1877 - 1945
Edgar Cayce (; March 18, 1877 – January 3, 1945) was an American attributed clairvoyant who claimed to speak from his higher self while in a trance-like state. His words were recorded by his friend, Al Layne; his wife, Gertrude Evans, and later by his secretary, Gladys Davis Turner. During the sessions, Cayce would answer questions on a variety of subjects such as healing, reincarnation, dreams, the afterlife, past lives, nutrition, Atlantis, and future events. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edgar Cayce has received more than 3,211,146 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Edgar Cayce is the 14th most popular occultist (down from 13th in 2019), the 637th most popular biography from United States (down from 457th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Occultist.
Edgar Cayce was a psychic who, in the 1920s and 1930s, claimed to be able to diagnose illnesses and predict future events.
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Among occultists, Edgar Cayce ranks 14 out of 37. Before him are Alessandro Cagliostro, Anton LaVey, Allan Kardec, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Éliphas Lévi, and Joachim of Fiore. After him are Gérard Encausse, Guido von List, Edward Kelley, Charles Webster Leadbeater, Alice Bailey, and Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels.
1743 - 1795
HPI: 69.70
Rank: 8
1930 - 1997
HPI: 68.87
Rank: 9
1804 - 1869
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 10
1486 - 1535
HPI: 68.14
Rank: 11
1810 - 1875
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 12
1135 - 1202
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 13
1877 - 1945
HPI: 64.96
Rank: 14
1865 - 1916
HPI: 60.72
Rank: 15
1848 - 1919
HPI: 60.04
Rank: 16
1555 - 1597
HPI: 59.44
Rank: 17
1854 - 1934
HPI: 58.73
Rank: 18
1880 - 1949
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 19
1874 - 1954
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 20
Among people born in 1877, Edgar Cayce ranks 12. Before him are Frederick Soddy, Francis William Aston, Joan Gamper, Charles Glover Barkla, Muhammad Iqbal, and Louis Renault. After him are Raoul Dufy, G. H. Hardy, Oswald Avery, Kees van Dongen, Heinrich Otto Wieland, and Kārlis Ulmanis. Among people deceased in 1945, Edgar Cayce ranks 54. Before him are Robert Ritter von Greim, Karl-Otto Koch, Karl Hanke, Theodore Dreiser, Franz Werfel, and Vladimir Vernadsky. After him are Hans Geiger, Edith Frank, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Margot Frank, René Lalique, and Robert H. Goddard.
1877 - 1956
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 6
1877 - 1945
HPI: 67.08
Rank: 7
1877 - 1930
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 8
1877 - 1944
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 9
1877 - 1938
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 10
1877 - 1944
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 11
1877 - 1945
HPI: 64.96
Rank: 12
1877 - 1953
HPI: 64.87
Rank: 13
1877 - 1947
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 14
1877 - 1955
HPI: 63.95
Rank: 15
1877 - 1968
HPI: 63.92
Rank: 16
1877 - 1957
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 17
1877 - 1942
HPI: 63.18
Rank: 18
1892 - 1945
HPI: 65.69
Rank: 48
1897 - 1945
HPI: 65.68
Rank: 49
1903 - 1945
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 50
1871 - 1945
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 51
1890 - 1945
HPI: 65.16
Rank: 52
1863 - 1945
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 53
1877 - 1945
HPI: 64.96
Rank: 54
1882 - 1945
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 55
1900 - 1945
HPI: 64.57
Rank: 56
1883 - 1945
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 57
1926 - 1945
HPI: 64.50
Rank: 58
1860 - 1945
HPI: 64.26
Rank: 59
1882 - 1945
HPI: 64.20
Rank: 60
Among people born in United States, Edgar Cayce ranks 637 out of 18,182. Before him are Talia Shire (1946), Jimmy Hoffa (1913), John Browning (1855), Michael Crichton (1942), Martha Graham (1894), and Ben Roy Mottelson (1926). After him are Jimmy Wales (1966), Martin Lewis Perl (1927), Martin Cooper (1928), Hulk Hogan (1953), John Cazale (1935), and Dennis Ritchie (1941).
1946 - Present
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 631
1913 - 1975
HPI: 65.03
Rank: 632
1855 - 1926
HPI: 65.00
Rank: 633
1942 - 2008
HPI: 64.99
Rank: 634
1894 - 1991
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 635
1926 - 2022
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 636
1877 - 1945
HPI: 64.96
Rank: 637
1966 - Present
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 638
1927 - 2014
HPI: 64.93
Rank: 639
1928 - Present
HPI: 64.91
Rank: 640
1953 - Present
HPI: 64.91
Rank: 641
1935 - 1978
HPI: 64.90
Rank: 642
1941 - 2011
HPI: 64.90
Rank: 643
Among occultists born in United States, Edgar Cayce ranks 2. Before him are Anton LaVey (1930). After him are A. E. Waite (1857).
1930 - 1997
HPI: 68.87
Rank: 1
1877 - 1945
HPI: 64.96
Rank: 2
1857 - 1942
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 3