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Akira Ifukube

1914 - 2006

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Akira Ifukube (伊福部 昭, Ifukube Akira, 31 May 1914 – 8 February 2006) was a Japanese composer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Akira Ifukube has received more than 290,180 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 17 in 2019). Akira Ifukube is the 949th most popular composer (down from 873rd in 2019), the 955th most popular biography from Japan (down from 901st in 2019) and the 10th most popular Japanese Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 290k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Akira Ifukube ranks 949 out of 1,216Before him are Myroslav Skoryk, Daniel Alomía Robles, W. C. Handy, Simeon ten Holt, Percy Faith, and Carlo Rustichelli. After him are Marvin Hamlisch, Wilhelm Kienzl, Tan Dun, Édouard Deldevez, Marcos Portugal, and Joseph Hellmesberger Sr..

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Akira Ifukube ranks 196Before him are Josep Escolà, William Phillips, Alf Prøysen, Grigol Abashidze, Hovhannes Shiraz, and Norman Lloyd. After him are Gisèle Casadesus, Ralph Ellison, Ray Walston, Ralph Erskine, Edmund Muskie, and Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury. Among people deceased in 2006, Akira Ifukube ranks 188Before him are Esther Lederberg, Vilgot Sjöman, Elizabeth Bolden, Andreas Katsulas, Kent Andersson, and Theodore Levitt. After him are Octavia E. Butler, Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Lars Korvald, Ion Drîmbă, Arif Mardin, and Jean-Louis de Rambures.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Akira Ifukube ranks 955 out of 6,048Before him are Sion Sono (1961), Koichi Tanaka (1959), Shigesato Itoi (1948), Misuzu Kaneko (1903), Ichiro Suzuki (1973), and Uchida Kōsai (1865). After him are Megumi Torigoe (1950), Jinichi Kusaka (1888), Shinji Mikami (1965), Kenichi Ohmae (1943), Mitsuo Watanabe (1953), and Shinobu Hashimoto (1918).

Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Akira Ifukube ranks 10Before him are Ichirou Mizuki (1948), Miki Matsubara (1959), Shunsuke Kikuchi (1931), Keiko Abe (1937), Nobuo Uematsu (1959), and Kenji Kawai (1957). After him are Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933), Yasushi Akutagawa (1925), Fumio Hayasaka (1914), Koji Kondo (1961), Akira Yamaoka (1968), and Hiroyuki Sawano (1980).