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History Hot 100 2017

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Top 10 risers Top 10 new entries this year
A breakdown of this year’s 34 Jane Austen
Mussolini 37 Lenin
History Hot 100 – from the big up 61 38 Oswald Mosley
movers, to how they died Joan of Arc 41 Genghis Khan
up 50 44 Augustus
Gender split Nelson 45 Edward I
up 43 51 Æthelflæd
52 Francisco Franco
35% Jesus 60 Joseph Goebbels
up 42
Women 63 Alan Turing
65% Boudica
Men up 38
Martin Luther
up 36
Nations with which the Hot
JFK 100 is most associated
up 35
Field with which the Empress Matilda (based on modern borders)
Hot 100 are most associated up 31 Britain 56

60 Emmeline Democratic Republic of Mongolia 1
Pankhurst Egypt 2
50 up 25 France 7
Germany 6
King John Greece 1
Number of Hot 100 30 10 biggest India 1
40
up 24
Israel 1
Italy 6
fallers
20
Poland 1
Romania 1
10 Charles II
down 28 Russia 4
Saudi Arabia 1
0 Duke of Wellington
Arts & Culture
Royalty Politics Faith & Ideas Military Science down 31 Serbia 1
Spain 3
Harold Godwinson
down 32 USA 8
Five casualties from Richard the
2016’s list Lionheart
down 33
Tutankhamun
Matthias I Anne of Cleves Age at death
Charlotte of Wales down 38 (of those definitively known)
Ada Lovelace Thomas Jefferson 30
Samuel Pepys down 38
Alexander Hamilton 25
Top 5 monarchs
Richard III down 40 20
Alfred the Great Catherine Parr
Elizabeth I down 41 15
Queen Victoria Henry V Number of deaths
Henry VIII down 42 10
Top 5 people born Thomas More 5
down 43
outside Britain
0
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Adolf Hitler 10-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69 70-79 80-89 90-99
Mussolini Ages
Jesus
Martin Luther

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