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John Turner

1929 - 2020

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John Napier Wyndham Turner (June 7, 1929 – September 19, 2020) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 17th prime minister of Canada from June to September 1984. He served as leader of the Liberal Party and leader of the Opposition from 1984 to 1990. Turner practised law before being elected as a member of Parliament (MP) in the 1962 federal election. He served in the cabinet of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau as minister of justice and attorney general from 1968 to 1972 and then as minister of finance from 1972 to 1975. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Turner is the 2,358th most popular politician (up from 12,253rd in 2019), the 577th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,627th in 2019) and the 120th most popular British Politician.

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Among politicians, John Turner ranks 2,358 out of 19,576. Before him are Athalaric, Kim Yong-nam, Serzh Sargsyan, Rifaat al-Assad, Frederick III of Sicily, and Émile Loubet. After him are Emperor Ruizong of Tang, Pompeia, Casimir IV Jagiellon, George Vella, Domnall mac Ailpín, and Basarab I of Wallachia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, John Turner ranks 40. Before him are Isamu Akasaki, Hafizullah Amin, Oriana Fallaci, Werner Arber, Fernanda Montenegro, and Murray Gell-Mann. After him are Zdzisław Beksiński, Hebe Camargo, Lennart Meri, Richard F. Gordon Jr., Eric Kandel, and Frano Selak. Among people deceased in 2020, John Turner ranks 27. Before him are Michel Piccoli, Eduard Limonov, Alan Parker, Robert Hossein, Ian Holm, and Jean Kennedy Smith. After him are Frances E. Allen, Rob Rensenbrink, Abdul Halim Khaddam, Stanley Cohen, John Lewis, and Diana Rigg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Turner ranks 577 out of 8,785. Before him are Stanley Matthews (1915), Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (1919), James Hutton (1726), Thomas Cromwell (1485), John Knox (1514), and Christopher Wren (1632). After him are James Bradley (1693), Domnall mac Ailpín (812), Richard Branson (1950), Samuel Johnson (1709), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), and A. J. Cronin (1896).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, John Turner ranks 120. Before him are James IV of Scotland (1473), Edmund I (921), Kenneth MacAlpin (810), Austen Chamberlain (1863), Harold Wilson (1916), and Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (1919). After him are Domnall mac Ailpín (812), David II of Scotland (1324), Edwin of Northumbria (586), Eystein II of Norway (1125), Arthur Balfour (1848), and Harold Macmillan (1894).

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