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Kenneth Clark

1903 - 1983

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Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, Baron Clark (13 July 1903 – 21 May 1983) was a British art historian, museum director and broadcaster. His expertise covered a wide range of artists and periods, but he is particularly associated with Italian Renaissance art, most of all that of Leonardo da Vinci. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kenneth Clark has received more than 840,297 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Kenneth Clark is the 484th most popular historian (down from 401st in 2019), the 4,263rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,018th in 2019) and the 55th most popular British Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Kenneth Clark ranks 484 out of 561Before him are Samuel Eliot Morison, Firishta, Alfred W. Crosby, N. G. L. Hammond, William of Newburgh, and Richard Overy. After him are Aleks Buda, Henry James Sumner Maine, Irina Antonova, Orlando Figes, Christopher Lasch, and American Horse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Kenneth Clark ranks 290Before him are Lajos Maszlay, Hermann Volk, Andrei Fayt, Clare Boothe Luce, Millard Mitchell, and G. Evelyn Hutchinson. After him are Mikhail Svetlov, Léon-Étienne Duval, Malcolm Muggeridge, Howard P. Robertson, Marshall Harvey Stone, and Olavi Paavolainen. Among people deceased in 1983, Kenneth Clark ranks 219Before him are Pentti Saarikoski, Georges Spénale, Christopher George, Anthony van Hoboken, Paul Fix, and Ernest Libérati. After him are Vince Gallagher, Alexia Bryn, Gregorio Blasco, Lutz Eigendorf, Tomás Ojeda, and Betty Nuthall.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Kenneth Clark ranks 4,263 out of 8,785Before him are Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1835), Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland (1393), Richey Edwards (1967), Tony Adams (1966), Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece (1968), and Charles W. Alcock (1842). After him are Susanna Clarke (1959), Glenn Cornick (1947), Stan Mortensen (1921), Frances O'Connor (1967), Dorothea Bate (1878), and James Challis (1803).

Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Kenneth Clark ranks 55Before him are William Robertson (1721), Arthur Smith Woodward (1864), Catharine Macaulay (1731), N. G. L. Hammond (1907), William of Newburgh (1130), and Richard Overy (1947). After him are Henry James Sumner Maine (1822), Orlando Figes (1959), H. J. R. Murray (1868), George Grote (1794), Simon Schama (1945), and Robert Service (1947).