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Rupert Brooke

1887 - 1915

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Rupert Chawner Brooke (3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915) was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially "The Soldier". He was also known for his boyish good looks, which were said to have prompted the Irish poet W. B. Yeats to describe him as "the handsomest young man in England". He died of septicaemia following a mosquito bite whilst aboard a French hospital ship moored off the island of Skyros in the Aegean Sea. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rupert Brooke is the 3,680th most popular writer (up from 3,759th in 2019), the 2,916th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,664th in 2019) and the 332nd most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Rupert Brooke ranks 3,680 out of 7,302. Before him are Rose Wilder Lane, Octavia E. Butler, Gonzalo de Berceo, Steve Berry, Oton Župančič, and Peter Dickinson. After him are Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, Saib Tabrizi, José Enrique Rodó, Ludwig Anzengruber, Charles Fort, and Yu Hua.

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Among people born in 1887, Rupert Brooke ranks 165. Before him are Leevi Madetoja, Marc Mitscher, Johann Radon, Anthony van Hoboken, Maria Jeritza, and Radasłaŭ Astroŭski. After him are Aldo Leopold, Sigrid Fick, Courtney Hodges, Ernst Toch, Marianne Moore, and Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics. Among people deceased in 1915, Rupert Brooke ranks 77. Before him are Stojan Novaković, Mari Beyleryan, Fanny Crosby, Ferdinand Sarrien, Karl Staaff, and Emil Rathenau. After him are Charles Walter De Vis, Otto von Emmich, Luigi Capuana, Jerzy Żuławski, Ruben Sevak, and Pascual Orozco.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Rupert Brooke ranks 2,917 out of 8,785. Before him are Arnold Bax (1883), Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1880), John Michael Wright (1617), Marianne North (1830), James Young Simpson (1811), and John Shrapnel (1942). After him are Ernest Renshaw (1861), Tom Finney (1922), Rutherford Alcock (1809), Gary Stevens (1963), Charles Walter De Vis (1829), and Fergus Suter (1857).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Rupert Brooke ranks 332. Before him are Edward William Lane (1801), Nevil Shute (1899), Alma Reville (1899), Charles Lock Eastlake (1793), William Robertson Smith (1846), and Penelope Fitzgerald (1916). After him are Ian Rankin (1960), Mary Sidney (1561), Leslie Stephen (1832), Georgette Heyer (1902), Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893), and Anthony Hope (1863).

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