SINGER

Spencer Davis

1939 - 2020

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Spencer Davis (born Spencer David Nelson Davies; 17 July 1939 – 19 October 2020) was a Welsh musician. He founded the Spencer Davis Group, a band that had several hits in the 1960s including "Keep On Running", "Gimme Some Lovin'", and "I'm a Man", all sung by Steve Winwood. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Spencer Davis has received more than 880,469 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Spencer Davis is the 1,536th most popular singer (down from 1,195th in 2019), the 4,112th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,424th in 2019) and the 166th most popular British Singer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 880k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Spencer Davis ranks 1,536 out of 4,381. Before him are Jeff Scott Soto, Gilda, Colin Hay, Hadise, Billie Eilish, and Darko Rundek. After him are Wyclef Jean, Edwin Starr, Serdar Ortaç, Richard Hell, Ani Lorak, and Jaden Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Spencer Davis ranks 445. Before him are Alfredo Bryce, Babben Enger-Damon, Dion DiMucci, Janet Suzman, Zhanna Yorkina, and Bruno Habārovs. After him are Gérard Hausser, Ivan Bortnik, Daniel Viglietti, Jens Jørgen Hansen, Klavdiya Boyarskikh, and Charles Cyphers. Among people deceased in 2020, Spencer Davis ranks 501. Before him are Richard Herd, Tim Severin, Vladimír Zábrodský, Yasumasa Kanada, Charles Moore, and Nathan Zach. After him are Sergei Slonimsky, Mario Chaldú, Suhaila Siddiq, Lyle Mays, Aarón Padilla Gutiérrez, and Cabeção.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Spencer Davis ranks 4,112 out of 8,785. Before him are David Pegg (1935), Stephen Graham (1973), Olivia Manning (1908), Nathalie Emmanuel (1989), William John Burchell (1781), and Stephen Mangan (1968). After him are D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860), Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), Cædmon (657), Estelle Winwood (1883), Mary Sidney (1561), and Thomas Brodie-Sangster (1990).

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Among SINGERS In United Kingdom

Among singers born in United Kingdom, Spencer Davis ranks 166. Before him are Mary Garden (1874), M.I.A. (1975), Ewan MacColl (1915), Acker Bilk (1929), Tina Charles (1954), and Colin Hay (1953). After him are Ireen Sheer (1949), Skin (1967), Steve Strange (1959), Brendan Perry (1959), Joe Elliott (1959), and Sam Brown (1964).

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