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Steponas Darius

1896 - 1933

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Steponas Darius (known as Stephen Darius in the US; born Steponas Jucevičius-Darašius; January 8, 1896 – July 17, 1933) was a Lithuanian American pilot, who died in a non-stop flight attempt in the Lituanica from New York City to Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1933. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Steponas Darius has received more than 63,380 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Steponas Darius is the 43rd most popular pilot (up from 44th in 2019), the 126th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 117th in 2019) and the most popular Lithuanian Pilot.

Memorability Metrics

  • 63k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PILOTS

Among pilots, Steponas Darius ranks 43 out of 71. Before him are Helmut Wick, Jadwiga Piłsudska, Bessie Coleman, Touria Chaoui, Jacqueline Auriol, and Ahmet Ali Çelikten. After him are Nikolai Kamanin, Jacqueline Cochran, Maguba Syrtlanova, Nikolai Gastello, Mariya Dolina, and Gotthard Handrick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Steponas Darius ranks 173. Before him are William Gopallawa, Robert Gerhard, Franz Blücher, Peter Cheyney, Lado Gudiashvili, and J. Lawton Collins. After him are Adhemar Pimenta, Fritz Julius Kuhn, Jessie Royce Landis, Yu Dafu, Edvin Wide, and Walter Lang. Among people deceased in 1933, Steponas Darius ranks 100. Before him are José Malhoa, L. A. Ring, Julius Klengel, Apollinary Vasnetsov, Kamini Roy, and Rudolph Lewis. After him are Anthony Hope, George Saling, George Calnan, Jimmie Rodgers, György Almásy, and Kote Marjanishvili.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Steponas Darius ranks 126 out of 328. Before him are Osip Piatnitsky (1882), Romas Kalanta (1953), Justinas Marcinkevičius (1930), Antanas Baranauskas (1835), Aušra Augustinavičiūtė (1927), and Maironis (1862). After him are Žemaitė (1845), Jurgis Baltrušaitis (1873), Algirdas Butkevičius (1958), Jonas Staugaitis (1868), Phoebus Levene (1869), and Silvestras Žukauskas (1860).

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Among PILOTS In Lithuania

Among pilots born in Lithuania, Steponas Darius ranks 1. After him are Stasys Girėnas (1893).

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