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Natalie Zemon Davis

1928 - 2023

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Natalie Zemon Davis, (November 8, 1928 – October 21, 2023) was an American-Canadian historian of the early modern period. She was the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Princeton University. Her work originally focused on France, but it later broadened to include other parts of Europe, North America, and the Caribbean. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Natalie Zemon Davis has received more than 228,363 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Natalie Zemon Davis is the 274th most popular historian (down from 240th in 2019), the 4,619th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,615th in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Natalie Zemon Davis ranks 274 out of 339Before her are Alexander Vasiliev, George Cœdès, Alexander Kazhdan, Vardan Areveltsi, Ubbo Emmius, and Emmanuel Todd. After her are Edward Granville Browne, Léon Poliakov, Gerhard Friedrich Müller, Gerald of Wales, Donald Keene, and Leo Allatius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Natalie Zemon Davis ranks 278Before her are Pierre Schoendoerffer, Leon Fleisher, Estelle Harris, Paul Johnson, José Bonaparte, and Peter Shirayanagi. After her are Sergey Kapitsa, Anita Brookner, Milka Babović, Mitchell Ryan, Art Farmer, and Emilio Pericoli. Among people deceased in 2023, Natalie Zemon Davis ranks 179Before her are Suzanne Somers, Robbie Robertson, Martin Amis, Lance Reddick, David Albahari, and Paul Johnson. After her are Ita Ever, Duško Gojković, Richard Belzer, Paul Reubens, Nadja Tiller, and Carlo Mazzone.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Natalie Zemon Davis ranks 4,619 out of 18,182Before her are Richard Kiley (1922), Gary Hart (1936), Richard Sears (1861), Herman Wouk (1915), Melinda Culea (1955), and Joseph Grew (1880). After her are Alice Neel (1900), Perry King (1948), Gregory Hines (1946), Robert Keohane (1941), Gary Peacock (1935), and Lester Allan Pelton (1829).

Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Natalie Zemon Davis ranks 14Before her are Linda Nochlin (1931), Deborah Lipstadt (1947), Frederick Jackson Turner (1861), Robert Darnton (1939), John King Fairbank (1907), and William H. Prescott (1796). After her are Donald Keene (1922), Joan Wallach Scott (1941), Drew Gilpin Faust (1947), Daniel J. Boorstin (1914), Stephen E. Ambrose (1936), and Lothrop Stoddard (1883).