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Bert Kaempfert

1923 - 1980

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Bert Kaempfert (born Berthold Heinrich Kämpfert; 16 October 1923 – 21 June 1980) was a German orchestra leader, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, arranger, and composer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bert Kaempfert has received more than 720,473 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Bert Kaempfert is the 511th most popular musician (down from 469th in 2019), the 2,273rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,053rd in 2019) and the 27th most popular German Musician.

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  • 720k

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  • 55.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Bert Kaempfert ranks 511 out of 3,175Before him are Jacques Loussier, Michel Petrucciani, Rita Lee, Chad Smith, Robert Miles, and Colin Burgess. After him are Nelson Freire, Claude Bolling, Suzanne Vega, Igor Oistrakh, Sonny Boy Williamson I, and Carlos Puebla.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Bert Kaempfert ranks 126Before him are Wally Schirra, Alexander Yakovlev, Koji Miyata, Antonio Quarracino, Zlatko Čajkovski, and Judith Kerr. After him are Wes Montgomery, Elisabeth Becker, Álvaro Mutis, Carl Djerassi, Arthur Hiller, and Joseph Heller. Among people deceased in 1980, Bert Kaempfert ranks 89Before him are Marino Marini, Ahmad Shukeiri, Zygmunt Berling, Tadao Takayama, Ľudovít Fulla, and Héctor José Cámpora. After him are Valko Chervenkov, Dixie Dean, Francisco de Sá Carneiro, Rolf Nevanlinna, Alexander Mach, and Mohammed Rafi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Bert Kaempfert ranks 2,273 out of 7,253Before him are Judith Kerr (1923), Joachim Schepke (1912), Georg Joseph Vogler (1749), Princess Marie Amelie of Baden (1817), Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1918), and Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803). After him are Hieronymus Bock (1498), Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe (1871), Walther Gerlach (1889), Eugen Meindl (1892), Balthasar Hubmaier (1485), and Nicholas Mercator (1620).

Among MUSICIANS In Germany

Among musicians born in Germany, Bert Kaempfert ranks 27Before him are Christoph Schneider (1966), Kai Hansen (1963), Ralf Hütter (1946), Matthias Jabs (1955), Anne-Sophie Mutter (1963), and Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach (1715). After him are Rudolf Kempe (1910), Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688), Gottfried Heinrich Bach (1724), Axel Rudi Pell (1960), Uli Jon Roth (1954), and Oliver Riedel (1971).