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Saliamonas Banaitis

1866 - 1933

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Saliamonas Banaitis (; 15 July 1866 – 4 May 1933) was a Lithuanian publisher, 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 the lack of higher education, he joined Lithuanian cultural life – smuggled banned Lithuanian press, assisted Vincas Kudirka with the publication of the Lithuanian-language newspapers Varpas and Ūkininkas, participated in the Great Seimas of Vilnius. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2024). Saliamonas Banaitis is the 16,646th most popular politician (up from 16,727th in 2024), the 1,200th most popular biography from Poland (up from 1,236th in 2019) and the 238th most popular Polish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Saliamonas Banaitis ranks 16,646 out of 19,576. Before 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 150. Before 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 146. Before 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 1,200 out of 1,694. Before him are Michał Probierz (1972), 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), Piotr Beczała (1966), and Kazimierz Kmiecik (1951).

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Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Saliamonas Banaitis ranks 238. Before 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).

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