1936 - Today
Frederik Willem de Klerk (, 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 in the democratic government. 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 3,038,448 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). F. W. de Klerk is the 1,181st most popular politician (down from 1,101st in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 7th in 2019) and the 2nd 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, F. W. de Klerk ranks 1,181 out of 15,710. Before him are Antoine of Navarre, Oswald Mosley, Shang Yang, Antiochus I Soter, Muawiya II, and Marie Louise d’Orléans. After him are Turgut Özal, John III of Portugal, Kwame Nkrumah, Emir Abdelkader, Nabopolassar, and Helmut Schmidt.
1518 - 1562
HPI: 75.70
Rank: 1,175
1896 - 1980
HPI: 75.70
Rank: 1,176
390 BC - 338 BC
HPI: 75.70
Rank: 1,177
324 BC - 261 BC
HPI: 75.69
Rank: 1,178
661 - 684
HPI: 75.68
Rank: 1,179
1662 - 1689
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 1,180
1936 - Present
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 1,181
1927 - 1993
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 1,182
1502 - 1557
HPI: 75.66
Rank: 1,183
1909 - 1972
HPI: 75.63
Rank: 1,184
1808 - 1883
HPI: 75.63
Rank: 1,185
658 BC - 605 BC
HPI: 75.63
Rank: 1,186
1918 - 2015
HPI: 75.62
Rank: 1,187
Among people born in 1936, F. W. de Klerk ranks 19. Before him are Mikhail Tal, Wilt Chamberlain, David Carradine, Barack Obama Sr., Richard Bach, and John McCain. After him are Dennis Hopper, Robert Woodrow Wilson, Barry Barish, Glen Campbell, Ursula Andress, and Michael Landon.
1936 - 1992
HPI: 77.17
Rank: 13
1936 - 1999
HPI: 76.28
Rank: 14
1936 - 2009
HPI: 76.04
Rank: 15
1936 - 1982
HPI: 76.02
Rank: 16
1936 - Present
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 17
1936 - 2018
HPI: 75.97
Rank: 18
1936 - Present
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 19
1936 - 2010
HPI: 75.50
Rank: 20
1936 - Present
HPI: 75.40
Rank: 21
1936 - Present
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 22
1936 - 2017
HPI: 75.07
Rank: 23
1936 - Present
HPI: 74.55
Rank: 24
1936 - 1991
HPI: 74.36
Rank: 25
Among people born in South Africa, F. W. de Klerk ranks 9 out of 312. Before him are J. M. Coetzee (1940), Sarah Baartman (1788), Shaka (1787), Nadine Gordimer (1923), Behati Prinsloo (1988), and Elon Musk (1971). After him are Christiaan Barnard (1922), Desmond Tutu (1931), Miriam Makeba (1932), Charlize Theron (1975), Paul Kruger (1825), and Thabo Mbeki (1942).
1940 - Present
HPI: 76.83
Rank: 3
1788 - 1815
HPI: 76.50
Rank: 4
1787 - 1828
HPI: 76.31
Rank: 5
1923 - 2014
HPI: 76.19
Rank: 6
1988 - Present
HPI: 75.68
Rank: 7
1971 - Present
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 8
1936 - Present
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 9
1922 - 2001
HPI: 75.04
Rank: 10
1931 - Present
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 11
1932 - 2008
HPI: 73.90
Rank: 12
1975 - Present
HPI: 72.48
Rank: 13
1825 - 1904
HPI: 71.81
Rank: 14
1942 - Present
HPI: 71.71
Rank: 15
Among politicians born in South Africa, F. W. de Klerk ranks 2. Before him are Shaka (1787). After him are Paul Kruger (1825), Thabo Mbeki (1942), Jacob Zuma (1942), P. W. Botha (1916), Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark (1942), Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1936), Jan Smuts (1870), Cyril Ramaphosa (1952), D. F. Malan (1874), and Abba Eban (1915).
1787 - 1828
HPI: 76.31
Rank: 1
1936 - Present
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 2
1825 - 1904
HPI: 71.81
Rank: 3
1942 - Present
HPI: 71.71
Rank: 4
1942 - Present
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 5
1916 - 2006
HPI: 71.51
Rank: 6
1942 - Present
HPI: 71.41
Rank: 7
1936 - 2018
HPI: 70.77
Rank: 8
1870 - 1950
HPI: 69.61
Rank: 9
1952 - Present
HPI: 68.39
Rank: 10
1874 - 1959
HPI: 67.46
Rank: 11
1915 - 2002
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 12