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Giangiacomo Feltrinelli

1926 - 1972

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Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (Italian: [dʒanˈdʒaːkomo feltriˈnɛlli]; 19 June 1926 – 14 March 1972) was an influential Italian publisher, businessman, and political activist who was active in the period between the Second World War and Italy's Years of Lead. He founded a vast library of documents mainly in the history of international labour and socialist movements. Feltrinelli is perhaps most famous for his decision to translate and publish Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago in the West after the manuscript was smuggled out of the Soviet Union in the late 1950s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli has received more than 220,202 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is the 333rd most popular businessperson (down from 312th in 2019), the 2,709th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,537th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Italian Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli ranks 333 out of 847. Before him are Linda McMahon, Norio Ohga, Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, Akio Toyoda, Roy E. Disney, and Edwin Drake. After him are Martin Winterkorn, Sundar Pichai, Viktor Vekselberg, Timothy Dexter, B. C. Forbes, and Lamine Diack.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli ranks 195. Before him are Richard Anderson, Ivica Horvat, André Delvaux, Genrich Altshuller, Estanislao Esteban Karlic, and Ladislav Adamec. After him are Marian Jaworski, Bo Carpelan, Juan José Linz, Klaus Tennstedt, Hans-Jochen Vogel, and Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen. Among people deceased in 1972, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli ranks 106. Before him are Lee Morgan, František Čáp, Mahendra of Nepal, Meena Kumari, Vladimir Durković, and Paul Grüninger. After him are Ralph Craig, Oleksandr Korniychuk, Leo G. Carroll, August Zaleski, Roberto Clemente, and Friedrich Christiansen.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli ranks 2,709 out of 5,161. Before him are Nicola Fago (1677), Marco Uccellini (1603), Leopoldo Trieste (1917), Ippolito Rosellini (1800), Daniele Barbaro (1513), and Gasparo Contarini (1483). After him are Aristotele Fioravanti (1415), Maria Carta (1934), Marcia Otacilia Severa (300), Titus Burckhardt (1908), Laura Biagiotti (1943), and Antonio Ascari (1888).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Italy

Among businesspeople born in Italy, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli ranks 24. Before him are Leonardo Del Vecchio (1935), Mino Raiola (1967), Aurelio Peccei (1908), Sergio Marchionne (1952), Stefano Casiraghi (1960), and Lazare Ponticelli (1897). After him are Nino Cerruti (1930), Andrea Agnelli (1975), Maurizio Arrivabene (1957), Piero Dusio (1899), Marina Berlusconi (1966), and Marco Mattiacci (1970).

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