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John Turner

1929 - 2020

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John Napier Wyndham Turner (June 7, 1929 – September 19, 2020) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 17th prime minister of Canada from June to September 1984. He served as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and leader of the Official Opposition from 1984 to 1990. Turner practised law before being elected as a member of Parliament in the 1962 federal election. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Turner has received more than 1,560,180 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). John Turner is the 12,255th most popular politician (down from 11,696th in 2019), the 2,627th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,647th in 2019) and the 385th most popular British Politician.

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  • 1.6M

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  • 57.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, John Turner ranks 12,255 out of 19,576. Before him are Víctor Balaguer i Cirera, Publius Valerius Comazon, Bhimsen Thapa, Karin Keller-Sutter, Roman Golovchenko, and Andrei Kozyrev. After him are Nikos Christodoulides, Spyridon Trikoupis, Nebkaure Khety, Georges Leygues, Jimeno Garcés of Pamplona, and Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, John Turner ranks 266. Before him are Maarten Schmidt, Barbara Walters, Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, Stanisław Mikulski, Rudi Glöckner, and Vija Artmane. After him are Francesco Alberoni, Tomislav Crnković, Marilyn French, Paavo Berglund, Kiki Håkansson, and Carlo Ubbiali. Among people deceased in 2020, John Turner ranks 281. Before him are Ramadan Shalah, Silva Batuta, José Bonaparte, Kićo Slabinac, Irm Hermann, and Milka Babović. After him are Alfred Riedl, Sisavath Keobounphanh, Hédi Baccouche, Tomás Balcázar, Ivan Passer, and Sonja Edström.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Turner ranks 2,627 out of 8,785. Before him are Peggy Ashcroft (1907), Billy Meredith (1874), William Robertson Smith (1846), Steve Perryman (1951), Patrick Manson (1844), and Thomas Telford (1757). After him are Cedric Hardwicke (1893), Richard Armitage (1971), Jeffrey Tate (1943), Diana Mosley (1910), William Gregor (1761), and Gertrude Jekyll (1843).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, John Turner ranks 385. Before him are Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent (1301), Constance Markievicz (1868), Caradoc (470), Ernst Wilhelm Bohle (1903), Henry Pottinger (1789), and George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen (1946). After him are George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (1737), Thomas Wyatt the Younger (1521), Centwine of Wessex (643), John Wilkes (1725), Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede (1871), and Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (1443).

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