Politician

Francesco Cossiga

8th President of Italy

1928 - 2010

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His biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 80 in 2024). Francesco Cossiga is the 2,895th most popular politician (down from 2,444th in 2024), the 951st most popular biography from Italy (down from 849th in 2019) and the 203rd most popular Italian Politician.

Francesco Cossiga was an Italian politician who served as the 41st Prime Minister of Italy from 1979 to 1980 and as the President of Italy from 1985 to 1992.

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Francesco Cossiga is the most memorable of the 8 notable people born in Sassari, Italy, ahead of Antonio Segni, Enrico Berlinguer, and Maria Carta.

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Francesco Cossiga's biography appears in 82 language editions of Wikipedia — more than 97% of all Politicians.

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Francesco Cossiga shares a July 26 birthday with Carl Jung, George Bernard Shaw, and Stanley Kubrick.

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Among Politicians

Among politicians, Francesco Cossiga ranks 2,894 out of 19,576. Before him are Elizabeth of Portugal, Victor Lustig, Adolfo Suárez, Merneith, Francisco I. Madero, and Yazid III. After him are James III of Scotland, Petronilla of Aragon, Ladislaus III of Hungary, Albert, King of Sweden, William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Francesco Cossiga ranks 51. Before him are Alberto Korda, Alvin Toffler, Carlos Fuentes, Vera Rubin, Manfred Gerlach, and Li Ka-shing. After him are Li Peng, Alfonso de Portago, Eugene Merle Shoemaker, Peyo, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and Daniel Nathans. Among people deceased in 2010, Francesco Cossiga ranks 27. Before him are Néstor Kirchner, Vasily Smyslov, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Zecharia Sitchin, and Ali Hassan al-Majid. After him are Harry Mulisch, Algirdas Brazauskas, Gennady Yanayev, Bruno Cremer, Viktor Chernomyrdin, and Jean Simmons.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Francesco Cossiga ranks 951 out of 5,161. Before him are Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus (-84), Francesco Primaticcio (1504), Maximilian Sforza (1493), Clementia of Hungary (1293), Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus (-3), and Maurus Servius Honoratus (363). After him are Giovanni Gentile (1875), Niccolò Piccinni (1728), Fausta (289), Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans (1810), John William Waterhouse (1849), and Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (-2).

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Among Politicians In Italy

Among politicians born in Italy, Francesco Cossiga ranks 203. Before him are Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquess of Balbases (1569), Teia (550), Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo (5), Dionysius II of Syracuse (-397), Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus (-84), and Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus (-3). After him are Fausta (289), Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans (1810), Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (-2), Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este (1787), William I of Sicily (1126), and Alfonso II of Naples (1448).

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