POLITICIAN

Jan de Klerk

1903 - 1979

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Johannes "Jan" de Klerk, (22 July 1903 – 24 January 1979) was a South African politician. He was the father of F. W. de Klerk, the last apartheid State President of South Africa. As a member of the National Party, de Klerk served as interim State President for nine days following the retirement of Jacobus Johannes Fouché in 1975. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan de Klerk has received more than 88,532 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Jan de Klerk is the 13,942nd most popular politician (down from 12,894th in 2019), the 97th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 87th in 2019) and the 34th most popular South African Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 89k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Jan de Klerks by language

Over the past year Jan de Klerk has had the most page views in the with 20,016 views, followed by Russian (2,936), and Spanish (2,755). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Basque (193.86%), Hebrew (64.37%), and Asturian (46.08%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jan de Klerk ranks 13,942 out of 19,576. Before her are Juan Orlando Hernández, Ablabius, Atifete Jahjaga, Julia Gardiner Tyler, Laodice II, and Oleksiy Fedorov. After her are Ricardo Leoncio Elías Arias, Job Cohen, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Muhammad Azam Shah, Theodoros Pangalos, and John Abbott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Jan de Klerk ranks 233. Before her are Dumitru Stăniloae, Alexander Bek, Jack Oakie, Nikolay Zabolotsky, Anders Rydberg, and E. O. Plauen. After her are O. E. Hasse, Vladimir Lossky, Hamilton Luske, Pierre Brossolette, Charles Rigoulot, and Igor Newerly. Among people deceased in 1979, Jan de Klerk ranks 184. Before her are Paul Paray, Ismail Nasiruddin of Terengganu, István Bibó, Walther Müller, Pyotr Gavrilov, and Bernt Evensen. After her are Corinne Griffith, Sigrid Fick, Gérard Blitz, Ole Lund Kirkegaard, Michael Wilding, and Stan Kenton.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Jan de Klerk ranks 97 out of 454. Before her are Eben Dönges (1898), Deon Meyer (1958), Ingrid Jonker (1933), Chris Hani (1942), Ted Moore (1914), and Peter de Klerk (1935). After her are Mpande kaSenzangakhona (1798), Sid Atkinson (1901), Jim Fouché (1898), Navi Pillay (1941), Trevor Rabin (1954), and Max Gluckman (1911).

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Among POLITICIANS In South Africa

Among politicians born in South Africa, Jan de Klerk ranks 34. Before her are Nico Diederichs (1903), Helen Suzman (1917), J. G. Strijdom (1893), Eben Dönges (1898), Chris Hani (1942), and Ted Moore (1914). After her are Mpande kaSenzangakhona (1798), Jim Fouché (1898), Julius Malema (1981), Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma (1949), Pik Botha (1932), and Tom Naudé (1889).

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