ASTRONAUT

Ed White

1930 - 1967

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Edward Higgins White II (November 14, 1930 – January 27, 1967) was an American aeronautical engineer, United States Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. He was a member of the crews of Gemini 4 and Apollo 1. After graduating from West Point in 1952 with a Bachelor of Science degree, White was sent to flight training, and assigned to the 22nd Fighter Day Squadron at Bitburg Air Base, West Germany, where he flew the F-86 Sabre and F-100 Super Sabre fighters. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ed White has received more than 23,114 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Ed White is the 26th most popular astronaut, the 1,550th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,595th in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 65.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Ed White ranks 26 out of 556. Before him are Frank Borman, Sigmund Jähn, Jim Lovell, Alan Bean, Gus Grissom, and Pavel Popovich. After him are Aleksandr Viktorenko, Roger B. Chaffee, Edgar Mitchell, Michael P. Anderson, Georgy Dobrovolsky, and Ken Mattingly.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Ed White ranks 90. Before him are William C. Campbell, Pavel Popovich, Robert Loggia, Barbara, Son Sen, and Ernst Albrecht. After him are Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Michal Kováč, Mario Adorf, Edgar Mitchell, Hilderaldo Bellini, and Frank Drake. Among people deceased in 1967, Ed White ranks 56. Before him are Forough Farrokhzad, Lorenzo Bandini, Zinaida Serebriakova, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Gus Grissom, and Tamara Bunke. After him are Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia, Roger B. Chaffee, Léon M'ba, Primo Carnera, G. W. Pabst, and Julien Duvivier.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ed White ranks 1,550 out of 20,380. Before him are Jan-Michael Vincent (1944), Edwin S. Porter (1870), Edward C. Prescott (1940), Juliet Anderson (1938), Charles Ives (1874), and Chesley Sullenberger (1951). After him are Helen Hunt (1963), Art Blakey (1919), Frank Langella (1938), Thomas A. Steitz (1940), Danielle Steel (1947), and Michael Dudikoff (1954).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Ed White ranks 15. Before him are Harrison Schmitt (1935), James Irwin (1930), Frank Borman (1928), Jim Lovell (1928), Alan Bean (1932), and Gus Grissom (1926). After him are Roger B. Chaffee (1935), Edgar Mitchell (1930), Michael P. Anderson (1959), Ken Mattingly (1936), Charles Duke (1935), and Fred Haise (1933).

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