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Thomas Paine

1737 - 1809

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Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain; February 9, 1737 [O.S. January 29, 1736] – June 8, 1809) was an English-born American Founding Father, French Revolutionary, inventor, and political philosopher. He authored Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783), two of the most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and he helped to inspire the colonial era patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Great Britain. His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era ideals of human rights. Paine was born in Thetford, Norfolk, and immigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 with the help of Benjamin Franklin, arriving just in time to participate in the American Revolution. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Paine is the 508th most popular writer (down from 503rd in 2019), the 455th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 353rd in 2019) and the 47th most popular British Writer.

Thomas Paine was an English-American political activist, philosopher, and revolutionary. He was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era rhetoric of transnational human rights. He has been called "a corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination."

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Among writers, Thomas Paine ranks 508 out of 7,302. Before him are Saul Bellow, Lesya Ukrainka, Paul Claudel, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Hector Malot, and Edmondo De Amicis. After him are Erich Kästner, Heinrich Mann, Isaac Babel, Mika Waltari, August Wilhelm Schlegel, and Robert Walser.

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Among people born in 1737, Thomas Paine ranks 3. Before him are Luigi Galvani, and Edward Gibbon. After him are Johann Friedrich Struensee, Michael Haydn, Josef Mysliveček, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov, and Louise of France. Among people deceased in 1809, Thomas Paine ranks 4. Before him are Joseph Haydn, Nicolai Abildgaard, and Jean Lannes. After him are Rama I, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle, Ueda Akinari, August Ludwig von Schlözer, and Joseph-Marie Vien.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Paine ranks 455 out of 8,785. Before him are Caroline Matilda of Great Britain (1751), David Bradley (1942), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828), James Jeans (1877), Gregory Winter (1951), and William Crookes (1832). After him are Hugh Grant (1960), George Porter (1920), Nigel Mansell (1953), Richard Cromwell (1626), James Fox (1939), and William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1146).

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Among writers born in United Kingdom, Thomas Paine ranks 47. Before him are Philip Larkin (1922), Thomas De Quincey (1785), Samuel Butler (1835), Ken Follett (1949), Arnold Bennett (1867), and Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828). After him are G. K. Chesterton (1874), J. M. Barrie (1860), Enid Blyton (1897), Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849), Anthony Burgess (1917), and James Hilton (1900).

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