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Jacek Kuroń

1934 - 2004

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Jacek Jan Kuroń (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjat͡sɛk ˈjan ˈkurɔɲ]; 3 March 1934 – 17 June 2004) was one of the democratic leaders of opposition in the People's Republic of Poland. He was widely known as the "godfather of the Polish opposition," not unlike Václav Havel in Czechoslovakia. Kuroń was a prominent Polish social and political figure known for his efforts at reforming societies under the control of the Soviet Union. As an educator and historian, he first postulated the concept of a de-centered movement that would question the totalitarian system and its personality cult. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacek Kuroń is the 13,790th most popular politician (down from 12,849th in 2019), the 635th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 606th in 2019) and the 163rd most popular Ukrainian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jacek Kuroń ranks 13,790 out of 19,576Before him are Andris Piebalgs, Cándido Bareiro, William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, Ji Yun, Mariana Pineda, and Pierre Frieden. After him are Bobby Seale, Nikolai Tanayev, Vasily Kosoy, José de la Riva Agüero, Tom Adams, and Seth Meribre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Jacek Kuroń ranks 318Before him are Galina Bystrova, Lyudmila Shevtsova, Dick Boushka, Hamit Kaplan, Ole Madsen, and Eva-Maria Hagen. After him are Zaid ibn Shaker, John Keegan, Otis Rush, Adolf Merckle, Yūjirō Ishihara, and Martin Bangemann. Among people deceased in 2004, Jacek Kuroń ranks 189Before him are Ehrenfried Patzel, Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria, John Peel, John Drew Barrymore, Sara Lidman, and Janet Akyüz Mattei. After him are Gerrie Knetemann, Kenneth E. Iverson, Bryce DeWitt, Philip Arthur Fisher, Leonel Brizola, and Veríssimo Correia Seabra.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Jacek Kuroń ranks 635 out of 1,365Before him are Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (1882), Yevgeniya Rudneva (1921), František Kriegel (1908), Andriy Medvedev (1974), Anatoly Alexandrov (1903), and Levko Lukianenko (1928). After him are Ivan Horbachevsky (1854), Jan Koum (1976), Anatoliy Demyanenko (1959), Semen Hulak-Artemovsky (1813), Zhanna Prokhorenko (1940), and Franciszek Kleeberg (1888).

Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Jacek Kuroń ranks 163Before him are Oleksandr Moroz (1944), Oleksiy Danilov (1962), Mikhail Rodzianko (1859), Alexander Bezborodko (1747), František Kriegel (1908), and Levko Lukianenko (1928). After him are Volodymyr Groysman (1978), Sergey Kozlov (1963), Dimitar Grekov (1847), Stanisław Ostrowski (1892), Grisha Filipov (1919), and Adam Rapacki (1909).