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Siegfried Sassoon

1886 - 1967

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Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches and satirized the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. Sassoon became a focal point for dissent within the armed forces when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war with his "Soldier's Declaration" of July 1917, which resulted in his being sent to the Craiglockhart War Hospital. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Siegfried Sassoon is the 3,027th most popular writer (up from 3,645th in 2019), the 2,479th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,601st in 2019) and the 274th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Siegfried Sassoon ranks 3,027 out of 7,302. Before him are Jean Lorrain, Christian Dietrich Grabbe, Censorinus, Nobuko Yoshiya, Ishaq ibn Hunayn, and Hansa Jivraj Mehta. After him are Gunilla Bergström, Marcin Bielski, Raffi, Takuboku Ishikawa, Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, and Gerard Reve.

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Among people born in 1886, Siegfried Sassoon ranks 140. Before him are Fernand Crommelynck, Bertha Krupp, Grigory Neujmin, Otto von Knobelsdorff, Helen Parkhurst, and Muhamed Mehmedbašić. After him are Takuboku Ishikawa, Max Vasmer, Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, Fred Quimby, Radhabinod Pal, and Alexander Svanidze. Among people deceased in 1967, Siegfried Sassoon ranks 133. Before him are Richard Ruoff, Enrico Dante, Manuel Prado Ugarteche, José Martínez Ruiz, Vincent Massey, and Victor de Sabata. After him are Mikhail Kovalyov, Péter Palotás, Radhabinod Pal, Li Lisan, Nils von Kantzow, and Gideon Ståhlberg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Siegfried Sassoon ranks 2,480 out of 8,785. Before him are John Smeaton (1724), Brenda Milner (1918), Edward Colston (1636), Shakin' Stevens (1948), John Illsley (1949), and William Hudson (1730). After him are Demetrios Petrokokkinos (1878), Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (1874), Venetia Burney (1918), Barbara Castle (1910), Tommy Lawrence (1940), and Andrew Moray (1265).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Siegfried Sassoon ranks 274. Before him are Richard Hughes (1900), John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647), Tom Sharpe (1928), John Cleland (1709), Francis Beaumont (1584), and John Aubrey (1626). After him are Charlotte Smith (1749), Walter Pater (1839), Josephine Tey (1896), Samuel Smiles (1812), Dodie Smith (1896), and Jack Higgins (1929).

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