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Don Walsh

1931 - 2023

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Don Walsh (November 2, 1931 – November 12, 2023) was an American oceanographer, U.S. Navy officer and marine policy specialist. While aboard the bathyscaphe Trieste, he and Jacques Piccard made a record maximum descent in the Challenger Deep on January 23, 1960, to 35,813 feet (10,916 m). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Don Walsh has received more than 484,462 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Don Walsh is the 148th most popular explorer (up from 183rd in 2019), the 2,091st most popular biography from United States (up from 2,684th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Explorer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Don Walsh ranks 148 out of 498. Before him are Mikhail Lazarev, Sebastián de Belalcázar, Scylax of Caryanda, Cornelis de Houtman, Emin Pasha, and Mark Sykes. After him are Martin Frobisher, Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg, Pêro da Covilhã, Pedro Mascarenhas, Rodrigo de Triana, and Filipa Moniz Perestrelo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Don Walsh ranks 112. Before him are Olympia Dukakis, Ivan Klíma, Larry Silverstein, Luís Cabral, Pascal Lissouba, and Stig Anderson. After him are Yao Wenyuan, Leslie Caron, Reizo Fukuhara, Morris Chang, James Tolkan, and Augusto Boal. Among people deceased in 2023, Don Walsh ranks 142. Before him are Denny Laine, A. S. Byatt, Wayne Shorter, Concha Velasco, Martin Walser, and Sante Gaiardoni. After him are Marc Augé, Lance Reddick, Vakhtang Kikabidze, Burhan Sargun, Yuri Temirkanov, and Anne Perry.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Don Walsh ranks 2,091 out of 20,380. Before him are Richard Pryor (1940), Upton Sinclair (1878), Jennifer Lawrence (1990), Robert Lefkowitz (1943), Garry Marshall (1934), and Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890). After him are Jermaine Jackson (1954), Jonathan Frakes (1952), Leo McCarey (1898), Fredric Jameson (1934), Ellen Barkin (1954), and Farley Granger (1925).

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Among EXPLORERS In United States

Among explorers born in United States, Don Walsh ranks 8. Before him are Davy Crockett (1786), Hugh Glass (1783), Calamity Jane (1852), Michael Rockefeller (1938), Sacagawea (1780), and Frederick Cook (1865). After him are Simon Fraser (1776), Jimmie Angel (1899), Lincoln Ellsworth (1880), George W. De Long (1844), Daniel Boone (1734), and Jedediah Smith (1799).

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