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Vilis Lācis

1904 - 1966

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Vilis Lācis (born Jānis Vilhelms Lāce (Old orthography: Jahn Wilhelm Lahze) on 12 May 1904, died 6 February 1966) was a Latvian writer and communist politician. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vilis Lācis is the 2,791st most popular writer (down from 2,670th in 2019), the 74th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 65th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Latvian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vilis Lācis ranks 2,791 out of 7,302. Before him are Lars Norén, Taliesin, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Vince Gilligan, Nemesianus, and Ada Negri. After him are Ibn Manzur, Robert Kerr, Nicholas Rémy, Branko Radičević, Yury Yakovlev, and Isaac Deutscher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Vilis Lācis ranks 135. Before him are Seán MacBride, Walter Heitler, Berta Karlik, Alexandrina of Balazar, Frederick Ashton, and Edgar P. Jacobs. After him are Delmer Daves, Cecil Beaton, William L. Shirer, Goffredo Petrassi, Lippo Hertzka, and Sergei Yutkevich. Among people deceased in 1966, Vilis Lācis ranks 98. Before him are Sylvère Maes, John of Shanghai and San Francisco, Vera Weizmann, Arthur Percival, Albrecht Brandi, and Petar Radaković. After him are Philipp Frank, Charles Whitman, Victor Kravchenko, Elio Vittorini, Sutan Sjahrir, and George Ohsawa.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Vilis Lācis ranks 74 out of 323. Before him are Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter (1884), Karl Eichwald (1795), Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz (1824), Mstislav Keldysh (1911), Valdis Dombrovskis (1971), and Morris Halle (1923). After him are Edgars Rinkēvičs (1973), Alexander Kovalevsky (1840), Vasiliy Ulrikh (1889), Ivars Godmanis (1951), Jānis K. Bērziņš (1889), and Alexander von Keyserling (1815).

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Among WRITERS In Latvia

Among writers born in Latvia, Vilis Lācis ranks 8. Before him are Rainis (1865), Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751), Barbara von Krüdener (1764), Aspazija (1865), Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski (1876), and Maria Skobtsova (1891). After him are Vizma Belševica (1931), Yury Tynyanov (1894), Kristjan Jaak Peterson (1801), Krišjānis Barons (1835), Garlieb Merkel (1769), and Zenta Mauriņa (1897).

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