OCCULTIST

Algernon Blackwood

1869 - 1951

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Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (14 March 1869 – 10 December 1951) was an English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, and among the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre. The literary critic S. T. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Algernon Blackwood has received more than 716,775 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Algernon Blackwood is the 30th most popular occultist (down from 29th in 2019), the 1,528th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,504th in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Occultist.

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  • 3.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among OCCULTISTS

Among occultists, Algernon Blackwood ranks 30 out of 41. Before him are Michael Scot, Franz Bardon, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, Charles Webster Leadbeater, Nina Kulagina, and Alice Bailey. After him are Joséphin Péladan, A. E. Waite, Elias Ashmole, Dion Fortune, Otto Witte, and Israel Regardie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Algernon Blackwood ranks 64. Before him are Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich of Russia, Zinaida Gippius, Yevno Azef, Washington Luís, Alfred Flatow, and Hans Poelzig. After him are Louise d'Orléans, Caterina Albert, Philip de László, Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau, Otto Nordenskjöld, and Chittaranjan Das. Among people deceased in 1951, Algernon Blackwood ranks 59. Before him are Jakow Trachtenberg, Louis Jouvet, Osman Batur, Liaquat Ali Khan, Henrietta Lacks, and Mikhail Borodin. After him are Robert Grant Aitken, Tadeusz Borowski, Serge Koussevitzky, Maria Montez, Eugen Meindl, and Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Algernon Blackwood ranks 1,528 out of 8,785. Before him are William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire (1720), John Martin (1789), Margaret Burbidge (1919), Roger Williamson (1948), George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608), and Jack Phillips (1887). After him are Kay Parker (1944), Louise d'Orléans (1869), Frederick Delius (1862), Beorhtric of Wessex (800), Christopher Isherwood (1904), and John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834).

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Among OCCULTISTS In United Kingdom

Among occultists born in United Kingdom, Algernon Blackwood ranks 9. Before him are Edward Kelley (1555), Robert Fludd (1574), Michael Scot (1175), Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854), Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854), and Alice Bailey (1880). After him are Elias Ashmole (1617), Dion Fortune (1890), and Israel Regardie (1907).

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