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John Baskerville

1706 - 1775

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John Baskerville (baptised 28 January 1707 – 8 January 1775) was an English businessman, in areas including japanning and papier-mâché, but he is best remembered as a printer and type designer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Baskerville has received more than 236,244 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). John Baskerville is the 48th most popular designer (up from 52nd in 2019), the 2,095th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,141st in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Designer.

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  • 240k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DESIGNERS

Among designers, John Baskerville ranks 48 out of 104. Before him are Jimmy Choo, Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr., Betsy Ross, Otl Aicher, Luigi Colani, and Margarete Steiff. After him are Eiko Ishioka, Syd Mead, Milton Glaser, Laura Biagiotti, Georg Jensen, and Louis Majorelle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1706, John Baskerville ranks 8. Before him are Émilie du Châtelet, Baldassare Galuppi, Giovanni Battista Martini, Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg, John Dollond, and Princess Marie Auguste of Thurn and Taxis. After him are Princess Charlotte Amalie of Denmark, Augustus George, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, Giuseppe Asclepi, and John Belchier. Among people deceased in 1775, John Baskerville ranks 13. Before him are Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon, Zahir al-Umar, Christian IV, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Peter August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, François-Hubert Drouais, and Ahmad Shah Bahadur. After him are Richard Montgomery, Egidio Duni, Charles, Prince of Nassau-Usingen, Szymon Czechowicz, Shuja-ud-Daula, and Peyton Randolph.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Baskerville ranks 2,095 out of 8,785. Before him are John Webster (1578), James Fox (1939), John Foxe (1516), Andrew Ridgeley (1963), Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset (1499), and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump (1912). After him are Joseph Delaney (1945), William Smith (1790), James Edward Smith (1759), Hubert Cecil Booth (1871), Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet (1816), and Glenn Hoddle (1957).

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Among DESIGNERS In United Kingdom

Among designers born in United Kingdom, John Baskerville ranks 8. Before him are William Morris (1834), Thomas Chippendale (1718), Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868), Josiah Wedgwood (1730), Alexander McQueen (1969), and Beau Brummell (1778). After him are Paul Smith (1946), Laura Ashley (1925), Storm Thorgerson (1944), Jony Ive (1967), Yvonne Blake (1940), and Matthew Carter (1937).

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