1904 - 1981
Edvard Kocbek () (27 September 1904 – 3 November 1981) was a Slovenian Yugoslav poet, writer, essayist, translator, member of Christian Socialists in the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation and Slovene Partisans. He is considered one of the best authors who have written in Slovene, and one of the best Slovene poets after Prešeren. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edvard Kocbek has received more than 60,447 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Edvard Kocbek is the 2,666th most popular writer (down from 2,619th in 2019), the 45th most popular biography from Slovenia (down from 43rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Slovene Writer.
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Among writers, Edvard Kocbek ranks 2,666 out of 5,755. Before him are Jack Thayer, Rosika Schwimmer, Petr Chelčický, David C. H. Austin, Alma Karlin, and Steve Berry. After him are Juan Marsé, Gustave Aimard, Aleksandër Stavre Drenova, Erica Jong, Leonid Leonov, and Petter Dass.
1894 - 1945
HPI: 52.74
Rank: 2,660
1877 - 1948
HPI: 52.74
Rank: 2,661
1390 - 1460
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 2,662
1926 - 2018
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 2,663
1889 - 1950
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 2,664
1955 - Present
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 2,665
1904 - 1981
HPI: 52.72
Rank: 2,666
1933 - 2020
HPI: 52.71
Rank: 2,667
1818 - 1883
HPI: 52.70
Rank: 2,668
1872 - 1947
HPI: 52.69
Rank: 2,669
1942 - Present
HPI: 52.69
Rank: 2,670
1899 - 1994
HPI: 52.69
Rank: 2,671
1647 - 1707
HPI: 52.68
Rank: 2,672
Among people born in 1904, Edvard Kocbek ranks 130. Before him are Yulii Khariton, Prince Ernst of Hohenberg, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, Helen Kane, Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, and Joseph Schmidt. After him are Cecil Beaton, Edgar P. Jacobs, Chen Boda, Aparicio Méndez, Robert Montgomery, and Walter Heitler. Among people deceased in 1981, Edvard Kocbek ranks 91. Before him are Edith Head, Bobby Sands, Ricardo Wolf, Alexander Kotov, Claude Auchinleck, and Jerzy Neyman. After him are Lanza del Vasto, Mohammad Beheshti, Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia, Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, Jean Eustache, and Mariama Bâ.
1904 - 1996
HPI: 53.45
Rank: 124
1904 - 1954
HPI: 53.44
Rank: 125
1904 - 1944
HPI: 53.21
Rank: 126
1904 - 1966
HPI: 52.94
Rank: 127
1904 - 1983
HPI: 52.93
Rank: 128
1904 - 1942
HPI: 52.84
Rank: 129
1904 - 1981
HPI: 52.72
Rank: 130
1904 - 1980
HPI: 52.66
Rank: 131
1904 - 1987
HPI: 52.64
Rank: 132
1904 - 1989
HPI: 52.64
Rank: 133
1904 - 1988
HPI: 52.36
Rank: 134
1904 - 1981
HPI: 52.23
Rank: 135
1904 - 1981
HPI: 52.22
Rank: 136
1897 - 1981
HPI: 53.23
Rank: 85
1954 - 1981
HPI: 53.21
Rank: 86
1887 - 1981
HPI: 52.96
Rank: 87
1913 - 1981
HPI: 52.91
Rank: 88
1884 - 1981
HPI: 52.80
Rank: 89
1894 - 1981
HPI: 52.78
Rank: 90
1904 - 1981
HPI: 52.72
Rank: 91
1901 - 1981
HPI: 52.59
Rank: 92
1928 - 1981
HPI: 52.58
Rank: 93
1897 - 1981
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 94
1933 - 1981
HPI: 52.52
Rank: 95
1938 - 1981
HPI: 52.47
Rank: 96
1929 - 1981
HPI: 52.26
Rank: 97
Among people born in Slovenia, Edvard Kocbek ranks 45 out of 295. Before him are Max Fabiani (1865), Ivana Kobilca (1861), Milan Vidmar (1885), Srečko Katanec (1963), Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia (1929), and Alma Karlin (1889). After him are Rudolf Maister (1874), Ita Rina (1907), Stanko Vraz (1810), Janko Prunk (1942), Drago Jančar (1948), and Ivan Regen (1868).
1865 - 1962
HPI: 53.59
Rank: 39
1861 - 1926
HPI: 53.55
Rank: 40
1885 - 1962
HPI: 53.32
Rank: 41
1963 - Present
HPI: 53.24
Rank: 42
1929 - 1990
HPI: 52.93
Rank: 43
1889 - 1950
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 44
1904 - 1981
HPI: 52.72
Rank: 45
1874 - 1934
HPI: 52.60
Rank: 46
1907 - 1979
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 47
1810 - 1851
HPI: 52.12
Rank: 48
1942 - Present
HPI: 51.87
Rank: 49
1948 - Present
HPI: 51.85
Rank: 50
1868 - 1947
HPI: 51.84
Rank: 51
Among writers born in Slovenia, Edvard Kocbek ranks 6. Before him are France Prešeren (1800), Ivan Cankar (1876), Jernej Kopitar (1780), Sigismund von Herberstein (1486), and Alma Karlin (1889). After him are Stanko Vraz (1810), Drago Jančar (1948), Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg (1806), Srečko Kosovel (1904), Oton Župančič (1878), and Louis Adamic (1898).
1800 - 1849
HPI: 64.95
Rank: 1
1876 - 1918
HPI: 59.98
Rank: 2
1780 - 1844
HPI: 59.80
Rank: 3
1486 - 1566
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 4
1889 - 1950
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 5
1904 - 1981
HPI: 52.72
Rank: 6
1810 - 1851
HPI: 52.12
Rank: 7
1948 - Present
HPI: 51.85
Rank: 8
1806 - 1876
HPI: 51.42
Rank: 9
1904 - 1926
HPI: 50.15
Rank: 10
1878 - 1949
HPI: 50.15
Rank: 11
1898 - 1951
HPI: 48.95
Rank: 12