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Lech Kaczyński

1949 - 2010

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Lech Aleksander Kaczyński (Polish pronunciation: [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 1,476,521 page views. His biography is available in 97 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 96 in 2019). Lech Kaczyński is the 838th most popular politician (up from 1,273rd in 2019), the 44th most popular biography from Poland (up from 77th in 2019) and the 9th 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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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Lech Kaczyński ranks 838 out of 15,577. Before him are Olaf II of Norway, Wilhelm Pieck, Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor, Nur ad-Din, Cao Pi, and Cleopatra I Syra. After him are Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator, Louis I of Spain, William Howard Taft, Frederick VI of Denmark, Manuel II Palaiologos, and Ruth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Lech Kaczyński ranks 15. Before him are Richard Gere, Arsène Wenger, Benjamin Netanyahu, Anna Wintour, Roger Taylor, and Bernard Arnault. After him are Maurice Gibb, Bruce Springsteen, Abdullah Öcalan, Ken Follett, Sandra Mason, and Jeff Bridges. Among people deceased in 2010, Lech Kaczyński ranks 6. Before him are José Saramago, J. D. Salinger, Leslie Nielsen, Ronnie James Dio, and Tony Curtis. After him are Gloria Stuart, Éric Rohmer, Benoit Mandelbrot, Zecharia Sitchin, Juan Antonio Samaranch, and Claude Chabrol.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Lech Kaczyński ranks 44 out of 1,454. Before him are Günther von Kluge (1882), Hans-Ulrich Rudel (1916), Rudolf Virchow (1821), Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928), Rudolf Clausius (1822), and Sigismund II Augustus (1520). After him are Tamara de Lempicka (1898), Ernst Cassirer (1874), Christian Wolff (1679), Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906), Paul Ehrlich (1854), and Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923).

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Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Lech Kaczyński ranks 9. Before him are David Ben-Gurion (1886), Władysław IV Vasa (1595), Leonid Kravchuk (1934), Vladislaus II of Hungary (1456), Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928), and Sigismund II Augustus (1520). After him are Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923), Władysław III of Poland (1424), Casimir III the Great (1310), Bolesław I the Brave (967), Sigismund I the Old (1467), and Casimir IV Jagiellon (1427).

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