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Donald Kagan

1932 - 2021

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Donald Kagan (; May 1, 1932 – August 6, 2021) was a Lithuanian-born American historian and classicist at Yale University specializing in ancient Greece. He formerly taught in the Department of History at Cornell University. Kagan was considered among the foremost American scholars of Greek history and is notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Donald Kagan is the 363rd most popular historian (up from 370th in 2019), the 128th most popular biography from Lithuania (up from 133rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Lithuanian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Donald Kagan ranks 363 out of 561. Before him are Dino Compagni, J. B. Bury, Edward Granville Browne, Miroslav Hroch, Fenestella, and Israel Gutman. After him are Léon Poliakov, Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, Franz Babinger, Mykhailo Maksymovych, Taner Akçam, and Khalifah ibn Khayyat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Donald Kagan ranks 302. Before him are Felicia Farr, Miroslav Hroch, Turgay Şeren, Margit Korondi, Robert Rozhdestvensky, and Paul Bley. After him are Pedro Rubiano Sáenz, Hans Apel, Ugo Mifsud Bonnici, István Kausz, Geoff Bent, and Donald Byrd. Among people deceased in 2021, Donald Kagan ranks 329. Before him are Karl-Friedrich Haas, Angelica Bella, Nikolai Slichenko, Lee Wan-koo, Edmund Gettier, and Ivo Trumbić. After him are Bernard Lown, István Csom, Tomoyasu Asaoka, Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, Johnny Pacheco, and Ronald Pickup.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Donald Kagan ranks 128 out of 328. Before him are Joe Slovo (1926), Michał Elwiro Andriolli (1836), Emil Młynarski (1870), Žemaitė (1845), Stanisław Witkiewicz (1851), and Aušra Augustinavičiūtė (1927). After him are Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius (1882), Phoebus Levene (1869), Bernard Lown (1921), Henryk Gulbinowicz (1923), Steponas Darius (1896), and Iosif Grigulevich (1913).

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Among HISTORIANS In Lithuania

Among historians born in Lithuania, Donald Kagan ranks 4. Before him are Joseph Klausner (1874), Yitzhak Arad (1926), and Bernard Berenson (1865).

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