1915 - 1963
Édith Piaf (UK: , US: ; French: [edit pjaf] (listen); born Édith Giovanna Gassion, French: [edit dʒɔvana ɡasjɔ̃]; 19 December 1915 – 10 October 1963) was a French singer-songwriter, cabaret performer and film actress noted as France's national chanteuse and one of the country's most widely known international stars.Piaf's music was often autobiographical and she specialized in chanson and torch ballads about love, loss and sorrow. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Édith Piaf has received more than 4,588,671 page views. Her biography is available in 118 different languages on Wikipedia. Édith Piaf is the 2nd most popular singer, the 27th most popular biography from France (up from 33rd in 2019) and the most popular French Singer.
Édith Piaf is most famous for her voice.
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Among singers, Édith Piaf ranks 2 out of 3,541. Before her are Elvis Presley. After her are Cher, Luciano Pavarotti, Janis Joplin, Maria Callas, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, Tina Turner, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Joan Baez, and Charles Aznavour.
1935 - 1977
HPI: 88.09
Rank: 1
1915 - 1963
HPI: 86.20
Rank: 2
1946 - Present
HPI: 85.50
Rank: 3
1935 - 2007
HPI: 84.55
Rank: 4
1943 - 1970
HPI: 84.52
Rank: 5
1923 - 1977
HPI: 84.45
Rank: 6
1915 - 1998
HPI: 82.15
Rank: 7
1932 - 2003
HPI: 82.07
Rank: 8
1939 - Present
HPI: 81.82
Rank: 9
1945 - Present
HPI: 81.30
Rank: 10
1941 - Present
HPI: 81.25
Rank: 11
1924 - 2018
HPI: 81.21
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1915, Édith Piaf ranks 1. After her are Augusto Pinochet, Frank Sinatra, Anthony Quinn, Ingrid Bergman, David Rockefeller, Roland Barthes, Vasily Zaitsev, Moshe Dayan, Orson Welles, Arthur Miller, and Eli Wallach. Among people deceased in 1963, Édith Piaf ranks 2. Before her is John F. Kennedy. After her are Pope John XXIII, Robert Frost, Georges Braque, Jean Cocteau, Aldous Huxley, Lee Harvey Oswald, Robert Schuman, Tristan Tzara, C. S. Lewis, and Ngo Dinh Diem.
1915 - 1963
HPI: 86.20
Rank: 1
1915 - 2006
HPI: 83.82
Rank: 2
1915 - 1998
HPI: 82.15
Rank: 3
1915 - 2001
HPI: 81.51
Rank: 4
1915 - 1982
HPI: 81.39
Rank: 5
1915 - 2017
HPI: 81.05
Rank: 6
1915 - 1980
HPI: 80.06
Rank: 7
1915 - 1991
HPI: 79.95
Rank: 8
1915 - 1981
HPI: 79.48
Rank: 9
1915 - 1985
HPI: 78.36
Rank: 10
1915 - 2005
HPI: 77.18
Rank: 11
1915 - 2014
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 12
1917 - 1963
HPI: 87.77
Rank: 1
1915 - 1963
HPI: 86.20
Rank: 2
1881 - 1963
HPI: 84.03
Rank: 3
1874 - 1963
HPI: 83.51
Rank: 4
1882 - 1963
HPI: 81.91
Rank: 5
1889 - 1963
HPI: 81.76
Rank: 6
1894 - 1963
HPI: 80.72
Rank: 7
1939 - 1963
HPI: 80.09
Rank: 8
1886 - 1963
HPI: 79.75
Rank: 9
1896 - 1963
HPI: 79.44
Rank: 10
1898 - 1963
HPI: 78.73
Rank: 11
1901 - 1963
HPI: 77.72
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Édith Piaf ranks 27 out of 5,234. Before her are Paul Gauguin (1848), Paul Cézanne (1839), Émile Zola (1840), Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (1122), Napoleon III (1808), and Henri Matisse (1869). After her are Louis XV of France (1710), Henry IV of France (1553), Antoine Lavoisier (1743), Stendhal (1783), Alexandre Dumas (1802), and Émile Durkheim (1858).
1848 - 1903
HPI: 86.84
Rank: 21
1839 - 1906
HPI: 86.76
Rank: 22
1840 - 1902
HPI: 86.69
Rank: 23
1122 - 1190
HPI: 86.62
Rank: 24
1808 - 1873
HPI: 86.45
Rank: 25
1869 - 1954
HPI: 86.34
Rank: 26
1915 - 1963
HPI: 86.20
Rank: 27
1710 - 1774
HPI: 86.19
Rank: 28
1553 - 1610
HPI: 86.09
Rank: 29
1743 - 1794
HPI: 86.09
Rank: 30
1783 - 1842
HPI: 86.08
Rank: 31
1802 - 1870
HPI: 86.07
Rank: 32
1858 - 1917
HPI: 85.97
Rank: 33
Among singers born in France, Édith Piaf ranks 1. After her are Charles Aznavour (1924), Serge Gainsbourg (1928), Mireille Mathieu (1946), Carlos Gardel (1890), Johnny Hallyday (1943), France Gall (1947), Françoise Hardy (1944), Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (1974), Maria Malibran (1808), Gilbert Bécaud (1927), and Charles Trenet (1913).
1915 - 1963
HPI: 86.20
Rank: 1
1924 - 2018
HPI: 81.21
Rank: 2
1928 - 1991
HPI: 77.78
Rank: 3
1946 - Present
HPI: 77.00
Rank: 4
1890 - 1935
HPI: 75.51
Rank: 5
1943 - 2017
HPI: 74.21
Rank: 6
1947 - 2018
HPI: 73.30
Rank: 7
1944 - Present
HPI: 72.96
Rank: 8
1974 - Present
HPI: 72.08
Rank: 9
1808 - 1836
HPI: 71.40
Rank: 10
1927 - 2001
HPI: 71.40
Rank: 11
1913 - 2001
HPI: 70.76
Rank: 12