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Grock

1880 - 1959

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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 127,511 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Grock is the 446th most popular composer (up from 467th in 2019), the 169th most popular biography from Switzerland and the 6th most popular Swiss Composer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 130k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Grock ranks 446 out of 1,451. Before him are Bill Conti, Paolo Tosti, Robert Stolz, Friedrich von Flotow, Ferdinand Hiller, and Miki Matsubara. After him are Joseph Martin Kraus, Pēteris Vasks, Johann Ludwig Bach, Leroy Anderson, Pierre de la Rue, and Moritz Moszkowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Grock ranks 55. Before him are Ernest Bloch, Mikhail Tomsky, Marie-Louise Meilleur, Elias, Duke of Parma, Archie Hahn, and Robert Stolz. After him are Hajime Sugiyama, Mitsumasa Yonai, Abram Ioffe, Margherita Sarfatti, Nikolaj Velimirović, and Osami Nagano. Among people deceased in 1959, Grock ranks 48. Before him are Cecil B. DeMille, Sisavang Vong, Ernest Bloch, Zhang Jinghui, Elias, Duke of Parma, and William Halsey Jr.. After him are Edvard Eriksen, Aleksandar Tsankov, Victor McLaglen, Benjamin Péret, Curt Sachs, and Jose P. Laurel.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Grock ranks 169 out of 1,015. Before him are Ernest Ansermet (1883), Robert Frank (1924), Walter H. Schottky (1886), Marc Allégret (1900), Ueli Maurer (1950), and Peter Sauber (1943). After him are Albert von Kölliker (1817), Bernard Tschumi (1944), Matthias Zurbriggen (1856), Michel Simon (1895), Frithjof Schuon (1907), and Jo Siffert (1936).

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Among COMPOSERS In Switzerland

Among composers born in Switzerland, Grock ranks 6. Before him are Siegfried Wagner (1869), Sigismond Thalberg (1812), Frank Martin (1890), Ernest Bloch (1880), and Ernest Ansermet (1883). After him are Joachim Raff (1822), Pancho Vladigerov (1899), Heinz Holliger (1939), Heinrich Sutermeister (1910), Ludwig Senfl (1486), and Louis Niedermeyer (1802).

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