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MUSICIAN

S. D. Burman

1906 - 1975

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Sachin Dev Burman (1 October 1906 – 31 October 1975) was an Indian music director and singer. A member of the Tripura royal family, he started his career with Bengali films in 1937. He later began composing for Hindi movies and became one of the most successful and influential Indian film music composers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of S. D. Burman has received more than 1,428,145 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). S. D. Burman is the 1,032nd most popular musician (down from 807th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Bangladesh (down from 17th in 2019) and the most popular Bangladeshi Musician.

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  • 1.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, S. D. Burman ranks 1,032 out of 2,662Before him are Wynton Kelly, Woody Herman, Ivan Lins, Matisyahu, Louis Jordan, and Mark St. John. After him are Fletcher Henderson, Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński, Alex Van Halen, Charlie Mariano, Mike Bloomfield, and Patti Scialfa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, S. D. Burman ranks 207Before him are Roman Karmen, Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Madeleine Carroll, Betti Alver, Walter Legge, and Penn Nouth. After him are Martí Ventolrà, Alexandre Trauner, Juan Modesto, Boris Kaufman, Luo Ruiqing, and Corneliu Baba. Among people deceased in 1975, S. D. Burman ranks 138Before him are Moe Howard, Joseph Guillemot, George Marshall, Shojiro Sugimura, Sisowath Sirik Matak, and Louis Jordan. After him are Charles Journet, Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis, Kyusaku Ogino, Plínio Salgado, William D. Coolidge, and Mikhail Yegorov.

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In Bangladesh

Among people born in Bangladesh, S. D. Burman ranks 21 out of 57Before him are Mahasweta Devi (1926), Mir Jafar (1691), Iajuddin Ahmed (1931), Khawaja Nazimuddin (1894), Surya Sen (1894), and Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad (1918). After him are A. K. Fazlul Huq (1873), Shahabuddin Ahmed (1930), Tajuddin Ahmad (1925), Taslima Nasrin (1962), Fakhruddin Ahmed (1940), and Abdur Rahman Biswas (1926).

Among MUSICIANS In Bangladesh

Among musicians born in Bangladesh, S. D. Burman ranks 1After him are Vilayat Khan (1928).