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C. R. Swart

1894 - 1982

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Charles Robberts Swart (5 December 1894 – 16 July 1982), nicknamed "Blackie", was a South African politician who served as the last governor-general of the Union of South Africa from 1959 to 1961 and the first state president of the Republic of South Africa from 1961 to 1967. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. C. R. Swart is the 2,633rd most popular politician (up from 9,012th in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 42nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular South African Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, C. R. Swart ranks 2,633 out of 19,576. Before him are Juba I of Numidia, Filippo Maria Visconti, Henry, Count of Portugal, Thabo Mbeki, Nicolas Fouquet, and Bronisław Komorowski. After him are Idriss Déby, Al-Aziz Uthman, George William, Elector of Brandenburg, John I of Castile, Alfonso IX of León, and Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, C. R. Swart ranks 29. Before him are Karl Böhm, Pyotr Kapitsa, Heinrich Lübke, Harold Macmillan, Kiichiro Toyoda, and Alfred Kinsey. After him are Hermann Oberth, Otto Grotewohl, Satyendra Nath Bose, Dashiell Hammett, Benjamin Graham, and Arthur Nebe. Among people deceased in 1982, C. R. Swart ranks 34. Before him are Gala Dalí, Georges Perec, Hugh Everett III, Mikhail Suslov, Władysław Gomułka, and Jacques Tati. After him are Curd Jürgens, Walter Hallstein, Cevdet Sunay, Hans Selye, Ivan Bagramyan, and Jiro Horikoshi.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, C. R. Swart ranks 19 out of 454. Before him are Michael Levitt (1947), John Vorster (1915), D. F. Malan (1874), Max Theiler (1899), Cetshwayo kaMpande (1826), and Thabo Mbeki (1942). After him are Cyril Ramaphosa (1952), Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1761), Jacob Zuma (1942), J. G. Strijdom (1893), Sydney Brenner (1927), and Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark (1942).

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Among POLITICIANS In South Africa

Among politicians born in South Africa, C. R. Swart ranks 7. Before him are F. W. de Klerk (1936), Shaka (1787), John Vorster (1915), D. F. Malan (1874), Cetshwayo kaMpande (1826), and Thabo Mbeki (1942). After him are Cyril Ramaphosa (1952), Jacob Zuma (1942), J. G. Strijdom (1893), Dingane kaSenzangakhona (1795), Paul Kruger (1825), and P. W. Botha (1916).

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