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Prince George, Duke of Kent

1902 - 1942

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Prince George, Duke of Kent (George Edward Alexander Edmund; 20 December 1902 – 25 August 1942), was a member of the British royal family, the fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary. He was a younger brother of kings Edward VIII and George VI. Prince George served in the Royal Navy in the 1920s and then briefly as a civil servant. He became Duke of Kent in 1934. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Prince George, Duke of Kent has received more than 10,313,618 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Prince George, Duke of Kent is the 3,558th most popular politician (up from 3,625th in 2019), the 787th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 830th in 2019) and the 138th most popular British Politician.

Prince George, Duke of Kent, was the son of King George III and his consort, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. He was born on 27th August 1762 and died on 20th January 1820. He was the second son of George III and Queen Charlotte, and the father of Queen Victoria. He was created Duke of Kent in 1799 and is the only person to have held that title. He also served as the Governor of Gibraltar from 1794 to 1802.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Prince George, Duke of Kent ranks 3,558 out of 15,577Before him are Harald Quandt, Lothar von Richthofen, Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska, Tarpeia, Francisco de Almeida, and Sajida Talfah. After him are André-Hercule de Fleury, Al-Adil I, Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse, and João Bernardo Vieira.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Prince George, Duke of Kent ranks 45Before him are Felix Wankel, Fritz Strassmann, Alexandre Kojève, Günther Anders, Luis Barragán, and Princess Mafalda of Savoy. After him are Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Lúcio Costa, Max Ophüls, David O. Selznick, George Ostrogorsky, and Carlo Levi. Among people deceased in 1942, Prince George, Duke of Kent ranks 36Before him are Yanka Kupala, Herschel Grynszpan, Séraphine Louis, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Felix Hausdorff, and Henri de Baillet-Latour. After him are Tina Modotti, Chen Duxiu, Jan Kubiš, Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia, Tamon Yamaguchi, and Flinders Petrie.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Prince George, Duke of Kent ranks 787 out of 7,765Before him are John Langdon Down (1828), Imelda Staunton (1956), John Gielgud (1904), Guy Ritchie (1968), John William Polidori (1795), and Saint Malachy (1094). After him are Alan Hodgkin (1914), Danny Boyle (1956), Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton (1850), Matt Busby (1909), John Ray (1627), and Richard Stone (1913).

Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Prince George, Duke of Kent ranks 138Before him are Gordon Brown (1951), Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset (1519), Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443), Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond (1430), John Balliol (1249), and James Macpherson (1736). After him are Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton (1850), David Cameron (1966), Rob Roy MacGregor (1671), Philip Noel-Baker (1889), Denis Thatcher (1915), and Malcolm III of Scotland (1031).