RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Guru Har Krishan

1656 - 1664

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Guru Har Krishan (Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰੂ ਹਰਿ ਕ੍ਰਿਸ਼ਨ, pronunciation: [ɡʊruː həɾ kɾɪʃən]; 7 July 1656 – 30 March 1664) also known as Bal Guru (Child Guru), or Hari Krishan Sahib, was the eighth of the ten Sikh Gurus. At the age of five, he succeeded his father, Guru Har Rai, and became the youngest Guru in Sikhism. He contracted smallpox in 1664 and died before reaching his eighth birthday. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guru Har Krishan has received more than 1,040,707 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Guru Har Krishan is the 1,852nd most popular religious figure (up from 2,056th in 2019), the 368th most popular biography from India (up from 423rd in 2019) and the 38th most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Guru Har Krishan ranks 1,852 out of 3,187. Before him are Lluís Martínez Sistach, Joannicius III of Constantinople, Enrico Dante, Sava II, Juan Carlos Aramburu, and Sigmundur Brestisson. After him are Johann Theodor of Bavaria, Gregory Peter XX Ghabroyan, John X of Constantinople, Eleutherius of Byzantium, Abu al-Misk Kafur, and Metrophanes of Byzantium.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1656, Guru Har Krishan ranks 12. Before him are Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein, Nicolas de Largillière, Guillaume Dubois, Robert de Cotte, Kateri Tekakwitha, and Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer. After him are Ferdinand de Marsin, François Le Fort, and Johanna Magdalena of Saxe-Altenburg. Among people deceased in 1664, Guru Har Krishan ranks 15. Before him are Maria Cunitz, Henry II, Duke of Guise, William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz, Jan Janssonius, Salomon de Bray, and Michiel Sweerts. After him are Élisabeth de Bourbon, Eleonore Dorothea of Anhalt-Dessau, Cornelis Pietersz Bega, and Reinier Nooms.

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In India

Among people born in India, Guru Har Krishan ranks 368 out of 1,861. Before him are Lahiri Mahasaya (1828), Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri (1855), C. R. Rao (1920), Skandagupta (500), Sachchidananda Vatsyayan (1911), and Rana Sanga (1482). After him are Girija Prasad Koirala (1924), Udit Narayan (1955), Meena Kumari (1933), Dara Shukoh (1615), K. Shivaram Karanth (1902), and Gupta (240).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Guru Har Krishan ranks 38. Before him are Tilopa (928), Inayat Khan (1882), Telesphore Toppo (1939), Abbé Faria (1756), Nirmala Srivastava (1923), and Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri (1855). After him are Ashraf Ali Thanwi (1863), Joseph Vaz (1651), Ivan Dias (1936), Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889), Kuriakose Elias Chavara (1805), and Saint Alphonsa (1910).

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