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David Irving

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David John Cawdell Irving (born 24 March 1938) is an English author and Holocaust denier who has written on the military and political history of World War II, especially Nazi Germany. He was found to be a Holocaust denier in a British court in 2000 as a result of a failed libel case. Irving's works include The Destruction of Dresden (1963), Hitler's War (1977), Churchill's War (1987) and Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich (1996). In his works, he falsely claimed that Adolf Hitler did not know of the extermination of Jews, or, if he did, he opposed it. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. David Irving is the 936th most popular writer (up from 1,231st in 2019), the 878th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 922nd in 2019) and the 95th most popular British Writer.

David Irving is most famous for his revisionist history, which denies the Holocaust.

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Among writers, David Irving ranks 936 out of 7,302. Before him are Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, Katherine Mansfield, Johann Kaspar Lavater, Aelius Donatus, Jan Neruda, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. After him are Stefan George, Ján Kollár, Julien Green, Daniel Keyes, Al-Mutanabbi, and Zelda Fitzgerald.

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Among people born in 1938, David Irving ranks 63. Before him are Lynn Margulis, Jiří Menzel, Anthony James Leggett, Issey Miyake, Jean Giraud, and Tufuga Efi. After him are Raymond Carver, Wim Kok, István Szabó, Giuliano Amato, Brian Dennehy, and Oleg Gordievsky.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Irving ranks 878 out of 8,785. Before him are John Paul Jones (1946), Princess Muna al-Hussein (1941), Dionysios Kasdaglis (1872), Catherine of Lancaster (1373), Henry Maitland Wilson (1881), and Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809). After him are Rex Harrison (1908), Chris Rea (1951), Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (1897), James Macpherson (1736), Percy Fawcett (1867), and Robbie Williams (1974).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, David Irving ranks 95. Before him are Wilkie Collins (1824), Samuel Richardson (1689), H. Rider Haggard (1856), Christopher Tolkien (1924), Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878), and Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809). After him are Percy Fawcett (1867), Samuel Butler (1612), Bruce Chatwin (1940), Philip Pullman (1946), George Gissing (1857), and E. M. Forster (1879).

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