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Alfred Mosher Butts

1899 - 1993

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Alfred Mosher Butts (April 13, 1899 – April 4, 1993) was an American architect, famous for inventing the board game Scrabble in 1931. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Mosher Butts has received more than 220,043 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Mosher Butts is the 490th most popular architect (down from 411th in 2019), the 10,541st most popular biography from United States (down from 7,092nd in 2019) and the 31st most popular American Architect.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Alfred Mosher Butts ranks 490 out of 518. Before him are Aston Webb, Wojciech Zabłocki, George Gilbert Scott, Robert A. M. Stern, Richard Morris Hunt, and William Adam. After him are Joseph Pickford, John Russell Pope, Benjamin Mountfort, Calvert Vaux, Maya Lin, and Gülsün Sağlamer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Alfred Mosher Butts ranks 296. Before him are Aline MacMahon, Martha Mansfield, Vera Gaze, Øystein Ore, Anders Petersen, and Irena Krzywicka. After him are Francis Lederer, Jaroslav Skobla, Justin McCarthy, Sleepy John Estes, Virgil Jacomini, and Alden Sanborn. Among people deceased in 1993, Alfred Mosher Butts ranks 284. Before him are Tahirou Congacou, Evelyn Venable, Daulat Singh Kothari, Helmut Braselmann, Vladimir Barmin, and Kenneth Connor. After him are Flora Nwapa, Ben Klassen, Wallace Stegner, Michael Clarke, Penaia Ganilau, and Glenn Corbett.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alfred Mosher Butts ranks 10,541 out of 20,380. Before him are Nelly (1974), Capri Anderson (1988), Tawny Kitaen (1961), Melissa Benoist (1988), Theodore Roethke (1908), and Tom Shadyac (1958). After him are Kelli McCarty (1969), Rachel Fuller Brown (1898), Macdonald Carey (1913), Roger Miller (1936), George M. Cohan (1878), and Anson Mount (1973).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United States

Among architects born in United States, Alfred Mosher Butts ranks 31. Before him are Robert Moses (1888), Julia Morgan (1872), Cass Gilbert (1859), Henry Hobson Richardson (1838), Robert A. M. Stern (1939), and Richard Morris Hunt (1827). After him are John Russell Pope (1874), Maya Lin (1959), Max Abramovitz (1908), Andrew Jackson Downing (1815), Marion Mahony Griffin (1871), and Charles Bulfinch (1763).

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