SOCCER PLAYER

Roger Byrne

1929 - 1958

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Roger William Byrne (8 September 1929 – 6 February 1958) was an English footballer who played as a full-back and captain of Manchester United. He died at the age of 28 in the Munich air disaster. He was one of the eight Manchester United players who lost their lives in the disaster on 6 February 1958. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roger Byrne has received more than 372,058 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Roger Byrne is the 641st most popular soccer player (down from 470th in 2019), the 1,490th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,408th in 2019) and the 34th most popular British Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 370k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Roger Byrne ranks 641 out of 21,273. Before him are Christian Karembeu, André Abegglen, Miklós Fehér, Toshio Iwatani, Brian Laudrup, and Dondinho. After him are Klaus Augenthaler, Kim Sung-gan, Taro Kagawa, Willy van der Kuijlen, Akira Nishino, and Ivan Rakitić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Roger Byrne ranks 148. Before him are Aleksandra Pakhmutova, Eva Schloss, Poul Schlüter, Christos Sartzetakis, Alain Tanner, and Zillur Rahman. After him are P. Ramlee, Katherine Helmond, Andre Gunder Frank, John C. Bogle, Lennart Skoglund, and Luis García Meza. Among people deceased in 1958, Roger Byrne ranks 53. Before him are Florent Schmitt, Florian Znaniecki, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Johnston McCulley, Ludwig Crüwell, and Aarre Merikanto. After him are Rudolf Rocker, Edward Weston, José Miaja, Princess Joséphine Caroline of Belgium, Claire Lee Chennault, and Grigory Petrovsky.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Roger Byrne ranks 1,490 out of 8,785. Before him are Sam Mendes (1965), Arthur Rackham (1867), Arthur Phillip (1738), Jeff Lynne (1947), Vera Lynn (1917), and George Smith (1840). After him are John Henry Poynting (1852), Henry Pelham (1694), John Bagot Glubb (1897), Emily Watson (1967), Maggie Reilly (1956), and Anthony Trollope (1815).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Roger Byrne ranks 34. Before him are Geoff Hurst (1941), Jimmy Greaves (1940), Paul Gascoigne (1967), Wayne Rooney (1985), Harry Gregg (1932), and Michael Owen (1979). After him are Herbert Kilpin (1870), Erling Braut Håland (2000), Harry Kane (1993), Alf Ramsey (1920), Dixie Dean (1907), and Bill Foulkes (1932).

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