1937 - 2019
Richard Anthony Monsour (May 4, 1937 – March 16, 2019), known professionally as Dick Dale, was an American rock guitarist. He was the 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 1,895,734 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Dick Dale is the 504th most popular musician (down from 247th in 2019), the 2,652nd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,316th in 2019) and the 161st most popular American Musician.
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Among musicians, Dick Dale ranks 504 out of 2,675. Before him are Mick Mars, Ryo Kawasaki, Oliver Dragojević, Joan Manuel Serrat, Willy DeVille, and Rick Wakeman. After him are Lucio Battisti, Eugene Ormandy, Loreena McKennitt, Curtis Mayfield, Christian Lorenz, and Robert Smith.
1951 - Present
HPI: 65.19
Rank: 498
1947 - 2020
HPI: 65.18
Rank: 499
1947 - 2018
HPI: 65.17
Rank: 500
1943 - Present
HPI: 65.17
Rank: 501
1950 - 2009
HPI: 65.17
Rank: 502
1949 - Present
HPI: 65.17
Rank: 503
1937 - 2019
HPI: 65.16
Rank: 504
1943 - 1998
HPI: 65.15
Rank: 505
1899 - 1985
HPI: 65.15
Rank: 506
1957 - Present
HPI: 65.14
Rank: 507
1942 - 1999
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 508
1966 - Present
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 509
1959 - Present
HPI: 65.09
Rank: 510
Among people born in 1937, Dick Dale ranks 132. Before him are Ange-Félix Patassé, Nur Hassan Hussein, Tom Courtenay, Bella Akhmadulina, Mitsuo Kamata, and Ted Nelson. After him are Valentin Bondarenko, Ratan Tata, Naji al-Ali, Eduard Streltsov, Alberto Spencer, and Joseph Estrada. Among people deceased in 2019, Dick Dale ranks 125. Before him are Köbi Kuhn, Klaus Kinkel, Jan Stráský, David Koch, Billy Drago, and Dina bint Abdul-Hamid. After him are Syd Mead, Georgiy Daneliya, Yukiya Amano, William Levada, Anatoly Lukyanov, and Jessye Norman.
1937 - 2011
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 126
1937 - 2020
HPI: 65.44
Rank: 127
1937 - Present
HPI: 65.33
Rank: 128
1937 - 2010
HPI: 65.32
Rank: 129
1937 - Present
HPI: 65.26
Rank: 130
1937 - Present
HPI: 65.17
Rank: 131
1937 - 2019
HPI: 65.16
Rank: 132
1937 - 1961
HPI: 65.05
Rank: 133
1937 - Present
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 134
1937 - 1987
HPI: 64.98
Rank: 135
1937 - 1990
HPI: 64.95
Rank: 136
1937 - 2006
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 137
1937 - Present
HPI: 64.93
Rank: 138
1943 - 2019
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 119
1936 - 2019
HPI: 65.32
Rank: 120
1940 - 2019
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 121
1940 - 2019
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 122
1945 - 2019
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 123
1929 - 2019
HPI: 65.18
Rank: 124
1937 - 2019
HPI: 65.16
Rank: 125
1933 - 2019
HPI: 65.12
Rank: 126
1930 - 2019
HPI: 65.10
Rank: 127
1947 - 2019
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 128
1936 - 2019
HPI: 65.07
Rank: 129
1930 - 2019
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 130
1945 - 2019
HPI: 64.96
Rank: 131
Among people born in United States, Dick Dale ranks 2,652 out of 15,968. Before him are Randy Newman (1943), Willy DeVille (1950), Ted Nelson (1937), Carl Wieman (1951), Chris Rock (1965), and Winston Groom (1943). After him are Don Cheadle (1964), Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834), Erle Stanley Gardner (1889), John Bates Clark (1847), Lynne Cheney (1941), and Jeb Bush (1953).
1943 - Present
HPI: 65.17
Rank: 2,646
1950 - 2009
HPI: 65.17
Rank: 2,647
1937 - Present
HPI: 65.17
Rank: 2,648
1951 - Present
HPI: 65.17
Rank: 2,649
1965 - Present
HPI: 65.17
Rank: 2,650
1943 - 2020
HPI: 65.17
Rank: 2,651
1937 - 2019
HPI: 65.16
Rank: 2,652
1964 - Present
HPI: 65.15
Rank: 2,653
1834 - 1906
HPI: 65.15
Rank: 2,654
1889 - 1970
HPI: 65.15
Rank: 2,655
1847 - 1938
HPI: 65.15
Rank: 2,656
1941 - Present
HPI: 65.15
Rank: 2,657
1953 - Present
HPI: 65.14
Rank: 2,658
Among musicians born in United States, Dick Dale ranks 161. Before him are Lionel Hampton (1908), John Phillips (1935), Al Di Meola (1954), Joey DeMaio (1954), Mick Mars (1951), and Willy DeVille (1950). After him are Curtis Mayfield (1942), Lead Belly (1888), Sixto Rodriguez (1942), Nikki Sixx (1958), Tom Fogerty (1941), and Glenn Frey (1948).
1908 - 2002
HPI: 65.32
Rank: 155
1935 - 2001
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 156
1954 - Present
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 157
1954 - Present
HPI: 65.19
Rank: 158
1951 - Present
HPI: 65.19
Rank: 159
1950 - 2009
HPI: 65.17
Rank: 160
1937 - 2019
HPI: 65.16
Rank: 161
1942 - 1999
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 162
1888 - 1949
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 163
1942 - Present
HPI: 65.07
Rank: 164
1958 - Present
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 165
1941 - 1990
HPI: 65.02
Rank: 166
1948 - 2016
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 167