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Imre Nagy

1896 - 1958

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Imre Nagy ( IM-rə NOJ; Hungarian: [ˈnɒɟ ˈimrɛ]; 7 June 1896 – 16 June 1958) was a Hungarian communist politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers (de facto Prime Minister) of the Hungarian People's Republic from 1953 to 1955. In 1956 Nagy became leader of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 against the Soviet-backed government, for which he was sentenced to death and executed two years later. He was not related to previous agrarianist Prime Minister Ferenc Nagy. Born to a peasant family, Nagy was apprenticed as a locksmith before being drafted in World War I. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Imre Nagy has received more than 1,290,251 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Imre Nagy is the 468th most popular politician (up from 469th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 13th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Hungarian Politician.

Imre Nagy was a Hungarian politician who was the Prime Minister of Hungary for a few months in 1953. He was most famous for his involvement in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, where he attempted to create a democracy in Hungary.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Imre Nagy ranks 468 out of 19,576. Before him are Caesarion, Stephen Báthory, Mary of Burgundy, Atahualpa, Narmer, and Yongle Emperor. After him are Heydar Aliyev, Frederick I of Prussia, Louis II of Hungary, Guy of Lusignan, Louis the German, and Wilhelmina of the Netherlands.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Imre Nagy ranks 6. Before him are F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wallis Simpson, Jean Piaget, Georgy Zhukov, and Lev Vygotsky. After him are André Breton, Tristan Tzara, Roman Jakobson, Paula Hitler, Konstantin Rokossovsky, and Antonin Artaud. Among people deceased in 1958, Imre Nagy ranks 3. Before him are Pope Pius XII, and Wolfgang Pauli. After him are Rosalind Franklin, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, John B. Watson, Ernest Lawrence, Roger Martin du Gard, Clinton Davisson, Kurt Alder, Faisal II of Iraq, and Milutin Milanković.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Imre Nagy ranks 14 out of 1,077. Before him are Harry Houdini (1874), Stephen I of Hungary (975), John von Neumann (1903), George Soros (1930), Miklós Horthy (1868), and Ignaz Semmelweis (1818). After him are Louis II of Hungary (1506), Louis I of Hungary (1326), Imre Kertész (1929), Árpád (845), Gaiseric (389), and Jadwiga of Poland (1374).

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Among POLITICIANS In Hungary

Among politicians born in Hungary, Imre Nagy ranks 4. Before him are Matthias Corvinus (1443), Stephen I of Hungary (975), and Miklós Horthy (1868). After him are Louis II of Hungary (1506), Louis I of Hungary (1326), Árpád (845), Gaiseric (389), Jadwiga of Poland (1374), John Zápolya (1487), Ladislaus the Posthumous (1440), and Viktor Orbán (1963).

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