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Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld

1911 - 2004

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Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (later Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands; 29 June 1911 – 1 December 2004) was Prince of the Netherlands from 6 September 1948 to 30 April 1980 as the husband of Queen Juliana. They had four daughters together, including Beatrix, who was Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 to 2013. Bernhard belonged to the German princely house of Lippe-Biesterfeld and was a nephew of the last sovereign prince of Lippe, Leopold IV. From birth he held the title Count of Biesterfeld; his uncle raised him to princely rank with the style of Serene Highness in 1916. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld has received more than 1,379,651 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld is the 1,477th most popular politician (up from 1,670th in 2019), the 392nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 462nd in 2019) and the 109th most popular German Politician.

Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld is most famous for being the father of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld ranks 1,477 out of 19,576. Before him are Koxinga, Uzziah, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Alexios IV Angelos, Anthemius, and Millard Fillmore. After him are Theodore I Laskaris, Avitus, Asparuh of Bulgaria, Michelle Bachelet, Marcus Furius Camillus, and Manasseh of Judah.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld ranks 20. Before him are Czesław Miłosz, Mikhail Botvinnik, Marshall McLuhan, Jack Ruby, Melvin Calvin, and Lê Đức Thọ. After him are Robert Johnson, Tennessee Williams, Klaus Fuchs, Maurice Allais, Wilhelm Mohnke, and Polykarp Kusch. Among people deceased in 2004, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld ranks 16. Before him are Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, Czesław Miłosz, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Peter Ustinov, Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, and Susan Sontag. After him are Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, Christopher Reeve, Akhmad Kadyrov, Janet Leigh, and Helmut Newton.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld ranks 392 out of 7,253. Before him are Hermann Fegelein (1906), Adolf Windaus (1876), James Franck (1882), Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (1780), Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1864), and Leo von Caprivi (1831). After him are Frederica of Hanover (1917), Franz Bopp (1791), Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1776), Sepp Maier (1944), Prince Claus of the Netherlands (1926), and Bruno of Cologne (1030).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld ranks 109. Before him are Christian V of Denmark (1646), Ernst Thälmann (1886), Joachim Gauck (1940), Chlodio (393), Christopher of Bavaria (1416), and Leo von Caprivi (1831). After him are Hans Luther (1879), Louise Mountbatten (1889), Robert Ley (1890), Otto of Bavaria (1848), Æthelwulf, King of Wessex (795), and Richard von Weizsäcker (1920).

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