South African lawyer and politician, former State President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2021)

F. W. de Klerk

Frederik Willem de Klerk was a South African politician who served as the final state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as deputy president alongside Thabo Mbeki under President Nelson Mandela from 1994 to 1996. As South Africa's last head of state from the era of white-minority rule, he and his government dismantled the apartheid system and introduced universal suffrage. Ideologically a social conservative and an economic liberal, he led the National Party (NP) from 1989 to 1997.

Born

1936

March 18

Died

2021

Era

1930s

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The world in 1936

When F. arrived

april 15 First day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine.
april 19 The Jaffa riots commence, initiating the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine.
april 27 The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
april 3 Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the infant son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.

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Christian Goldbach 1690–1764 Prussian-German mathematician and academic (died 1764) Edgar Cayce 1877–1945 American psychic and author (born 1877) Jacob Bunn 1814– American businessman (died 1897) John C. Calhoun 1782–1850 American lawyer and politician, 7th Vice President of the United States (died 1850) Katy Gallagher 1970– Australian politician Kris Dunn 1994– American basketball player Lillian Vernon 1927–2015 German-American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Lillian Vernon Company (born 1927) Miguel Poblet 1928– Spanish cyclist (died 2013) Mike Bell 1971– American wrestler (died 2008)

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Same-year contemporaries

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Silvio Berlusconi 1936–2023 Italian businessman and politician, Prime Minister of Italy (born 1936) Anthony Lester 1936– Baron Lester of Herne Hill, English lawyer and politician (died 2020) Anthony Payne 1936–2021 English composer (born 1936) Antonin Scalia 1936–2016 American lawyer and judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (born 1936) B. J. Habibie 1936–2019 Indonesian engineer and politician, 3rd President of Indonesia (died 2019) Bill Mazeroski 1936– American baseball player and coach (died 2026) Bobby Ross 1936– American football player and coach Brian Blessed 1936– English actor Canaan Banana 1936–2003 Zimbabwean minister and politician, 1st President of Zimbabwe (died 2003)

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