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Rosa Taikon

1926 - 2017

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Rosa Sofia Ingeborg Taikon (30 July 1926 – 1 June 2017), formerly Janusch and Widegren, was a Swedish Romani silversmith and activist. From the Kalderash subgroup, Taikon first received public recognition for her work as a silversmith. Following the murder of her brother in 1962, Taikon and her sister Katarina became noted Romani activists against antiziganism in Sweden as well as abroad. For her contribution to Romani rights, Taikon was awarded the Olof Palme Prize in 2013. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rosa Taikon is the 4,851st most popular actor (up from 5,717th in 2019), the 813th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 931st in 2019) and the 72nd most popular Swedish Actor.

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Among actors, Rosa Taikon ranks 4,851 out of 13,578. Before her are Jon Gries, Juanita Moore, Atul Kulkarni, Roger E. Mosley, Leland Orser, and Tim Daly. After her are Elena Sofia Ricci, Suho, Paget Brewster, Oksana Shvets, Nikolai Gubenko, and Jeremy Davies.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Rosa Taikon ranks 366. Before her are Keith Michell, Garret FitzGerald, Metaksia Simonyan, Brita Borg, Pedro Dellacha, and Uttam Kumar. After her are Noemí Simonetto de Portela, George Robledo, Joan Shawlee, Kerwin Mathews, Fritz Weaver, and Abel Goumba. Among people deceased in 2017, Rosa Taikon ranks 383. Before her are Valeriu Bularca, Darlanne Fluegel, Geoff Nicholls, Halit Akçatepe, Li Li-hua, and Sandra Reemer. After her are Vladimir Makanin, Hans Gerschwiler, Marco Coll, Ueli Steck, Paul G. Comba, and Viktor Tsaryov.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Rosa Taikon ranks 813 out of 1,879. Before her are Gerhard Louis De Geer (1854), August Malmström (1829), Harald Edelstam (1913), Sven Markelius (1889), Birgit Cullberg (1908), and Gunnar Lindström (1896). After her are Carl Hårleman (1886), Quorthon (1966), Sven Gustaf Wingqvist (1876), Ingemar Johansson (1924), Inger Berggren (1934), and Birger Rosengren (1917).

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Among ACTORS In Sweden

Among actors born in Sweden, Rosa Taikon ranks 72. Before her are Christina Schollin (1937), Alexandra Rapaport (1971), May Britt (1933), Gustaf Skarsgård (1980), Margaretha Krook (1925), and Uschi Digard (1948). After her are Alf Kjellin (1920), Lars Hanson (1886), David Dencik (1974), Mona Malm (1935), Marie Richardson (1959), and Ola Rapace (1971).

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