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Edward Cave

1691 - 1754

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Edward Cave (27 February 1691 – 10 January 1754) was an English printer, editor and publisher. He coined the term "magazine" for a periodical, founding The Gentleman's Magazine in 1731, and was the first publisher to successfully fashion a wide-ranging publication. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edward Cave is the 288th most popular businessperson (up from 304th in 2019), the 2,075th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,004th in 2019) and the 17th most popular British Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Edward Cave ranks 288 out of 847Before him are Evangelos Zappas, Carlos Tavares, Stefano Casiraghi, John DeLorean, Mino Raiola, and Pavel Tretyakov. After him are Jared Kushner, Jerry Yang, Ghislaine Maxwell, Friedrich Krupp, Eiji Toyoda, and Francesco Baracca.

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Among people born in 1691, Edward Cave ranks 6Before him are Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Philip Miller, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Tsarevna Catherine Ivanovna of Russia, and Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt. After him are Princess Dorothea Wilhelmine of Saxe-Zeitz, Mir Jafar, Francesco Feo, Wilhelm Heinrich, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, Alessandro Galilei, and George Lillo. Among people deceased in 1754, Edward Cave ranks 13Before him are Jacopo Riccati, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Henry Pelham, Maria Teresa Felicitas d'Este, Safdar Jang, and Christian August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. After him are Nicolai Eigtved, Wu Jingzi, Philippe Néricault Destouches, Friedrich von Hagedorn, and James Gibbs.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Cave ranks 2,075 out of 8,785Before him are Roger Cotes (1682), Philippa Foot (1920), Effie Gray (1828), Chris Martin (1977), James Wolfe (1727), and William Hamilton (1730). After him are Joan Robinson (1903), Eric Knight (1897), Julian of Norwich (1342), Lytton Strachey (1880), Malo (487), and Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United Kingdom

Among businesspeople born in United Kingdom, Edward Cave ranks 17Before him are Thomas Cook (1808), John McAfee (1945), Thomas Lipton (1848), Henry Cole (1808), Vidal Sassoon (1928), and David Icke (1952). After him are George Williams (1821), Isabella Beeton (1836), Edward Colston (1636), Alfred Edwards (1850), David Richards (1952), and Thomas Blake Glover (1838).