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Maria von Trapp

1905 - 1987

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Maria Augusta von Trapp DHS (née Kutschera; 26 January 1905 – 28 March 1987), often styled as "Baroness", was the stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers. She wrote The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, which was published in 1949 and was the inspiration for the 1956 West German film The Trapp Family, which in turn inspired the 1959 Broadway musical The Sound of Music and its 1965 film version. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maria von Trapp is the 66th most popular celebrity (down from 15th in 2019), the 492nd most popular biography from Austria (down from 101st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Austrian Celebrity.

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Among celebrities, Maria von Trapp ranks 66 out of 265. Before her are Jess McMahon, Kim Ung-yong, Fritz Pfeffer, Mary Ann Bevan, Alice Keppel, and William Masters. After her are Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., Nicolas Chopin, Aaron Kosminski, Titus van Rijn, Babushka Lady, and Lizzie Borden.

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Among people born in 1905, Maria von Trapp ranks 114. Before her are Mikio Naruse, John Lyng, Bruno Rossi, Anna May Wong, Louis Harold Gray, and Natalia Pavlovna Paley. After her are Pierre Klossowski, Wanda Wasilewska, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, The Boswell Sisters, Edgar Snow, and Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed. Among people deceased in 1987, Maria von Trapp ranks 85. Before her are Morton Feldman, Charan Singh, Gerhard Klopfer, Otto Wöhler, Herbert Blumer, and Maxwell D. Taylor. After her are J. P. Guilford, Renato Guttuso, Alfred Bester, Tawfiq al-Hakim, Mary Astor, and Anatoli Papanov.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Maria von Trapp ranks 492 out of 1,424. Before her are Margaret of Austria, Electress of Saxony (1416), Ignaz Seipel (1876), Ferdinand Fellner (1847), Erich Probst (1927), Viktor Schauberger (1885), and Prince René of Bourbon-Parma (1894). After her are Petar Brzica (1917), Leopold Figl (1902), Ilse Aichinger (1921), Victor Babeș (1854), Alexander Korda (1893), and Thomas Gold (1920).

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Among CELEBRITIES In Austria

Among celebrities born in Austria, Maria von Trapp ranks 3. Before her are Geli Raubal (1908), and Emilie Louise Flöge (1874). After her are Natascha Kampusch (1988), Julius von Hann (1839), and Navneet Kaur (null).

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