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Vasiľ Biľak

1917 - 2014

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RSDr. Vasiľ Biľak (11 August 1917 – 6 February 2014) was a Slovak Communist politician and leader of Rusyn origin. Vasiľ Biľak was born in Krajná Bystrá (Hungarian: Bátorhegy), in the Sáros County of the Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Slovakia) in a family of Rusyn ethnicity and was originally a tailor and inseam expert. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasiľ Biľak has received more than 47,577 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Vasiľ Biľak is the 10,365th most popular politician (down from 9,850th in 2019), the 90th most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 84th in 2019) and the 36th most popular Slovak Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Vasiľ Biľak ranks 10,365 out of 19,576Before him are Princess Anna of Saxony, Luigi Pelloux, Tribhuvan of Nepal, Mstislav III of Kiev, Alexander I Aldea, and Anne of Bohemia. After him are Tan Malaka, Pedro Pablo Ramírez, Ludwig von Cobenzl, Ashikaga Yoshitane, Armen Garo, and Carl Lutz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Vasiľ Biľak ranks 151Before him are Mongo Santamaría, Zoltán Fábri, Mouloud Mammeri, Asima Chatterjee, Marsha Hunt, and Donald Davidson. After him are Ernst von Glasersfeld, Han Suyin, Vasily Mishin, Red Auerbach, Leopoldo Trieste, and June Allyson. Among people deceased in 2014, Vasiľ Biľak ranks 152Before him are James R. Schlesinger, U. R. Ananthamurthy, Tadeusz Różewicz, Kumba Ialá, Manuel Uribe, and James Rebhorn. After him are Horace Silver, Tomaž Šalamun, Magda Olivero, Peret, Jorge María Mejía, and Juan Gelman.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Vasiľ Biľak ranks 90 out of 418Before him are Martina Hingis (1980), Aurel Stodola (1859), Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav (1849), Frederick Stafford (1928), Dušan Uhrin (1943), and Lya De Putti (1897). After him are Archduchess Isabella of Austria (1888), Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806), Jozef Lenárt (1923), Juraj Haulik (1788), Peter Machajdík (1961), and János Pálffy (1664).

Among POLITICIANS In Slovakia

Among politicians born in Slovakia, Vasiľ Biľak ranks 36Before him are Stefan Vojislav (990), Mikuláš Dzurinda (1956), Alexander Mach (1902), Štefan Tiso (1897), Marián Čalfa (1946), and Artúr Görgei (1818). After him are Jozef Lenárt (1923), Viliam Široký (1902), Peter Pellegrini (1975), Ján Čarnogurský (1944), Miroslav Lajčák (1963), and Margit Slachta (1884).