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Besse Cooper

1896 - 2012

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Besse Berry Cooper (née Brown; August 26, 1896 – December 4, 2012) was an American supercentenarian who was the world's oldest living person from June 21, 2011, until her death in 2012. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Besse Cooper has received more than 209,872 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Besse Cooper is the 7,651st most popular politician (up from 8,640th in 2019), the 2,674th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,195th in 2019) and the 167th most popular American Politician.

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  • 54.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Besse Cooper ranks 7,651 out of 15,577Before her are Agum II, Margaret of Navarre, Hortensia Bussi, Mile Budak, Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau, and Charles II, Duke of Brunswick. After her are Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli, Sara Nazarbayeva, Željko Komšić, Vasily of Kostroma, Hassan Al-Turabi, and Giustiniano Participazio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Besse Cooper ranks 96Before her are Aspasia Manos, Jorge Alessandri, Wilhelm Ackermann, Mir Jafar Baghirov, Ivan Yefimovich Petrov, and D. R. Bendre. After her are Rudolf Schmundt, Ira Gershwin, Richard Thorpe, Fayzulla Khodzhayev, Pierre Jeanneret, and Zygmunt Berling. Among people deceased in 2012, Besse Cooper ranks 107Before her are Dorothea Tanning, Ulric Neisser, Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Kaneto Shindo, Andy Williams, and Angelo Dundee. After her are Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, Miljan Miljanić, Maurice Sendak, Marcos Alonso, Anita Björk, and Estanislau Basora.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Besse Cooper ranks 2,674 out of 18,182Before her are Joseph E. Johnston (1807), Tito Puente (1923), Philip Abelson (1913), Jeff Daniels (1955), Ben Bernanke (1953), and James M. Cain (1892). After her are Randy Rhoads (1956), Frank Miller (1957), Julie Newmar (1933), Cicely Tyson (1924), Mangas Coloradas (1792), and Carolyn Jones (1930).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Besse Cooper ranks 167Before her are Charles W. Fairbanks (1852), Gall (1840), Jerome Powell (1953), Lew Wallace (1827), John Connally (1917), and John C. Calhoun (1782). After her are Mangas Coloradas (1792), Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1891), Ronald Lauder (1944), Mike Pompeo (1963), Henry Wilson (1812), and Thomas R. Marshall (1854).