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Norman Angell

1872 - 1967

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Sir Ralph Norman Angell (26 December 1872 – 7 October 1967) was an English Nobel Peace Prize winner. He was a lecturer, journalist, author and Member of Parliament for the Labour Party. Angell was one of the principal founders of the Union of Democratic Control. He served on the Council of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, was an executive for the World Committee against War and Fascism, a member of the executive committee of the League of Nations Union, and the president of the Abyssinia Association. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Norman Angell is the 2,829th most popular politician (down from 2,816th in 2019), the 701st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 604th in 2019) and the 140th most popular British Politician.

Norman Angell was a pacifist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1933. He is most famous for his book "The Great Illusion" which argued that war was futile and that economic interdependence made it impossible for any nation to win a war.

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Among politicians, Norman Angell ranks 2,829 out of 19,576. Before him are Baldwin II, Margrave of Flanders, John Ernest IV, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Aulus Plautius, Emperor Kōshō, Haakon Magnusson of Norway, and Eudokia Makrembolitissa. After him are Muhammad Azam Shah, John of Brienne, Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, Alec Douglas-Home, Hilda Heine, and Shirkuh.

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Among people born in 1872, Norman Angell ranks 23. Before him are Djemal Pasha, Maurice Gamelin, Sergei Diaghilev, Louis Blériot, Sri Aurobindo, and Jože Plečnik. After him are Aubrey Beardsley, Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein, Wilhelm Miklas, Helena Rubinstein, Georgy Chicherin, and Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar. Among people deceased in 1967, Norman Angell ranks 35. Before him are Casimir Funk, Felix Yusupov, John Coltrane, Wolfgang Köhler, Woody Guthrie, and Hermann Joseph Muller. After him are John Cockcroft, Ejnar Hertzsprung, Françoise Dorléac, Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Shigeru Yoshida, and Henry Morgenthau Jr..

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Norman Angell ranks 701 out of 8,785. Before him are Capability Brown (1716), Anne Neville (1456), Tony Adams (1966), Helena Bonham Carter (1966), Jane Seymour (1951), and Edgar Wallace (1875). After him are Joan Collins (1933), Alec Douglas-Home (1903), W. T. Stead (1849), Stanley Baldwin (1867), Kenneth Branagh (1960), and William John Swainson (1789).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Norman Angell ranks 140. Before him are Æthelflæd (869), Thomas Fairfax (1612), Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet (1810), Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532), Tristan (535), and Anne Neville (1456). After him are Alec Douglas-Home (1903), Stanley Baldwin (1867), Margaret Douglas (1515), Oswald Mosley (1896), Henry the Young King (1155), and James III of Scotland (1451).

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