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Anne Frank

1929 - 1945

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Annelies Marie Frank (German: [ˈanə(liːs maˈʁiː) ˈfʁaŋk] , Dutch: [ˌɑnəˈlis maːˈri ˈfrɑŋk, ˈɑnə ˈfrɑŋk] ; 12 June 1929 – c. February or March 1945) was a German-born Jewish girl and diarist. She gained worldwide fame posthumously for keeping a diary documenting her life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands. In the diary, she regularly described her family's everyday life in their hiding place in an Amsterdam attic from 1942 until their arrest in 1944. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anne Frank is the 36th most popular writer (down from 34th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 29th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Writer.

Anne Frank is most famous for her diary, which she wrote while she was in hiding with her family from the Nazis during World War II.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anne Frank ranks 36 out of 7,302. Before her are Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Gabriel García Márquez, Giovanni Boccaccio, Agatha Christie, H. G. Wells, and Khalil Gibran. After her are George Orwell, Charles Dickens, Matsuo Bashō, Hermann Hesse, Emily Dickinson, and Ernest Hemingway.

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Among people born in 1929, Anne Frank ranks 3. Before her are Martin Luther King Jr., and Grace Kelly. After her are Yasser Arafat, Imelda Marcos, Audrey Hepburn, Lev Yashin, Milan Kundera, Ursula K. Le Guin, Bud Spencer, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Jürgen Habermas. Among people deceased in 1945, Anne Frank ranks 5. Before her are Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Benito Mussolini, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. After her are Heinrich Himmler, Eva Braun, Béla Bartók, Martin Bormann, Anton Webern, Fedor von Bock, and Walter Model.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Anne Frank ranks 33 out of 7,253. Before her are Frederick the Great (1712), Johannes Brahms (1833), Friedrich Engels (1820), Angela Merkel (1954), Max Planck (1858), and Bernhard Riemann (1826). After her are Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368), Hermann Hesse (1877), Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912), Martin Heidegger (1889), Karl Dönitz (1891), and Heinrich Himmler (1900).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Anne Frank ranks 2. Before her are Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749). After her are Hermann Hesse (1877), Friedrich Schiller (1759), Bertolt Brecht (1898), Thomas Mann (1875), Heinrich Heine (1797), Erich Maria Remarque (1898), Charles Bukowski (1920), Novalis (1772), Heinrich Böll (1917), and Friedrich Hölderlin (1770).

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