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Irving Baxter

1876 - 1957

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Irving Knott Baxter (March 25, 1876 in Utica, New York – June 13, 1957 in Utica, New York) was an American athlete, who won the gold medal in both the men's high jump and the pole vault at the 1900 Summer Olympics, in Paris, France. Baxter also took second place to Ray Ewry in all three of the standing jumps (long, triple, and high) in 1900. He graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, CT in 1899 and the University of Pennsylvania School of Law in 1901 Baxter is buried at Forest Hill Cemetery in Utica, New York. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Irving Baxter has received more than 34,758 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Irving Baxter is the 55th most popular athlete (down from 36th in 2019), the 2,540th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,975th in 2019) and the 17th most popular American Athlete.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.93

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Irving Baxter ranks 55 out of 3,059. Before him are Ville Ritola, Sebastian Coe, Eddie Eagan, Dana Zátopková, Dora Ratjen, and Hans Woellke. After him are Matti Järvinen, Alvin Kraenzlein, Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Josy Barthel, Yelena Isinbayeva, and Naim Süleymanoğlu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Irving Baxter ranks 71. Before him are Josef Hofmann, Prince Harald of Denmark, Viktor Kaplan, Madeleine Vionnet, Paul Masson, and Raymond Duchamp-Villon. After him are Henri Winkelman, Alvin Kraenzlein, Senjūrō Hayashi, Vladimir Nazor, André Tardieu, and Franz Schlegelberger. Among people deceased in 1957, Irving Baxter ranks 78. Before him are Prince Franz of Bavaria, Heinrich Bär, Josef Hofmann, Dorothy L. Sayers, Washington Luís, and Theodor Körner. After him are Zhou Xuan, Rudolf Schmidt, Josef Lada, Charles Pathé, Albert Anastasia, and Sholem Asch.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Irving Baxter ranks 2,540 out of 18,182. Before him are Katie Holmes (1978), Beverly D'Angelo (1951), George William Hill (1838), Martin Chalfie (1947), Katharine Ross (1940), and Eleanor Parker (1922). After him are Lana Del Rey (1985), Bill Nunn (1953), Melvil Dewey (1851), Debra Winger (1955), Alfred Bester (1913), and Anna May Wong (1905).

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Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Irving Baxter ranks 17. Before him are Larry Scott (1938), Al Oerter (1936), Frank Zane (1942), Tommie Smith (1944), Ellery Harding Clark (1874), and Eddie Eagan (1897). After him are Alvin Kraenzlein (1876), Wilma Rudolph (1940), Jim Thorpe (1887), Ralph Craig (1889), Robert Garrett (1875), and Jim Hines (1946).

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