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Duane Allman

1946 - 1971

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Howard Duane Allman (November 20, 1946 – October 29, 1971) was an American rock and blues guitarist and the founder and original leader of the Allman Brothers Band, for which he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Allman began playing the guitar at age 14. He formed the Allman Brothers Band with his brother Gregg in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1969. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Duane Allman has received more than 4,623,512 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Duane Allman is the 559th most popular musician (down from 403rd in 2019), the 2,881st most popular biography from United States (down from 2,260th in 2019) and the 167th most popular American Musician.

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  • 4.6M

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  • 55.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Duane Allman ranks 559 out of 3,175. Before him are Paul Rodgers, Bronisław Huberman, Billy Cobham, İdil Biret, Mitch Mitchell, and Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean. After him are Cannonball Adderley, Nick Drake, Randy Rhoads, Coleman Hawkins, Tito Puente, and Gaspara Stampa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Duane Allman ranks 212. Before him are Sue Lyon, Cheech Marin, Ahmad Zahir, Renaud Camus, Udo Lindenberg, and Ahmad al-Tayyeb. After him are Rita Marley, Patrick Head, Eugene Levy, Terence McKenna, Jean-Luc Marion, and Andrzej Seweryn. Among people deceased in 1971, Duane Allman ranks 73. Before him are Hermann Ehrhardt, József Zakariás, Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Edie Sedgwick, Margaret Bourke-White, and John W. Campbell. After him are August Derleth, Frank Wolff, Mak Dizdar, Amet-khan Sultan, Georgi Asparuhov, and Joseph Valachi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Duane Allman ranks 2,881 out of 20,380. Before him are Michael Dukakis (1933), Beatrice Wood (1893), Carmen Argenziano (1943), Neil Patrick Harris (1973), Maria Bello (1967), and Candy Darling (1944). After him are Zoë Wanamaker (1949), Frank Vincent (1939), Dyanne Thorne (1936), Harry Reems (1947), Cannonball Adderley (1928), and Archibald Gracie IV (1858).

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Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Duane Allman ranks 167. Before him are Huey Lewis (1950), Erroll Garner (1923), Chet Atkins (1924), Art Pepper (1925), Laurie Anderson (1947), and Gene Krupa (1909). After him are Cannonball Adderley (1928), Randy Rhoads (1956), Coleman Hawkins (1904), Tito Puente (1923), Marty Friedman (1962), and Smokey Robinson (1940).

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