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Đorđe Martinović incident

1928 - 2000

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Đorđe Martinović (also spelled Djordje Martinovic; Serbian Cyrillic: Ђорђе Мартиновић; 1929 – 6 September 2000) was a Serb farmer from Kosovo who was at the center of a notorious incident in May 1985, when he was treated for injuries caused by the insertion of a glass bottle into his anus. The "Martinović affair", as it became known, turned into a cause célèbre in Yugoslav politics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Đorđe Martinović incident has received more than 2,104,180 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Đorđe Martinović incident is the 12,884th most popular politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Đorđe Martinović incident ranks 12,884 out of 19,576. Before him are Jan de Quay, Shapur IV, Aksel Airo, Philip, Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg, John I, Count Palatine of Simmern, and Oliver Ivanović. After him are Bill Hayden, Ernst Streeruwitz, Infanta Adelgundes, Duchess of Guimarães, Cenwalh of Wessex, Igor Rodionov, and Ahmad Samani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Đorđe Martinović incident ranks 332. Before him are Giuseppe Pinelli, Angus Ogilvy, Tzannis Tzannetakis, Carl Dahlhaus, Robert Dienst, and Irena Veisaitė. After him are Marian Seldes, Eno Raud, Anita Brookner, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, André Schwarz-Bart, and Morihiro Saito. Among people deceased in 2000, Đorđe Martinović incident ranks 179. Before him are Ansumane Mané, Rinaldo Martino, Johannes Virolainen, Herbert Friedman, Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, and Robert Dienst. After him are William Porter, Rodolfo Pini, Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, Pote Sarasin, Jacqueline Auriol, and Henck Arron.

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