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Kazys Grinius

1866 - 1950

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Kazys Grinius ([kɐˈzʲiːs ˈɡʲrʲɪnʲʊs] , 17 December 1866 – 4 June 1950) was the third President of Lithuania, holding the office from 7 June 1926 to 17 December 1926. Previously, he had served as the fifth Prime Minister of Lithuania, from 19 June 1920 until his resignation on 18 January 1922. He was posthumously awarded the Lithuanian Life Saving Cross for saving people during the Holocaust and was recognised as a Righteous Among the Nations in 2016. Grinius was born in Selema, near Marijampolė, in the Augustów Governorate of Congress Poland, which was part of the Russian Empire. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kazys Grinius is the 8,369th most popular politician (up from 9,159th in 2019), the 468th most popular biography from Poland (up from 547th in 2019) and the 124th most popular Polish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Kazys Grinius ranks 8,369 out of 19,576. Before him are Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, Wo Jia, Avgustyn Voloshyn, Eudokia, wife of Constantine V, Xu Shichang, and Albert Bormann. After him are Veleda, Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano, Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, Michail Stasinopoulos, Te Atairangikaahu, and Joseph Deiss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Kazys Grinius ranks 54. Before him are Dmitry Merezhkovsky, La Goulue, Maria Letizia Bonaparte, Duchess of Aosta, Vasily Kalinnikov, Joel Hastings Metcalf, and Johann Strauss III. After him are Elizabeth von Arnim, Gustav Cassel, Kazimierz Twardowski, Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin, Reginald Fessenden, and Holger Nielsen. Among people deceased in 1950, Kazys Grinius ranks 70. Before him are Walter Huston, Henry H. Arnold, Agnes Smedley, Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, Arturo Alessandri, and William Lyon Mackenzie King. After him are Yvan Goll, Peter Fraser, Nikolai Voznesensky, Hantaro Nagaoka, Walter Eucken, and Alma Karlin.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Kazys Grinius ranks 468 out of 1,694. Before him are Adalbert Krueger (1832), Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1797), Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia (1943), Bezprym (987), Zygmunt Berling (1896), and Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920). After him are Aleksander Krupa (1947), Dita Parlo (1906), Walther von Lüttwitz (1859), Bronisław Huberman (1882), Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928), and Teresa Orlowski (1953).

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Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Kazys Grinius ranks 124. Before him are Ernst Niekisch (1889), Ewa Kopacz (1956), Władysław III Spindleshanks (1165), Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1797), Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia (1943), and Bezprym (987). After him are Gerhard Klopfer (1905), Elisabeth Hevelius (1647), Elizabeth Richeza of Poland (1286), Eduard Strasburger (1844), Jan Tarnowski (1488), and Frederick Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1734).

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