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Milan Rastislav Štefánik

1880 - 1919

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Milan Rastislav Štefánik (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈmilan ˈrascislaw ˈʂcefaːɲik] ; 21 July 1880 – 4 May 1919) was a Slovak politician, diplomat, aviator and astronomer. During World War I, he served at the same time as a general in the French Army and as Minister of War for Czechoslovakia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Milan Rastislav Štefánik has received more than 290,854 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Milan Rastislav Štefánik is the 3,152nd most popular politician (up from 3,949th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Slovakia (up from 32nd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Slovak Politician.

Milan Rastislav Štefánik was a Slovakian diplomat, physicist, and astronomer. He was most famous for being the first person to suggest that the Milky Way was a galaxy, and that there were other galaxies in the universe.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Milan Rastislav Štefánik ranks 3,152 out of 19,576. Before him are Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Caroline of Brunswick, Ladislaus III of Hungary, Abbas III, Edda Mussolini, and Éamon de Valera. After him are Roman the Great, Zuzana Čaputová, Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans, Marcomer, Postumus, and Amalie Auguste of Bavaria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Milan Rastislav Štefánik ranks 30. Before him are H. L. Mencken, Vajiravudh, Bruno Taut, Alexander Blok, Kuniaki Koiso, and Vojtech Tuka. After him are Michel Fokine, Giuseppe Moscati, Mohammed Alim Khan, Álvaro Obregón, Andrei Bely, and Lionel Logue. Among people deceased in 1919, Milan Rastislav Štefánik ranks 19. Before him are Andrew Carnegie, Alfred Werner, Yakov Sverdlov, William Crookes, Princess Charlotte of Prussia, and Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria. After him are Ismail Qemali, Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia, L. Frank Baum, Kurt Eisner, Johannes Rydberg, and Terauchi Masatake.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Milan Rastislav Štefánik ranks 22 out of 418. Before him are Maurice Benyovszky (1746), Vladimír Mečiar (1942), Ármin Vámbéry (1832), Vojtech Tuka (1880), Tibor Sekelj (1912), and Jozef Gabčík (1912). After him are Zuzana Čaputová (1973), Rudolf Schuster (1934), Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734), Pribina (800), Ľudovít Štúr (1815), and Andrej Hlinka (1864).

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Among POLITICIANS In Slovakia

Among politicians born in Slovakia, Milan Rastislav Štefánik ranks 14. Before him are Juraj Jánošík (1688), Robert Fico (1964), Béla I of Hungary (1016), Ivan Gašparovič (1941), Vladimír Mečiar (1942), and Vojtech Tuka (1880). After him are Zuzana Čaputová (1973), Rudolf Schuster (1934), Pribina (800), Andrej Hlinka (1864), Gyula Andrássy the Younger (1860), and Andrej Babiš (1954).

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