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Robert Faurisson

1929 - 2018

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Robert Faurisson (French: [foʁisɔ̃]; born Robert Faurisson Aitken; 25 January 1929 – 21 October 2018) was a British-born French academic who became best known for Holocaust denial. Faurisson generated much controversy with several articles published in the Journal of Historical Review and elsewhere, and by letters to French newspapers, especially Le Monde, which contradicted the history of the Holocaust by denying the existence of gas chambers in Nazi death camps, the systematic killing of European Jews using gas during the Second World War, and the authenticity of The Diary of Anne Frank. After the passing of the Gayssot Act against Holocaust denial in 1990, Faurisson was prosecuted and fined, and in 1991 he was dismissed from his academic post. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Faurisson is the 1,906th most popular writer (down from 1,597th in 2019), the 1,699th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,236th in 2019) and the 183rd most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Robert Faurisson ranks 1,906 out of 7,302. Before him are Jacint Verdaguer, Cristóbal de Morales, E. E. Cummings, Juhani Aho, John Farey Sr., and Renée Vivien. After him are Archestratus, Victoria Ocampo, Salvian, Jonas Mekas, Jean Starobinski, and Magnús Scheving.

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Among people born in 1929, Robert Faurisson ranks 141. Before him are Dina bint Abdul-Hamid, Betty Boothroyd, Jaakko Hintikka, Darío Castrillón Hoyos, Charles Moore, and Vladimír Menšík. After him are Walter Brandmüller, Luis García Meza, Alexis Weissenberg, Poul Schlüter, Gaston Glock, and Chespirito. Among people deceased in 2018, Robert Faurisson ranks 113. Before him are Margot Kidder, Belisario Betancur, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Raymond Chow, Nancy Roman, and Paul Virilio. After him are Jozef Adamec, Joseph Kobzon, Oliver Dragojević, Luis García Meza, Nicanor Parra, and Lawrence Roberts.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Faurisson ranks 1,699 out of 8,785. Before him are John Farey Sr. (1766), Una O'Connor (1880), Renée Vivien (1877), Edward Balliol (1283), George Young (1946), and Henry Cole (1808). After him are Karen Gillan (1987), N. T. Wright (1948), Charles Algernon Parsons (1854), Harold Shipman (1946), Herbert Kilpin (1870), and Rupert Everett (1959).

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Among writers born in United Kingdom, Robert Faurisson ranks 183. Before him are R. M. Ballantyne (1825), John Christopher (1922), Hugh Lofting (1886), Arthur Machen (1863), John Farey Sr. (1766), and Renée Vivien (1877). After him are A. S. Byatt (1936), Mary Norton (1903), Dorothy L. Sayers (1893), James Murray (1837), Thomas Kyd (1558), and James Herriot (1916).

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