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Barbara W. Tuchman

1912 - 1989

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Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (; January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an American historian, journalist and author. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barbara W. Tuchman has received more than 742,643 page views. Her biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Barbara W. Tuchman is the 150th most popular historian (down from 97th in 2019), the 2,559th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,716th in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Historian.

Memorability Metrics

  • 740k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Barbara W. Tuchman ranks 150 out of 561. Before her are Vladimir Minorsky, Pierre Nora, Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, Max Dvořák, Faustus of Byzantium, and Ian Kershaw. After her are Norman Davies, Gottfried Achenwall, Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, Hisham ibn al-Kalbi, Edward Luttwak, and Helmold.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Barbara W. Tuchman ranks 113. Before her are Perry Como, Charles Addams, Kim Sung-gan, Isidro Lángara, Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, and Yaroslav Stetsko. After her are Kaneto Shindo, Aymoré Moreira, Martin Schwarzschild, Nancy Wake, David Packard, and Joachim Schepke. Among people deceased in 1989, Barbara W. Tuchman ranks 92. Before her are James Bond, Margarete Buber-Neumann, Józef Cyrankiewicz, Mihály Lantos, Giuseppe Siri, and Nicolás Guillén. After her are Franz Binder, Sergei Sobolev, Carlos Puebla, René Moawad, Ahmed Abdallah, and Ondrej Nepela.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Barbara W. Tuchman ranks 2,559 out of 20,380. Before her are Robert Downey Sr. (1936), John Sculley (1939), Archie Moore (1916), Donna Murphy (1959), Sarah Wayne Callies (1977), and Ralph Waite (1928). After her are Rita Wilson (1956), Dianne Feinstein (1933), Stephen Smale (1930), Bob Woodward (1943), Walter Cunningham (1932), and Irving Baxter (1876).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Barbara W. Tuchman ranks 7. Before her are Thomas Kuhn (1922), Jared Diamond (1937), Donna Haraway (1944), Richard Sennett (1943), Natalie Zemon Davis (1928), and Hayden White (1928). After her are Howard Zinn (1922), Frederick Jackson Turner (1861), Linda Nochlin (1931), Joan Wallach Scott (1941), Deborah Lipstadt (1947), and Donald Keene (1922).

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