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Giangiacomo Feltrinelli

1926 - 1972

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Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (Italian: [dʒanˈdʒaːkomo feltriˈnɛlli]; 19 June 1926 – 14 March 1972) was an influential Italian publisher, businessman, and political activist who was active in the period between the Second World War and Italy's Years of Lead. He founded a vast library of documents mainly in the history of international labour and socialist movements. Feltrinelli is perhaps most famous for his decision to translate and publish Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago in the West after the manuscript was smuggled out of the Soviet Union in the late 1950s. He died violently under mysterious circumstances in 1972. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is the 347th most popular businessperson (down from 333rd in 2019), the 2,651st most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,709th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Italian Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli ranks 347 out of 847. Before him are Lamine Diack, Karl Wittgenstein, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Beate Uhse-Rotermund, Siegfried Bing, and Arkady Rotenberg. After him are Lei Jun, Bertha Krupp, Louis Réard, J. C. Jacobsen, Bob Iger, and Chad Hurley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli ranks 198. Before him are Ingrid Haebler, George Rhoden, Wolfgang Iser, Michael Bond, Georges Lautner, and Klaus Tennstedt. After him are Ricardo María Carles Gordó, Mahasweta Devi, Choi Eun-hee, Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, Anne McCaffrey, and Vitaly Vorotnikov. Among people deceased in 1972, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli ranks 112. Before him are Nikolay Krylov, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Prince William of Gloucester, Walter Jackson Freeman II, Erik Eriksen, and Dan Blocker. After him are Günter Eich, Robert Casadesus, Lee Beom-seok, David Hall, Bruce Cabot, and Lee Morgan.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli ranks 2,651 out of 5,161. Before him are Laura Martinozzi (1639), Fiorenzo Magni (1920), Giovanni Canestri (1918), Moderata Fonte (1555), Vasco Rossi (1952), and Francesco Granacci (1469). After him are Riccardo Morandi (1902), Leopoldo Trieste (1917), Mario Corso (1941), Nicola Vicentino (1511), Lucrezia Marinella (1571), and Giovanni Pastrone (1883).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Italy

Among businesspeople born in Italy, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli ranks 24. Before him are Mino Raiola (1967), Francesco Baracca (1888), Lazare Ponticelli (1897), Leonardo Del Vecchio (1935), Sergio Marchionne (1952), and Edoardo Agnelli (1892). After him are Nino Cerruti (1930), Maurizio Arrivabene (1957), Andrea Agnelli (1975), Piero Dusio (1899), Marina Berlusconi (1966), and Marco Mattiacci (1970).

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