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Margaret Brown

1867 - 1932

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Margaret Brown (née Tobin; July 18, 1867 – October 26, 1932), posthumously known as the "Unsinkable Molly Brown", was an American socialite and philanthropist. She was a survivor of the RMS Titanic, which sank in 1912, and she unsuccessfully urged the crew in Lifeboat No. 6 to return to the debris field to look for survivors. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Margaret Brown has received more than 5,419,827 page views. Her biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Margaret Brown is the 28th most popular celebrity (down from 20th in 2019), the 1,049th most popular biography from United States (down from 831st in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Celebrity.

Margaret brown is most famous for being the matriarch of the family that survived the sinking of the titanic. She is also known for her philanthropic work and for founding the american museum of natural history.

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  • 62.35

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  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CELEBRITIES

Among celebrities, Margaret Brown ranks 28 out of 265. Before her are Anna Anderson, Rosalia Lombardo, Kim Kardashian, Myrtle Corbin, Mehran Karimi Nasseri, and Marie Duplessis. After her are Peggy Guggenheim, Thérésa Tallien, Keke Geladze, Besarion Jughashvili, Blanche Monnier, and Philippe Petit.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Margaret Brown ranks 30. Before her are Irving Fisher, Umberto Giordano, Hector Guimard, Sakichi Toyoda, Eugen Sandow, and Alexander Parvus. After her are Rubén Darío, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony, Percy Fawcett, Kurt Eisner, and Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. Among people deceased in 1932, Margaret Brown ranks 18. Before her are George Eastman, Ronald Ross, Max Wolf, Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, Joseph Babinski, and Edgar Wallace. After her are Sophia of Prussia, André Maginot, Pavlik Morozov, Jules Chéret, Eugen d'Albert, and Georg Kerschensteiner.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Margaret Brown ranks 1,049 out of 20,380. Before her are Gordon Moore (1929), Buck Henry (1930), Alfred Hershey (1908), Lance Henriksen (1940), Howard H. Aiken (1900), and Muddy Waters (1913). After her are Chester Bennington (1976), Thomas Pynchon (1937), Edward Norton Lorenz (1917), Gary Sinise (1955), Ed O'Neill (1946), and Jack Kirby (1917).

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Among CELEBRITIES In United States

Among celebrities born in United States, Margaret Brown ranks 12. Before her are Jon Brower Minnoch (1941), Buffalo Bill (1846), Monica Lewinsky (1973), Black Dahlia (1924), Kim Kardashian (1980), and Myrtle Corbin (1868). After her are Peggy Guggenheim (1898), Rosemary Kennedy (1918), Don King (1931), Rodney King (1965), Sarah Knauss (1880), and Kim Peek (1951).

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