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Kurt Waldheim

1918 - 2007

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Kurt Josef Waldheim (German: [ˈkʰʊɐ̯t ˈvalthaɪm] ; 21 December 1918 – 14 June 2007) was an Austrian politician and diplomat. Waldheim was the secretary-general of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981 and president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kurt Waldheim has received more than 2,069,253 page views. His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia. Kurt Waldheim is the 821st most popular politician (up from 927th in 2019), the 68th most popular biography from Austria (up from 81st in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Austrian Politician.

Kurt Waldheim was the Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981. He was also the President of Austria from 1986 to 1992.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Kurt Waldheim ranks 821 out of 19,576. Before him are William I of the Netherlands, Farah Pahlavi, Shapur I, Ardashir I, Bashar al-Assad, and Habib Bourguiba. After him are Arthur Henderson, Ivan VI of Russia, Jahangir, Todor Zhivkov, Vajiralongkorn, and Christian VIII of Denmark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Kurt Waldheim ranks 9. Before him are Nicolae Ceaușescu, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Richard Feynman, and Leonard Bernstein. After him are Louis Althusser, Robert Wadlow, Rita Hayworth, Helmut Schmidt, Ken Miles, and Gertrude B. Elion. Among people deceased in 2007, Kurt Waldheim ranks 5. Before him are Ingmar Bergman, Boris Yeltsin, Luciano Pavarotti, and Michelangelo Antonioni. After him are Karlheinz Stockhausen, Jean Baudrillard, Ève Curie, Marcel Marceau, Anna Nicole Smith, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Paul Tibbets.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Kurt Waldheim ranks 68 out of 1,424. Before him are Robert Musil (1880), Paula Hitler (1896), Peter Handke (1942), Pope Gregory V (972), Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (1861), and Josef Bican (1913). After him are Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria (1833), Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888), Alban Berg (1885), Carl Czerny (1791), Elfriede Jelinek (1946), and Maria Carolina of Austria (1752).

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Among POLITICIANS In Austria

Among politicians born in Austria, Kurt Waldheim ranks 23. Before him are Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (1678), Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903), Archduke Franz Karl of Austria (1802), Archduchess Gisela of Austria (1856), Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (1527), and Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (1861). After him are Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria (1833), Maria Carolina of Austria (1752), Archduchess Sophie of Austria (1855), Archduke Otto of Austria (1865), Albert II of Germany (1397), and Engelbert Dollfuss (1892).

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