1937 - 2019
Richard Anthony Monsour (May 4, 1937 – March 16, 2019), known professionally as Dick Dale, was an American rock guitarist. He was a pioneer of surf music, drawing on Middle Eastern music scales and experimenting with reverb. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dick Dale has received more than 2,088,778 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Dick Dale is the 597th most popular musician (down from 504th in 2019), the 3,130th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,651st in 2019) and the 185th most popular American Musician.
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Among musicians, Dick Dale ranks 597 out of 2,662. Before him are Willy DeVille, Josef Suk, Robert de Visée, Tony Sheridan, Lead Belly, and Ben Webster. After him are Hilton Valentine, Claude Bolling, Julian Fontana, Elvis Costello, Jeff Buckley, and Pierre Rode.
1950 - 2009
HPI: 53.70
Rank: 591
1929 - 2011
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 592
1650 - 1733
HPI: 53.67
Rank: 593
1940 - 2013
HPI: 53.66
Rank: 594
1888 - 1949
HPI: 53.63
Rank: 595
1909 - 1973
HPI: 53.63
Rank: 596
1937 - 2019
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 597
1943 - 2021
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 598
1930 - 2020
HPI: 53.59
Rank: 599
1810 - 1869
HPI: 53.58
Rank: 600
1954 - Present
HPI: 53.56
Rank: 601
1966 - 1997
HPI: 53.55
Rank: 602
1774 - 1830
HPI: 53.54
Rank: 603
Among people born in 1937, Dick Dale ranks 166. Before him are Marie Dubois, Richard Jordan, Harris Yulin, Rudi Altig, Aleksandr Demyanenko, and Édith Scob. After him are Waylon Jennings, Carlos Westendorp, Joe Viterelli, Jay Rockefeller, Lusine Zakaryan, and John Hume. Among people deceased in 2019, Dick Dale ranks 142. Before him are Jean-Pierre Marielle, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Jean Starobinski, Václav Vorlíček, William Levada, and Édith Scob. After him are Mark Hollis, Patrick Sercu, Syd Mead, Lê Đức Anh, Ric Ocasek, and Luigi Colani.
1937 - 2014
HPI: 53.84
Rank: 160
1937 - 1993
HPI: 53.75
Rank: 161
1937 - Present
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 162
1937 - 2016
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 163
1937 - 1999
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 164
1937 - 2019
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 165
1937 - 2019
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 166
1937 - 2002
HPI: 53.55
Rank: 167
1937 - Present
HPI: 53.47
Rank: 168
1937 - 2004
HPI: 53.45
Rank: 169
1937 - Present
HPI: 53.26
Rank: 170
1937 - 1992
HPI: 53.15
Rank: 171
1937 - 2020
HPI: 53.12
Rank: 172
1932 - 2019
HPI: 53.77
Rank: 136
1920 - 2019
HPI: 53.74
Rank: 137
1920 - 2019
HPI: 53.73
Rank: 138
1930 - 2019
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 139
1936 - 2019
HPI: 53.67
Rank: 140
1937 - 2019
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 141
1937 - 2019
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 142
1955 - 2019
HPI: 53.50
Rank: 143
1944 - 2019
HPI: 53.45
Rank: 144
1933 - 2019
HPI: 53.43
Rank: 145
1920 - 2019
HPI: 53.34
Rank: 146
1949 - 2019
HPI: 53.32
Rank: 147
1928 - 2019
HPI: 53.26
Rank: 148
Among people born in United States, Dick Dale ranks 3,130 out of 18,182. Before him are Douglas Tompkins (1943), Jesse Jackson (1941), Mabel Normand (1892), James Curtis Hepburn (1815), Wilford Brimley (1934), and Ralph Bunche (1904). After him are Robert Gates (1943), Howlin' Wolf (1910), Jonathan Frakes (1952), Brent Spiner (1949), Rensis Likert (1903), and Hal Ashby (1929).
1943 - 2015
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 3,124
1941 - Present
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 3,125
1892 - 1930
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 3,126
1815 - 1911
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 3,127
1934 - 2020
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 3,128
1904 - 1971
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 3,129
1937 - 2019
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 3,130
1943 - Present
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 3,131
1910 - 1976
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 3,132
1952 - Present
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 3,133
1949 - Present
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 3,134
1903 - 1981
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 3,135
1929 - 1988
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 3,136
Among musicians born in United States, Dick Dale ranks 185. Before him are Ma Rainey (1886), Nikki Sixx (1958), Curtis Mayfield (1942), Willy DeVille (1950), Lead Belly (1888), and Ben Webster (1909). After him are Jeff Buckley (1966), Marty Friedman (1962), Frank Beard (1949), GG Allin (1956), Michael Stipe (1960), and Chaka Khan (1953).
1886 - 1939
HPI: 53.81
Rank: 179
1958 - Present
HPI: 53.73
Rank: 180
1942 - 1999
HPI: 53.73
Rank: 181
1950 - 2009
HPI: 53.70
Rank: 182
1888 - 1949
HPI: 53.63
Rank: 183
1909 - 1973
HPI: 53.63
Rank: 184
1937 - 2019
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 185
1966 - 1997
HPI: 53.55
Rank: 186
1962 - Present
HPI: 53.51
Rank: 187
1949 - Present
HPI: 53.50
Rank: 188
1956 - 1993
HPI: 53.48
Rank: 189
1960 - Present
HPI: 53.45
Rank: 190
1953 - Present
HPI: 53.42
Rank: 191