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Gaétan Vestris

1729 - 1808

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Gaetano Apolline Baldassarre Vestris (18 April 1729 – 23 September 1808), French ballet dancer, was born in Florence and made his debut at the opera in 1749. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gaétan Vestris has received more than 28,514 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Gaétan Vestris is the 39th most popular dancer (up from 45th in 2019), the 2,222nd most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,448th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Italian Dancer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 29k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DANCERS

Among dancers, Gaétan Vestris ranks 39 out of 116. Before him are Alexander Godunov, Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo, Agrippina Vaganova, Lev Ivanov, Roland Petit, and Jules Perrot. After him are Pierina Legnani, Zizi Jeanmaire, Arthur Saint-Léon, Jiří Kylián, Léonide Massine, and Birju Maharaj.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1729, Gaétan Vestris ranks 14. Before him are Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain, Antonio Soler, Johann Daniel Titius, Johann Reinhold Forster, and Giuseppe Sarti. After him are Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg, William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, Anders Chydenius, Pierre André de Suffren, Florian Leopold Gassmann, and Michał Kazimierz Ogiński. Among people deceased in 1808, Gaétan Vestris ranks 11. Before him are John Dickinson, Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov, Carl Gotthard Langhans, Johan Christian Fabricius, Hubert Robert, and Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis. After him are Friedrich Kasimir Medikus, Alemdar Mustafa Pasha, Princess Marie of Baden, Paul Wranitzky, Ove Høegh-Guldberg, and Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gaétan Vestris ranks 2,222 out of 5,161. Before him are Octavia the Elder (-100), Enrico Letta (1966), Artemio Franchi (1922), Bruno Munari (1907), Marcus Livius Drusus (-200), and Ostilio Ricci (1540). After him are Vulca (-600), Luigi Allemandi (1903), Antonio Juliano (1943), Massimo Troisi (1953), Gaius Cassius Longinus Varus (-115), and Umberto Saba (1883).

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Among DANCERS In Italy

Among dancers born in Italy, Gaétan Vestris ranks 3. Before him are Carlo Blasis (1797), and Filippo Taglioni (1777). After him are Pierina Legnani (1863), Enrico Cecchetti (1850), and Carla Fracci (1936).

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