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Larry King

1933 - 2021

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Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger; November 19, 1933 – January 23, 2021) was an American TV and radio host presenter, author, and former spokesman. He was a WMBM radio interviewer in the Miami area in the 1950s and 1960s and beginning in 1978, gained national prominence as host of The Larry King Show, an all-night nationwide call-in radio program heard over the Mutual Broadcasting System. From 1985 to 2010, he hosted the nightly interview television program Larry King Live on CNN. King hosted Larry King Now from 2012 to 2020, which aired on Hulu, Ora TV, and RT America. He hosted Politicking with Larry King, a weekly political talk show, on the same three channels from 2013 to 2020. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Larry King is the 7th most popular presenter (up from 8th in 2019), the 1,688th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,319th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Presenter.

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Among PRESENTERS

Among presenters, Larry King ranks 7 out of 143. Before him are Jay Leno, Oprah Winfrey, Hebe Camargo, David Attenborough, Steve Irwin, and Terry Wogan. After him are Henry Rollins, Alex Jones, Jimmy Savile, Wendy Williams, David Letterman, and Anna Moffo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Larry King ranks 92. Before him are Yasukazu Tanaka, Yuri Oganessian, Oliver Sacks, Edward de Bono, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Walter Kasper. After him are Danny Aiello, Hisataka Okamoto, Piero Manzoni, Liliana Cavani, Jean-Claude Brialy, and Tom Skerritt. Among people deceased in 2021, Larry King ranks 80. Before him are Rodney Alcala, Kenneth Kaunda, Hal Holbrook, Lina Wertmüller, Abimael Guzmán, and Anne Rice. After him are Noah Gordon, Lee Evans, Walter Mondale, Larry Flynt, Kim Yong-ju, and Mamnoon Hussain.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Larry King ranks 1,688 out of 20,380. Before him are Eva Marie Saint (1924), Mark Harmon (1951), Donna Leon (1942), Tony Shalhoub (1953), Sacagawea (1780), and Sonny Boy Williamson II (1912). After him are Liz Cheney (1966), Chyna (1969), Sam Walton (1918), Kathleen Turner (1954), Jordan Belfort (1962), and Michael Connelly (1956).

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Among PRESENTERS In United States

Among presenters born in United States, Larry King ranks 3. Before him are Jay Leno (1950), and Oprah Winfrey (1954). After him are Henry Rollins (1961), Alex Jones (1974), Wendy Williams (1964), David Letterman (1947), Anna Moffo (1932), Chris Wallace (1947), Ed Sullivan (1901), Johnny Carson (1925), and Fred Rogers (1928).

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