Politics · Film · Law · 1949–2010
Born: 18 June 1949 · Died: 10 April 2010 · Age at death: 60
Lech Kaczyński died aged 60. He was born on 18 June 1949 and died on 10 April 2010.
Polish president and former Solidarity activist who died with 95 others in the 2010 Smolensk air crash
Did you know?As a child, he and his twin brother Jarosław starred in a popular 1962 Polish film titled The Two Who Stole the Moon.
Lech Kaczyński was president of Poland from 2005 until his death in 2010. He and his identical twin Jarosław starred as child actors in a popular 1962 film. Later both became anti-communist activists, and Lech advised the Solidarity movement. As mayor of Warsaw he founded the Warsaw Uprising Museum. The twins co-founded the Law and Justice party. On 10 April 2010 his plane crashed near Smolensk in Russia, killing all 96 people on board, including many senior officials. The tragedy still divides Polish politics.
Lech Aleksander Kaczyński (18 June 1949 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish politician who served as the 4th president of Poland from 2005 to 2010, when he died in the Smolensk air disaster. Earlier, he served as the city mayor of Warsaw from 2002 to 2005.
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Polish politician, 1949–2010
Lech Kaczyński was born in Warsaw on 18 June 1949.
He was active in Solidarity.
He became president in 2005.
He died at Smolensk on 10 April 2010.
Career highlights
Did you know?He and his twin starred as child actors in a 1962 film.
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