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Gough Whitlam

1916 - 2014

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Edward Gough Whitlam (11 July 1916 – 21 October 2014) was the 21st prime minister of Australia, serving from December 1972 to November 1975. To date the longest-serving federal leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), he was notable for being the head of a reformist and socially progressive government that ended with his controversial dismissal by the then-governor-general of Australia, Sir John Kerr, at the climax of the 1975 constitutional crisis. Whitlam remains the only Australian prime minister to have been removed from office by a governor-general. Whitlam was an air navigator in the Royal Australian Air Force for four years during World War II, and worked as a barrister following the war. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gough Whitlam is the 834th most popular politician (up from 1,051st in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Australia (down from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Australian Politician.

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Among politicians, Gough Whitlam ranks 834 out of 19,576. Before him are Romanos IV Diogenes, Björn Ironside, Abu Sufyan ibn Harb, Yuan Shikai, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and Smenkhkare. After him are Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Leopold III of Belgium, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Frederick V of the Palatinate, Charles IX of Sweden, and Ferdinand I of Romania.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Gough Whitlam ranks 9. Before him are Herbert A. Simon, Robert McNamara, Kirk Douglas, Ferruccio Lamborghini, Gregory Peck, and Aldo Moro. After him are Elena Ceaușescu, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Francis Crick, Roald Dahl, and Ahmed Ben Bella. Among people deceased in 2014, Gough Whitlam ranks 8. Before him are Alfredo Di Stéfano, Robin Williams, Eusébio, Ariel Sharon, Eduard Shevardnadze, and Hiroo Onoda. After him are Claudio Abbado, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Nadine Gordimer, Eli Wallach, Joe Cocker, and Luis Aragonés.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Gough Whitlam ranks 3 out of 1,143. Before him are Lawrence Bragg (1890), and Macfarlane Burnet (1899). After him are Don Bradman (1908), Peter C. Doherty (1940), George Miller (1945), Geoffrey Rush (1951), Tamam Shud case (1903), Sia (1975), John Cornforth (1917), Elizabeth Blackburn (1948), and Cate Blanchett (1969).

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Among POLITICIANS In Australia

Among politicians born in Australia, Gough Whitlam ranks 1. After him are Scott Morrison (1968), Michael Jeffery (1937), Harold Holt (1908), Bob Brown (1944), John Howard (1939), Anthony Albanese (1963), Edmund Barton (1849), Kevin Rudd (1957), John Curtin (1885), Alfred Deakin (1856), and Robert Menzies (1894).

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