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Vaino Väljas

1931 - 2024

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Vaino Väljas (28 March 1931 – 16 January 2024) was a Soviet and Estonian diplomat and politician. Väljas was leader of the Communist party in Soviet Estonia from 1988 to 1991, and the leader of Democratic Estonian Workers Party from 1992 to 1995 in independent Estonia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). Vaino Väljas is the 13,472nd most popular politician (down from 7,700th in 2024), the 124th most popular biography from Estonia (down from 42nd in 2019) and the 47th most popular Estonian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Vaino Väljas ranks 13,472 out of 19,576. Before him are Milenko Radomar Vesnić, Stephen A. Douglas, Dean Phillips, Dimitar Iliev Popov, Ida of Bernicia, and Blanche of Navarre, Duchess of Brittany. After him are Marcus Titius, Nasrullah Khan, Nouri Abusahmain, José María Castro Madriz, José Díaz, and Jacques Barrot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Vaino Väljas ranks 309. Before him are Dimitar Dobrev, Gene Wolfe, Edith Bruck, Tamara Tyshkevich, Corinne Marchand, and Murad Wilfried Hofmann. After him are Maria Gusakova, Norman Read, Olja Ivanjicki, Alain Cavalier, Shammi Kapoor, and Sylvano Bussotti. Among people deceased in 2024, Vaino Väljas ranks 293. Before him are Bernard Pivot, Luis Ayala, Guy Bonnet, Pete Rose, Vic Seixas, and Mark Damon. After him are Giacomo Losi, Barbara Rush, Alex Salmond, Pascal Lainé, Jan A. P. Kaczmarek, and Christopher Priest.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Vaino Väljas ranks 124 out of 351. Before him are Artur Kapp (1878), Oskar Luts (1887), Pavel Schilling (1786), Eve Kivi (1938), Johan Pitka (1872), and Emma Asson (1889). After him are Kristen Michal (1975), Rudolf Tobias (1873), Juhan Smuul (1922), Carl Friedrich Schmidt (1832), Martin Klein (1884), and Gustav Ernesaks (1908).

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Among POLITICIANS In Estonia

Among politicians born in Estonia, Vaino Väljas ranks 47. Before him are Andres Tarand (1940), Ants Antson (1938), Otto Tief (1889), Pavel Schilling (1786), Johan Pitka (1872), and Emma Asson (1889). After him are Kristen Michal (1975), Johannes Käbin (1905), Jüri Ratas (1978), Mart Helme (1949), Jüri Jaakson (1870), and Heinrich Mark (1911).

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