1938 - Today
David John Cawdell Irving (born 24 March 1938) is an English author who has written on the military and political history of World War II, especially Nazi Germany. He was found to be a Holocaust denier in a UK court in 2000 as a result of a failed libel case. Irving's works include The Destruction of Dresden (1963), Hitler's War (1977), Churchill's War (1987) and Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich (1996). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Irving has received more than 4,150,190 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). David Irving is the 713th most popular writer (up from 806th in 2019), the 575th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 630th in 2019) and the 68th most popular British Writer.
David Irving is most famous for his revisionist history, which denies the Holocaust.
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Among writers, David Irving ranks 713 out of 5,755. Before him are Joseph Campbell, Tukaram, Jin Yong, Alexander Blok, Louise Hay, and Bruno Schulz. After him are Claudian, Aratus, L. Ron Hubbard, Sarojini Naidu, Klaus Mann, and Phillis Wheatley.
1904 - 1987
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 707
1608 - 1650
HPI: 63.65
Rank: 708
1924 - 2018
HPI: 63.65
Rank: 709
1880 - 1921
HPI: 63.58
Rank: 710
1926 - 2017
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 711
1892 - 1942
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 712
1938 - Present
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 713
370 - 404
HPI: 63.52
Rank: 714
315 BC - 240 BC
HPI: 63.52
Rank: 715
1911 - 1986
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 716
1879 - 1949
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 717
1906 - 1949
HPI: 63.49
Rank: 718
1753 - 1784
HPI: 63.44
Rank: 719
Among people born in 1938, David Irving ranks 46. Before him are Bounnhang Vorachith, Diana Rigg, Robert Nozick, Otto Rehhagel, Michael Rockefeller, and Frederick Forsyth. After him are Viktor Chernomyrdin, Jiří Menzel, Raymond Carver, Brian Dennehy, Ian Stewart, and Lynn Margulis.
1938 - Present
HPI: 64.26
Rank: 40
1938 - 2020
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 41
1938 - 2002
HPI: 64.19
Rank: 42
1938 - Present
HPI: 64.05
Rank: 43
1938 - 1963
HPI: 63.92
Rank: 44
1938 - Present
HPI: 63.69
Rank: 45
1938 - Present
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 46
1938 - 2010
HPI: 63.49
Rank: 47
1938 - 2020
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 48
1938 - 1988
HPI: 63.40
Rank: 49
1938 - 2020
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 50
1938 - 1985
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 51
1938 - 2011
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 52
Among people born in United Kingdom, David Irving ranks 575 out of 7,765. Before him are Frederick Forsyth (1938), Peter Gabriel (1950), Richard Arkwright (1732), Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (1930), Tom Jones (1940), and Christian Bale (1974). After him are James Francis Edward Stuart (1688), Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (1631), John Macleod (1876), William Stanley Jevons (1835), Gerard Butler (1969), and John Edward Gray (1800).
1938 - Present
HPI: 63.69
Rank: 569
1950 - Present
HPI: 63.64
Rank: 570
1732 - 1792
HPI: 63.63
Rank: 571
1930 - 2017
HPI: 63.62
Rank: 572
1940 - Present
HPI: 63.58
Rank: 573
1974 - Present
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 574
1938 - Present
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 575
1688 - 1766
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 576
1631 - 1660
HPI: 63.52
Rank: 577
1876 - 1935
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 578
1835 - 1882
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 579
1969 - Present
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 580
1800 - 1875
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 581
Among writers born in United Kingdom, David Irving ranks 68. Before him are Oliver Sacks (1933), Walter Raleigh (1554), Thomas Hardy (1840), Tony Buzan (1942), Alexander Pope (1688), and Frederick Forsyth (1938). After him are A. J. Cronin (1896), Aubrey Beardsley (1872), Ann Radcliffe (1764), Douglas Adams (1952), Diana Wynne Jones (1934), and Julian Barnes (1946).
1933 - 2015
HPI: 64.27
Rank: 62
1554 - 1618
HPI: 64.21
Rank: 63
1840 - 1928
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 64
1942 - 2019
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 65
1688 - 1744
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 66
1938 - Present
HPI: 63.69
Rank: 67
1938 - Present
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 68
1896 - 1981
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 69
1872 - 1898
HPI: 63.30
Rank: 70
1764 - 1823
HPI: 63.21
Rank: 71
1952 - 2001
HPI: 63.03
Rank: 72
1934 - 2011
HPI: 62.97
Rank: 73
1946 - Present
HPI: 62.63
Rank: 74