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John Turner

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Also known as John Napier Turner

17th Prime Minister of Canada (1929–2020)

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John Turner was a person associated with multiple fields, including cricket and literature. In cricket, he played as a bowler for the Hampshire team and held South African nationality. As an author, Turner has 148 works listed, with titles including *Mathematical exercises ...*, *Will you make war again?*, *Warning Comes I Move*, *Daddy Days*, and *Exploring the Other Island*. Crossref records indicate five works attributed to him.

MusicBrainz data identifies a female artist named John Turner from Switzerland, with genres including adult contemporary, american, box set, classic pop and rock, and english. Last.fm tags associated with this name include UK and british. Wikiquote lists statements attributed to Turner, such as "Democracy does not happen by accident." and "I've told you and I've told the Canadian people, Mr. Mulroney, that I had no option."

John Turner was born on 1929-06-07 and died on 2020-09-19. The name is referenced by 655 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 23 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Thesportsdb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
148

Top works

  • Mathematical exercises ...
  • Will you make war again?
  • Warning Comes I Move
  • Daddy Days
  • Exploring the Other Island

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
Switzerland
Active from
1939-11-26
Active to
2023-05-24
adult contemporaryamericanbox setclassic pop and rockenglishpop

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2,371
Total plays
6,254

Tags

UKbritish

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Turner">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · John Turner

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

    · 1996 · cited 204,552x

  2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 43,600x

  3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

    · 2000 · cited 36,901x

  4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

    · 2007 · cited 35,568x

  5. The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)

    · 1992 · cited 29,128x

via Crossref · CC0

Quotes

  • Democracy does not happen by accident.
  • I'm not just in this race so you will remember my name at some future date. I'm not here now for some next time. I am not bidding now for your consideration for some vague convention in 1984- perhaps when I've mellowed a bit. My time is now and now is no time for mellow men!
  • In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence.
  • I've told you and I've told the Canadian people, Mr. Mulroney, that I had no option.
  • I'm not going to allow Mr. Mulroney to sell out our birthright, I'm not going to let Mr. Mulroney destroy a great 120 year old dream called Canada.
  • In opposition, there's not much one can do. One doesn't have the carrot and one doesn't have the stick. One can't promote and one can't fire. And persuasion has its limits.

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

Key facts

Monarch
Elizabeth II
Governor general
Jeanne Sauvé
Deputy
Jean Chrétien
Preceded by
Pierre Trudeau
Succeeded by
Brian Mulroney

via Wikipedia infobox

Sports profile

Sport
Cricket
Team
Hampshire
Position
Bowler
Nationality
South Africa

via TheSportsDB

Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Family name
Turner
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
Richmond
Place of death
Toronto
Languages spoken
English language
Image
John Turner (39436619124) (cropped).jpg
Work location
Ottawa
Residence
Deer Park
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Commons category
John Turner
date of birth
1929-06-07
birth name
John Napier Wyndham Turner
candidacy in election
1988 Canadian federal election
different from
John Turner
date of death
2020-09-19
name in native language
John Turner
honorific prefix
The Right Honourable
manner of death
natural causes
Sources (6)

via Wikidata · CC0

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Encyclopedic overview

Member of Parliament In office September 4, 1984 – October 25, 1993 Preceded byBill Clarke Succeeded byTed McWhinney ConstituencyVancouver Quadra In office June 18, 1962 – February 12, 1976 Preceded byEgan Chambers Succeeded byJean Pigott ConstituencySt. Lawrence—St. George (1962–1968) Ottawa—Carleton (1968–1976)

Personal details BornJohn Napier Wyndham Turner (1929-06-07)June 7, 1929 Richmond, Surrey, England

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “John Turner” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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