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Jaan Kross

1920 - 2007

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Jaan Kross (19 February 1920 – 27 December 2007) was an Estonian writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jaan Kross has received more than 145,058 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Jaan Kross is the 1,537th most popular writer (down from 1,123rd in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Estonia (down from 16th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Estonian Writer.

Jaan Kross is most famous for his novel "The Czar's Madman," which is a fictionalized account of the life of Grigori Rasputin.

Memorability Metrics

  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jaan Kross ranks 1,537 out of 5,755. Before him are Elizabeth George, Ole Nydahl, Hellanicus of Lesbos, Anna de Noailles, Väinö Linna, and Qiu Chuji. After him are Elizabeth Siddal, Wayne Dyer, Korney Chukovsky, Li Yu, Yeghishe Charents, and Christy Brown.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Jaan Kross ranks 97. Before him are Mehdi Ben Barka, Marcial Maciel, Gottfried Böhm, P. D. James, Meliton Kantaria, and Väinö Linna. After him are Hans Blumenberg, Ricardo Montalbán, Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Henrietta Lacks, Saul Bass, and Hiroyoshi Nishizawa. Among people deceased in 2007, Jaan Kross ranks 77. Before him are Kiichi Miyazawa, Al Oerter, Khun Sa, Vilma Espín, Ousmane Sembène, and István Sándorfi. After him are Gianfranco Ferré, Sri Chinmoy, Nobuo Matsunaga, Raul Hilberg, Lothar-Günther Buchheim, and Gordon Scott.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Jaan Kross ranks 30 out of 310. Before him are Michael Sittow (1459), Otto von Kotzebue (1787), Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie (1622), Alexander Gorchakov (1798), Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1803), and Neeme Järvi (1937). After him are Johan Laidoner (1884), Siim Kallas (1948), Georg Wilhelm Richmann (1711), Lydia Koidula (1843), Ilon Wikland (1930), and Jaan Kaplinski (1941).

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Among WRITERS In Estonia

Among writers born in Estonia, Jaan Kross ranks 2. Before him are Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1803). After him are Lydia Koidula (1843), Jaan Kaplinski (1941), Anton Hansen Tammsaare (1878), Marie Under (1883), Balthasar Russow (1536), Carl Robert Jakobson (1841), Eduard Vilde (1865), Oskar Luts (1887), Hella Wuolijoki (1886), and Betti Alver (1906).

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