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Henry Kissinger

1923 - 2023

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Henry Alfred Kissinger (May 27, 1923 – November 29, 2023) was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 56th United States secretary of state from 1973 to 1977 and the 7th national security advisor from 1969 to 1975, serving in both the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Born in Germany, Kissinger emigrated to the United States in 1938 as a Jewish refugee fleeing Nazi persecution. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. After the war, he attended Harvard University, where he excelled academically. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Kissinger has received more than 26,061,303 page views. His biography is available in 99 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 88 in 2019). Henry Kissinger is the 18th most popular politician (up from 62nd in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Germany (up from 23rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Politician.

Henry Kissinger is a German-born American diplomat who served as the Secretary of State under President Richard Nixon. He is most famous for his role in the Vietnam War, which he helped to end by negotiating the 1973 Paris Peace Accords.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Henry Kissinger ranks 18 out of 19,576. Before him are Jimmy Carter, Augustus, Richard Nixon, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Cleopatra, and David. After him are Commodus, Otto von Bismarck, Andrew Jackson, Elizabeth I of England, Vladimir Putin, and Louis XVI of France.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Henry Kissinger ranks 1. After him are Maria Callas, Shimon Peres, Lee Kuan Yew, Heydar Aliyev, Idi Amin, Wisława Szymborska, Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, Rocky Marciano, Charlton Heston, Italo Calvino, and Wojciech Jaruzelski. Among people deceased in 2023, Henry Kissinger ranks 1. After him are Silvio Berlusconi, Milan Kundera, Toto Cutugno, Tina Turner, Gina Lollobrigida, Jeff Beck, Michael Gambon, Constantine II of Greece, Bobby Charlton, Jane Birkin, and Yevgeny Prigozhin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Henry Kissinger ranks 10 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Sebastian Bach (1685), Martin Luther (1483), Karl Marx (1818), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749), Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777), and Johannes Gutenberg (1394). After him are Friedrich Nietzsche (1844), Otto von Bismarck (1815), Johannes Kepler (1571), Albrecht Dürer (1471), Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770), and Richard Wagner (1813).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Henry Kissinger ranks 2. Before him are Charlemagne (748). After him are Otto von Bismarck (1815), Frederick the Great (1712), Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859), Heinrich Himmler (1900), Angela Merkel (1954), Hermann Göring (1893), Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912), William I, German Emperor (1797), Klemens von Metternich (1773), and Joseph Goebbels (1897).

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