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Joseph Addison

1672 - 1719

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Joseph Addison (1 May 1672 – 17 May 1719) was a British writer and politician. He was the eldest son of Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine. His simple prose style marked the end of the mannerisms and conventional classical images of the 17th century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Addison is the 1,484th most popular writer (up from 1,903rd in 2019), the 1,342nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,451st in 2019) and the 141st most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Joseph Addison ranks 1,484 out of 7,302. Before him are Cratinus, Luís Fróis, Joseph Bédier, Anna de Noailles, James Tiptree Jr., and Henrik Wergeland. After him are Alistair MacLean, Martin Gardner, Maj Sjöwall, Winifred Wagner, Elizabeth Siddal, and Hugo Claus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1672, Joseph Addison ranks 2. Before him is Peter the Great. After him are Pylyp Orlyk, Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Nicolas de Grigny, André Cardinal Destouches, Zhang Tingyu, Richard Steele, and Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Homburg. Among people deceased in 1719, Joseph Addison ranks 11. Before him are Michel Rolle, Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Benjamin Hornigold, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Johann Friedrich Böttger, and Magdalena Sibylla of Holstein-Gottorp. After him are Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, Boris Sheremetev, Arp Schnitger, Pierre Raymond de Montmort, Carlo Cignani, and Arnold Houbraken.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Addison ranks 1,342 out of 8,785. Before him are Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet (1764), Boy George (1961), J. B. S. Haldane (1892), George Atwood (1745), Frederick Browning (1896), and Tony Atkinson (1944). After him are Alistair MacLean (1922), Charles Vane (1680), James Faulkner (1948), Margaret Burbidge (1919), Mungo Park (1771), and Winifred Wagner (1897).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Joseph Addison ranks 141. Before him are Allan Pinkerton (1819), Ruth Rendell (1930), James Anderson (1680), Evelyn Waugh (1903), Lee Child (1954), and Bernard Cornwell (1944). After him are Alistair MacLean (1922), Winifred Wagner (1897), Elizabeth Siddal (1829), Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689), Kate Atkinson (1951), and Seamus Heaney (1939).

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