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Akira Ifukube

1914 - 2006

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Akira Ifukube (伊福部 昭, Ifukube Akira; 31 May 1914 – 8 February 2006) was a Japanese composer. He is best known for composing several entries in the Godzilla franchise as well as developing the titular monster's roar. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Akira Ifukube is the 1,048th most popular composer (down from 917th in 2019), the 1,154th most popular biography from Japan (down from 989th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Japanese Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Akira Ifukube ranks 1,048 out of 1,451. Before him are Johann Adolf Scheibe, Michele Carafa, Frederic Rzewski, Alexander Moyzes, Harry Gregson-Williams, and Rudolf Tobias. After him are Gavriil Popov, Nicolas Dalayrac, Richard Addinsell, Francisco Mignone, Johann Theile, and Frederick Loewe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Akira Ifukube ranks 246. Before him are Ralph Ellison, Igor M. Diakonoff, Oscar Casanovas, Hovhannes Shiraz, Ehrenfried Patzel, and Ralph Erskine. After him are Giuseppe Baldo, Hendrik Isemborghs, Renato Olmi, Annemarie Selinko, Wolfgang Windgassen, and Emmanuel Roblès. Among people deceased in 2006, Akira Ifukube ranks 217. Before him are Betty Curtis, Desmond Dekker, Mirko Marjanović, André Schwarz-Bart, Francisco Fernández Ochoa, and Ted Schroeder. After him are Gert Fredriksson, Kazimierz Górski, Sven Axbom, Georgios Rallis, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, and Kent Andersson.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Akira Ifukube ranks 1,154 out of 6,245. Before him are Chica Umino (null), Akira Kamiya (1946), Yumiko Igarashi (1950), Shinichirō Watanabe (1965), Masuji Ibuse (1898), and Katsukawa Shunshō (1726). After him are Kiyotake Kawaguchi (1892), Masaaki Kato (1958), Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), Akihito Kusunose (1986), Takeshi Okada (1956), and Shigeo Arai (1916).

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Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Akira Ifukube ranks 11. Before him are Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933), Nobuo Uematsu (1959), Shunsuke Kikuchi (1931), Koichi Sugiyama (1931), Keiko Abe (1937), and Kenji Kawai (1957). After him are Koji Kondo (1961), Yasushi Akutagawa (1925), Fumio Hayasaka (1914), Shirō Sagisu (1957), Akira Yamaoka (1968), and Masaaki Suzuki (1954).

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