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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 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Donald Kagan is the 294th most popular historian (up from 303rd in 2019), the 105th most popular biography from Lithuania (up from 119th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Lithuanian Historian.

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  • 24

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  • 3.01

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  • 3.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Donald Kagan ranks 294 out of 339Before him are Heinrich Zimmer, İlber Ortaylı, Kurt Aland, Paul Kennedy, Edwin O. Reischauer, and Jerónimo Zurita y Castro. After him are Drew Gilpin Faust, Fernão Lopes, Julien Ries, Joseph-François Michaud, Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, and Filippo Baldinucci.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Donald Kagan ranks 243Before him are Otto Schily, Katarina Taikon, Patsy Cline, Arif Mardin, Tormod Knutsen, and Hans van Manen. After him are Chiquito de la Calzada, Robert Rozhdestvensky, Ray Cooney, Turgay Şeren, Dabney Coleman, and László Sárosi. Among people deceased in 2021, Donald Kagan ranks 368Before him are Walter Taibo, Tormod Knutsen, Johnny Pacheco, Gustavo Peña, Bunny Wailer, and William Smith. After him are Richard Marcinko, Jack Angel, Chris Barber, Nikolai Slichenko, Momčilo Vukotić, and Martí Vergés.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Donald Kagan ranks 105 out of 287Before him are Maximilian Steinberg (1883), Mark Antokolsky (1843), Jacques Sernas (1925), Yakov Smushkevich (1902), Algirdas Butkevičius (1958), and Žemaitė (1845). After him are Antanas Baranauskas (1835), Justinas Marcinkevičius (1930), Władysław Kozakiewicz (1953), Osip Senkovsky (1800), Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė (1963), and Emil Młynarski (1870).

Among HISTORIANS In Lithuania

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