historians
138 notable historians on file — 8 still here, 130 not.
still with us
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Luis Suárez
aliveUruguayan association football player
born 1987
Donald Tusk
alivePrime Minister of Poland (2007–2014; since 2023)
born 1957
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Karol Nawrocki
alivePolish politician and historian, President of the Republic of Poland since 2025
born 1983
Norman Finkelstein
aliveAmerican political scientist (born 1953)
born 1953
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George Simion
aliveRomanian politician (b. 1986)
born 1986
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Elizabeth Smart
aliveAmerican activist
born 1987
David Olusoga
aliveBritish historian and television presenter
born 1970
Lola Van Wagenen
aliveAmerican historian
born 1938
gone (30 of 130)
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Winston Churchill
deadBritish statesman, soldier and writer
1874 – 1965
Theodore Roosevelt
dead26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909
1858 – 1919
Pierre Nora
deadFrench historian and publisher
1931 – 2025
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Carlo Ginzburg
deadItalian historian
1939 – 2026
Len Deighton
deadEnglish writer
1929 – 2026
İlber Ortaylı
deadTurkish historian
1947 – 2026
Helene Ahrweiler
deadGreek/French Byzantinist
1926 – 2026
Michael Parenti
deadAmerican academic
1933 – 2026
Roy Medvedev
deadRussian historian and writer
1925 – 2026
Yehuda Bauer
deadHolocaust survivor and Israeli historian
1926 – 2024
Robert Jay Lifton
deadAmerican psychiatrist and author
1926 – 2025
Vittorio Messori
deadItalian journalist
1941 – 2026
Walid Khalidi
deadPalestinian historian
1925 – 2026
Yves Lacoste
deadFrench geographer and geopolitician
1929 – 2026
C. J. Sansom
deadBritish author of crime fiction
1952 – 2024
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David Abulafia
deadEnglish historian
1949 – 2026
Robert Skidelsky
deadBritish economist and author
1939 – 2026
Abraham Foxman
deadformer national director of the Anti-Defamation League
1940 – 2026
Caleb Carr
deadAmerican novelist, screenwriter and military historian
1955 – 2024
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David Bordwell
deadAmerican film historian
1947 – 2024
Roland Huntford
deadBritish writer
1927 – 2026
Sergey Kara-Murza
deadSoviet and Russian chemist
1939 – 2025
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John Nott
deadBritish politician
1932 – 2024
Marian Turski
deadPolish historian
1926 – 2025
Peter Green
deadBritish historian and novelist
1924 – 2024
Iván T. Berend
dead(1930–2026) economics historian, Holocaust survivor
1930 – 2026
Jeremy Bernstein
deadAmerican physicist
1929 – 2025
J. Arch Getty
deadAmerican historian
1950 – 2025
Lucio Russo
deadItalian historian and scientist
1944 – 2025
David Kahn
deadAmerican historian, journalist and writer
1930 – 2024