1919 - 1965
Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor. Cole's career as a jazz and pop vocalist started in the late 1930s and spanned almost three decades where he found success and recorded over 100 songs that became hits on the pop charts. He received numerous accolades including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960, a Special Achievement Golden Globe Award and a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1990. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nat King Cole has received more than 8,013,497 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Nat King Cole is the 102nd most popular musician (down from 78th in 2019), the 606th most popular biography from United States (down from 493rd in 2019) and the 29th most popular American Musician.
Nat King Cole was an American jazz pianist and singer. He is best known for his hits "Straighten Up and Fly Right," "Mona Lisa," "Too Young," "Nature Boy," "Unforgettable," and "Smile."
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Among musicians, Nat King Cole ranks 102 out of 2,662. Before him are João Gilberto, Gary Moore, Ludovico Einaudi, Glenn Miller, Bill Evans, and Paul Mauriat. After him are Mike Oldfield, Henryk Wieniawski, Buddy Holly, Fernando Sor, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, and Nadia Boulanger.
1931 - 2019
HPI: 65.68
Rank: 96
1952 - 2011
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 97
1955 - Present
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 98
1904 - 1944
HPI: 65.46
Rank: 99
1929 - 1980
HPI: 65.45
Rank: 100
1925 - 2006
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 101
1919 - 1965
HPI: 65.31
Rank: 102
1953 - Present
HPI: 65.23
Rank: 103
1835 - 1880
HPI: 65.20
Rank: 104
1936 - 1959
HPI: 65.19
Rank: 105
1778 - 1839
HPI: 65.19
Rank: 106
1644 - 1704
HPI: 65.16
Rank: 107
1887 - 1979
HPI: 65.06
Rank: 108
Among people born in 1919, Nat King Cole ranks 14. Before him are Primo Levi, Zhao Ziyang, Giulio Andreotti, Margot Fonteyn, Lino Ventura, and Georgios Papadopoulos. After him are Choi Kyu-hah, Donald Pleasence, Kim Jong-suk, Gerhard Barkhorn, Fausto Coppi, and Pierre Trudeau. Among people deceased in 1965, Nat King Cole ranks 17. Before him are Louise Mountbatten, Edward Victor Appleton, Maxime Weygand, Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, and T. S. Eliot. After him are Hermann Staudinger, Moshe Sharett, Paul Hermann Müller, Helena Rubinstein, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, and Dorothea Lange.
1919 - 1987
HPI: 70.19
Rank: 8
1919 - 2005
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 9
1919 - 2013
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 10
1919 - 1991
HPI: 66.30
Rank: 11
1919 - 1987
HPI: 66.08
Rank: 12
1919 - 1999
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 13
1919 - 1965
HPI: 65.31
Rank: 14
1919 - 2006
HPI: 65.10
Rank: 15
1919 - 1995
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 16
1919 - 1949
HPI: 64.13
Rank: 17
1919 - 1983
HPI: 64.10
Rank: 18
1919 - 1960
HPI: 64.05
Rank: 19
1919 - 2000
HPI: 63.74
Rank: 20
1889 - 1965
HPI: 67.34
Rank: 11
1892 - 1965
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 12
1867 - 1965
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 13
1876 - 1965
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 14
1901 - 1965
HPI: 66.08
Rank: 15
1888 - 1965
HPI: 65.97
Rank: 16
1919 - 1965
HPI: 65.31
Rank: 17
1881 - 1965
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 18
1894 - 1965
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 19
1899 - 1965
HPI: 64.29
Rank: 20
1872 - 1965
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 21
1886 - 1965
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 22
1895 - 1965
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 23
Among people born in United States, Nat King Cole ranks 606 out of 18,182. Before him are Michael Keaton (1951), John Glenn (1921), Michael Landon (1936), Louis Zamperini (1917), Sean Penn (1960), and Janet Leigh (1927). After him are Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927), Jared Diamond (1937), Burt Reynolds (1936), Theodore Dreiser (1871), William T. G. Morton (1819), and Philip Zimbardo (1933).
1951 - Present
HPI: 65.45
Rank: 600
1921 - 2016
HPI: 65.44
Rank: 601
1936 - 1991
HPI: 65.41
Rank: 602
1917 - 2014
HPI: 65.41
Rank: 603
1960 - Present
HPI: 65.35
Rank: 604
1927 - 2004
HPI: 65.32
Rank: 605
1919 - 1965
HPI: 65.31
Rank: 606
1927 - 2010
HPI: 65.31
Rank: 607
1937 - Present
HPI: 65.30
Rank: 608
1936 - 2018
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 609
1871 - 1945
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 610
1819 - 1868
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 611
1933 - Present
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 612
Among musicians born in United States, Nat King Cole ranks 29. Before him are Lou Reed (1942), Paul Simon (1941), Duke Ellington (1899), Dean Martin (1917), Glenn Miller (1904), and Bill Evans (1929). After him are Buddy Holly (1936), Lady Gaga (1986), Don Shirley (1927), Benny Goodman (1909), Chick Corea (1941), and Alice Cooper (1948).
1942 - 2013
HPI: 66.54
Rank: 23
1941 - Present
HPI: 66.44
Rank: 24
1899 - 1974
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 25
1917 - 1995
HPI: 65.83
Rank: 26
1904 - 1944
HPI: 65.46
Rank: 27
1929 - 1980
HPI: 65.45
Rank: 28
1919 - 1965
HPI: 65.31
Rank: 29
1936 - 1959
HPI: 65.19
Rank: 30
1986 - Present
HPI: 64.85
Rank: 31
1927 - 2013
HPI: 64.85
Rank: 32
1909 - 1986
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 33
1941 - 2021
HPI: 64.42
Rank: 34
1948 - Present
HPI: 64.04
Rank: 35