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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 219,989 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Besse Cooper is the 9,990th most popular politician (down from 7,629th in 2019), the 3,485th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,667th in 2019) and the 220th most popular American Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Besse Cooper ranks 9,990 out of 19,576. Before her are Numa Droz, Branko Kostić, Ernst Reuter, Adone Zoli, Xin Qiji, and Matteo Salvini. After her are Jovenel Moïse, Ramón Castillo, Heinrich Kiepert, Karl Schenk, Ibn al-Qalanisi, and Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Besse Cooper ranks 126. Before her are Máté Zalka, Prince Wolfgang of Hesse, Heimito von Doderer, John of Shanghai and San Francisco, Raymond Massey, and Johannes Kleiman. After her are Josephine Tey, Ramón Franco, Jacques Duclos, Dodie Smith, Ieronim Uborevich, and Josef Kammhuber. Among people deceased in 2012, Besse Cooper ranks 142. Before her are Lakshmi Sahgal, George Knobel, Pavel Grachev, Georges Mathieu, John Atta Mills, and Lisa Della Casa. After her are Josef Škvorecký, Blagoje Adžić, Alexis Weissenberg, Maurice Sendak, Jiří Raška, and Dawoud Rajiha.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Besse Cooper ranks 3,485 out of 20,380. Before her are E. C. Segar (1894), Eddie Vedder (1964), Mary Tyler Moore (1936), Jonathan Groff (1985), Vinnie Vincent (1952), and Bonnie Hunt (1961). After her are Seymour Cassel (1935), Dick Scobee (1939), Del Shannon (1934), Maryanne Trump Barry (1937), Clarence Zener (1905), and Lead Belly (1888).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Besse Cooper ranks 220. Before her are William A. Wheeler (1819), Caspar Weinberger (1917), Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš (1964), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (1954), Bill Nelson (1942), and Daniel D. Tompkins (1774). After her are James R. Schlesinger (1929), Fiorello H. La Guardia (1882), Steve Bannon (1953), James Forrestal (1892), Marie Smith Jones (1918), and Robert Lansing (1864).

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