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John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer

1924 - 1992

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Edward John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer, (24 January 1924 – 29 March 1992), styled Viscount Althorp until June 1975, was a British nobleman, military officer, and courtier. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer has received more than 6,331,040 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer is the 3,084th most popular politician (up from 3,135th in 2019), the 665th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 717th in 2019) and the 117th most popular British Politician.

John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer is most famous for being the father of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Memorability Metrics

  • 6.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencers by language

Over the past year John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer has had the most page views in the with 619,425 views, followed by Spanish (77,308), and Russian (58,025). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Latvian (3,055.00%), Afrikaans (10.18%), and Ukrainian (10.17%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer ranks 3,084 out of 19,576. Before him are Enrico De Nicola, Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt, Ibn Tumart, Philip the Tetrarch, and Ivan II of Moscow. After him are Crown Prince Sado, Anastasia Romanovna, Gülbahar Hatun, Spitamenes, Demetrius I Soter, and Fuad II of Egypt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer ranks 43. Before him are Amílcar Cabral, Christopher Tolkien, Dmitry Yazov, Antony Hewish, Jin Yong, and Leon Uris. After him are Karmapa, Ed Wood, Luigi Nono, Roberto Eduardo Viola, Allan MacLeod Cormack, and Rauf Denktaş. Among people deceased in 1992, John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer ranks 33. Before him are Félix Guattari, Algirdas Julien Greimas, Karl Carstens, James E. Webb, Günther Anders, and Kaysone Phomvihane. After him are Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia, Lev Gumilyov, César Manrique, Denny Hulme, Samuel Reshevsky, and H. L. A. Hart.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer ranks 665 out of 8,785. Before him are Patrick Blackett (1897), Bernard Lewis (1916), Philip Pullman (1946), Desmond Llewelyn (1914), Karl Pearson (1857), and Sean Bean (1959). After him are John Snow (1813), Edgar Adrian (1889), Leslie Howard (1893), Bill Wyman (1936), Oliver Smithies (1925), and Thomas Chippendale (1718).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer ranks 117. Before him are Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532), Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850), Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (1868), Kenneth MacAlpin (810), Philippa of England (1394), and Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902). After him are Gladwyn Jebb (1900), James Francis Edward Stuart (1688), Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (1930), George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (1592), Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550), and Offa of Mercia (800).

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