Lech Walesa

World Leader

Birthday September 29, 1943

Birth Sign Libra

Birthplace Popowo, Poland

Age 81 years old

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About

Labor leader and human-rights activist who won the Nobel Prize in 1983 and was the President of Poland from 1990 to 1995. He helped form the 1989 Round Table Agreement that led to the first semi-free parliamentary elections in Poland in June 1989.

Before Fame

He worked as an electrician before co-founding Solidarity (Solidarność), the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union.

Trivia

He was incarcerated for eleven months in 1982 for protesting for Union rights.

Family Life

He married Danuta Gołoś in December 1969, and the couple have eight children together.

Associated With

He did not have a good relationship with Barack Obama.