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Michael Kamen

1948 - 2003

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Michael Arnold Kamen (April 15, 1948 – November 18, 2003) was an American composer (especially of film scores), orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, songwriter, record producer and musician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Kamen has received more than 1,367,745 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Michael Kamen is the 456th most popular composer (up from 581st in 2019), the 2,150th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,703rd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Composer.

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  • 1.4M

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  • 56.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Michael Kamen ranks 456 out of 1,216Before him are Bernhard Crusell, Sebastián Iradier, Federico Mompou, Johann Ludwig Bach, Johann Gottfried Walther, and Maurice Duruflé. After him are Franz Schmidt, Gaspar Sanz, Giacinto Scelsi, Stefano Landi, Florent Schmitt, and Richard Rodgers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Michael Kamen ranks 122Before him are Mark Phillips, Jimmy Choo, Amadou Toumani Touré, Carel Struycken, Christa McAuliffe, and Vincent Schiavelli. After him are Siim Kallas, Hema Malini, Rubén Blades, Lluís Llach, Akira Yoshino, and Kate Jackson. Among people deceased in 2003, Michael Kamen ranks 73Before him are Uday Hussein, Fred Rogers, Kinji Fukasaku, Elem Klimov, Michael Jeter, and Kalpana Chawla. After him are Valeriy Brumel, Fritz Fischer, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Waichiro Omura, Ramón Serrano Suñer, and Rik Van Steenbergen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Michael Kamen ranks 2,150 out of 18,182Before him are Tony Levin (1946), Walter A. Shewhart (1891), DeForest Kelley (1920), Joan Allen (1956), Michael Richards (1949), and James Franco (1978). After him are Gordon Scott (1926), Bob Odenkirk (1962), Eric Carle (1929), Rubin Carter (1937), Ub Iwerks (1901), and Terry Brooks (1944).

Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Michael Kamen ranks 23Before him are Angelo Badalamenti (1937), Leroy Anderson (1908), Elmer Bernstein (1922), Alfred Newman (1900), Stephen Sondheim (1930), and Terry Riley (1935). After him are Richard Rodgers (1902), George Crumb (1929), Bill Conti (1942), Paul Bowles (1910), James Newton Howard (1951), and Danny Elfman (1953).