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David Brown

1916 - 2010

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David Brown (July 28, 1916 – February 1, 2010) was an American film and theatre producer and writer who was best known for producing the 1975 film Jaws based on the best-selling novel by Peter Benchley. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Brown has received more than 130,205 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. David Brown is the 5,335th most popular writer (up from 5,461st in 2019), the 7,795th most popular biography from United States (up from 9,115th in 2019) and the 607th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 130k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Poems
Translations into English, Translations into German
1973
The California landlord's law book
California, Eviction, Handbooks, manuals
1999
America
History, Textbooks, Histoire
1984
Addie Pray
Depressions, Orphans, Father figures
1971
Bruegel
Catalogs, Catalogues raisonnés, Criticism and interpretation
A book about the great European artist Bruegel, with 13 pages of text describing the artist's life and painting style, and 50 coloured plates of his paintings.
1676

Page views of David Browns by language

Over the past year David Brown has had the most page views in the with 10,467 views, followed by Spanish (2,717), and French (2,110). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Estonian (117.75%), Simple English (65.38%), and Egyptian Arabic (62.35%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, David Brown ranks 5,335 out of 7,302. Before him are Elisabeth Langgässer, Thierry Meyssan, Sevasti Qiriazi, Benjamin Zephaniah, Marie Noël, and Yamabe no Akahito. After him are Ksenia Sobchak, Aldo Palazzeschi, Julie Garwood, Antoni Malczewski, David S. Goyer, and Dahlia Ravikovitch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, David Brown ranks 237. Before him are Milton Babbitt, Julien Darui, Ken Curtis, Edward Binns, Vicente Ferreira da Silva, and Dorothy Cheney. After him are John Kundla, Lee Cronbach, Frank Parker, Damián Iguacén Borau, Toni Branca, and Krystyna Feldman. Among people deceased in 2010, David Brown ranks 313. Before him are Abel Muzorewa, James Gammon, Gregory Isaacs, Trevor Taylor, Joseph Bessala, and Audouin Dollfus. After him are Jorge González, Pavel Lednyov, Yuri Maslyukov, Herb Ellis, Ilene Woods, and Pavel Kolchin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Brown ranks 7,795 out of 20,380. Before him are Willard Scott (1934), Dorothy Cheney (1916), Hélène de Pourtalès (1868), Esther Phillips (1935), DeWitt Clinton (1769), and Kyle Gass (1960). After him are John Jacob Abel (1857), Sean Gunn (1974), Hal Greer (1936), Kate Bosworth (1983), June Foray (1917), and Steve Kloves (1960).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, David Brown ranks 607. Before him are Diane di Prima (1934), Shere Hite (1942), Ben Bova (1932), Elizabeth Gilbert (1969), David Peoples (1940), and Peter Gould (1950). After him are Julie Garwood (1946), David S. Goyer (1965), Tom Peters (1942), Jane Bowles (1917), John Gardner (1933), and Mary Welsh Hemingway (1908).

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