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Jo Cals

1914 - 1971

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Jozef Maria Laurens Theo "Jo" Cals (18 July 1914 – 30 December 1971) was a Dutch politician of the Catholic People's Party (KVP) and jurist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 14 April 1965 until 22 November 1966. Cals studied law at the Radboud University Nijmegen obtaining a Master of Laws degree and worked as a lawyer and prosecutor in Nijmegen from November 1940 until August 1948 and as researcher at his alma mater from February 1941 until May 1949. Cals also worked as a legal and economics teacher in Roermond from October 1943 until June 1945. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jo Cals has received more than 67,760 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Jo Cals is the 13,190th most popular politician (up from 13,366th in 2019), the 641st most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 660th in 2019) and the 96th most popular Dutch Politician.

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  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jo Cals ranks 13,190 out of 19,576. Before him are Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Lev Dovator, Tiridates I of Parthia, Hassan Ali Mansur, Zuleykha Seyidmammadova, and Princess Louise Eleonore of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. After him are Barbu Știrbey, Solomon Lozovsky, Mahmoud El Nokrashy Pasha, Arda of Armenia, Yu Zhengsheng, and Émile Derlin Zinsou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Jo Cals ranks 232. Before him are Charles Régnier, Dagmar Lange, Wolfgang Windgassen, Jan Kott, Carlo Biagi, and Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky. After him are Marcel Kint, Jijé, Victor Sen Yung, Jyoti Basu, Annemarie Selinko, and Krishan Chander. Among people deceased in 1971, Jo Cals ranks 136. Before him are Paruyr Sevak, Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi, Richard Montague, Jean-Pierre Monseré, Bengt Ekerot, and Shunryū Suzuki. After him are Simon Vestdijk, Juhan Smuul, John Dall, Hjalmar Andersson, Walther von Wartburg, and Gladys Cooper.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Jo Cals ranks 641 out of 1,646. Before him are Dirk Coster (1889), Badr Hari (1984), Bas van Fraassen (1941), Frenkie de Jong (1997), Dirk Brouwer (1902), and Tylman van Gameren (1632). After him are Jan Gerritsz van Bronckhorst (1603), Kick Smit (1911), Lenny Kuhr (1950), Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp (1594), Heintje Simons (1955), and George Clifford III (1685).

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Among POLITICIANS In Netherlands

Among politicians born in Netherlands, Jo Cals ranks 96. Before him are Cornelis Lely (1854), Wilhelm Heinrich, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (1691), Victor Marijnen (1917), Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer (1692), Jan de Quay (1901), and Badr Hari (1984). After him are Piet Dankert (1934), Ramon Dekkers (1969), Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck (1873), Jacob van Zuylen van Nijevelt (1816), Jan Jacob Rochussen (1797), and Job Cohen (1947).

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