SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Jan Palach

1948 - 1969

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Jan Palach (Czech pronunciation: [jan ˈpalax]; 11 August 1948 – 19 January 1969) was a Czech student of history and political economics at Charles University in Prague. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Palach has received more than 792,741 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Jan Palach is the 37th most popular social activist (up from 39th in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 39th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Czech Social Activist.

Jan Palach was a Czech student who set himself on fire in Prague's Wenceslas Square on January 16, 1969 to protest the Soviet Union's occupation of Czechoslovakia.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 59

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Jan Palach ranks 37 out of 840. Before him are Hassan al-Banna, Élie Ducommun, Sadako Sasaki, Emiliano Zapata, Lady Godiva, and Ferdinand Lassalle. After him are Sophie Scholl, Shirin Ebadi, Simon Wiesenthal, Emmeline Pankhurst, Martin Niemöller, and Angela Davis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Jan Palach ranks 15. Before him are Cat Stevens, Samuel L. Jackson, Hassan Rouhani, Sauli Niinistö, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and Ozzy Osbourne. After him are Jeremy Irons, Olivia Newton-John, Antonín Panenka, Henning Mankell, Luiz Felipe Scolari, and Marcello Lippi. Among people deceased in 1969, Jan Palach ranks 14. Before him are Judy Garland, Rocky Marciano, Otto Stern, Kliment Voroshilov, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and C. F. Powell. After him are Saud of Saudi Arabia, Liu Shaoqi, Levi Eshkol, Morihei Ueshiba, Brian Jones, and Otto Dix.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jan Palach ranks 36 out of 1,200. Before him are Edvard Beneš (1884), Václav Klaus (1941), Arthur Seyss-Inquart (1892), Hans Kelsen (1881), Leoš Janáček (1854), and Ottokar II of Bohemia (1233). After him are Miloš Zeman (1944), Klement Gottwald (1896), Karl Kautsky (1854), Emil Zátopek (1922), Max Brod (1884), and Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (907).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Czechia

Among social activists born in Czechia, Jan Palach ranks 3. Before him are Jan Hus (1369), and Bertha von Suttner (1843). After him are Emilie Schindler (1907), Joseph von Sonnenfels (1732), and Miroslav Tyrš (1832).

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