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Gareth Jones

1905 - 1935

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Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones (13 August 1905 – 12 August 1935) was a Welsh journalist who in March 1933 first reported in the Western world, without equivocation and under his own name, the existence of the Soviet famine of 1930–1933, including the Holodomor and the Asharshylyk. Jones had reported anonymously in The Times in 1931 on starvation in Soviet Ukraine and Southern Russia. After his third visit to the Soviet Union, he issued a press release under his own name in Berlin on 29 March 1933 describing the widespread famine in detail. Reports by Malcolm Muggeridge, writing in 1933 as an anonymous correspondent, appeared contemporaneously in the Manchester Guardian; his first anonymous article specifying famine in the Soviet Union was published on 25 March 1933. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gareth Jones is the 20th most popular journalist (up from 21st in 2019), the 1,296th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,135th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Journalist.

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Gareth Jones ranks 20 out of 196. Before him are John Reed, Beate Klarsfeld, Julian Assange, David Seymour, Victor Noir, and Robert Guérin. After him are W. Eugene Smith, Alexander Berkman, Steve McCurry, Endre Ady, Marcel Bezençon, and Mauricio Funes.

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Among people born in 1905, Gareth Jones ranks 72. Before him are Otto Preminger, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Sebastian Shaw, Barnett Newman, André Jolivet, and Nikolai Tikhonov. After him are Jigme Wangchuck, Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, Federica Montseny, Heinz Lammerding, Banine, and Wolfram Sievers. Among people deceased in 1935, Gareth Jones ranks 45. Before him are Rashid Rida, Johan Halvorsen, Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom, Kurt Tucholsky, Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, and Princess Anastasia of Montenegro. After him are Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Ruan Lingyu, Louis de Beaufront, Richard Sheldon, Ma Barker, and Abraham Isaac Kook.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Gareth Jones ranks 1,296 out of 8,785. Before him are William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800), Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (1473), Billy Boyd (1968), M.I.A. (1975), Joseph Swan (1828), and James Anderson (1680). After him are Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1864), Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813), John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall (1316), Sarah Brightman (1960), Janick Gers (1957), and Lord Randolph Churchill (1849).

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Among JOURNALISTS In United Kingdom

Among journalists born in United Kingdom, Gareth Jones ranks 2. Before him are W. T. Stead (1849). After him are Jeremy Clarkson (1960), Christopher Hitchens (1949), William Wilson (1844), Martin Parr (1952), Malcolm Campbell (1885), Piers Morgan (1965), George Rodger (1908), Murray Walker (1923), Malcolm Muggeridge (1903), and Chris Bonington (1934).

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