1870 - 1954
Oscar Nathan Straus (6 March 1870 – 11 January 1954) was a Viennese composer of operettas, film scores, and songs. He also wrote about 500 cabaret songs, chamber music, and orchestral and choral works. His original name was actually Strauss, but for professional purposes he deliberately omitted the final 's'. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oscar Straus has received more than 8,020 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Oscar Straus is the 413th most popular composer (down from 399th in 2019), the 383rd most popular biography from Austria (down from 352nd in 2019) and the 30th most popular Austrian Composer.
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Among composers, Oscar Straus ranks 413 out of 1,216. Before him are André Jolivet, Johann van Beethoven, Maria Szymanowska, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Joaquín Turina, and Giovanni Pacini. After him are Koichi Sugiyama, Emilio de' Cavalieri, Hugo Riemann, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Remo Giazotto, and Albert Lortzing.
1905 - 1974
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 407
1740 - 1792
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 408
1789 - 1831
HPI: 57.40
Rank: 409
1813 - 1869
HPI: 57.39
Rank: 410
1882 - 1949
HPI: 57.38
Rank: 411
1796 - 1867
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 412
1870 - 1954
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 413
1931 - 2021
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 414
1550 - 1602
HPI: 57.33
Rank: 415
1849 - 1919
HPI: 57.32
Rank: 416
1876 - 1948
HPI: 57.31
Rank: 417
1910 - 1998
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 418
1801 - 1851
HPI: 57.28
Rank: 419
Among people born in 1870, Oscar Straus ranks 46. Before him are Archduchess Margarete Sophie of Austria, E. M. Antoniadi, Lord Alfred Douglas, Archduchess Louise of Austria, Alexander Berkman, and Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria. After him are Gustav Landauer, Leopold Godowsky, Marianne Weber, Michael Rostovtzeff, Princess Henriette of Belgium, and Vladimir Purishkevich. Among people deceased in 1954, Oscar Straus ranks 41. Before him are Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Viktor Abakumov, Sadriddin Ayni, Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, Ivan Ilyin, and Princess Margaret of Prussia. After him are Marianne Weber, Marius Jacob, Lionel Barrymore, Edwin Howard Armstrong, Wilhelm Schmidt, and Robert H. Jackson.
1870 - 1902
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 40
1870 - 1944
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 41
1870 - 1945
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 42
1870 - 1947
HPI: 57.62
Rank: 43
1870 - 1936
HPI: 57.58
Rank: 44
1870 - 1955
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 45
1870 - 1954
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 46
1870 - 1919
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 47
1870 - 1938
HPI: 57.23
Rank: 48
1870 - 1954
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 49
1870 - 1952
HPI: 56.98
Rank: 50
1870 - 1948
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 51
1870 - 1920
HPI: 56.76
Rank: 52
1885 - 1954
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 35
1908 - 1954
HPI: 58.10
Rank: 36
1878 - 1954
HPI: 57.98
Rank: 37
1874 - 1954
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 38
1883 - 1954
HPI: 57.68
Rank: 39
1872 - 1954
HPI: 57.37
Rank: 40
1870 - 1954
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 41
1870 - 1954
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 42
1879 - 1954
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 43
1878 - 1954
HPI: 55.84
Rank: 44
1890 - 1954
HPI: 55.75
Rank: 45
1868 - 1954
HPI: 55.69
Rank: 46
1892 - 1954
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 47
Among people born in Austria, Oscar Straus ranks 383 out of 1,237. Before him are Karl-Maria Kertbeny (1824), Agnes of Austria (1281), Maria Schicklgruber (1795), Viktor Schauberger (1885), Eduard Roschmann (1908), and Peter Fendi (1796). After him are Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757), Willi Boskovsky (1909), Zoltán Tildy (1889), Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria (1649), Johann Nepomuk Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein (1724), and Jean Améry (1912).
1824 - 1882
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 377
1281 - 1364
HPI: 57.43
Rank: 378
1795 - 1847
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 379
1885 - 1958
HPI: 57.41
Rank: 380
1908 - 1977
HPI: 57.40
Rank: 381
1796 - 1842
HPI: 57.36
Rank: 382
1870 - 1954
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 383
1757 - 1823
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 384
1909 - 1991
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 385
1889 - 1961
HPI: 57.03
Rank: 386
1649 - 1664
HPI: 56.99
Rank: 387
1724 - 1748
HPI: 56.98
Rank: 388
1912 - 1978
HPI: 56.97
Rank: 389
Among composers born in Austria, Oscar Straus ranks 30. Before him are Ludwig Ritter von Köchel (1800), Max Steiner (1888), Joseph Lanner (1801), Clemens Krauss (1893), Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy (1714), and Johann Joseph Fux (1660). After him are Robert Stolz (1880), Georg Christoph Wagenseil (1715), Karl Michael Ziehrer (1843), Joseph Hellmesberger Jr. (1855), Ernst Krenek (1900), and Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1620).
1800 - 1877
HPI: 60.80
Rank: 24
1888 - 1971
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 25
1801 - 1843
HPI: 59.67
Rank: 26
1893 - 1954
HPI: 59.62
Rank: 27
1714 - 1790
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 28
1660 - 1741
HPI: 59.25
Rank: 29
1870 - 1954
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 30
1880 - 1975
HPI: 56.21
Rank: 31
1715 - 1777
HPI: 56.17
Rank: 32
1843 - 1922
HPI: 56.11
Rank: 33
1855 - 1907
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 34
1900 - 1991
HPI: 55.11
Rank: 35
1620 - 1680
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 36