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Richard Overy

1947 - Today

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Richard James Overy (born 23 December 1947) is a British historian who has published on the history of World War II and Nazi Germany. In 2007, as The Times editor of Complete History of the World, he chose the 50 key dates of world history. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Overy is the 511th most popular historian (down from 483rd in 2019), the 4,930th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,247th in 2019) and the 64th most popular British Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Richard Overy ranks 511 out of 561. Before him are Richard Taruskin, N. G. L. Hammond, Jacques Barzun, Vladimir Ćorović, Christopher Lasch, and Griselda Pollock. After him are David Bordwell, Hugh N. Kennedy, Robert Kagan, George Grote, R. H. Tawney, and Orlando Figes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Richard Overy ranks 718. Before him are Antti Kalliomäki, Giulio Tremonti, Nicanor de Carvalho, Emiliano Mondonico, Bilal Philips, and Randy Edelman. After him are Xavier Darcos, Henryk Iwaniec, Thanos Mikroutsikos, Dieter Riedel, Jeanne Shaheen, and Kinga Göncz.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Overy ranks 4,931 out of 8,785. Before him are David Storey (1933), Hugh Gaitskell (1906), Cosmo Gordon Lang (1864), John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth (1751), Charles Sheffield (1935), and John Butler Yeats (1839). After him are O. T. Fagbenle (1980), Malcolm Muggeridge (1903), Derek Bailey (1930), Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814), Ed Skrein (1983), and Judy Parfitt (1935).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Richard Overy ranks 64. Before him are Thomas Walker Arnold (1864), Robert Service (1947), William of Newburgh (1130), Mark Mazower (1958), William Mitchell Ramsay (1851), and N. G. L. Hammond (1907). After him are Hugh N. Kennedy (1947), George Grote (1794), Orlando Figes (1959), Simon Schama (1945), Jan Morris (1926), and Richard Bauckham (1946).

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