SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Ryszard Siwiec

1909 - 1968

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Ryszard Siwiec (Polish pronunciation: [ˈrɨʂart ˈɕivjɛt͡s]; 7 March 1909 – 12 September 1968) was a Polish accountant and former Home Army resistance member who was the first person to die by self-immolation in protest against the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. Although his act was captured by a motion picture camera, Polish press omitted any mention of the incident, which was successfully suppressed by the authorities. Siwiec prepared his plan alone, and few people realized what he tried to achieve with his sacrifice. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ryszard Siwiec has received more than 201,786 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Ryszard Siwiec is the 249th most popular social activist (down from 226th in 2019), the 473rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 408th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Polish Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Ryszard Siwiec ranks 249 out of 840. Before him are Stjepan Filipović, Vera Figner, Diana Budisavljević, Vandana Shiva, Eglantyne Jebb, and Djamila Bouhired. After him are Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Li Hongzhi, Alexander Antonov, Itagaki Taisuke, Nancy Wake, and Tawakkol Karman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Ryszard Siwiec ranks 98. Before him are Wolfgang Reitherman, Bernd Rosemeyer, Atsushi Nakajima, Adib Shishakli, Guy de Rothschild, and Attilio Demaría. After him are Sigmund Rascher, Kinuyo Tanaka, Héctor José Cámpora, Juan Bosch, Marie-Thérèse Walter, and C. N. Annadurai. Among people deceased in 1968, Ryszard Siwiec ranks 74. Before him are Thomas Merton, Camille Huysmans, Cornell Woolrich, Darío Moreno, Jean Paulhan, and Chester Carlson. After him are Gabriel Hanot, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Cassandre, Charles Munch, Wes Montgomery, and Jo Schlesser.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Ryszard Siwiec ranks 473 out of 1,694. Before him are Maria Konopnicka (1842), Frederick Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1734), Jerzy Dudek (1973), Nahum Sokolow (1859), John Cantius (1390), and Cyprian Norwid (1821). After him are Walther von Lüttwitz (1859), Elisabeth Hevelius (1647), Zawisza Czarny (1379), Beata Tyszkiewicz (1938), Sholem Asch (1880), and Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann (1818).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Poland

Among social activists born in Poland, Ryszard Siwiec ranks 9. Before him are Ferdinand Lassalle (1825), Mordechai Anielewicz (1919), Jan Karski (1914), Leopold Trepper (1904), Franciszek Gajowniczek (1901), and Czesława Kwoka (1943). After him are Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836), Franceska Mann (1917), Danuta Wałęsa (1949), and Ernestine Rose (1810).

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