1532 - 1592
William IV of Hesse-Kassel (24 June 1532 – 25 August 1592), also called William the Wise, was the first Landgrave of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel has received more than 100,430 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel is the 7,900th most popular politician (down from 7,353rd in 2019), the 2,227th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,116th in 2019) and the 667th most popular German Politician.
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Among politicians, William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel ranks 7,900 out of 15,577. Before her are Ferdinand Kettler, Ayub Khan, Alghu, Anna of Sweden, Marcus Caelius Rufus, and Svante Nilsson. After her are Velu Nachiyar, Mohammed Ben Aarafa, Edmund Heines, Rosamund, Jan Gies, and Aleksey Arakcheyev.
1655 - 1737
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 7,894
1907 - 1974
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 7,895
1250 - 1266
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 7,896
1545 - 1610
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 7,897
82 BC - 48 BC
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 7,898
1460 - 1512
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 7,899
1532 - 1592
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 7,900
1730 - 1796
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 7,901
1886 - 1976
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 7,902
1897 - 1934
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 7,903
540 - 572
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 7,904
1905 - 1993
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 7,905
1769 - 1834
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 7,906
Among people born in 1532, William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel ranks 9. Before her are Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, John Hawkins, Francis Walsingham, Maerten de Vos, Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony, and Archduchess Magdalena of Austria. After her are Luís Fróis, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Marino Grimani, Edzard II, Count of East Frisia, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, and Menocchio. Among people deceased in 1592, William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel ranks 14. Before her are Thomas Cavendish, Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Eboli, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, William the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Michiel Coxie. After her are Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Moderata Fonte, Alessandro Striggio, and Girolamo Cassar.
1532 - 1588
HPI: 63.80
Rank: 3
1532 - 1595
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 4
1532 - 1590
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 5
1532 - 1603
HPI: 56.98
Rank: 6
1532 - 1585
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 7
1532 - 1590
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 8
1532 - 1592
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 9
1532 - 1597
HPI: 54.32
Rank: 10
1532 - 1592
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 11
1532 - 1605
HPI: 53.11
Rank: 12
1532 - 1599
HPI: 52.82
Rank: 13
1532 - 1589
HPI: 51.89
Rank: 14
1532 - 1599
HPI: 51.77
Rank: 15
1560 - 1592
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 8
1540 - 1592
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 9
1522 - 1592
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 10
1516 - 1592
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 11
1535 - 1592
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 12
1499 - 1592
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 13
1532 - 1592
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 14
1535 - 1592
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 15
1543 - 1592
HPI: 54.00
Rank: 16
1532 - 1592
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 17
1555 - 1592
HPI: 51.11
Rank: 18
1540 - 1592
HPI: 50.20
Rank: 19
1520 - 1592
HPI: 48.99
Rank: 20
Among people born in Germany, William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel ranks 2,227 out of 6,142. Before her are Sigismund, Duke of Bavaria (1439), Walter Sickert (1860), Erich Mühsam (1878), William II, Elector of Hesse (1777), Henry Morgenthau Sr. (1856), and Heinrich Ehrler (1917). After her are Edmund Heines (1897), Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1497), Wolfgang Reitherman (1909), Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1761), Georg Konrad Morgen (1909), and Princess Mathilde of Bavaria (1877).
1439 - 1501
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 2,221
1860 - 1942
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 2,222
1878 - 1934
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 2,223
1777 - 1847
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 2,224
1856 - 1946
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 2,225
1917 - 1945
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 2,226
1532 - 1592
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 2,227
1897 - 1934
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 2,228
1497 - 1546
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 2,229
1909 - 1985
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 2,230
1761 - 1829
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 2,231
1909 - 1982
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 2,232
1877 - 1906
HPI: 54.67
Rank: 2,233
Among politicians born in Germany, William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel ranks 667. Before her are Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt (1794), August Hermann Francke (1663), Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria (1368), Sigismund, Duke of Bavaria (1439), William II, Elector of Hesse (1777), and Henry Morgenthau Sr. (1856). After her are Edmund Heines (1897), Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1761), Princess Mathilde of Bavaria (1877), Heinz Hoffmann (1910), Agnes of Hesse (1527), and Ernest Casimir I, Count of Nassau-Dietz (1573).
1794 - 1871
HPI: 54.75
Rank: 661
1663 - 1727
HPI: 54.74
Rank: 662
1368 - 1447
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 663
1439 - 1501
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 664
1777 - 1847
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 665
1856 - 1946
HPI: 54.70
Rank: 666
1532 - 1592
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 667
1897 - 1934
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 668
1761 - 1829
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 669
1877 - 1906
HPI: 54.67
Rank: 670
1910 - 1985
HPI: 54.67
Rank: 671
1527 - 1555
HPI: 54.67
Rank: 672
1573 - 1632
HPI: 54.66
Rank: 673