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Rudolph Rummel

1932 - 2014

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Rudolph Joseph Rummel (October 21, 1932 – March 2, 2014) was an American political scientist, a statistician and professor at Indiana University, Yale University, and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He spent his career studying data on collective violence and war with a view toward helping their resolution or elimination. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudolph Rummel has received more than 263,679 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Rudolph Rummel is the 473rd most popular historian (down from 397th in 2019), the 7,994th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,637th in 2019) and the 31st most popular American Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Rudolph Rummel ranks 473 out of 561. Before him are Benjamin Mazar, Djibril Tamsir Niane, Zhao Rukuo, Timofey Granovsky, Charles Homer Haskins, and Nikolaus Pevsner. After him are Anvar Chingizoglu, Catharine Macaulay, Sara Ashurbeyli, Christopher Browning, Samuel Eliot Morison, and Firishta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Rudolph Rummel ranks 392. Before him are Douglas McIlroy, Djibril Tamsir Niane, K. C. Jones, Richard Herd, Henry Taylor, and Jerzy Pawłowski. After him are Sergei Slonimsky, János Parti, Germano de Figueiredo, Louis Rwagasore, Joseph P. Kerwin, and José Varacka. Among people deceased in 2014, Rudolph Rummel ranks 382. Before him are Gyula Török, Dorothy Cheney, Acker Bilk, Elaine Stritch, Piero D'Inzeo, and Çolpan İlhan. After him are Jan Werner, Richard Hoggart, Barbro Kollberg, Ivica Brzić, Andriy Bal, and Carla Laemmle.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Rudolph Rummel ranks 7,994 out of 20,380. Before him are Clu Gulager (1928), Kristin Hannah (1960), Lindsay Davenport (1976), Danny Masterson (1976), George Abbott (1887), and Matthew Davis (1978). After him are Debbie Rowe (1958), Barry McGuire (1935), Charles Moore (1929), Michael Anthony (1954), D. J. Fontana (1931), and Guy Madison (1922).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Rudolph Rummel ranks 31. Before him are Carl Benjamin Boyer (1906), Daniel J. Boorstin (1914), Robert Jay Lifton (1926), Lothrop Stoddard (1883), Charles A. Beard (1874), and Charles Homer Haskins (1870). After him are Christopher Browning (1944), Samuel Eliot Morison (1887), Alfred W. Crosby (1931), Christopher Lasch (1932), American Horse (1840), and Stephen F. Cohen (1938).

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