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Edward Ochab

1906 - 1989

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Edward Ochab (Polish: [ˈɛdvart ˈɔxap]; 16 August 1906 – 1 May 1989) was a Polish communist politician and top leader of Poland between March and October 1956. As a member of the Communist Party of Poland from 1929, he was repeatedly imprisoned for his activities under the Polish government of the time. In 1939 Ochab participated in the Defense of Warsaw but afterwards moved to the Soviet Union, where he became an early organizer and manager in the Union of Polish Patriots. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Ochab has received more than 126,000 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Edward Ochab is the 9,524th most popular politician (up from 9,911th in 2019), the 581st most popular biography from Poland (up from 608th in 2019) and the 153rd most popular Polish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Edward Ochab ranks 9,524 out of 19,576Before him are Cynric, Louis V, Elector Palatine, Nicomedes III of Bithynia, Shō Hashi, Adolf, Count Palatine of the Rhine, and Dub, King of Scotland. After him are Rolandas Paksas, John A. Macdonald, Xiang of Xia, Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, Gustavo Noboa, and Princess Marie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Edward Ochab ranks 141Before him are T. H. White, Lilian Harvey, Anton Karas, Paolo Stoppa, Jim Thompson, and Princess Anne of Orléans. After him are Samad Vurgun, Wilhelm Boger, Joan Hickson, Eraldo Monzeglio, Francis Hong Yong-ho, and Sait Faik Abasıyanık. Among people deceased in 1989, Edward Ochab ranks 104Before him are Ondrej Nepela, Charles Vanel, Anthony Quayle, André Cayatte, Zinka Milanov, and Mel Blanc. After him are Leyla Mammadbeyova, Gilbert Simondon, Elisaveta Bykova, Prince Wolfgang of Hesse, Hans Hellmut Kirst, and Harry Andrews.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Edward Ochab ranks 581 out of 1,694Before him are Krzysztof Komeda (1931), Isaac Deutscher (1907), Caspar Schwenckfeld (1490), Tadeusz Kutrzeba (1885), Bella Darvi (1928), and Hilary Koprowski (1916). After him are Jan Sarkander (1576), Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1797), Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov (1793), Eugen Goldstein (1860), Joachim Meisner (1933), and Abraham Robinson (1918).

Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Edward Ochab ranks 153Before him are Stanisław Kania (1927), Constantine, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1801), Vyacheslav Kebich (1936), Bronisław Geremek (1932), Wincenty Witos (1874), and Joachim Lelewel (1786). After him are Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1797), Mieczysław Rakowski (1926), Alfred Józef Potocki (1817), Zbigniew Religa (1938), Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Castro (1926), and Józef Wybicki (1747).