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Jānis Lūsis

1939 - 2020

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Jānis Lūsis (19 May 1939 – 29 April 2020) was a Latvian track and field athlete who competed in javelin throw. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jānis Lūsis has received more than 65,269 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Jānis Lūsis is the 30th most popular athlete (up from 43rd in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Latvia (up from 31st in 2019) and the most popular Latvian Athlete.

Jānis lūsis is most famous for its discovery in the late 1800s by a scientist named Ignaz Semmelweis. The discovery was made when Semmelweis observed that the death rate of mothers giving birth in the hospital dropped significantly when doctors washed their hands before delivering babies.

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  • 58.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Jānis Lūsis ranks 30 out of 6,025. Before him are Luz Long, Stanisława Walasiewicz, Frank Zane, Sigfrid Edström, Ben Johnson, and Marina Doria. After him are Ville Ritola, Mark Phillips, Lasse Virén, Larry Scott, Max Emmerich, and Vasily Alekseyev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Jānis Lūsis ranks 90. Before him are Silvana Armenulić, Ion Țiriac, Fritjof Capra, Lucia Popp, Peter Bogdanovich, and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. After him are Chandra Bahadur Dangi, Daniel C. Tsui, Seamus Heaney, Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria, Eugene Fama, and Nikola Pilić. Among people deceased in 2020, Jānis Lūsis ranks 87. Before him are Per Olov Enquist, Conchata Ferrell, Ida Haendel, Moussa Traoré, Chuck Yeager, and Maj Sjöwall. After him are Honor Blackman, Lorenzo Sanz, Manu Dibango, Roger Scruton, George Blake, and Wim Suurbier.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Jānis Lūsis ranks 21 out of 323. Before him are Peter von Biron (1724), Ernst Johann von Biron (1690), Vera Mukhina (1889), Mischa Maisky (1948), Andris Bērziņš (1944), and Abraham Isaac Kook (1865). After him are Egils Levits (1955), Wolfgang Lüth (1913), Rainis (1865), Raimonds Pauls (1936), Frederick Casimir Kettler (1650), and Pauline Therese of Württemberg (1800).

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Among ATHLETES In Latvia

Among athletes born in Latvia, Jānis Lūsis ranks 1. After him are Inese Jaunzeme (1932), Alfred Neuland (1895), Jānis Daliņš (1904), Afanasijs Kuzmins (1947), Dainis Kūla (1959), Ursula Donath (1931), Juris Silovs (1950), George Gulack (1905), Inta Kļimoviča (1951), Jānis Ķipurs (1958), and Andrejs Rastorgujevs (1988).

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