HISTORIAN

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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernard Bailyn has received more than 274,617 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Bernard Bailyn is the 547th most popular historian (down from 453rd in 2019), the 13,951st most popular biography from United States (down from 13,405th in 2019) and the 51st most popular American Historian.

Memorability Metrics

  • 270k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 38.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Bernard Bailyn ranks 547 out of 561. Before him are Francis Parkman, Anthony Grafton, Oliver Grau, Ellen Meiksins Wood, Irfan Habib, and Gerhard Weinberg. After him are Janusz Kurtyka, Stephen Kotkin, Allan Lichtman, Wendy Beckett, Stephen Turnbull, and Peter Heather.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Bernard Bailyn ranks 454. Before him are Jesús Iglesias, G. N. Ramachandran, Eugenie Clark, Lamont Johnson, Kay Starr, and Len Lesser. After him are Mavis Gallant, Syd Owen, Hattie Jacques, Frank Spellman, Grayson Hall, and Audrey Long. Among people deceased in 2020, Bernard Bailyn ranks 808. Before him are Géza Szőcs, Carlos Girón, Basu Chatterjee, James M. Beggs, Angela Buxton, and Ezio Bosso. After him are Alexander Vedernikov, John Sessions, Jenny Clack, Maryna Bazanova, Stan Kirsch, and Charles Portis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bernard Bailyn ranks 13,951 out of 20,380. Before him are Charlotte Cushman (1816), Hiram Rhodes Revels (1827), Nadine Sierra (1988), Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890), Mike Fisher (1943), and Barbara Jordan (1957). After him are Jason Mraz (1977), Brannon Braga (1965), Scott Mechlowicz (1981), Henry O'Neill (1891), Larry Hogan (1956), and Ahna O'Reilly (1984).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Bernard Bailyn ranks 51. Before him are Elaine Pagels (1943), Mary Ritter Beard (1876), Richard Hofstadter (1916), Francis Parkman (1823), Anthony Grafton (1950), and Ellen Meiksins Wood (1942). After him are Stephen Kotkin (1959), Allan Lichtman (1947), and Victor Davis Hanson (1953).

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