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David Koch

1940 - 2019

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David Hamilton Koch ( KOHK; May 3, 1940 – August 23, 2019) was an American businessman, political activist, philanthropist, and chemical engineer. In 1970, he joined the family business: Koch Industries, the second largest privately held company in the United States. He became president of the subsidiary Koch Engineering in 1979 and became a co-owner of Koch Industries (along with elder brother Charles) in 1983. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Koch has received more than 4,554,585 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). David Koch is the 323rd most popular businessperson (down from 320th in 2019), the 3,679th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,838th in 2019) and the 98th most popular American Businessperson.

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  • 4.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, David Koch ranks 323 out of 847. Before him are Ma Huateng, Jerry Buss, Carlos Tavares, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, George Averoff, and Lazare Ponticelli. After him are Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Serge Dassault, Chuck Feeney, Linda McMahon, Norio Ohga, and Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, David Koch ranks 217. Before him are Chris Menges, Ali Nasir Muhammad, Berit Mørdre, Gigi Proietti, Marcelino Martínez, and Franz Müntefering. After him are Wim Ruska, Manuel Ojeda, Angela Carter, Silvio Marzolini, Ken Jenkins, and Clive Sinclair. Among people deceased in 2019, David Koch ranks 182. Before him are José Luis Brown, Andrew G. Vajna, Christopher C. Kraft Jr., Momir Bulatović, Édith Scob, and Maria Giuseppa Robucci. After him are Ross Perot, Syd Mead, Roland Matthes, Peggy Lipton, José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez, and Negasso Gidada.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Koch ranks 3,679 out of 20,380. Before him are Lucius D. Clay (1898), Richard Anderson (1926), Horace Silver (1928), Robert Zoellick (1953), Christopher Meloni (1961), and Albert Ghiorso (1915). After him are Linda Darnell (1923), Tony Robbins (1960), Ron McGovney (1962), Heather Graham (1970), Richard Bright (1937), and Kelly Rutherford (1968).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, David Koch ranks 98. Before him are Douglas Tompkins (1943), Paul Castellano (1915), Amadeo Giannini (1870), Alice Walton (1949), David Stern (1942), and Jerry Buss (1933). After him are Chuck Feeney (1931), Linda McMahon (1948), Roy E. Disney (1930), Edwin Drake (1819), Timothy Dexter (1747), and Chris Gardner (1954).

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