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János Kádár

1912 - 1989

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János József Kádár (; Hungarian: [ˈjaːnoʃ ˈkaːdaːr]; 26 May 1912 – 6 July 1989), born János József Czermanik, was a Hungarian Communist leader and the General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, a position he held for 32 years. Declining health led to his retirement in 1988, and he died in 1989 after being hospitalized for pneumonia. Kádár was born in Fiume in poverty to a single mother. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of János Kádár has received more than 774,225 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). János Kádár is the 895th most popular politician (up from 1,049th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Croatia (up from 10th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Croatian Politician.

János Kádár was the General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party from 1956 to 1988. He is most famous for his role in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, János Kádár ranks 895 out of 19,576. Before him are Tiberius Gracchus, Jozef Tiso, Cambyses I, Sebastian of Portugal, Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor, and Mahfiruz Hatun. After him are Sukjong of Joseon, Cleopatra II of Egypt, Childeric I, Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Kurt von Schleicher, and Louis VI of France.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, János Kádár ranks 11. Before him are Erich Honecker, Milton Friedman, Wernher von Braun, Otto von Habsburg, Jackson Pollock, and Michelangelo Antonioni. After him are Millvina Dean, Raoul Wallenberg, Jorge Amado, Alfredo Stroessner, John Cage, and Khalid of Saudi Arabia. Among people deceased in 1989, János Kádár ranks 17. Before him are Georges Simenon, Sergio Leone, Elena Ceaușescu, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Osamu Tezuka, and Lee Van Cleef. After him are Laurence Olivier, Dolores Ibárruri, Vladimir Horowitz, Graham Chapman, Sándor Márai, and Andrei Gromyko.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, János Kádár ranks 8 out of 700. Before him are Josip Broz Tito (1892), Diocletian (244), Rüstem Pasha (1500), Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (-63), Valens (328), and Franjo Tuđman (1922). After him are Roger Joseph Boscovich (1711), Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934), Pope John IV (600), Pope Caius (250), Laura Antonelli (1941), and Saint Marinus (275).

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Among POLITICIANS In Croatia

Among politicians born in Croatia, János Kádár ranks 6. Before him are Josip Broz Tito (1892), Diocletian (244), Rüstem Pasha (1500), Valens (328), and Franjo Tuđman (1922). After him are Crispus (305), Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (1968), Ivan Ribar (1881), Joanna II of Naples (1373), Tomislav of Croatia (null), and Stjepan Radić (1871).

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