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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 commit suicide 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 192,208 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Ryszard Siwiec is the 226th most popular social activist (up from 228th in 2019), the 408th most popular biography from Poland (up from 470th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Polish Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Ryszard Siwiec ranks 226 out of 538. Before him are Sophia Perovskaya, Hanns Martin Schleyer, Kartini, Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Christoph Probst, and Carl Oberg. After him are Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Nancy Wake, Abba Kovner, Anna Hazare, and Hazi Aslanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Ryszard Siwiec ranks 86. Before him are Guy de Rothschild, Lester Young, Bernd Rosemeyer, Roberto Burle Marx, Kinuyo Tanaka, and Juan Carlos Onetti. After him are William M. Branham, Stavros Niarchos, Shigeo Shingo, Edwin H. Land, Eduard Wirths, and Atsushi Nakajima. Among people deceased in 1968, Ryszard Siwiec ranks 67. Before him are Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, Cornell Woolrich, Thomas Merton, Mario Roatta, Wes Montgomery, and Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz. After him are Augustin Bea, Hans Cramer, Jo Schlesser, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, István Dobi, and Chester Carlson.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Ryszard Siwiec ranks 408 out of 1,454. Before him are Stanisław Dziwisz (1939), Heinz Kessler (1920), Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz (1893), Arthur Zimmermann (1864), George Adamski (1891), and Avraham Stern (1907). After him are Wolf Messing (1899), Maria Konopnicka (1842), Włodzimierz Lubański (1947), Emil Krebs (1867), Stefania Wilczyńska (1886), and Friedrich Graf von Wrangel (1784).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Poland

Among social activists born in Poland, Ryszard Siwiec ranks 7. Before him are Rosa Luxemburg (1871), Irena Sendler (1910), Ferdinand Lassalle (1825), Mordechai Anielewicz (1919), Leopold Trepper (1904), and Jan Karski (1914). After him are Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836) and Ernestine Rose (1810).

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