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Zecharia Sitchin

1920 - 2010

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Zecharia Sitchin (July 11, 1920 – October 9, 2010) was an author of a number of books proposing an explanation for human origins involving ancient astronauts. Sitchin attributed the creation of the ancient Sumerian culture to the Anunnaki, which he claimed was a race of extraterrestrials from a planet beyond Neptune called Nibiru. He claimed that Sumerian mythology suggests that this hypothetical planet of Nibiru is in an elongated, 3,600-year-long elliptical orbit around the Sun. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zecharia Sitchin has received more than 2,057,321 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Zecharia Sitchin is the 626th most popular writer (down from 418th in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Azerbaijan (down from 6th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Azerbaijani Writer.

Zecharia Sitchin is most famous for his book "The 12th Planet" in which he argues that the earth was visited by an extraterrestrial race called the Anunnaki, and that they genetically engineered humans to be their slaves.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Zecharia Sitchin ranks 626 out of 7,302. Before him are Leo Africanus, Tirso de Molina, Alfred Döblin, J. M. Barrie, Poliziano, and Mihai Eminescu. After him are August Wilhelm Schlegel, Samuel Johnson, Ludwig Tieck, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Witold Gombrowicz, and Raymond Queneau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Zecharia Sitchin ranks 29. Before him are Charlie Parker, Juan Antonio Samaranch, Helmut Newton, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, and François Jacob. After him are Fritz Walter, Clarice Lispector, Montgomery Clift, Walter Matthau, Douglass North, and Sergei Bondarchuk. Among people deceased in 2010, Zecharia Sitchin ranks 20. Before him are Juan Antonio Samaranch, Georges Charpak, Ali Hassan al-Majid, Maurice Allais, Vasily Smyslov, and Marshall Warren Nirenberg. After him are Néstor Kirchner, Gennady Yanayev, Francesco Cossiga, Bruno Cremer, Alois Brunner, and Dino De Laurentiis.

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In Azerbaijan

Among people born in Azerbaijan, Zecharia Sitchin ranks 12 out of 232. Before him are Mstislav Rostropovich (1927), Arghun (1250), Garry Kasparov (1963), Imadaddin Nasimi (1369), Abulfaz Elchibey (1938), and Nadezhda Alliluyeva (1901). After him are Ivan Bagramyan (1897), Lotfi A. Zadeh (1921), Ayaz Mutallibov (1938), Artur Rasizade (1935), Garegin Nzhdeh (1886), and Mirza Fatali Akhundov (1812).

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Among WRITERS In Azerbaijan

Among writers born in Azerbaijan, Zecharia Sitchin ranks 3. Before him are Nizami Ganjavi (1141), and Imadaddin Nasimi (1369). After him are Mirza Fatali Akhundov (1812), Khaqani (1126), Banine (1905), Mirza Shafi Vazeh (1794), Mahsati (1089), Samad Vurgun (1906), Ahmad Javad (1892), Huseyn Javid (1882), and Jalil Mammadguluzadeh (1869).

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