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Donald Kagan

1932 - 2021

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Donald Kagan (; May 1, 1932 – August 6, 2021) was a Lithuanian-born American historian and classicist at Yale University specializing in ancient Greece. He formerly taught in the Department of History at Cornell University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Donald Kagan has received more than 379,954 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Donald Kagan is the 370th most popular historian (down from 294th in 2019), the 133rd most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 103rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Lithuanian Historian.

Memorability Metrics

  • 380k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Donald Kagans by language

Over the past year Donald Kagan has had the most page views in the with 50,968 views, followed by Russian (8,497), and German (3,473). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (131.02%), Ukrainian (71.93%), and Russian (64.86%)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Donald Kagan ranks 370 out of 561. Before him are Francis Godwin, Efraim Zuroff, Pierre Chaunu, Jan T. Gross, Jacob Theodor Klein, and Patricia Crone. After him are Michele Amari, Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, Richard N. Frye, Georg Gottfried Gervinus, Artur Hazelius, and Mikhail Artamonov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Donald Kagan ranks 295. Before him are Atef Ebeid, Kenneth Appel, Francisco Umbral, Maria Itkina, Robert Taylor, and Hans van Manen. After him are Raymond Kaelbel, Aleksandr Belyavsky, Mickey Kuhn, Hans Apel, Clive Davis, and Sándor Mátrai. Among people deceased in 2021, Donald Kagan ranks 332. Before him are Susana Higuchi, Masayuki Uemura, Sylvano Bussotti, Chuck Close, Una Stubbs, and Anatoly Chukanov. After him are Jeannette Altwegg, Nikolai Slichenko, Aurelio Galfetti, Arturo Armando Molina, Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino, and Art LaFleur.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Donald Kagan ranks 133 out of 328. Before him are Žemaitė (1845), Jurgis Baltrušaitis (1873), Algirdas Butkevičius (1958), Jonas Staugaitis (1868), Phoebus Levene (1869), and Silvestras Žukauskas (1860). After him are Grigory Gershuni (1870), Emil Młynarski (1870), Stanisław Narutowicz (1862), Źmitrok Biadula (1886), Artūras Paulauskas (1953), and Władysław Komar (1940).

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Among HISTORIANS In Lithuania

Among historians born in Lithuania, Donald Kagan ranks 4. Before him are Joseph Klausner (1874), Bernard Berenson (1865), and Yitzhak Arad (1926).

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