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Lech Kaczyński

1949 - 2010

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Lech Aleksander Kaczyński (Polish: [ˈlɛx alɛkˈsandɛr kaˈt͡ʂɨj̃skʲi] ; 18 June 1949 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish politician who served as the city mayor of Warsaw from 2002 until 2005, and as President of Poland from 2005 until his death in 2010 in an air crash. The aircraft carrying him and senior Polish officials had crashed while they were travelling to attend ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre. Prior to his tenure as president, Kaczyński served as President of the Supreme Audit Office from 1992 to 1995 and later Minister of Justice and Public Prosecutor General in Jerzy Buzek's cabinet from 2000 until his dismissal in July 2001. Born in Warsaw, he starred in a 1962 Polish film, The Two Who Stole the Moon, with his identical twin brother Jarosław. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lech Kaczyński is the 774th most popular politician (down from 570th in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Poland (down from 24th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Polish Politician.

Lech Kaczyński was the President of Poland from 2005-2010. He was killed in a plane crash in 2010.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Lech Kaczyński ranks 774 out of 19,576. Before him are Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden, Gordian III, George I of Greece, Valentinian I, Abū Lahab, and Nurhaci. After him are Sitting Bull, Manuel I Komnenos, Zakir Husain, Philip the Good, Geronimo, and Dilma Rousseff.

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Among people born in 1949, Lech Kaczyński ranks 20. Before him are Ashraf Ghani, Richard Gere, Mark Knopfler, Abdullah Öcalan, Bernard Arnault, and Arsène Wenger. After him are Sigourney Weaver, André Rieu, Maurice Gibb, Joan Enric Vives Sicília, Ranil Wickremesinghe, and Bruce Springsteen. Among people deceased in 2010, Lech Kaczyński ranks 6. Before him are José Saramago, John Fenn, Leslie Nielsen, Juan Antonio Samaranch, and J. D. Salinger. After him are Tony Curtis, Ronnie James Dio, James Black, Gloria Stuart, Louise Bourgeois, and Eddie Fisher.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Lech Kaczyński ranks 30 out of 1,694. Before him are Janusz Korczak (1878), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902), Erich Ludendorff (1865), Marie Leszczyńska (1703), Fedor von Bock (1880), and Władysław Szpilman (1911). After him are Tadeusz Reichstein (1897), Manfred von Richthofen (1892), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), Rudolf Clausius (1822), Zygmunt Bauman (1925), and Władysław IV Vasa (1595).

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Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Lech Kaczyński ranks 4. Before him are Lech Wałęsa (1943), Paul von Hindenburg (1847), and David Ben-Gurion (1886). After him are Władysław IV Vasa (1595), Sigismund II Augustus (1520), Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923), Vladislaus II of Hungary (1456), Casimir III the Great (1310), Donald Tusk (1957), Sigismund I the Old (1467), and Władysław III of Poland (1424).

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