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Stan Mikita

1940 - 2018

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Stanley Mikita (born Stanislav Guoth; May 20, 1940 – August 7, 2018) was a Slovak-born Canadian ice hockey player for the Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League, generally regarded as the best centre of the 1960s. In 2017, he was named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players. In 1961, he became the first Slovak-born player to win the Stanley Cup. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Stan Mikita is the 11th most popular hockey player (up from 13th in 2019), the 106th most popular biography from Slovakia (up from 120th in 2019) and the most popular Slovak Hockey Player.

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Among HOCKEY PLAYERS

Among hockey players, Stan Mikita ranks 11 out of 676. Before him are Valeri Kharlamov, Václav Nedomanský, Viktor Tikhonov, Jaromír Jágr, Jiří Holeček, and Phil Esposito. After him are Mario Lemieux, Lal Bokhari, Jiří Holík, Bobby Hull, Ray Bourque, and Viacheslav Fetisov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Stan Mikita ranks 234. Before him are Charles Robert Jenkins, John Havlicek, Roger Ailes, Michel Micombero, Jon Elster, and Mohammad-Reza Shajarian. After him are Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla, Bob Hewitt, Thelma Schoonmaker, Nicola Di Bari, Jill St. John, and Farooq Leghari. Among people deceased in 2018, Stan Mikita ranks 187. Before him are M. Karunanidhi, Roger Bannister, Lydia Clarke, Edgar Hilsenrath, Claribel Alegría, and Juan Bautista Agüero. After him are Evelyn Berezin, Juraj Herz, Lewis Gilbert, Penny Marshall, Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab, and Trần Đại Quang.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Stan Mikita ranks 106 out of 418. Before him are Štefan Tiso (1897), Miroslav Lajčák (1963), Aurel Stodola (1859), Artúr Görgei (1818), Pavol Molnár (1936), and Dušan Uhrin (1943). After him are Ruzena Bajcsy (1933), Matthias Bel (1684), Juraj Haulik (1788), Juraj Herz (1934), János Pálffy (1664), and Frederick Stafford (1928).

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Among HOCKEY PLAYERS In Slovakia

Among hockey players born in Slovakia, Stan Mikita ranks 1. After him are Ladislav Troják (1914), Pavol Demitra (1974), Miroslav Šatan (1974), Žigmund Pálffy (1972), Zdeno Chára (1977), Marián Hossa (1979), Róbert Švehla (1969), Marián Gáborík (1982), Ľuboš Bartečko (1976), Marcel Hossa (1981), and Ľubomír Višňovský (1976).

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