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Kurt Waldheim

1918 - 2007

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Kurt Josef Waldheim (21 December 1918 – 14 June 2007) was an Austrian politician and diplomat. Waldheim was the secretary-general of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981 and the president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. While he was running for the latter office in the 1986 election, the revelation of his service in Greece and Yugoslavia during World War II, and of his knowledge of Nazi atrocities as an intelligence officer in Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht, raised international controversy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kurt Waldheim is the 850th most popular politician (down from 821st in 2019), the 73rd most popular biography from Austria (down from 68th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Austrian Politician.

Kurt Waldheim was the Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981. He was also the President of Austria from 1986 to 1992.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Kurt Waldheim ranks 850 out of 19,576. Before him are Herod Agrippa II, Sennacherib, Roh Moo-hyun, Hans Frank, Mohammed Zahir Shah, and Augustus III of Poland. After him are Ahmose I, Epaminondas, Atia, Mary Simon, Valens, and Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Kurt Waldheim ranks 8. Before him are Nicolae Ceaușescu, Ingmar Bergman, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Anwar Sadat, and Richard Feynman. After him are Louis Althusser, Leonard Bernstein, Rita Hayworth, Gertrude B. Elion, Robert Wadlow, and Helmut Schmidt. Among people deceased in 2007, Kurt Waldheim ranks 7. Before him are Boris Yeltsin, Luciano Pavarotti, Ingmar Bergman, Kurt Vonnegut, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Mohammed Zahir Shah. After him are Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ève Curie, Jean Baudrillard, Mstislav Rostropovich, Carlo Ponti, and Ernst Otto Fischer.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Kurt Waldheim ranks 73 out of 1,424. Before him are Oskar Kokoschka (1886), Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903), Victor Francis Hess (1883), Archduke Otto of Austria (1865), Martin Buber (1878), and Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865). After him are Anna Freud (1895), Fritz Pregl (1869), Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888), Elfriede Jelinek (1946), Peter Handke (1942), and Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1906).

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Among POLITICIANS In Austria

Among politicians born in Austria, Kurt Waldheim ranks 29. Before him are Archduchess Sophie of Austria (1855), Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (1678), Archduke Franz Karl of Austria (1802), Prince Louis of Battenberg (1854), Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903), and Archduke Otto of Austria (1865). After him are Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1906), Albert II of Germany (1397), Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (1861), Charles II, Archduke of Austria (1540), Engelbert Dollfuss (1892), and Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria (1883).

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