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Ivor Novello

1893 - 1951

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Ivor Novello (born David Ivor Davies; 15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951) was a Welsh actor, dramatist, singer and composer who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century. He was born into a musical family, and his first successes were as a songwriter. His first big hit was "Keep the Home Fires Burning" (1914), which was enormously popular during the First World War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivor Novello has received more than 1,300,966 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Ivor Novello is the 1,097th most popular composer (down from 1,004th in 2019), the 3,253rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,063rd in 2019) and the 47th most popular British Composer.

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  • 47.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Ivor Novello ranks 1,097 out of 1,216. Before him are Klaus Badelt, Italo Montemezzi, Heinrich Schenker, Peter H. Gilmore, Carter Burwell, and Nicolas Dalayrac. After him are Igor Krutoy, Gioseffo Guami, Hans Huber, Henry Bishop, Brian Ferneyhough, and Armand Amar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Ivor Novello ranks 185. Before him are Fatima Jinnah, Marcel Minnaert, Eduard Čech, Aleksei Losev, Liang Shuming, and Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk. After him are Oskari Friman, Chang Taek-sang, Arthur Benjamin, Ramón Encinas, Norman Bel Geddes, and Christopher Kelk Ingold. Among people deceased in 1951, Ivor Novello ranks 118. Before him are Leopold Andrian, Fritz Julius Kuhn, Anna Tumarkin, Alfrēds Kalniņš, Dorothea Bate, and J. C. Leyendecker. After him are Miyamoto Yuriko, Ignaty Krachkovsky, Nikola Mushanov, Ricardo Leoncio Elías Arias, Richard Schorr, and Levon Shant.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ivor Novello ranks 3,253 out of 7,765. Before him are Matthew Garber (1956), Steve Coogan (1965), Brendan Coyle (1963), Peter Sinfield (1943), Alison Moyet (1961), and Peter Davison (1951). After him are Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough (1790), Thomas Brodie-Sangster (1990), Elton Dean (1945), Anne Bradstreet (1612), Mel B (1975), and Kathy Burke (1964).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Ivor Novello ranks 47. Before him are Hubert Parry (1848), Cyril Scott (1879), Michael Tippett (1905), William Lawes (1602), Charles Avison (1709), and Clint Mansell (1963). After him are Henry Bishop (1786), Brian Ferneyhough (1943), Gavin Bryars (1943), Thomas Linley the younger (1756), William Sterndale Bennett (1816), and Arthur Bliss (1891).

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