1899 - 1984
Henri Michaux (French: [miʃo]; 24 May 1899, Namur – 19 October 1984, Paris) was a Belgian-born French poet, writer and painter. Michaux is renowned for his strange, highly original poetry and prose, and also for his art: the Paris Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York had major shows of his work in 1978 (see below, Visual Arts). His texts chronicling his psychedelic experiments with LSD and mescaline, which include Miserable Miracle and The Major Ordeals of the Mind and the Countless Minor Ones, are well known. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri Michaux has received more than 210,587 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Henri Michaux is the 1,089th most popular writer (up from 1,132nd in 2019), the 143rd most popular biography from Belgium (up from 144th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Belgian Writer.
Henri Michaux is most famous for his surrealist writings.
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Among writers, Henri Michaux ranks 1,089 out of 5,755. Before him are Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Patrick White, Vidyapati, Joost van den Vondel, and Radegund. After him are Allan Pinkerton, Mimnermus, Jean Giraudoux, Jan Neruda, Andrei Bely, and Thomas Chatterton.
1929 - 2022
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 1,083
1867 - 1928
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 1,084
1912 - 1990
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 1,085
1352 - 1448
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 1,086
1587 - 1679
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 1,087
518 - 587
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 1,088
1899 - 1984
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 1,089
1819 - 1884
HPI: 60.30
Rank: 1,090
670 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 60.29
Rank: 1,091
1882 - 1944
HPI: 60.28
Rank: 1,092
1834 - 1891
HPI: 60.28
Rank: 1,093
1880 - 1934
HPI: 60.25
Rank: 1,094
1752 - 1770
HPI: 60.24
Rank: 1,095
Among people born in 1899, Henri Michaux ranks 49. Before him are Ludwig Guttmann, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Louis Chiron, Sobhuza II, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, and Lev Kuleshov. After him are Lao She, Macfarlane Burnet, Louis Hjelmslev, Charles Boyer, Georges Auric, and P. L. Travers. Among people deceased in 1984, Henri Michaux ranks 37. Before him are Vicente Aleixandre, Stanislaw Ulam, Karl Rahner, Jackie Coogan, Irwin Shaw, and Moshé Feldenkrais. After him are Oskar Werner, Joseph Losey, Tito Gobbi, Brassaï, Janet Gaynor, and James Mason.
1899 - 1980
HPI: 60.90
Rank: 43
1899 - 1976
HPI: 60.49
Rank: 44
1899 - 1979
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 45
1899 - 1982
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 46
1899 - 1980
HPI: 60.42
Rank: 47
1899 - 1970
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 48
1899 - 1984
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 49
1899 - 1966
HPI: 60.16
Rank: 50
1899 - 1985
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 51
1899 - 1965
HPI: 60.05
Rank: 52
1899 - 1978
HPI: 60.05
Rank: 53
1899 - 1983
HPI: 59.86
Rank: 54
1899 - 1996
HPI: 59.80
Rank: 55
1898 - 1984
HPI: 61.93
Rank: 31
1909 - 1984
HPI: 61.50
Rank: 32
1904 - 1984
HPI: 61.26
Rank: 33
1914 - 1984
HPI: 60.73
Rank: 34
1913 - 1984
HPI: 60.53
Rank: 35
1904 - 1984
HPI: 60.49
Rank: 36
1899 - 1984
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 37
1922 - 1984
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 38
1909 - 1984
HPI: 59.53
Rank: 39
1913 - 1984
HPI: 59.49
Rank: 40
1899 - 1984
HPI: 59.43
Rank: 41
1906 - 1984
HPI: 59.37
Rank: 42
1909 - 1984
HPI: 59.25
Rank: 43
Among people born in Belgium, Henri Michaux ranks 143 out of 1,019. Before him are Marc Dutroux (1956), Marie of Brabant, Queen of France (1254), Lara Fabian (1970), Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne (1735), Louis II, Count of Flanders (1330), and Chantal Mouffe (1943). After him are Fernand Khnopff (1858), Princess Clémentine of Belgium (1872), Toots Thielemans (1922), Henry I, Duke of Brabant (1165), Theroigne de Mericourt (1762), and Eric Walter Elst (1936).
1956 - Present
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 137
1254 - 1322
HPI: 60.46
Rank: 138
1970 - Present
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 139
1735 - 1814
HPI: 60.38
Rank: 140
1330 - 1384
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 141
1943 - Present
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 142
1899 - 1984
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 143
1858 - 1921
HPI: 60.25
Rank: 144
1872 - 1955
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 145
1922 - 2016
HPI: 60.18
Rank: 146
1165 - 1235
HPI: 60.17
Rank: 147
1762 - 1817
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 148
1936 - 2022
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 149
Among writers born in Belgium, Henri Michaux ranks 8. Before him are Georges Simenon (1903), Marguerite Yourcenar (1903), Julio Cortázar (1914), Émile Verhaeren (1855), Marguerite Porete (1250), and Pierre Louÿs (1870). After him are Laura Marx (1845), Victor Serge (1890), Georges Rodenbach (1855), Hugo Claus (1929), Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq (1522), and Jean Bolland (1596).
1903 - 1989
HPI: 72.92
Rank: 2
1903 - 1987
HPI: 68.40
Rank: 3
1914 - 1984
HPI: 67.66
Rank: 4
1855 - 1916
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 5
1250 - 1310
HPI: 61.15
Rank: 6
1870 - 1925
HPI: 60.97
Rank: 7
1899 - 1984
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 8
1845 - 1911
HPI: 59.15
Rank: 9
1890 - 1947
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 10
1855 - 1898
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 11
1929 - 2008
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 12
1522 - 1592
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 13
1596 - 1665
HPI: 56.94
Rank: 14