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Alexander Imich

1903 - 2014

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Alexander Imich (February 4, 1903 – June 8, 2014) was a Polish-American chemist, parapsychologist, zoologist and writer who was the president of the Anomalous Phenomena Research Center in New York City. He was born in 1903 in Częstochowa, Poland (then part of the Russian Empire) to a Jewish family. Imich, a supercentenarian, also became the oldest living man at age 111 after the death of almost 112-year-old Arturo Licata, of Italy, on April 24, 2014. Until his own death a little more than a month later, aged 111 years and 124 days, Imich was certified by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living man. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Imich is the 2,881st most popular writer (down from 2,173rd in 2019), the 634th most popular biography from Poland (down from 494th in 2019) and the 64th most popular Polish Writer.

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Among writers, Alexander Imich ranks 2,881 out of 7,302. Before him are Samad Vurgun, Yevgeny Baratynsky, Gasparo Contarini, Aelred of Rievaulx, Angela Carter, and Josef Škvorecký. After him are Sæmundr fróði, Stefan Heym, Lucía Sánchez Saornil, Abdullah Abdul Kadir, Andrei Sinyavsky, and Frans G. Bengtsson.

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Among people born in 1903, Alexander Imich ranks 150. Before him are Abba P. Lerner, Nikolay Krylov, Morgan Taylor, Aleksei N. Leontiev, Antanas Sniečkus, and Takiji Kobayashi. After him are Lina Radke, Maria Giuseppa Robucci, K. Kamaraj, André Maschinot, Fumiko Hayashi, and Rafael Paasio. Among people deceased in 2014, Alexander Imich ranks 172. Before him are Ante Žanetić, On Kawara, Alice Babs, Frans Brüggen, Magda Olivero, and Helena Rakoczy. After him are Lorna Wing, Juan Gelman, Pierre Bec, James Rebhorn, Stefanie Zweig, and Horace Silver.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Alexander Imich ranks 634 out of 1,694. Before him are Ewa Kłobukowska (1946), Stanislaus Hosius (1504), Lothar Bisky (1941), Władysław Podkowiński (1866), Shmuel Eisenstadt (1923), and Lazarus Fuchs (1833). After him are Józef Haller (1873), Philip I, Duke of Pomerania (1515), Julius von Sachs (1832), Aleksander Fredro (1793), Heinrich George (1893), and Walther Wever (1887).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Alexander Imich ranks 64. Before him are Jerzy Andrzejewski (1909), Ignacy Krasicki (1735), Tadeusz Różewicz (1921), Sholem Asch (1880), Isaac Deutscher (1907), and Adam Michnik (1946). After him are Aleksander Fredro (1793), Zofia Posmysz (1923), Stefanie Zweig (1932), Marcin Bielski (1495), Bronisława Wajs (1908), and Yakov Perelman (1882).

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