Arie de Graaf
Arie de Graaf( born 4 August 1947 in Arnhem) is a Dutch insurer, biologist, teacher, and politician.
De Graaf studied Dutch law at Utrecht University( 1972- 1977), where he obtained a Master of Laws.
He worked for a mutual insurance( 1966- 1976) and was at the same time member of the municipal council of Arnhem( 1970- 1976).
In 1976 he was elected Member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands for the Dutch Labour Party.
He specialized in corporate law, public finance, and pension funds.
De Graaf was opposed to atomic weapons and systematically voted against all related parts of the Dutch defense budget.
De Graaf was nicknamed" Arie de Vraag" because of the large number( 357) of written information requests to the government that he posed during his tenure.
He left the House of Representatives in 1981 and subsequently studied biology at Wageningen University, where he was a visiting scientist at the laboratory for plant taxonomy.
From 1988 he taught at the Inholland University of Applied Sciences(" HEAO Alkmaar" at the time).
The Aroid plant species," Lagenandra dewitii", was described by de Graaf in honour of Hendrik de Wit.
Nan Dirk de Graaf
Nan Dirk de Graaf( born 1958) is professorial fellow in sociology at Nuffield College, University of Oxford.
De Graaf is a specialist in social mobility and educational attainment.
De Graaf received his PhD from Utrecht University( 1988) and was a post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Education and Human Development in Berlin( 1988- 1989).
He was a research fellow at the KNAW( 1990- 1995) and professor in Sociology at Nijmegen University( 2001- 2007).
Hermine de Graaf
Hermine de Graaf( March 13, 1951- November 24, 2013) was a Dutch novelist.
De Graaf studied Dutch language and literature at the University of Amsterdam and worked as a teacher in Venray.
Her debut as a writer was in 1984 with the publication of" Een kaart, niet het gebied", a collection of ten short stories.
In 1988 De Graaf won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs for her novel" De regels van het huis".
Thom de Graaf
Thomas Carolus" Thom" de Graaf( born 11 June 1957) is a Dutch politician of the Democrats 66( D66) party and jurist.
He is the Vice- President of the Council of State since 1 November 2018.
De Graaf attended the from April 1969 until May 1975 and applied at the Radboud University Nijmegen in June 1975 majoring in Law obtaining an Bachelor of Laws degree in June 1977 and worked as a student researcher before graduating with an Master of Laws degree in July 1981.
De Graaf served on the Municipal Council of Nijmegen from May 1978 until April 1979.
De Graaf worked as a researcher at the Radboud University Nijmegen and the from July 1981 until September 1985.
De Graaf worked as a civil servant for the Ministry of the Interior from September 1985 until May 1994 for the department for Law Enforcement from September 1985 until February 1986 and as Deputy Director- General of the department for Legislative Affairs from February 1986 until August 1988 and as Deputy Director- General of the department for Legal Affairs from August 1988 until September 1991 and as Deputy Director- General of the department for Law Enforcement from September 1991 until May 1994.
De Graaf served on the Municipal Council of Leiden from April 1990 until May 1994.
De Graaf was elected as a Member of the House of Representatives after election of 1994, taking office on 17 May 1994 serving as a frontbencher and spokesperson for the Interior, Kingdom Relations, and Law enforcement and deputy spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and European Affairs.
After the Parliamentary leader of the Democrats 66 in the House of Representatives announced that he was stepping down as Parliamentary leader in the House of Representatives following increasing criticism on his leadership, the Democrats 66 leadership approached De Graaf as his successor, De Graaf accepted and became the Parliamentary leader in the House of Representatives, taking office on 21 November 1997.
After the election of 1998 the new Leader of the Democrats 66 Els Borst was elected as a Member of the House of Representatives and became the Parliamentary leader, taking office on 19 May 1998.
Following the cabinet formation of 1998 Borst opted to remain Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport in the Cabinet Kok II and unexpectedly announced that she was stepping down as Leader.
De Graaf announced his candidacy to succeed her.
De Graaf won the leadership election defeating fellow frontbencher Roger van Boxtel and was elected as Leader and Parliamentary leader, taking office on 30 May 1998.
For the election of 2002 De Graaf served as the" Lijsttrekker"( top candidate).
The Democrats 66 suffered a big loss, losing 7 seats and fell back as the seventh largest party and now had 7 seats in the House of Representatives.
For the election of 2003 De Graaf served for a second time as" Lijsttrekker".
The Democrats 66 suffered another loss, losing 1 seat and now had 6 seats in the House of Representatives.
On 22 January 2003 De Graaf announced he was stepping down as Leader and Parliamentary leader taking responsibility for the defeat but continued to serve in the House of Representatives as a frontbencher chairing the.
Following the cabinet formation of 2003 De Graaf was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Governmental Reform and Kingdom Relations in the Cabinet Balkenende II, taking office on 27 May 2003.
On 23 March 2005 De Graaf resigned after a proposed constitutional reform on was rejected by the Senate.
De Graaf semi-retired from active politics and became active in the public sector and occupied numerous seats as a nonprofit director on several supervisory boards( Consumers' League and the Anne Vondeling prize) and served on several and councils on behalf of the government( Public Pension Funds APB,, Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei, Netherlands Film Fund and the Advisory Council for Spatial Planning).
De Graaf also worked as a sport administrator for the Royal Dutch Football Association.
De Graaf also served as a professor of Ethics for the Royal Marechaussee at the Royal Military Academy from July 2005 until September 2010.
In December 2006 De Graaf was nominated as Mayor of Nijmegen, taking office on 8 January 2007.
In January 2012 De Graaf was nominated as Chairman of the Executive Board of the, he resigned as Mayor the same day he was installed Chairman from serving from 1 February 2012 until 1 November 2018.
De Graaf was elected as a Member of the Senate after the Senate election of 2011, taking office on 7 June 2011 serving as a frontbencher chairing the and spokesperson for the Interior, Kingdom Relations, European Affairs, Defence and Immigration and Asylum Affairs.
After the Senate election of 2015 De Graaf was selected as Parliamentary leader of the Democrats 66 in the Senate, taking office on 9 June 2015.
In June 2018 De Graaf was nominated as Vice- President of the Council of State, he resigned as Parliamentary leader on 26 June 2018 and as a Member of the Senate on 20 September 2018 and was installed as Vice- President of the Council of State, taking office on 1 November 2018.
Lawrence B. de Graaf
Lawrence Brooks de Graaf( born August 30, 1932, Yonkers, New York) is an American historian.
He is a professor emeritus of History at California State University, Fullerton, where he is the namesake of the Lawrence de Graaf Center for Oral and Public History.
De Graaf was the oldest son of Kathryn née Brooks and Jacob C. de Graaf, a salesman whose parents had immigrated from Rotterdam in 1909.
He grew up in various places in New York State before moving in 1944 to Glendale, California, where his father had taken a job with Sun Oil.
De Graaf received a Bachelor's degree in History from Occidental College in Los Angeles in 1954 and both an M.A. and PhD in History from UCLA, the latter in 1962 with the dissertation" Negro migration to Los Angeles, 1930 to 1950".
In February 1959 he married Shirley Ferguson, with whom he would raise a daughter.
In the fall of 1959, he was hired among the first faculty of the new Orange County State College( to be renamed California State University, Fullerton).
De Graaf remained at Fullerton his whole career, retiring in 2002.
In 2006, the Los Angeles City Historical Society honored de Graaf with its Miriam Matthews Ethnic History Award for chronicling Southern California ’s ethnic history.
In 2014, he was inducted into the International Youth- on- the- Move International Educators ’ Hall of Fame Awards at Chapman University.
Regnier de Graaf
Regnier de Graaf( English spelling), original Dutch spelling Reinier de Graaf, or Latinized Reijnerus de Graeff( 30 July 164117 August 1673) was a Dutch physician and anatomist who made key discoveries in reproductive biology.
His first name is often spelled" Reinier" or" Reynier."
Nasuh Pasha
Nasuh Pasha was an Ottoman statesman of Albanian origin.
He was grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 5 August 1611 until 17 October 1614.
He was from Gümülcine( modern Komotini) and was a damat to the Ottoman dynasty, as he married an Ottoman princess.
He was executed by Ahmed I in 1614.
Aad de Graaf
Arie" Aad" de Graaf( 22 October 1939 – 21 July 1995) was Dutch track cyclist who was active between 1959 and 1966.
He won national sprint titles in 1960 – 1962 and finished second in 1959 and 1963 – 1965.
He competed in the sprint at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics, but failed to reach the finals; in 1964 he finished in fourth place in the 2 km tandem event.
Louw de Graaf
Louw de Graaf( born 12 April 1930) is a retired Dutch politician of the defunct Anti-Revolutionary Party( ARP) and later the Christian Democratic Appeal( CDA) party and trade union leader.
De Graaf worked as a trade union leader for the National Christian Trade unions( CNV) from September 1955 until December 1977 and served as General- Secretary from May 1970 until December 1977.
After the election of 1977 De Graaf was appointed as State Secretary for Social Affairs in the Cabinet Van Agt- Wiegel, taking office on 28 December 1977.
De Graaf was elected as a Member of the House of Representatives after the election of 1981, taking office on 10 June 1981.
Following the cabinet formation of 1981 De Graaf was not giving a cabinet post in the new cabinet, the Cabinet Van Agt- Wiegel was replaced by the Cabinet Van Agt II on 11 September 1981 and he continued to serve in the House of Representatives as a frontbencher and deputy spokesperson for Social Affairs and Employment.
On 12 May 1982 the Cabinet Van Agt II fell just seven months into its term and continued to serve in a demissionary capacity until the first cabinet formation of 1982 when it was replaced by the caretaker Cabinet Van Agt III with De Graaf appointment as Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, taking office on 29 May 1982.
After the election of 1982 De Graaf returned as a Member of the House of Representatives, taking office on 16 September 1982.
Following the second cabinet formation of 1982 De Graaf was again appointed as State Secretary for Social Affairs and Employment in the Cabinet Lubbers I, taking office on 5 November 1982.
After the election of 1986 De Graaf again returned as a Member of the House of Representatives, taking office on 3 June 1986.
Following the cabinet formation of 1986 De Graaf continued as State Secretary for Social Affairs and Employment in the Cabinet Lubbers II, taking office on 14 July 1986.
De Graaf served as acting Minister of Social Affairs and Employment from 3 February 1987 until 6 May 1987 following the appointment of Jan de Koning as acting Minister of the Interior during a medical leave of absence of Kees van Dijk.
The Cabinet Lubbers II fell on 3 May 1989 following a disagreement in the coalition about the increase of tariffs and excises and continued to serve in a demissionary capacity.
In July 1989 De Graaf announced that he would n't stand for the election of 1989.
In September 1989 De Graaf was nominated as a Chairman of the Supervisory board of the, he resigned as State Secretary for Social Affairs and Employment the same day he was installed as Chairman, serving from 1 October 1989 until 1 July 2003.
Aad de Koning
Aad de Koning( 25 December 1928 – 29 May 2010) was a Dutch speed skater.
He competed in three events at the 1948 Winter Olympics.

Question: Who died first, Aad De Graaf or Nasuh Pasha?
Answer: Nasuh Pasha