierek ranks 69Before him are Peter Cushing, Roger Caillois, Alan Ladd, Méret Oppenheim, Tito Gobbi, and Lloyd Bridges. After him are Heinz Linge, Robert Adler, Stewart Granger, Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Alexander Pokryshkin, and Boris Pahor. Among people deceased in 2001, Edward Gierek ranks 46Before him are Timothy McVeigh, Isaac Stern, Ken Kesey, Henry Lee Lucas, Giovanni Leone, and Emilie Schindler. After him are Francisco da Costa Gomes, Poul Anderson, Donald J. Cram, W. G. Sebald, David Graf, and Michele Alboreto.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Edward Gierek ranks 258 out of 1,454Before him are Wanda Landowska (1879), Leopold Trepper (1904), Zbigniew Boniek (1956), Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651), Stanisława Walasiewicz (1911), and Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1785). After him are Bolesław Prus (1847), Hans Kammler (1901), Hans-Jürgen Stumpff (1889), Jerzy Kosiński (1933), Stefan Wyszyński (1901), and Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg (1797).

Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Edward Gierek ranks 69Before him are Władysław I Herman (1043), Dieter Wisliceny (1911), Victor Klemperer (1881), Anna von Schweidnitz (1339), Aleksander Kwaśniewski (1954), and Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1785). After him are Leszek the White (1186), Ryszard Kaczorowski (1919), Hans Modrow (1928), Franz Mehring (1846), Stanislav Kosior (1889), and Michał Kleofas Ogiński (1765).