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Wim Kok

1938 - 2018

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Willem "Wim" Kok (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋɪm ˈkɔk] ; 29 September 1938 – 20 October 2018) was a Dutch politician and trade union leader who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 22 August 1994 until 22 July 2002. He was a member of the Labour Party (PvdA). Kok studied business administration at the Nyenrode Business School obtaining a Bachelor of Business Administration degree and worked as a trade union leader for the Dutch Confederation of Trade Unions from 1961 until 1976, serving as its chairman from 1972. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wim Kok has received more than 432,171 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia. Wim Kok is the 4,169th most popular politician (down from 3,641st in 2019), the 150th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 136th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Dutch Politician.

Wim Kok is most famous for being the Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1994 to 2002. He was also the leader of the Dutch Labour Party from 1992 to 2002.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Wim Kok ranks 4,169 out of 15,577Before him are Ōkubo Toshimichi, Emperor Keitai, Áed mac Cináeda, Artabanus IV of Parthia, Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Şehzade Mahmud. After him are Ali of Hejaz, Herihor, Henri Jules, Prince of Condé, Emperor Seinei, Nicomedes IV of Bithynia, and Mamnoon Hussain.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Wim Kok ranks 77Before him are Dean Reed, Kenny Rogers, Georg Baselitz, Carlos Bilardo, Oscar Robertson, and Ricardo Lagos. After him are Oliver Reed, Issey Miyake, Connie Francis, Frank Langella, Marcello Gandini, and Eddie Cochran. Among people deceased in 2018, Wim Kok ranks 57Before him are Scott Wilson, Reynaldo Bignone, Gérard Genette, Dolores O'Riordan, Shoko Asahara, and Sondra Locke. After him are Osamu Shimomura, Gene Sharp, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Steve Ditko, and Dorothy Malone.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Wim Kok ranks 150 out of 1,427Before him are Ferdinand Bol (1616), Arie Haan (1948), Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (1948), Princess Irene of the Netherlands (1939), George Blake (1922), and Abraham Bloemaert (1566). After him are Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (1547), Antonis Mor (1519), Jan Ingenhousz (1730), Theo van Gogh (1957), Gustav Leonhardt (1928), and Lambert of Maastricht (635).

Among POLITICIANS In Netherlands

Among politicians born in Netherlands, Wim Kok ranks 18Before him are William V, Prince of Orange (1748), William II of Holland (1228), Mark Rutte (1967), Wim Duisenberg (1935), Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (1948), and Princess Irene of the Netherlands (1939). After him are Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (1547), Margaret of Bavaria (1363), Nicholas J. Spykman (1893), Pim Fortuyn (1948), Ruud Lubbers (1939), and Peter Stuyvesant (1612).