1930 - 1959
Jiles Perry "J.P." Richardson Jr. (October 24, 1930 – February 3, 1959), better known by his stage name The Big Bopper, was an American musician and disc jockey. His best-known compositions include "Chantilly Lace," "Running Bear", and "White Lightning", the latter of which became George Jones's first number-one hit in 1959. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of The Big Bopper has received more than 4,191,468 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). The Big Bopper is the 685th most popular musician (down from 550th in 2019), the 3,535th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,904th in 2019) and the 225th most popular American Musician.
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Among musicians, The Big Bopper ranks 685 out of 2,662. Before him are Adam Levine, Tim Buckley, Johann Kaspar Mertz, Scotty Moore, Mike Rutherford, and Fritz Busch. After him are Paul Kantner, Jörg Demus, Chris Squire, Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean, Ahmad Jamal, and Jan Akkerman.
1979 - Present
HPI: 52.65
Rank: 679
1947 - 1975
HPI: 52.64
Rank: 680
1806 - 1856
HPI: 52.61
Rank: 681
1931 - 2016
HPI: 52.60
Rank: 682
1950 - Present
HPI: 52.60
Rank: 683
1890 - 1951
HPI: 52.56
Rank: 684
1930 - 1959
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 685
1941 - 2016
HPI: 52.53
Rank: 686
1928 - 2019
HPI: 52.52
Rank: 687
1948 - 2015
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 688
1960 - Present
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 689
1930 - 2023
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 690
1946 - Present
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 691
Among people born in 1930, The Big Bopper ranks 210. Before him are Juan Gelman, Ross Perot, María Elena Walsh, Lawrence Eagleburger, Sa'dun Hammadi, and Venantino Venantini. After him are Eugenio Castellotti, Ahmad Jamal, Goro Shimura, Ryszard Kukliński, Ignatius Moses I Daoud, and Theodore Edgar McCarrick. Among people deceased in 1959, The Big Bopper ranks 71. Before him are Adolf Ziegler, Štefan Tiso, Max Baer, Imre Schlosser, Laxmi Prasad Devkota, and Ki Hajar Dewantara. After him are Luigi Sturzo, Ingrid Vang Nyman, Ramón Fonst, S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Eduard van Beinum, and Georges Lefebvre.
1930 - 2014
HPI: 52.87
Rank: 204
1930 - 2019
HPI: 52.83
Rank: 205
1930 - 2011
HPI: 52.76
Rank: 206
1930 - 2011
HPI: 52.75
Rank: 207
1930 - 2007
HPI: 52.72
Rank: 208
1930 - 2018
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 209
1930 - 1959
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 210
1930 - 1957
HPI: 52.53
Rank: 211
1930 - 2023
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 212
1930 - 2019
HPI: 52.47
Rank: 213
1930 - 2004
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 214
1930 - 2012
HPI: 52.33
Rank: 215
1930 - Present
HPI: 52.31
Rank: 216
1892 - 1959
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 65
1897 - 1959
HPI: 53.51
Rank: 66
1909 - 1959
HPI: 53.33
Rank: 67
1889 - 1959
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 68
1909 - 1959
HPI: 52.65
Rank: 69
1889 - 1959
HPI: 52.56
Rank: 70
1930 - 1959
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 71
1871 - 1959
HPI: 52.20
Rank: 72
1916 - 1959
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 73
1883 - 1959
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 74
1899 - 1959
HPI: 52.01
Rank: 75
1900 - 1959
HPI: 52.00
Rank: 76
1874 - 1959
HPI: 51.90
Rank: 77
Among people born in United States, The Big Bopper ranks 3,535 out of 18,182. Before him are Mitch Pileggi (1952), James Tiptree Jr. (1915), Doug Savant (1964), Jennifer Doudna (1964), Peter Boyle (1935), and Kit Carson (1809). After him are Lloyd Bacon (1889), Beatrice Wood (1893), Paul Kantner (1941), Warren Sturgis McCulloch (1898), Arthur Melvin Okun (1928), and Sylvia Sidney (1910).
1952 - Present
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 3,529
1915 - 1987
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 3,530
1964 - Present
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 3,531
1964 - Present
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 3,532
1935 - 2006
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 3,533
1809 - 1868
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 3,534
1930 - 1959
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 3,535
1889 - 1955
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 3,536
1893 - 1998
HPI: 52.53
Rank: 3,537
1941 - 2016
HPI: 52.53
Rank: 3,538
1898 - 1969
HPI: 52.52
Rank: 3,539
1928 - 1980
HPI: 52.52
Rank: 3,540
1910 - 1999
HPI: 52.52
Rank: 3,541
Among musicians born in United States, The Big Bopper ranks 225. Before him are Herb Alpert (1935), Erroll Garner (1923), Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915), Adam Levine (1979), Tim Buckley (1947), and Scotty Moore (1931). After him are Paul Kantner (1941), Ahmad Jamal (1930), T-Bone Walker (1910), John Petrucci (1967), Steven Van Zandt (1950), and Chrissie Hynde (1951).
1935 - Present
HPI: 52.68
Rank: 219
1923 - 1977
HPI: 52.66
Rank: 220
1915 - 1973
HPI: 52.66
Rank: 221
1979 - Present
HPI: 52.65
Rank: 222
1947 - 1975
HPI: 52.64
Rank: 223
1931 - 2016
HPI: 52.60
Rank: 224
1930 - 1959
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 225
1941 - 2016
HPI: 52.53
Rank: 226
1930 - 2023
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 227
1910 - 1975
HPI: 52.36
Rank: 228
1967 - Present
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 229
1950 - Present
HPI: 52.30
Rank: 230
1951 - Present
HPI: 52.27
Rank: 231