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James H. Billington

1929 - 2018

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James Hadley Billington (June 1, 1929 – November 20, 2018) was an American academic and author who taught history at Harvard and Princeton before serving for 42 years as CEO of four federal cultural institutions. He served as the 13th Librarian of Congress after being nominated by President Ronald Reagan in 1987, and his appointment was approved unanimously by the U.S. Senate. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James H. Billington has received more than 247,117 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). James H. Billington is the 529th most popular historian (down from 443rd in 2019), the 11,071st most popular biography from United States (up from 11,288th in 2019) and the 44th most popular American Historian.

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  • 250k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, James H. Billington ranks 529 out of 561. Before him are Gregory Areshian, Hugh N. Kennedy, Edward Duyker, Edward Augustus Freeman, Jonathan Riley-Smith, and Richard Taruskin. After him are Jan Morris, Griselda Pollock, Elaine Pagels, John Komlos, Richard Bauckham, and Mary Ritter Beard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, James H. Billington ranks 506. Before him are Ottó Boros, Dick Button, Branko Grünbaum, Joe Meek, Ferenc Mohácsi, and Jiří Hledík. After him are Jerry Adler, Ann Robinson, Johnny Ace, Josef Kloimstein, Sartaj Aziz, and Brian Friel. Among people deceased in 2018, James H. Billington ranks 491. Before him are Thomas Bopp, Arthur Schnabel, Sabit Hadžić, Věra Růžičková, Branko Grünbaum, and Annapurna Devi. After him are Jim Neidhart, Aldo Tarlao, Andrzej Fischer, Peter Masterson, Bassano Staffieri, and Antonio Munguía.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James H. Billington ranks 11,071 out of 20,380. Before him are April Bowlby (1980), Lauren Weisberger (1977), Al Foster (1943), Balthazar Getty (1975), Matt Hardy (1974), and Richard Edson (1954). After him are Soraya (1969), Thane Baker (1931), Barney Bigard (1906), Kristine Lilly (1971), Oguchi Onyewu (1982), and Sidney Wood (1911).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, James H. Billington ranks 44. Before him are Stephen Greenblatt (1943), Carroll Quigley (1910), Drew Gilpin Faust (1947), David Bordwell (1947), Richard G. Hovannisian (1932), and Richard Taruskin (1945). After him are Elaine Pagels (1943), Mary Ritter Beard (1876), Richard Hofstadter (1916), Francis Parkman (1823), Anthony Grafton (1950), and Ellen Meiksins Wood (1942).

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