1905 - 1983
Arthur Koestler, (UK: , US: ; German: [ˈkœstlɐ]; Hungarian: Kösztler Artúr; 5 September 1905 – 1 March 1983) was a Hungarian British Jewish author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest and, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria. In 1931, Koestler joined the Communist Party of Germany, but he resigned in 1938 because Stalinism disillusioned him.Having moved to Britain in 1940, he published his novel Darkness at Noon, an anti-totalitarian work that gained him international fame. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Koestler has received more than 1,143,703 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Arthur Koestler is the 539th most popular writer (down from 497th in 2019), the 54th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 53rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Hungarian Writer.
Arthur Koestler is most famous for his novel, Darkness at Noon, which is a fictionalized account of the Moscow Trials.
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Among writers, Arthur Koestler ranks 539 out of 5,794. Before him are Ghalib, Pierre de Ronsard, Robert Walser, Ivan Bunin, Luo Guanzhong, and Yevgeny Zamyatin. After him are Bohumil Hrabal, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Salman Rushdie, Al-Maʿarri, A. J. Cronin, and Frantz Fanon.
1797 - 1869
HPI: 74.04
Rank: 533
1524 - 1585
HPI: 74.04
Rank: 534
1878 - 1956
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 535
1870 - 1953
HPI: 74.02
Rank: 536
1330 - 1400
HPI: 74.02
Rank: 537
1884 - 1937
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 538
1905 - 1983
HPI: 73.99
Rank: 539
1914 - 1997
HPI: 73.97
Rank: 540
1896 - 1957
HPI: 73.97
Rank: 541
1947 - Present
HPI: 73.96
Rank: 542
973 - 1057
HPI: 73.95
Rank: 543
1896 - 1981
HPI: 73.94
Rank: 544
1925 - 1961
HPI: 73.93
Rank: 545
Among people born in 1905, Arthur Koestler ranks 18. Before him are Faustina Kowalska, Astrid of Sweden, Mikhail Sholokhov, Carl David Anderson, Felix Bloch, and Vasily Grossman. After him are Raymond Cattell, Marcel Lefebvre, Raymond Aron, Fred Trump, Guillermo Stábile, and Artem Mikoyan. Among people deceased in 1983, Arthur Koestler ranks 13. Before him are Hergé, Idris of Libya, Tennessee Williams, Felix Bloch, Buckminster Fuller, and David Niven. After him are Raymond Aron, Nikolai Podgorny, Meyer Lansky, Gerhard Barkhorn, Alfred Tarski, and Gloria Swanson.
1905 - 1938
HPI: 76.78
Rank: 12
1905 - 1935
HPI: 76.37
Rank: 13
1905 - 1984
HPI: 76.10
Rank: 14
1905 - 1991
HPI: 75.50
Rank: 15
1905 - 1983
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 16
1905 - 1964
HPI: 74.30
Rank: 17
1905 - 1983
HPI: 73.99
Rank: 18
1905 - 1998
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 19
1905 - 1991
HPI: 73.56
Rank: 20
1905 - 1983
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 21
1905 - 1999
HPI: 72.88
Rank: 22
1905 - 1966
HPI: 72.71
Rank: 23
1905 - 1970
HPI: 72.51
Rank: 24
1907 - 1983
HPI: 77.32
Rank: 7
1889 - 1983
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 8
1911 - 1983
HPI: 74.65
Rank: 9
1905 - 1983
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 10
1895 - 1983
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 11
1910 - 1983
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 12
1905 - 1983
HPI: 73.99
Rank: 13
1905 - 1983
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 14
1903 - 1983
HPI: 73.07
Rank: 15
1902 - 1983
HPI: 72.83
Rank: 16
1919 - 1983
HPI: 72.74
Rank: 17
1901 - 1983
HPI: 72.51
Rank: 18
1899 - 1983
HPI: 72.33
Rank: 19
Among people born in Hungary, Arthur Koestler ranks 54 out of 696. Before him are László Moholy-Nagy (1895), Lajos Kossuth (1802), Viktor Orbán (1963), Emeric, King of Hungary (1174), Ágota Kristóf (1935), and Anne of Bohemia and Hungary (1503). After him are Béla Guttmann (1899), Leo Szilard (1898), Paul Erdős (1913), Sándor Petőfi (1823), Coloman, King of Hungary (1070), and George de Hevesy (1885).
1895 - 1946
HPI: 74.32
Rank: 48
1802 - 1894
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 49
1963 - Present
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 50
1174 - 1204
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 51
1935 - 2011
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 52
1503 - 1547
HPI: 74.06
Rank: 53
1905 - 1983
HPI: 73.99
Rank: 54
1899 - 1981
HPI: 73.83
Rank: 55
1898 - 1964
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 56
1913 - 1996
HPI: 73.70
Rank: 57
1823 - 1849
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 58
1070 - 1116
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 59
1885 - 1966
HPI: 73.48
Rank: 60
Among writers born in Hungary, Arthur Koestler ranks 4. Before him are Theodor Herzl (1860), Imre Kertész (1929), and Ágota Kristóf (1935). After him are Sándor Petőfi (1823), Ferenc Molnár (1878), Felix Salten (1869), Max Nordau (1849), Tivadar Soros (1894), Ephraim Kishon (1924), Nikolaus Lenau (1802), and Magda Szabó (1917).
1860 - 1904
HPI: 82.81
Rank: 1
1929 - 2016
HPI: 78.81
Rank: 2
1935 - 2011
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 3
1905 - 1983
HPI: 73.99
Rank: 4
1823 - 1849
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 5
1878 - 1952
HPI: 72.22
Rank: 6
1869 - 1945
HPI: 71.54
Rank: 7
1849 - 1923
HPI: 69.72
Rank: 8
1894 - 1968
HPI: 69.59
Rank: 9
1924 - 2005
HPI: 69.40
Rank: 10
1802 - 1850
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 11
1917 - 2007
HPI: 67.84
Rank: 12