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William I, Elector of Hesse

1743 - 1821

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William I, Elector of Hesse (German: Wilhelm I., Kurfürst von Hessen; 3 June 1743 – 27 February 1821) was the eldest surviving son of Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) and Princess Mary of Great Britain, the daughter of George II. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William I, Elector of Hesse is the 5,601st most popular politician (down from 5,067th in 2019), the 1,476th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,374th in 2019) and the 428th most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, William I, Elector of Hesse ranks 5,601 out of 19,576. Before him are Sisavang Vong, Jehan Sadat, Antipope Eulalius, Zhong Hui, Duncan II of Scotland, and Graça Machel. After him are Liuva I, Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Bess Truman, Khertek Anchimaa-Toka, Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg, and Norodom Ranariddh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, William I, Elector of Hesse ranks 19. Before him are Carl Peter Thunberg, Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, René Just Haüy, Joseph Banks, Gavrila Derzhavin, and Edmund Cartwright. After him are Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau, Victor Amadeus II, Prince of Carignano, Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, William Paley, and Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst. Among people deceased in 1821, William I, Elector of Hesse ranks 8. Before him are John Keats, Joseph de Maistre, Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans, Caroline of Brunswick, Franz Karl Achard, and John William Polidori. After him are Gregory V of Constantinople, Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt, Tudor Vladimirescu, Johann Jacob Schweppe, Louis Claude Richard, and Jean Rapp.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, William I, Elector of Hesse ranks 1,476 out of 7,253. Before him are Uli Stielike (1954), Johann Eck (1486), Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1845), Ludwig Büchner (1824), Wilhelm Weitling (1808), and Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1751). After him are Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1826), Princess Sophie Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1724), Sepp Piontek (1940), Julius Schaub (1898), Dettmar Cramer (1925), and Paul Schäfer (1921).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, William I, Elector of Hesse ranks 428. Before him are Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1848), Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (1723), Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse (1896), Werner Best (1903), Franz Ritter von Epp (1868), and Josef Bühler (1904). After him are Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1826), Princess Sophie Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1724), Julius Schaub (1898), Dorothea Binz (1920), Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (1866), and Martin Schulz (1955).

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