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Richard Steele

1672 - 1729

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Sir Richard Steele (c. 1671 – 1 September 1729) was an Anglo-Irish writer, playwright and politician best known as the co-founder of the magazine The Spectator alongside his close friend Joseph Addison. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Steele is the 4,428th most popular writer (down from 4,397th in 2019), the 207th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 185th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Irish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Richard Steele ranks 4,428 out of 7,302. Before him are Virginie Despentes, Balamani Amma, James Salter, Connie Willis, Kim Myeong-sun, and Lajos Kassák. After him are Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, Łukasz Górnicki, Itō Noe, Arnulf Øverland, Yevgeny Petrov, and Orhan Kemal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1672, Richard Steele ranks 10. Before him are Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Nicolas de Grigny, André Cardinal Destouches, and Zhang Tingyu. After him is Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Homburg. Among people deceased in 1729, Richard Steele ranks 21. Before him are William Congreve, Torii Kiyonobu I, Giacomo F. Maraldi, Samuel Clarke, Attilio Ariosti, and Elisabeth Eleonore of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After him are Jean Hardouin, and Kanhoji Angre.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Richard Steele ranks 207 out of 549. Before him are Colm Tóibín (1955), Stephen Roche (1959), John Ellis (1710), Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1833), William Orpen (1878), and Paul Kane (1810). After him are Richard Todd (1919), Brendan Behan (1923), Mary Proctor (1862), Shelley McNamara (1952), Jason O'Mara (1972), and Martin Sheridan (1881).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Richard Steele ranks 28. Before him are Patrick Pearse (1879), Seán O'Casey (1880), Edna O'Brien (1930), Elizabeth Bowen (1899), Cecil Day-Lewis (1904), and Colm Tóibín (1955). After him are Brendan Behan (1923), George Moore (1852), William Trevor (1928), Jane Wilde (1821), John Boyne (1971), and Margaret Mazzantini (1961).

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