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The list Historical geographers includes Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Tan Qixiang, Carl O. Sauer, Ian Simmons (Geographer) and Emyr Estyn Evans. The list consists of 65 members and 4 sublists.
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    Carl O. Sauer
    American geographer
    Carl O. Sauer
    Overview: Carl Ortwin Sauer (December 24, 1889 – July 18, 1975) was an American geographer. Sauer was a professor of geography at the University of California at Berkeley from 1923 until becoming professor ...
    Date of birth: 24 December 1889
    Date of death: 18 July 1975
    Age: 85 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Scientist
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    Victoria Medal recipients 65T
    People from Warrenton, Missouri 10T
    Human geographers 38T
  • 2.

    Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
    British general and politician
    Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
    Overview: Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC (24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916) was a senior British Army officer and colonial administrator who won notoriety ...
    Date of birth: 24 June 1850
    Date of death: 5 June 1916
    Age: 65 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Military
    Gender: Male
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    Lancashire Militia officers 25T
    Earls Kitchener 3T
    Burials at Hollybrook Cemetery 6T
  • 3.

    Tan Qixiang
    Chinese historian
    Tan Qixiang
    Overview: Tan Qixiang (Chinese: 谭其骧; 25 February 1911 − 28 August 1992) was a Chinese geographer and historian who is considered a founder of the field of historical geography in Modern China. His magnum opus ...
    Date of birth: 25 February 1911
    Date of death: 28 August 1992
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Occupation: Historian
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    Chinese historical geographers 8T
    20th-century Chinese historians 51T
    Historians from Zhejiang 35T
  • 4.

    Emyr Estyn Evans
    British geographer
    Overview: Emyr Estyn Evans (29 May 1905 – 12 August 1989), often referred to simply as E. E. Evans, was a geographer and archaeologist, whose primary field of interest was the Irish neolithic.
    Date of birth: 29 May 1905
    Date of death: 12 August 1989
    Age: 84 (age at death)
    Nationality: Irish
    Occupation: Anthropologist
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    Victoria Medal recipients 65T
    20th-century geographers 252T
    20th-century archaeologists 857T
  • 5.

    Claude Reignier Conder
    British military officer and explorer with the Palestine Exploration Fund
    Claude Reignier Conder
    Overview: Claude Reignier Conder (29 December 1848, Cheltenham – 16 February 1910, Cheltenham) was an English soldier, explorer and antiquarian. He was a great-great-grandson of Louis-François Roubiliac and grandson ...
    Date of birth: 29 December 1848
    Date of death: 16 February 1910
    Age: 61 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Explorer
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    Palestinologists 16T
    Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich 438T
    Royal Engineers officers 714T
  • 6.

    Anne Kelly Knowles
    American geographer
    Overview: Anne Kelly Knowles (born 1957) is an American geographer and a specialist in Historical GIS. She is a professor of geography at Middlebury College.
    Date of birth: 1957
    Age: 67
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Scientist
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    Women geographers 76T
    American geographers 212T
    Middlebury College faculty 66T
  • 7.

    Donald W. Meinig
    American geographer
    Overview: Donald William Meinig (November 1, 1924 in Palouse, Washington – June 13, 2020 in Syracuse) was an American geographer. He was the Maxwell Research Professor Emeritus of Geography at Syracuse University ...
    Date of birth: 1 November 1924
    Date of death: 13 June 2020
    Age: 95 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Historian
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    2020 deaths 11,737T
    University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences alumni 253T
    People from Palouse, Washington 8T
  • 8.

    William Gordon East
    British geographer
    Overview: William Gordon East (also W. G. East; November 19, 1902 – January 27, 1998) was an English geographer and writer. He studied at Cambridge University. He taught at the London School of Economics and Po ...
    Date of birth: 19 November 1902
    Date of death: 27 January 1998
    Age: 95 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century English male writers 1,328T
    English male non-fiction writers 1,748T
    English male writers 2,660T
  • 9.

    Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau
    French orientalist and archaeologist (1846–1923)
    Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau
    Overview: Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau (19 February 1846 – 15 February 1923) was a noted French Orientalist and archaeologist.
    Date of birth: 19 February 1846
    Date of death: 15 February 1923
    Age: 76 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Archaeologist
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    Phoenician-punic studies 14T
    Biblical archaeologists 24T
    Palestinologists 16T
  • 10.

    Israel Finkelstein
    Israeli archaeologist
    Israel Finkelstein
    Overview: Israel Finkelstein (Hebrew: ישראל פינקלשטיין‎, born March 29, 1949) is an Israeli archaeologist, professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University. Finkelstein is active in the archaeology of the Levant ...
    Date of birth: 29 March 1949
    Age: 75
    Nationality: Israeli
    Occupation: Anthropologist
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    Biblical archaeologists 24T
    20th-century Israeli writers 49T
    21st-century Israeli writers 30T
  • 11.

    Sa'd ibn Junaydil
    Saudi Arabian historian (1915–2006)
    Overview: Sa'd bin Abdullah al-Junaydil, commonly known as Sa'd ibn Junaydil (Arabic: سعد ابن جنيدل, Saʻd ibn Junaydil;‎ 1915 – 20 June 2006), was a Saudi Arabian historical geographer. Alongside Hamad A ...
    Date of birth: 1915
    Date of death: 20 June 2006
    Age: 91 (age at death)
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  • 12.

    Stephen Daniels (geographer)
    British cultural geographer and professor
    Overview: Stephen John Daniels FBA FAcSS FSA FRGS (born 11 May 1950) is a British cultural geographer. He was Professor of Cultural Geography, and is now Emeritus Professor, at the University of Nottingham. In 2015 ...
    Date of birth: 11 May 1950
    Age: 74
    Nationality: English
    Occupation: Historian
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  • 13.

    Samuel Klein (scholar)
    20th-century historical-geographer
    Samuel Klein (scholar)
    Overview: Samuel Klein (Hebrew: שמואל קליין‬; lived 17 November 1886 – 21 April 1940) was a Hungarian-born rabbi, historian and historical geographer in Mandatory Palestine.
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  • 14.

    Xiong Huizhen
    Chinese historical geographer
    Overview: Xiong Huizhen (Chinese: 熊會貞; Wade–Giles: Hsiung Hui-chen; died 1936) was a Chinese historical geographer and a disciple of the late-Qing dynasty scholar Yang Shoujing. He is known for completing ...
    Date of death: 1936
    Occupation: Historian
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    1936 suicides 28T
    Chinese historical geographers 8T
    20th-century Chinese historians 51T
  • 15.

    Yang Shoujing
    Chinese diplomat, geographer and historian (1839–1915)
    Yang Shoujing
    Overview: Yang Shoujing (Chinese: 楊守敬; pinyin: Yáng Shǒujìng; Wade–Giles: Yang Shou-ching; 1839 – 9 January 1915) was a late-Qing dynasty historical geographer, calligrapher, antiquarian, bibliophile ...
    Date of birth: 2 June 1839
    Date of death: 9 January 1915
    Age: 75 (age at death)
    Occupation: Historian
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  • 16.

    Zhou Zhenhe
    Chinese historical geographer and professor at Fudan University
    Overview: Zhou Zhenhe (Chinese: 周振鹤; born 1941) is a Chinese historical geographer and a distinguished senior professor at the Institute of Historical Geography of Fudan University in Shanghai. His main research ...
    Date of birth: 1941
    Age: 83
    Occupation: Historian
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  • 17.

    Norman Pounds
    English geographer and historian
    Overview: Norman Pounds (23 February 1912 – 24 March 2006) was an English geographer and historian. He wrote over 30 books, primarily on the history and geography of Europe from several different time periods.
    Date of birth: 23 February 1912
    Date of death: 24 March 2006
    Age: 94 (age at death)
    Nationality: English
    Occupation: Historian
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    People educated at King Edward's School, Bath 20T
    English geographers 80T
    English historians 1,051T
  • 18.

    Gerald Danzer
    American historian
    Overview: Gerald A. Danzer (born 9 November 1938) is professor emeritus of history at the University of Chicago. He is a specialist in historical geography, world history, and the use of old maps as historical sources ...
    Date of birth: 9 November 1938
    Age: 86
    Occupation: Historian
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    Overview: Paul Wheatley (b. Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, 11 October 1921 - d. Porter, Indiana 30 October 1999) was a geographer who came to specialize in the historical geography of Southeast Asia and East ...
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    Michael Avi-Yonah
    Israeli archaeologist and historian (1904-1974)
    Overview: Dr. Michael Avi-Yonah (September 26, 1904 – March 26, 1974) was an Israeli archaeologist and historian. During his career he was a Professor of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and served ...
    Date of birth: 26 September 1904
    Date of death: 26 March 1974
    Age: 69 (age at death)
    Nationality: Israeli
    Occupation: Historian
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