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Neil Simon

1927 - 2018

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Marvin Neil Simon (July 4, 1927 – August 26, 2018) was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly film adaptations of his plays. He received three Tony Awards and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for four Academy Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards. He was awarded a Special Tony Award in 1975, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1991, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1995 and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2006. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Neil Simon is the 2,551st most popular writer (up from 2,624th in 2019), the 3,678th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,328th in 2019) and the 293rd most popular American Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Neil Simon ranks 2,551 out of 7,302. Before him are Giovanni Pascoli, Chariton, Ki no Tsurayuki, Corrie ten Boom, Alois Jirásek, and Ariwara no Narihira. After him are Dmytro Dontsov, Nikolay Kostomarov, Ceija Stojka, Dnyaneshwar, Marie Corelli, and Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Neil Simon ranks 158. Before him are Christian Marquand, Andy Williams, Emmanuel III Delly, Varkey Vithayathil, Carl Switzer, and Gerry Mulligan. After him are Mikhail Ulyanov, Martha Chase, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Marcel Ophüls, Joan Segarra, and Martin Walser. Among people deceased in 2018, Neil Simon ranks 148. Before him are Peter G. Peterson, Whitey Bulger, June Whitfield, Roger Piantoni, Oleg Tabakov, and Venantino Venantini. After him are Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, David Ogden Stiers, Vladimir Lyakhov, Margit Sandemo, Leila Abashidze, and Sergio Marchionne.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Neil Simon ranks 3,678 out of 20,380. Before him are Bill Walker (1951), Lars Peter Hansen (1952), Gilbert Stuart (1755), Albert Ghiorso (1915), Amelia Bloomer (1818), and Edith Head (1897). After him are Kevin A. Lynch (1918), George Segal (1934), Howard Zinn (1922), Martha Chase (1927), Howlin' Wolf (1910), and Joseph Taylor Robinson (1872).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Neil Simon ranks 293. Before him are Gardner Fox (1911), John Grinder (1940), Tom Wilson (1931), Joyce Meyer (1943), Jack Williamson (1908), and Terence McKenna (1946). After him are Archibald Gracie IV (1858), Tom Peters (1942), William Peter Blatty (1928), Wayne Dyer (1940), Alice B. Toklas (1877), and D. B. Weiss (1971).

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