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Donald Adamson

1939 - 2024

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Donald Adamson, (30 March 1939 – 18 January 2024), was a British literary scholar and historian.Books which he wrote include Blaise Pascal: Mathematician, Physicist, and Thinker about God and Balzac and the Tradition of the European Novel, as well as The Curriers' Company: A Modern History. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Donald Adamson has received more than 55,657 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Donald Adamson is the 4,134th most popular writer (down from 3,794th in 2019), the 3,033rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,808th in 2019) and the 348th most popular British Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Donald Adamson ranks 4,134 out of 5,755Before him are Frankétienne, Yu Dafu, Cesare Balbo, Koji Suzuki, Hranush Arshagyan, and Jan Blahoslav. After him are Lloyd Alexander, Sigbjørn Obstfelder, Rizaeddin bin Fakhreddin, David Crane, Sofi Oksanen, and Lily Braun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Donald Adamson ranks 305Before him are Miroslav Cerar, Ferdinand Bracke, Aleksandër Meksi, Ron Atkinson, Bob James, and Jaime Paz Zamora. After him are Giorgio Ferrini, Len Cariou, William Eggleston, Luigi Simoni, Franjo Gregurić, and Robert Herbin. Among people deceased in 2024, Donald Adamson ranks 36Before him are James Kottak, James Herbert Brennan, Yury Solomin, Melanie, Jesse Jane, and Don Murray. After him are Miguel Ángel González Suárez, Sergio Sebastiani, Christopher Priest, Brian Lumley, Jorge Toro, and Giacomo Losi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Donald Adamson ranks 3,033 out of 7,765Before him are Rosemary Sutcliff (1920), Tim Pigott-Smith (1946), Robert Kerr (1882), Philibert Jacques Melotte (1880), Hayley Atwell (1982), and Billy Bremner (1942). After him are Bob Fitzsimmons (1863), Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838), William Lawes (1602), John Moore (1761), Michael Oakeshott (1901), and Christopher Eccleston (1964).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Donald Adamson ranks 348Before him are Thomas Nashe (1567), Milo Yiannopoulos (1984), E. L. James (1963), Ronald Knox (1888), William Hazlitt (1778), and Rosemary Sutcliff (1920). After him are Sarah Kane (1971), Mary Norton (1903), Pamela Colman Smith (1878), Ian Rankin (1960), Graham Hancock (1950), and Maria Edgeworth (1768).