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Jan de Quay

1901 - 1985

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Jan Eduard de Quay (26 August 1901 – 4 July 1985) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Catholic People's Party (KVP) now the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and psychologist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 19 May 1959 until 24 July 1963. De Quay studied Applied psychology and Literature at the Utrecht University obtaining Master of Psychology and Letters degree's followed by a postgraduate education in Clinical Psychology at the Stanford University obtaining a Master of Social Science degree and worked as a researcher and associate professor of Applied psychology at the University of Tilburg from September 1927 until August 1939 before finishing his thesis at his alma and graduated as a Doctor of Psychology in Applied psychology and worked as a professor of Applied psychology, business administration and business theory at the University of Tilburg from March 1933 until August 1939. De Quay also served as Rector Magnificus of the university from January 1938 until January 1939. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan de Quay has received more than 69,463 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Jan de Quay is the 12,878th most popular politician (down from 12,817th in 2019), the 625th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 615th in 2019) and the 94th most popular Dutch Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jan de Quay ranks 12,878 out of 19,576Before him are Carlo I Tocco, José Miró Cardona, Carl Christian Hall, Juraj Dobrila, Eduard Kokoity, and Vitale Candiano. After him are Shapur IV, Aksel Airo, Philip, Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg, John I, Count Palatine of Simmern, Oliver Ivanović, and Đorđe Martinović incident.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Jan de Quay ranks 190Before him are Ivan Pyryev, Mária Mednyánszky, Curt Bois, Haj Ali Razmara, Sekiryo Kaneda, and Grete Hermann. After him are Manly P. Hall, Juan García Oliver, Maurice Evans, Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Nora Gregor, and Alfred Müller-Armack. Among people deceased in 1985, Jan de Quay ranks 145Before him are Gale Sondergaard, Mary Kenneth Keller, Josef Čtyřoký, Dawn Addams, Samantha Smith, and Israel Regardie. After him are Aksel Airo, E. B. White, Haruo Remeliik, Yusuf Lule, Vivien Thomas, and Ludo Coeck.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Jan de Quay ranks 625 out of 1,646Before him are Suzanne Manet (1829), Ard Schenk (1944), Maggie MacNeal (1950), Jan Raas (1952), Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer (1692), and Gerben Karstens (1942). After him are Bart Bok (1906), Adri van Tiggelen (1957), Willeke van Ammelrooy (1944), Jan Wolkers (1925), Bartholomeus Breenbergh (1598), and Daley Blind (1990).

Among POLITICIANS In Netherlands

Among politicians born in Netherlands, Jan de Quay ranks 94Before him are Neelie Kroes (1941), Gerrit Schimmelpenninck (1794), Cornelis Lely (1854), Wilhelm Heinrich, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (1691), Victor Marijnen (1917), and Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer (1692). After him are Badr Hari (1984), Jo Cals (1914), Piet Dankert (1934), Ramon Dekkers (1969), Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck (1873), and Jacob van Zuylen van Nijevelt (1816).