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Oliver Goldsmith

1728 - 1774

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Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish poet, novelist, playwright, and hack writer. A prolific author of various literature, he is regarded among the most versatile writers of the Georgian era. His comedy plays for the English stage are considered second in importance only to those of playwright William Shakespeare, and his sentimental novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) was one of the most popular literary works among the British citizenry in the 18th century, having influenced later English authors Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and Mary Shelley. He also wrote plays such as The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771), as well as the poem The Deserted Village (1770). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Oliver Goldsmith is the 1,821st most popular writer (up from 2,146th in 2019), the 91st most popular biography from Ireland (down from 87th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Irish Writer.

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Among writers, Oliver Goldsmith ranks 1,821 out of 7,302. Before him are Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Álvaro Mutis, Petros Markaris, Alexander Grin, and Ruan Ji. After him are Peter Shaffer, Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Elizabeth Bishop, Abbot Oliba, Anthony Trollope, and Valery Bryusov.

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Among people born in 1728, Oliver Goldsmith ranks 16. Before him are Samuel Wallis, Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, Étienne-Louis Boullée, Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, Robert Adam, and Ali Bey al-Kabir. After him are Hiraga Gennai, Johann Adam Hiller, John Hunter, Matthew Boulton, Johann Andreas Stein, and Carlo Allioni. Among people deceased in 1774, Oliver Goldsmith ranks 11. Before him are Charles Marie de La Condamine, Niccolò Jommelli, Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken, Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken, Jacques-François Blondel, and Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick. After him are Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Florian Leopold Gassmann, Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, Johann Friedrich Agricola, Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg, and Anna Morandi Manzolini.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Oliver Goldsmith ranks 91 out of 549. Before him are Patrick Ryan (1881), Caitriona Balfe (1979), George Johnstone Stoney (1826), Brian Boru (941), Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie (1810), and Edward Mulhare (1923). After him are Dymphna (700), Edward Carson (1854), Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair (1116), Maureen O'Sullivan (1911), James Barry (1795), and Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Oliver Goldsmith ranks 16. Before him are Joseph Murphy (1898), Iris Murdoch (1919), Saint Gall (550), Ethel Voynich (1864), Sheridan Le Fanu (1814), and Thomas Moore (1779). After him are John Banville (1945), Christy Brown (1932), Charles Maturin (1780), Cornelius Ryan (1920), John Millington Synge (1871), and Patrick Pearse (1879).

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