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Kim Jong-il

1941 - 2011

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Kim Jong Il (; Korean: 김정일; Korean pronunciation: [kim.dzɔŋ.il]; born Yuri Irsenovich Kim; 16 February 1941 or 1942 – 17 December 2011) was a North Korean politician who was the second supreme leader of North Korea. He led North Korea from the death of his father Kim Il Sung in 1994 until his own death in 2011, when he was succeeded by his son, Kim Jong Un. Afterwards, Kim Jong Il was declared Eternal General Secretary of the WPK. In the early 1980s, Kim had become the heir apparent for the leadership of North Korea, thus being established the Kim dynasty, and he assumed important posts in party and army organs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kim Jong-il has received more than 12,234,924 page views. His biography is available in 110 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 108 in 2019). Kim Jong-il is the 128th most popular politician (down from 114th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Russia (down from 20th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Russian Politician.

Kim Jong-il is most famous for being the leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011. He was also the father of Kim Jong-un, who is the current leader of North Korea.

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  • 12M

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  • 79.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 110

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Kim Jong-il ranks 128 out of 15,577. Before him are Lorenzo de' Medici, Xerxes I, Claudius, Mark Antony, Narendra Modi, and Bayezid II. After him are Francis I of France, Mehmed IV, Murad II, George W. Bush, Deng Xiaoping, and Harry S. Truman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Kim Jong-il ranks 1. After him are Hayao Miyazaki, Slobodan Milošević, Alex Ferguson, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Bernardo Bertolucci, Sergio Mattarella, Charlie Watts, Richard Dawkins, Cesária Évora, and Krzysztof Kieślowski. Among people deceased in 2011, Kim Jong-il ranks 3. Before him are Steve Jobs and Muammar Gaddafi. After him are Osama bin Laden, Václav Havel, Elizabeth Taylor, Otto von Habsburg, Cesária Évora, Burhanuddin Rabbani, Sathya Sai Baba, Peter Falk, and Svetlana Alliluyeva.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Kim Jong-il ranks 21 out of 3,262. Before him are Ivan the Terrible (1530), Grigori Rasputin (1869), Alexander Pushkin (1799), Ivan Pavlov (1849), Wassily Kandinsky (1866), and Igor Stravinsky (1882). After him are Isaac Asimov (1920), Alexander I of Russia (1777), Ayn Rand (1905), Nicholas I of Russia (1796), Mikhail Bakunin (1814), and Dmitri Shostakovich (1906).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Kim Jong-il ranks 9. Before him are Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), Peter the Great (1672), Boris Yeltsin (1931), Nikita Khrushchev (1894), Nicholas II of Russia (1868), and Ivan the Terrible (1530). After him are Alexander I of Russia (1777), Nicholas I of Russia (1796), Alexander III of Russia (1845), Yuri Andropov (1914), Paul I of Russia (1754), and Georgy Zhukov (1896).

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