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Hayden White

1928 - 2018

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Hayden V. White (July 12, 1928 – March 5, 2018) was an American historian in the tradition of literary criticism, perhaps most famous for his work Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe (1973/2014). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hayden White is the 122nd most popular historian (down from 118th in 2019), the 2,341st most popular biography from United States (down from 1,996th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Hayden White ranks 122 out of 561. Before him are Leo the Deacon, Michael Glykas, Pierre Nora, Shoqan Walikhanov, Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī, and August Ludwig von Schlözer. After him are Guibert of Nogent, Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, Michael Rostovtzeff, Alois Riegl, Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, and Arnold Hauser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Hayden White ranks 127. Before him are Fumihiko Maki, Gordie Howe, James Earl Ray, Juan María Bordaberry, Djivan Gasparyan, and Helen Frankenthaler. After him are James Randi, Al Lettieri, Desmond Morris, Sol LeWitt, Edward Albee, and Anne Sexton. Among people deceased in 2018, Hayden White ranks 94. Before him are Gene Sharp, Alan Bean, E. C. George Sudarshan, Henri Michel, Efraín Ríos Montt, and Irena Szewińska. After him are David Goodall, Odvar Nordli, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Samir Amin, Oskar Gröning, and Nicole Fontaine.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Hayden White ranks 2,341 out of 20,380. Before him are Daniel McFadden (1937), Hugh S. Johnson (1882), Taylor Swift (1989), Nell Arthur (1837), Stockard Channing (1944), and Eva Mendes (1974). After him are Don DeLillo (1936), Ashton Kutcher (1978), Ricky Nelson (1940), Eazy-E (1964), Thomas J. Watson (1874), and Amy Coney Barrett (1972).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Hayden White ranks 5. Before him are Thomas Kuhn (1922), Jared Diamond (1937), Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917), and Donna Haraway (1944). After him are Richard Sennett (1943), Barbara W. Tuchman (1912), Timothy D. Snyder (1969), Christopher Browning (1944), Linda Nochlin (1931), Howard Zinn (1922), and Deborah Lipstadt (1947).

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