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Joe Davis

1901 - 1978

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Joseph Davis (15 April 1901 – 10 July 1978) was an English professional snooker and English billiards player. He was the dominant figure in snooker from the 1920s to the 1950s, and has been credited with inventing aspects of the way the game is now played, such as break-building. With the help of equipment manufacturer Bill Camkin, he drove the creation of the World Snooker Championship by persuading the Billiards Association and Control Council to recognise an official professional snooker championship in 1927. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joe Davis has received more than 870,703 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Joe Davis is the 9,827th most popular politician (down from 7,655th in 2019), the 2,001st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,601st in 2019) and the 308th most popular British Politician.

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  • 870k

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  • 53.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Joe Davis ranks 9,827 out of 19,576. Before him are Maurice Rouvier, Émile Combes, Benigno Aquino III, Princess Amalia of Nassau-Dietz, Ivica Dačić, and Al-Qasim al-Ma'mun. After him are Marco I Sanudo, Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Baltacı Mehmet Pasha, Vasiliy Ulrikh, Pau Claris i Casademunt, and Joan, Countess of Toulouse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Joe Davis ranks 130. Before him are Claude Autant-Lara, Ho Feng-Shan, Mikhail Romm, Salchak Toka, Lee Hoi-chuen, and Wolfgang Schmieder. After him are Jean Guitton, Kjeld Abell, Prince Christoph of Hesse, Antal Szerb, Stanisław Mikołajczyk, and Ismail al-Azhari. Among people deceased in 1978, Joe Davis ranks 96. Before him are Emilio Portes Gil, Max Mallowan, George Maciunas, Mstislav Keldysh, Henryk Zygalski, and Jacques Brugnon. After him are Semyon Krivoshein, Ivan Tyulenev, Gig Young, Jacques Bergier, Ángel Bossio, and Louis Prima.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joe Davis ranks 2,001 out of 8,785. Before him are George Mary Searle (1839), John Kerr (1824), William Smith (1813), Eric Woolfson (1945), John Butler Yeats (1839), and Michael Dummett (1925). After him are Unity Mitford (1914), Chas Chandler (1938), Edward Cave (1691), John Wood (1930), Reg Park (1928), and Robert Watson-Watt (1892).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Joe Davis ranks 308. Before him are Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694), Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto (1751), Lord Guildford Dudley (1536), Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1757), Cynewulf of Wessex (750), and Randolph Churchill (1911). After him are Æthelbald of Mercia (700), Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847), Sadiq Khan (1970), Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563), Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots (1404), and Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (1355).

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