1944 - 1973
Clarence White (born Clarence Joseph LeBlanc; June 7, 1944 – July 15, 1973) was an American bluegrass and country guitarist and singer. He is best known as a member of the bluegrass ensemble the Kentucky Colonels and the rock band the Byrds, as well as for being a pioneer of the musical genre of country rock during the late 1960s. White also worked extensively as a session musician, appearing on recordings by the Everly Brothers, Joe Cocker, Ricky Nelson, Pat Boone, the Monkees, Randy Newman, Gene Clark, Linda Ronstadt, Arlo Guthrie, and Jackson Browne among others.Together with frequent collaborator Gene Parsons, he invented the B-Bender, a guitar accessory that enables a player to mechanically bend the B-string up a whole tone and emulate the sound of a pedal steel guitar. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Clarence White has received more than 656,907 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Clarence White is the 1,910th most popular musician (down from 1,657th in 2019), the 9,787th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,368th in 2019) and the 776th most popular American Musician.
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Among musicians, Clarence White ranks 1,910 out of 2,662. Before him are Sleepy John Estes, Sven Erik Kristiansen, Carlinhos Brown, Alva Noto, Robert Levin, and Sylvia Robinson. After him are Jeff Healey, Dhafer Youssef, Les Baxter, Jeff Ament, Ara Malikian, and Markus Schulz.
1899 - 1977
HPI: 41.68
Rank: 1,904
1969 - Present
HPI: 41.67
Rank: 1,905
1962 - Present
HPI: 41.67
Rank: 1,906
1965 - Present
HPI: 41.67
Rank: 1,907
1947 - Present
HPI: 41.66
Rank: 1,908
1935 - 2011
HPI: 41.66
Rank: 1,909
1944 - 1973
HPI: 41.66
Rank: 1,910
1966 - 2008
HPI: 41.65
Rank: 1,911
1967 - Present
HPI: 41.64
Rank: 1,912
1922 - 1996
HPI: 41.64
Rank: 1,913
1963 - Present
HPI: 41.60
Rank: 1,914
1968 - Present
HPI: 41.60
Rank: 1,915
1975 - Present
HPI: 41.59
Rank: 1,916
Among people born in 1944, Clarence White ranks 560. Before him are Itzhak Vissoker, Michael Glos, Petra Roth, Manfred Schmid, Eddie Keizan, and Woody Shaw. After him are Louise Lake-Tack, Jan Johansen, Leopoldo Vallejos, Lew Rockwell, Saira Banu, and Gennady Yevryuzhikhin. Among people deceased in 1973, Clarence White ranks 235. Before him are Tim Holt, C. H. Dodd, Dudley Senanayake, François Bonlieu, Armando Segato, and Mário de Noronha. After him are Arthur Fadden, William Inge, David Lack, Crane Wilbur, Lila Lee, and A. Edward Sutherland.
1944 - Present
HPI: 41.97
Rank: 554
1944 - Present
HPI: 41.94
Rank: 555
1944 - Present
HPI: 41.90
Rank: 556
1944 - Present
HPI: 41.77
Rank: 557
1944 - 2016
HPI: 41.75
Rank: 558
1944 - 1989
HPI: 41.71
Rank: 559
1944 - 1973
HPI: 41.66
Rank: 560
1944 - Present
HPI: 41.52
Rank: 561
1944 - Present
HPI: 41.44
Rank: 562
1944 - Present
HPI: 41.36
Rank: 563
1944 - Present
HPI: 41.32
Rank: 564
1944 - Present
HPI: 41.28
Rank: 565
1944 - 1998
HPI: 41.23
Rank: 566
1919 - 1973
HPI: 42.99
Rank: 229
1884 - 1973
HPI: 42.96
Rank: 230
1911 - 1973
HPI: 42.61
Rank: 231
1937 - 1973
HPI: 42.53
Rank: 232
1930 - 1973
HPI: 42.47
Rank: 233
1885 - 1973
HPI: 41.78
Rank: 234
1944 - 1973
HPI: 41.66
Rank: 235
1894 - 1973
HPI: 41.37
Rank: 236
1913 - 1973
HPI: 41.36
Rank: 237
1910 - 1973
HPI: 41.29
Rank: 238
1886 - 1973
HPI: 40.90
Rank: 239
1905 - 1973
HPI: 40.84
Rank: 240
1895 - 1973
HPI: 40.52
Rank: 241
Among people born in United States, Clarence White ranks 9,787 out of 18,182. Before him are David Halberstam (1934), Susan Dey (1952), Nick Chinlund (1961), Robert Levin (1947), Karen Nyberg (1969), and Jim Hall (1935). After him are Eleanor Audley (1905), Jami Gertz (1965), Oscar Apfel (1878), John La Farge (1835), Pauline Bush (1886), and Erin Heatherton (1989).
1934 - 2007
HPI: 41.67
Rank: 9,781
1952 - Present
HPI: 41.67
Rank: 9,782
1961 - Present
HPI: 41.67
Rank: 9,783
1947 - Present
HPI: 41.66
Rank: 9,784
1969 - Present
HPI: 41.66
Rank: 9,785
1935 - Present
HPI: 41.66
Rank: 9,786
1944 - 1973
HPI: 41.66
Rank: 9,787
1905 - 1991
HPI: 41.66
Rank: 9,788
1965 - Present
HPI: 41.66
Rank: 9,789
1878 - 1938
HPI: 41.66
Rank: 9,790
1835 - 1910
HPI: 41.65
Rank: 9,791
1886 - 1969
HPI: 41.65
Rank: 9,792
1989 - Present
HPI: 41.65
Rank: 9,793
Among musicians born in United States, Clarence White ranks 776. Before him are Elvin Bishop (1942), Tom Paxton (1937), Steve Smith (1954), Woody Shaw (1944), Sleepy John Estes (1899), and Robert Levin (1947). After him are Les Baxter (1922), Jeff Ament (1963), Steve Coleman (1956), Reginald Arvizu (1969), Bucky Pizzarelli (1926), and Clem Burke (1954).
1942 - Present
HPI: 41.91
Rank: 770
1937 - Present
HPI: 41.77
Rank: 771
1954 - Present
HPI: 41.74
Rank: 772
1944 - 1989
HPI: 41.71
Rank: 773
1899 - 1977
HPI: 41.68
Rank: 774
1947 - Present
HPI: 41.66
Rank: 775
1944 - 1973
HPI: 41.66
Rank: 776
1922 - 1996
HPI: 41.64
Rank: 777
1963 - Present
HPI: 41.60
Rank: 778
1956 - Present
HPI: 41.56
Rank: 779
1969 - Present
HPI: 41.54
Rank: 780
1926 - 2020
HPI: 41.52
Rank: 781
1954 - Present
HPI: 41.51
Rank: 782