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Lech Kaczyński

1949 - 2010

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Lech Aleksander Kaczyński (Polish: [ˈlɛx alɛkˈsandɛr kaˈt͡ʂɨj̃skʲi] ; 18 June 1949 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish politician who served as the city mayor of Warsaw from 2002 until 2005, and as President of Poland from 2005 until his death in 2010. Before his tenure as president, he previously served as President of the Supreme Audit Office from 1992 to 1995 and later Minister of Justice and Public Prosecutor General in Jerzy Buzek's cabinet from 2000 until his dismissal in July 2001. Born in Warsaw, he starred in a 1962 Polish film, The Two Who Stole the Moon, with his identical twin brother Jarosław. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lech Kaczyński has received more than 1,606,457 page views. His biography is available in 98 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 97 in 2019). Lech Kaczyński is the 570th most popular politician (up from 837th in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from Poland (up from 44th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Polish Politician.

Lech Kaczyński was the President of Poland from 2005-2010. He was killed in a plane crash in 2010.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Lech Kaczyński ranks 570 out of 19,576. Before him are Ahmose I, Eduard Shevardnadze, Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, Oscar II of Sweden, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, and Kim Dae-jung. After him are George II of Great Britain, Sneferu, Chaim Weizmann, Xanthippe, Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu, and Hassan II of Morocco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Lech Kaczyński ranks 11. Before him are Haruki Murakami, Niki Lauda, Meryl Streep, Pedro Almodóvar, Mark Knopfler, and Bernard Arnault. After him are Anna Wintour, Sigourney Weaver, Arsène Wenger, Richard Gere, Maurice Gibb, and Abdullah Öcalan. Among people deceased in 2010, Lech Kaczyński ranks 3. Before him are José Saramago, and J. D. Salinger. After him are Leslie Nielsen, Gloria Stuart, Tony Curtis, Ronnie James Dio, Benoit Mandelbrot, Bobby Farrell, Dennis Hopper, Claude Chabrol, and Éric Rohmer.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Lech Kaczyński ranks 24 out of 1,694. Before him are Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686), Władysław Szpilman (1911), Wernher von Braun (1912), Erich Ludendorff (1865), Wisława Szymborska (1923), and Janusz Korczak (1878). After him are Fedor von Bock (1880), Władysław IV Vasa (1595), Eric of Pomerania (1381), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902), Ernst Cassirer (1874), and Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846).

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Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Lech Kaczyński ranks 4. Before him are David Ben-Gurion (1886), Lech Wałęsa (1943), and Paul von Hindenburg (1847). After him are Władysław IV Vasa (1595), Yitzhak Shamir (1915), Sigismund II Augustus (1520), Vladislaus II of Hungary (1456), Casimir III the Great (1310), Donald Tusk (1957), Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923), and Sigismund I the Old (1467).

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