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MUSICIAN

Moondog

1916 - 1999

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Louis Thomas Hardin (May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999), known professionally as Moondog, was an American composer, musician, performer, music theoretician, poet and inventor of musical instruments. Largely self-taught as a composer, his prolific work widely drew inspiration from jazz, classical, Native American music which he had become familiar with as a child, and Latin American music. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Moondog has received more than 1,493,534 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Moondog is the 392nd most popular musician (up from 562nd in 2019), the 2,190th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,961st in 2019) and the 118th most popular American Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Moondog ranks 392 out of 2,662Before him are Nikolai Kapustin, Glenn Tipton, Buddy Guy, Pat Martino, Arthur Grumiaux, and Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach. After him are Bernie Taupin, Jacques Dutronc, Wayne Shorter, John Frusciante, Ivry Gitlis, and Sérgio Mendes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Moondog ranks 76Before him are Pérez Prado, Giorgio Bassani, Ernst Wilimowski, Mercedes McCambridge, Stjepan Filipović, and Jane Jacobs. After him are Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, Luis Corvalán, Hamani Diori, Archduke Felix of Austria, and Luigi Comencini. Among people deceased in 1999, Moondog ranks 66Before him are Dusty Springfield, David Ogilvy, Barış Manço, Saul Steinberg, DeForest Kelley, and Charlotte Perriand. After him are Victor Mature, Lajos Tichy, Paul Bowles, Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, Sebastian Haffner, and Ilmari Juutilainen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Moondog ranks 2,190 out of 18,182Before him are Lisa Bonet (1967), Prescott Bush (1895), James Bowie (1796), Karen Uhlenbeck (1942), Kim Hunter (1922), and King C. Gillette (1855). After him are The Undertaker (1965), Edward Zwick (1952), Victor Mature (1913), Karl Malone (1963), Langston Hughes (1902), and Jerry Seinfeld (1954).

Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Moondog ranks 118Before him are Alan Menken (1949), Bobby McFerrin (1950), Steve Morse (1954), Tony Levin (1946), Buddy Guy (1936), and Pat Martino (1944). After him are Wayne Shorter (1933), John Frusciante (1970), Chet Atkins (1924), Duane Allman (1946), Jelly Roll Morton (1890), and Peggy Lee (1920).