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John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer

1924 - 1992

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Edward John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer, (24 January 1924 – 29 March 1992), styled Viscount Althorp until June 1975, was a British nobleman, military officer, and courtier. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer has received more than 6,331,040 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer is the 3,144th most popular politician (up from 3,888th in 2019), the 717th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 886th in 2019) and the 129th most popular British Politician.

John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer is most famous for being the father of Diana, Princess of Wales.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer ranks 3,144 out of 15,577Before him are Shajar al-Durr, Janez Janša, Gülbahar Hatun, Xiao He, Xin Zhui, and Lázaro Cárdenas. After him are Ferdinand IV of Castile, Hilderic, Georgy Chicherin, Louis, Duke of Savoy, Emperor Ōgimachi, and Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer ranks 44Before him are Roger Guillemin, Francisco Macías Nguema, Christopher Tolkien, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Ed Wood, and Karmapa. After him are Allan MacLeod Cormack, Guy Williams, Luigi Nono, Ahmadou Ahidjo, Madame Nhu, and Lee Iacocca. Among people deceased in 1992, John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer ranks 31Before him are Samuel Reshevsky, Karl Carstens, Algirdas Julien Greimas, Peyo, Daniel Bovet, and Paolo Borsellino. After him are Günther Anders, H. L. A. Hart, Kaysone Phomvihane, David Bohm, Sam Walton, and Denny Hulme.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer ranks 717 out of 7,765Before him are Edward B. Titchener (1867), Andrew Huxley (1917), Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809), John Kendrew (1917), William Oughtred (1574), and Kim Cattrall (1956). After him are Thomas Malory (1405), George Martin (1926), Willibrord (658), John Paul Jones (1946), Ian Paice (1948), and Benjamin Hornigold (1680).

Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer ranks 129Before him are Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796), Clementine Churchill (1885), Richard of Cornwall (1209), Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853), Norman Angell (1872), and Margaret of York (1446). After him are James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell (1534), Robert III of Scotland (1330), Gordon Brown (1951), Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset (1519), Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443), and Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond (1430).