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Bernard Bailyn

1922 - 2020

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Bernard Bailyn (September 10, 1922 – August 7, 2020) was an American historian, author, and academic specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He was a professor at Harvard University from 1953. Bailyn won the Pulitzer Prize for History twice (in 1968 and 1987). In 1998 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected him for the Jefferson Lecture. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Bernard Bailyn is the 538th most popular historian (up from 547th in 2024), the 12,744th most popular biography from United States (up from 13,956th in 2019) and the 49th most popular American Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Bernard Bailyn ranks 538 out of 561. Before him are Vasily Struve, Andrei Lankov, Edward Augustus Freeman, Anthony Grafton, Ellen Meiksins Wood, and Iain Pears. After him are James H. Billington, Frank Dikötter, Jonathan Riley-Smith, Elaine Pagels, Gerhard Weinberg, and Christopher Clark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Bernard Bailyn ranks 442. Before him are Herbert Goldstein, Esther M. Conwell, Miller Anderson, Bill Macy, Norman Lear, and Arthur Wightman. After him are Frank Spellman, Ken Hughes, Edwin Thompson Jaynes, Gil Merrick, Andy Phillip, and Joan Caulfield. Among people deceased in 2020, Bernard Bailyn ranks 760. Before him are Azimzhan Askarov, Angelika Amon, Eugene Wright, Liang Wudong, Alan Minter, and Bucky Pizzarelli. After him are Arnold Wolfendale, Aleksandr Kabanov, Nimmi, Benito Sarti, Lori Nelson, and Alberto Alesina.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bernard Bailyn ranks 12,748 out of 20,380. Before him are Michael Trevino (1985), Ruben Fleischer (1974), Roxanne Seeman (1954), Madeline Manning (1948), Bobby Lashley (1976), and Eddie Kendricks (1939). After him are Andrew Jackson Downing (1815), Mitch Miller (1911), Austin Nichols (1980), Elsie Janis (1889), Carmel Myers (1899), and Imogene Coca (1908).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Bernard Bailyn ranks 49. Before him are David Bordwell (1947), Carroll Quigley (1910), Richard Hofstadter (1916), Francis Parkman (1823), Anthony Grafton (1950), and Ellen Meiksins Wood (1942). After him are James H. Billington (1929), Elaine Pagels (1943), Allan Lichtman (1947), Stephen Kotkin (1959), Richard Foltz (1961), and Victor Davis Hanson (1953).

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