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John Keegan

1934 - 2012

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Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan (15 May 1934 – 2 August 2012) was an English military historian, lecturer, author and journalist. He wrote many published works on the nature of combat between prehistory and the 21st century, covering land, air, maritime, intelligence warfare and the psychology of battle. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Keegan is the 372nd most popular historian (down from 349th in 2019), the 3,413th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,035th in 2019) and the 37th most popular British Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, John Keegan ranks 372 out of 561. Before him are Franz Babinger, Mykhailo Maksymovych, Taner Akçam, Khalifah ibn Khayyat, Benny Morris, and Hugh Trevor-Roper. After him are Jacob Talmon, Leo Allatius, Heinrich Zimmer, Géza Alföldy, Gottfried Arnold, and Léon Gautier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, John Keegan ranks 320. Before him are Dick Boushka, Hamit Kaplan, Ole Madsen, Eva-Maria Hagen, Jacek Kuroń, and Zaid ibn Shaker. After him are Otis Rush, Adolf Merckle, Yūjirō Ishihara, Martin Bangemann, Inger Stevens, and Jackie Wilson. Among people deceased in 2012, John Keegan ranks 257. Before him are Lupe Ontiveros, Isuzu Yamada, Arkady Vorobyov, Othmar Schneider, Susanne Lothar, and Bal Thackeray. After him are Levon Helm, Simeon ten Holt, Otto Stich, André Simon, Sancho Gracia, and Marie Colvin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Keegan ranks 3,414 out of 8,785. Before him are Alan Young (1919), Israel Regardie (1907), Ronald Pickup (1940), Constance Collier (1878), Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914), and Thérèse Coffey (1971). After him are Peter Walker (1912), John Steiner (1941), John Arbuthnot (1667), Vanessa Kirby (1988), David Almond (1951), and George Larner (1875).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, John Keegan ranks 37. Before him are Paul Kennedy (1945), Christopher Hill (1912), A. J. P. Taylor (1906), Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (1810), Edward Granville Browne (1862), and Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914). After him are George Finlay (1799), Francis Godwin (1562), Catharine Macaulay (1731), Henry James Sumner Maine (1822), G. M. Trevelyan (1876), and Arthur Smith Woodward (1864).

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