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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 204,427 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is the 312th most popular businessperson (down from 276th in 2019), the 2,542nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,426th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Italian Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli ranks 312 out of 601Before him are Tadashi Yanai, Ma Huateng, Sergio Marchionne, J. C. Jacobsen, Dustin Moskovitz, and Arnon Milchan. After him are Pierre Omidyar, Paul Castellano, Edward Cave, Andrea Agnelli, Lei Jun, and Bob Iger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli ranks 193Before him are Bo Carpelan, Mieczysław Rakowski, Sonja Ziemann, Ivica Horvat, Shigeru Kayano, and Vitaly Vorotnikov. After him are Peter Lax, James Samuel Coleman, Ladislav Adamec, Mickey Hargitay, José Alfredo Jiménez, and Sadegh Khalkhali. Among people deceased in 1972, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli ranks 103Before him are Max Fleischer, René Mayer, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Jessie Royce Landis, Thomas C. Kinkaid, and František Čáp. After him are Roberto Clemente, Bruce Cabot, Miriam Hopkins, Prince William of Gloucester, Mahendra of Nepal, and Friedrich Christiansen.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli ranks 2,542 out of 4,668Before him are Kaspar Capparoni (1964), Odoardo Farnese (1573), Nicola Canali (1874), Gian Piero Ventura (1948), Marcus Lollius (-100), and Maria Fortunata d'Este (1731). After him are Gino Colaussi (1914), Carlo Allioni (1728), Luigi Luzzatti (1841), Matteo II Visconti (1319), Sandro Puppo (1918), and Manto Mavrogenous (1796).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Italy

Among businesspeople born in Italy, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli ranks 20Before him are Aurelio Peccei (1908), Francesco Baracca (1888), Stefano Casiraghi (1960), Adriano Galliani (1944), Lazare Ponticelli (1897), and Sergio Marchionne (1952). After him are Andrea Agnelli (1975), Maurizio Arrivabene (1957), Piero Dusio (1899), and Marco Mattiacci (1970).