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Saliamonas Banaitis

1866 - 1933

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Saliamonas Banaitis (; 15 July 1866 – 4 May 1933) was a Lithuanian printer, politician, and businessman. He was one of the twenty signatories of the Act of Independence of Lithuania in 1918. Early death of his father and brother forced Banaitis to quit school in order to work at his family's farm. Despite lack of higher education, he joined Lithuanian cultural life – smuggled banned Lithuanian press, assisted Vincas Kudirka with the publication of Lithuanian-language newspapers Varpas and Ūkininkas, participated in the Great Seimas of Vilnius. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Saliamonas Banaitis is the 16,603rd most popular politician (up from 16,736th in 2019), the 1,197th most popular biography from Poland (up from 1,236th in 2019) and the 236th most popular Polish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Saliamonas Banaitis ranks 16,603 out of 19,576Before him are Pierre Joxe, César Villanueva, Malu Dreyer, Joseph Urusemal, Mohammad Mohammadullah, and Owen Arthur. After him are Norman Lane, Naveen Patnaik, José Vicente Concha, Hatı Çırpan, Rajko Đurić, and Ronald Gamarra Herrera.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Saliamonas Banaitis ranks 150Before him are Ernest Mangnall, Miina Sillanpää, Maud Gonne, Cornelia Sorabji, Johan Vaaler, and José María Caro Rodríguez. After him are Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin, James Ewing, David Samanez Ocampo, Hiram Johnson, and Alice Austen. Among people deceased in 1933, Saliamonas Banaitis ranks 146Before him are Emil Magnusson, Earl Derr Biggers, Spottiswoode Aitken, Ruurd Leegstra, Daphne Akhurst, and Osvald Moberg. After him are Julius Falkenstein, Hjalmar Mellin, August Rodenberg, Ğäliäsğar Kamal, Alva Belmont, and Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Saliamonas Banaitis ranks 1,197 out of 1,694Before him are Maria Janion (1926), Friedrich Scherfke (1909), Zbigniew Gut (1949), Tomasz Stankiewicz (1902), Teodor Kocerka (1927), and Lesław Ćmikiewicz (1948). After him are Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (1950), Leon Kruczkowski (1900), Kamil Glik (1988), Heinrich Albertz (1915), Kazimierz Kmiecik (1951), and Walter Migula (1863).

Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Saliamonas Banaitis ranks 236Before him are Danuta Hübner (1948), Antoni Macierewicz (1948), Manfred Stolpe (1936), Leopold Skulski (1877), Waldemar Pawlak (1959), and Jerzy Szmajdziński (1952). After him are Heinrich Albertz (1915), Anna Fotyga (1957), Dietrich Stobbe (1938), Janusz Wojciechowski (1954), Janusz Lewandowski (1951), and Zbigniew Rau (1955).