1880 - 1959
Grock (born Charles Adrien Wettach; 10 January 1880 – 14 July 1959) was a Swiss clown. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grock has received more than 116,073 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Grock is the 467th most popular composer (up from 499th in 2019), the 169th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 181st in 2019) and the 6th most popular Swiss Composer.
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Among composers, Grock ranks 467 out of 1,216. Before him are Florent Schmitt, Richard Rodgers, George Crumb, Raimonds Pauls, Franck Pourcel, and Simon Mayr. After him are Johann Christoph Pepusch, Erwin Schulhoff, Bill Conti, Peter Cornelius, Paul Bowles, and Pavel Haas.
1870 - 1958
HPI: 56.59
Rank: 461
1902 - 1979
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 462
1929 - 2022
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 463
1936 - Present
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 464
1913 - 2000
HPI: 56.52
Rank: 465
1763 - 1845
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 466
1880 - 1959
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 467
1667 - 1752
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 468
1894 - 1942
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 469
1942 - Present
HPI: 56.47
Rank: 470
1824 - 1874
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 471
1910 - 1999
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 472
1899 - 1944
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 473
Among people born in 1880, Grock ranks 60. Before him are Leonard Woolley, Marie-Louise Meilleur, Adrian Carton de Wiart, Otto Meissner, John Boyd Orr, and Mitsumasa Yonai. After him are Prince Georg of Bavaria, Tod Browning, Robert Stolz, Abram Ioffe, Jacques Thibaud, and Hajime Sugiyama. Among people deceased in 1959, Grock ranks 48. Before him are Edmond Debeaumarché, Jean Behra, William Halsey Jr., Ethel Barrymore, Zhang Jinghui, and Barthélemy Boganda. After him are Aleksandar Tsankov, Victor McLaglen, Edvard Eriksen, Karl Mauss, Lester Young, and Albert Ketèlbey.
1880 - 1960
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 54
1880 - 1998
HPI: 57.22
Rank: 55
1880 - 1963
HPI: 57.22
Rank: 56
1880 - 1953
HPI: 57.10
Rank: 57
1880 - 1971
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 58
1880 - 1948
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 59
1880 - 1959
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 60
1880 - 1943
HPI: 56.47
Rank: 61
1880 - 1962
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 62
1880 - 1975
HPI: 56.21
Rank: 63
1880 - 1960
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 64
1880 - 1953
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 65
1880 - 1945
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 66
1906 - 1959
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 42
1921 - 1959
HPI: 56.98
Rank: 43
1882 - 1959
HPI: 56.97
Rank: 44
1879 - 1959
HPI: 56.91
Rank: 45
1871 - 1959
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 46
1910 - 1959
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 47
1880 - 1959
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 48
1879 - 1959
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 49
1886 - 1959
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 50
1876 - 1959
HPI: 56.15
Rank: 51
1898 - 1959
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 52
1909 - 1959
HPI: 56.08
Rank: 53
1875 - 1959
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 54
Among people born in Switzerland, Grock ranks 169 out of 876. Before him are Charles Bally (1865), Ami Argand (1750), Albert von Kölliker (1817), Rudolf II, Count of Habsburg (1168), Simonetta Sommaruga (1960), and Robert Frank (1924). After him are Hans Martin Sutermeister (1907), Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma (1886), Jonas Furrer (1805), Pietro Lombardo (1435), Walter H. Schottky (1886), and Notker the Stammerer (840).
1865 - 1947
HPI: 56.72
Rank: 163
1750 - 1803
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 164
1817 - 1905
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 165
1168 - 1232
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 166
1960 - Present
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 167
1924 - 2019
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 168
1880 - 1959
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 169
1907 - 1977
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 170
1886 - 1934
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 171
1805 - 1861
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 172
1435 - 1515
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 173
1886 - 1976
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 174
840 - 912
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 175
Among composers born in Switzerland, Grock ranks 6. Before him are Siegfried Wagner (1869), Sigismond Thalberg (1812), Ernest Bloch (1880), Frank Martin (1890), and Ernest Ansermet (1883). After him are Joachim Raff (1822), Pancho Vladigerov (1899), Heinz Holliger (1939), Ludwig Senfl (1486), Heinrich Sutermeister (1910), and Louis Niedermeyer (1802).
1869 - 1930
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 1
1812 - 1871
HPI: 59.40
Rank: 2
1880 - 1959
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 3
1890 - 1974
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 4
1883 - 1969
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 5
1880 - 1959
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 6
1822 - 1882
HPI: 55.45
Rank: 7
1899 - 1978
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 8
1939 - Present
HPI: 53.70
Rank: 9
1486 - 1542
HPI: 53.58
Rank: 10
1910 - 1995
HPI: 50.98
Rank: 11
1802 - 1861
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 12