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Jean-Luc Dehaene

1940 - 2014

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Jean Luc Joseph Marie "Jean-Luc" Dehaene (Flemish: [ʑɑ̃ːˈlyɡ dəˈɦaːnə] ; 7 August 1940 – 15 May 2014) was a Belgian politician who served as the prime minister of Belgium from 1992 until 1999. During his political career, he was nicknamed "The Plumber", as well as "The Minesweeper", for his ability to negotiate political deadlocks. A member of the Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams (CD&V) party and its antecedents, Dehaene gained his first ministerial appointment in 1981. Dehaene later went on to lead a series of centre-left cabinets from 1992 to 1999. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Luc Dehaene is the 6,084th most popular politician (down from 6,075th in 2019), the 1,742nd most popular biography from France (up from 1,832nd in 2019) and the 420th most popular French Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jean-Luc Dehaene ranks 6,084 out of 19,576. Before him are Shote Galica, At-Ta'i, Paul van Zeeland, John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma, and Otto Hofmann. After him are William Walker, Kit Bond, Zhao Mengfu, Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Hōjō Masako, and Hamida Djandoubi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Jean-Luc Dehaene ranks 127. Before him are Robin Cook, Souleymane Cissé, Walter Alvarez, Rudi Dutschke, Régis Debray, and Fabrizio De André. After him are Amjad Khan, Ricky Nelson, Agostino Vallini, Vladimir Cosma, Ali Hassan Salameh, and Jerzy Buzek. Among people deceased in 2014, Jean-Luc Dehaene ranks 87. Before him are Vladimir Beara, Hal Finney, Billy Milligan, B. K. S. Iyengar, Siegfried Lenz, and Gabriel Axel. After him are Alice Herz-Sommer, Ben Bradlee, Oscar de la Renta, Stuart Hall, Gottfried John, and Ralph H. Baer.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Luc Dehaene ranks 1,742 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis, Prince of Condé (1668), Jacques Laffite (1943), William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (1024), Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy (1260), Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière (1734), and Walter Krüger (1890). After him are Jules de Goncourt (1830), Jean Chardin (1643), Adhemar of Le Puy (1055), Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848), François-Henri Pinault (1962), and Jean-Marie Lustiger (1926).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Jean-Luc Dehaene ranks 420. Before him are Anne Gonzaga (1616), André de Montbard (1103), Peter II, Duke of Bourbon (1438), Francis I, Duke of Lorraine (1517), Louis, Prince of Condé (1668), and Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy (1260). After him are Henri, Count of Paris (1908), Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830), Louis-François de Boufflers (1644), Louis Henri, Prince of Condé (1756), Zénaïde Bonaparte (1801), and Recceswinth (620).

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