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Robert Darnton

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Robert Choate Darnton (born May 10, 1939) is an American cultural historian and academic librarian who specializes in 18th-century France. He was director of the Harvard University Library from 2007 to 2016. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Darnton is the 340th most popular historian (up from 350th in 2019), the 5,718th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,641st in 2019) and the 19th most popular American Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Robert Darnton ranks 340 out of 561. Before him are Jean Delumeau, Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, İlber Ortaylı, Joseph-François Michaud, Patricia Crone, and Henrik Gabriel Porthan. After him are Donald Keene, Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius, Andrea Riccardi, Bobojon Ghafurov, Ernest Lavisse, and Philip K. Hitti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Robert Darnton ranks 304. Before him are Renate Boy, Marie-Claire Blais, José Emilio Pacheco, Len Cariou, Nông Đức Mạnh, and Yury Glazkov. After him are Janet Suzman, Peter Revson, Gila Almagor, James Burton, Sushil Koirala, and Claudette Colvin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Darnton ranks 5,718 out of 20,380. Before him are Eileen Heckart (1919), Hubert Dreyfus (1929), Steve Cropper (1941), Robert Keohane (1941), John Stamos (1963), and Harold D. Babcock (1882). After him are Raymond Cruz (1961), Don Felder (1947), Grace Sherwood (1660), Jon Postel (1943), Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829), and Patti LuPone (1949).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Robert Darnton ranks 19. Before him are Rudolph Rummel (1932), Natalie Zemon Davis (1928), Richard G. Hovannisian (1932), William H. Prescott (1796), Frederick Jackson Turner (1861), and Efraim Zuroff (1948). After him are Donald Keene (1922), Richard N. Frye (1920), Ernest Fenollosa (1853), Joan Wallach Scott (1941), Stanley G. Payne (1934), and Stephen Greenblatt (1943).

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