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Thomas Dekker

1572 - 1632

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Thomas Dekker (c. 1572 – 25 August 1632) was an English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer, a versatile and prolific writer, whose career spanned several decades and brought him into contact with many of the period's most famous dramatists. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Dekker is the 5,216th most popular writer (down from 4,964th in 2019), the 4,149th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,622nd in 2019) and the 446th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Thomas Dekker ranks 5,216 out of 7,302. Before him are María Martínez Sierra, Anna Świrszczyńska, Chester Himes, Joyce Mansour, Simon Gregorčič, and Jean Prévost. After him are Karolina Světlá, Buchi Emecheta, Victoire Léodile Béra, Jeanette Winterson, Lukas Moodysson, and Remco Campert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1572, Thomas Dekker ranks 15. Before him are Cornelis Drebbel, Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Francis II, Duke of Lorraine, Marie Elisabeth of France, Cyril Lucaris, and Fakhr al-Din II. After him are Thomas Tomkins, and Bartholomew Gosnold. Among people deceased in 1632, Thomas Dekker ranks 29. Before him are David Vinckboons, Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, Philippe van Lansberge, Giovanni Battista Crespi, Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari, and Henri de Montmorency, 4th Duke of Montmorency.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Dekker ranks 4,150 out of 8,785. Before him are Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife (1849), Lennie James (1965), Alison Moyet (1961), Lawrence Stone (1919), Joyce Mansour (1928), and Robert Kerr (1882). After him are William Rutter Dawes (1799), Jeanette Winterson (1959), Cædmon (657), Roy Bentley (1924), David Marshall Lang (1924), and Edward Newton (1832).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Thomas Dekker ranks 446. Before him are Edward James (1907), Bob Shaw (1931), Edith Sitwell (1887), Brian Lumley (1937), Gillian Rubinstein (1942), and Joyce Mansour (1928). After him are Jeanette Winterson (1959), Gilbert Adair (1944), Marmaduke Pickthall (1875), A. E. Housman (1859), Bruno Heller (1960), and Alan Bennett (1934).

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