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Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill, American philosopher and author (died 1970)

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Born
October 26, 1883
Died
November 8, 1970
Zodiac sign
Scorpio
Birth year
1883

About Napoleon Hill

Oliver Napoleon Hill was an American self-help author. He is best known for his book Think and Grow Rich (1937), which is among the best-selling self-help books of all time. Hill's works insisted that fervid expectations are essential to improving one's life. Most of his books are promoted as expounding principles to achieve "success". Following the exposure of his fraud in Alabama, Hill fled to Washington, DC, where he dropped Oliver as his first name and began going by Napoleon Hill. Hill relocated to Mobile, Alabama, in 1907 and co-founded the Acree-Hill Lumber Company.

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The world when Napoleon Hill was born

Napoleon Hill was born in 1883. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineBrooklyn Bridge opens after 14 years of construction
  • Technology milestoneFirst standardized time zones adopted
  • World population~1.43B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderChester A. Arthur
  • U.S. population52.8M

1883 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Napoleon Hill's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure18832026
Population52.8M341 million

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