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F. W. de Klerk

1936 - 2021

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Frederik Willem de Klerk ( də-KLURK, də-KLAIRK, Afrikaans: [ˈfriədərək ˈvələm də ˈklɛrk]; 18 March 1936 – 11 November 2021) was a South African politician who served as state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as deputy president from 1994 to 1996. As South Africa's last head of state from the era of white-minority rule, he and his government dismantled the apartheid system and introduced universal suffrage. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of F. W. de Klerk has received more than 4,129,650 page views. His biography is available in 80 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 74 in 2019). F. W. de Klerk is the 1,105th most popular politician (up from 1,385th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 9th in 2019) and the most popular South African Politician.

F.W. de Klerk is most famous for being the last president of apartheid-era South Africa and for ending apartheid.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, F. W. de Klerk ranks 1,105 out of 19,576. Before him are 5th Dalai Lama, Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Brennus, Helmut Schmidt, Baldwin II of Jerusalem, and Archduke Otto of Austria. After him are Warren G. Harding, Octavia the Younger, Peter III of Aragon, Balbinus, Gudea, and Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, F. W. de Klerk ranks 15. Before him are Robert Redford, Ken Loach, Mikhail Tal, Amancio Ortega, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and Andrei Chikatilo. After him are John McCain, Valery Legasov, Ismail Kadare, Wilt Chamberlain, Dennis Hopper, and Ursula Andress. Among people deceased in 2021, F. W. de Klerk ranks 8. Before him are Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michael Collins, Gerd Müller, Albert Bandura, Mikis Theodorakis, and Abdelaziz Bouteflika. After him are Chun Doo-hwan, Christopher Plummer, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Charlie Watts, Isamu Akasaki, and Carlos Menem.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, F. W. de Klerk ranks 7 out of 454. Before him are Nelson Mandela (1918), J. R. R. Tolkien (1892), Elon Musk (1971), Miriam Makeba (1932), Sarah Baartman (1788), and J. M. Coetzee (1940). After him are Nadine Gordimer (1923), Shaka (1787), Desmond Tutu (1931), Christiaan Barnard (1922), Cyril Ramaphosa (1952), and Max Theiler (1899).

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Among POLITICIANS In South Africa

Among politicians born in South Africa, F. W. de Klerk ranks 1. After him are Shaka (1787), Cyril Ramaphosa (1952), Jacob Zuma (1942), Thabo Mbeki (1942), Paul Kruger (1825), P. W. Botha (1916), Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1936), D. F. Malan (1874), Jan Smuts (1870), Abba Eban (1915), and Kgalema Motlanthe (1949).

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