See also the list of Polish monarchs and list of Prime Ministers of Poland.

* 1949 – Jarosław Kaczyński, Polish lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Poland

* 1940 – Jerzy Buzek, Polish engineer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Poland

* 1946 – Leszek Miller, Polish politician, Prime Minister of Poland

On 31 March 1939, the British Prime Minister Chamberlain announced before the House of Commons the British “ guarantee ” of Poland, which committed Britain to go to war to defend Polish independence, though pointedly the “ guarantee ” excluded Polish frontiers.

The 16-person cabinet of Prime Minister Miller has been the smallest government of the Polish Republic so far.

In August 2009, in an article written for the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin condemned the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact as " immoral.

* 1950 – Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Polish politician, 8th Prime Minister of Poland

After the elections, the coalition was joined by the Polish People's Party ( PSL ) in forming a government and Leszek Miller became the Prime Minister.

Wojciech Olejniczak, the former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, was elected the president of SLD on 29 May 2004, succeeded Józef Oleksy, who resigned from the post of Polish Prime Minister due to alleged connections to the KGB.

The Silesian voivodeship's government is headed by the province's voivode ( governor ) who is appointed by the Polish Prime Minister.

Pitt was particularly frustrated that, due to the isolationist policies of the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, Britain had not entered the War of the Polish Succession which broke out in 1733 and he had not been given a chance to test himself in battle.

** Jarosław Kaczyński, Polish Prime Minister ( 2006 – 2007 )

* June 29 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer, and third Prime Minister of Poland ( b. 1860 )

** Polish Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak resigns from Parliament and is replaced by ex-communist Jozef Oleksy.

* February 9 – Polish Prime Minister Józef Pinkowski resigns and is replaced by General Wojciech Jaruzelski.

** Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be Prime Minister, the first non-communist in power in 42 years.

* July 6 – Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish Communist politician, Prime Minister and President of Poland

The Prime Minister of Poland ( Polish: Prezes Rady Ministrów ) heads the Polish Council of Ministers ( the Cabinet ) and directs their work, supervises territorial self-government within the guidelines and in ways described in the Constitution and other legislation, and acts as the superior for all government administration workers ( heading the public service corps ).

These coalitions can collapse over political disagreements, causing the average term in office of a Polish Prime Minister to be rather short ( typically around 18 months ).

On 11 February 1981, Jaruzelski was elected Prime Minister of Poland and became the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers ' Party on October 18 the same year.

* 1989 – Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist prime minister in 42 years.

On May 12, 1926, Piłsudski, prompted by mutinous units seeking his leadership and intent on preventing the three-time prime minister Wincenty Witos of the peasant Polish People's Party from forming another coalition, staged a military overthrow of the Polish government, confronting President Stanisław Wojciechowski and overpowering the troops loyal to him.

* 1942 – Stefan Meller, Polish foreign minister ( d. 2008 )

Polish officials refused to allow Soviet troops on to Polish territory if Germany attacked ; as Polish foreign minister Józef Beck pointed out, they feared that once the Red Army entered their territories, it might never leave.

France's prime minister, Cardinal Fleury, saw the Polish struggle as a chance to strike at Austrian power in the west without seeming to be the aggressor.

In 1985, Jaruzelski resigned as prime minister and defence minister and became chairman of the Polish Council of State, a post equivalent to that of president or a dictator, with his power centered on and firmly entrenched in his coterie of " LWP " generals and lower ranks officers of the Polish Communist Army.

Polish prime minister and commander-in-chief general Władysław Sikorski studied there, while pioneer of the oil industry, Ignacy Łukasiewicz, spent much of his life in Rzeszów.

After the Soviet invasion of German-occupied Poland in July 1944, Polish government-in-exile prime minister Stanisław Mikołajczyk flew to Moscow with Churchill to argue against the annexation of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact portion of eastern Poland by the Soviet Union.

Polish Prime minister Josef Cyrankiewicz was rewarded for the Polish rejection of the Plan with a huge 5 year trade agreement, including 450 million in credit, 200, 000 tons of grain, heavy machinery and factories.

When the War of the Polish Succession broke out in 1733, France used it as an opportunity to seize Lorraine, since France's prime minister, Cardinal Fleury, was concerned that, as a Habsburg possession, it would bring Austrian power too close to France.

He had no grievance against Russia and while he privately sympathized with the Polish cause, in his role as foreign minister he rejected Polish demands.

On April 30, 1946, the Lusatian National Committee also postulated a petition to the Polish Government, signed by Paweł Cyż – the minister and an official Sorbian delegate in Poland.

* Władysław Anders, Polish general and prime minister.

* Stanisław Jasiukowicz, Polish minister, tortured to death in Butyrki in 1946.

Jaworski was born in Waco, Texas, a child of German-speaking parents ; his mother, Marie ( née Mira ), was an Austrian immigrant, and his father, Joseph Jaworski, was a Polish immigrant who was an Evangelical minister.

* 1908 – Józef Gosławski, Polish artist ( d. 1963 )

* 1867 – Józef Piłsudski, Polish revolutionary and statesman ( d. 1935 )

* 1850 – Józef Bem, Polish general ( b. 1794 )

* 1806 – Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher ( d. 1875 )

The Polish national anthem-Dąbrowski's Mazurka-was written in praise of his actions by Józef Wybicki in 1797.

The Duchy's military forces, led by Józef Poniatowski, participated in numerous campaigns, including the Polish – Austrian War of 1809, the French invasion of Russia in 1812, and the German campaign of 1813.

The 1905 Russian Revolution arose new waves of Polish unrest, political maneuvering, strikes and rebellion, with Roman Dmowski and Józef Piłsudski active as leaders of the nationalist and socialist factions respectively.

" The Commandant ": Józef Piłsudski | Piłsudski with Polish Legions in World War I | his men in 1915

Jerzy Kosiński (; June 14, 1933 – May 3, 1991 ), born Józef Lewinkopf, was an award-winning Polish American novelist, and two-time President of the American Chapter of P. E. N.

* 1996 – Polish Premier Józef Oleksy resigns amid charges that he spied for Moscow.

That same day, on 21 March 1939, Ribbentrop presented a set of demands to the Polish Ambassador Józef Lipski about Poland allowing the Free City of Danzig to return to Germany in such violent and extreme language that it led to the Poles to fear their country was on the verge of an immediate German attack.

On 26 March, in an extremely stormy meeting with the Polish Ambassador Józef Lipski, Ribbentrop accused the Poles of attempting to bully Germany by their partial mobilization and violently attacked them for only offering consideration of the German demand about the " extra-territorial " roads.

To further block German-Polish diplomatic talks, Ribbentrop had the German Ambassador to Poland, Count Hans-Adolf von Moltke, recalled, and refused to see the Polish Ambassador, Józef Lipski.

Henderson stated that the terms of the German " final offer " were very reasonable, but argued that Ribbentrop's time limit for Polish acceptance of the " final offer " was most unreasonable, and furthermore, demanded to know why Ribbentrop insisted upon seeing a special Polish plenipotentiary and could not present the " final offer " to Józef Lipski or provide a written copy of the " final offer ".

On 18 March, the Polish Army re-enacted Poland's Wedding to the Sea ceremony, which had been celebrated for the first time in 1920 by General Józef Haller.

They cited the successes of the newly formed ( 15 January 1918 ) voluntary Red Army against Polish forces of Gen. Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki in Belarus, White forces in the Don region, and newly independent Ukrainian forces as proof that the Red Army could repel German forces, especially if propaganda and asymmetrical warfare were used.

Obverse of medal with Ludovic Lazarus Zamenhof by Józef Gosławski ( Polish sculptor ) | Gosławski ( 1959 )

Metal detectors were first used for demining, after their invention by the Polish officer Józef Kosacki.

Facsimile of Józef Wybicki | Wybicki's manuscript of the Song of the Polish Legions in Italy

* 1935 – Józef Piłsudski, Polish statesman ( b. 1867 )

* 1920 – Kiev Offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kiev only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.

* 1763 – Józef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish prince ( d. 1813 )