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Gaston Glock

1929 - 2023

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Gaston Glock (German: [ˈɡastɔn ˈɡlɔk]; 19 July 1929 – 27 December 2023) was an Austrian engineer and businessman. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gaston Glock has received more than 1,226,733 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Gaston Glock is the 214th most popular inventor (up from 229th in 2019), the 529th most popular biography from Austria (up from 560th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Austrian Inventor.

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  • 53.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Gaston Glock ranks 214 out of 354. Before him are Helmut Gröttrup, Max Skladanowsky, Robert Cornelius, Henry Maudslay, George de Mestral, and Larry Sanger. After him are Émile Baudot, François Isaac de Rivaz, Josip Belušić, Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Henrich Focke, and Robert Watson-Watt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Gaston Glock ranks 175. Before him are Lee Hazlewood, Josef Suk, Elio Petri, Camilo Torres Restrepo, Hal Ashby, and Arnold Palmer. After him are Guillermo Cabrera Infante, James Hong, Andre Gunder Frank, Rafael Eitan, Nargis, and Peter Yates. Among people deceased in 2023, Gaston Glock ranks 113. Before him are Daniel Ellsberg, Luis Garavito, Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, Jim Hines, Ben Ferencz, and Concha Velasco. After him are Yuri Temirkanov, A. S. Byatt, Lubomír Štrougal, Howard S. Becker, Hans Albert, and Roberto Dinamite.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Gaston Glock ranks 529 out of 1,237. Before him are Gottfried Helnwein (1948), Max Nettlau (1865), Countess Franziska Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau (1813), Joseph Leopold Eybler (1765), Elisabeth of Austria, Duchess of Lorraine (1285), and Felix Mottl (1856). After him are Victor Babeș (1854), Marisa Mell (1939), Wilhelm von Mirbach (1871), Hans Rott (1858), Fritz Heider (1896), and Ernst Marischka (1893).

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Among INVENTORS In Austria

Among inventors born in Austria, Gaston Glock ranks 4. Before him are Robert Adler (1913), Georg Luger (1849), and Viktor Schauberger (1885). After him are Štefan Banič (1870).

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