ASTRONAUT

Theodore Freeman

1930 - 1964

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Theodore Cordy "Ted" Freeman (February 18, 1930 – October 31, 1964), was an American aeronautical engineer, U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. Selected in the third group of NASA astronauts in 1963, he was killed a year later in the crash of a T-38 jet, marking the first fatality among the NASA Astronaut Corps. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Theodore Freeman has received more than 210,040 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Theodore Freeman is the 166th most popular astronaut (up from 167th in 2019), the 6,234th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,841st in 2019) and the 61st most popular American Astronaut.

Memorability Metrics

  • 210k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Theodore Freemen by language

Over the past year Theodore Freeman has had the most page views in the with 23,135 views, followed by Russian (3,996), and Italian (1,906). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Turkish (522.27%), Malagasy (131.61%), and Hungarian (77.94%)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Theodore Freeman ranks 166 out of 556. Before him are Valentin Lebedev, Owen Garriott, Michael López-Alegría, Fyodor Yurchikhin, Joe Engle, and Rodolfo Neri Vela. After him are Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov, Léopold Eyharts, Boris Morukov, Yuri Malenchenko, Paul J. Weitz, and Anna Lee Fisher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Theodore Freeman ranks 360. Before him are Tommy Flanagan, Jacques Tits, Donald Moffat, Luis de Pablo, Darío Jara Saguier, and Magomedali Magomedov. After him are Richard Anuszkiewicz, Harrison Young, Éva Novák-Gerard, Taina Elg, Herbie Mann, and Matt Monro. Among people deceased in 1964, Theodore Freeman ranks 143. Before him are Vasily Agapkin, Adolf Šimperský, Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, Reg Parnell, Felisberto Hernández, and Erik Malmberg. After him are Agnes Miegel, Nguyễn Văn Trỗi, Edith Sitwell, Patrick Ryan, Albina Osipowich, and Axel Norling.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Theodore Freeman ranks 6,234 out of 20,380. Before him are Lee Ritenour (1952), Glynn Turman (1947), Laurene Powell Jobs (1963), Gordon Willis (1931), Marshall Applewhite (1931), and Sting (1959). After him are Corinne Griffith (1894), Anita Loos (1889), Gary Ross (1956), Robert Lowell (1917), Elizabeth Roemer (1929), and Ray Romano (1957).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Theodore Freeman ranks 61. Before him are Peggy Whitson (1960), William Shepherd (1949), Ronald McNair (1950), Eileen Collins (1956), Owen Garriott (1930), and Joe Engle (1932). After him are Paul J. Weitz (1932), Anna Lee Fisher (1949), John E. Blaha (1942), Elliot See (1927), James C. Adamson (1946), and Marsha Ivins (1951).

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