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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Anneliese Michel

1952 - 1976

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Anna Elisabeth "Anneliese" Michel (21 September 1952 – 1 July 1976) was a German woman who underwent 67 Catholic exorcism rites during the year before her death. She died of malnutrition, for which her parents and priest were convicted of negligent homicide. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anneliese Michel has received more than 6,865,192 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Anneliese Michel is the 60th most popular social activist (up from 65th in 2019), the 522nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 598th in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Social Activist.

Anneliese Michel was a German woman who was believed to be possessed by demons. She underwent exorcism rites for over 10 years.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Anneliese Michel ranks 60 out of 538. Before her are Harriet Tubman, Mukhtar al-Thaqafi, Camilo Cienfuegos, Toussaint Louverture, Dominique Pire, and Túpac Amaru II. After her are Widukind, Angela Davis, Lê Đức Thọ, Jane Addams, Mustafa Barzani, and Horst Wessel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Anneliese Michel ranks 20. Before her are Sylvia Kristel, Jostein Gaarder, Francis Fukuyama, Roger Milla, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, and Emomali Rahmon. After her are Gary Moore, Salome Zourabichvili, Jeff Goldblum, Vahid Halilhodžić, Dan Aykroyd, and Sammo Hung. Among people deceased in 1976, Anneliese Michel ranks 24. Before her are J. Paul Getty, Alexander Calder, Ulrike Meinhof, Joachim Peiper, Benjamin Graham, and Jacques Monod. After her are Eyvind Johnson, Zhu De, Rudolf Bultmann, Raymond Queneau, Gustav Heinemann, and Josef Albers.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Anneliese Michel ranks 522 out of 6,142. Before her are Albert, Duke of Prussia (1490), Heinrich Mann (1871), Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774), Rabanus Maurus (780), Richard Willstätter (1872), and Robert Ritter von Greim (1892). After her are Karl-Otto Koch (1897), Thomas Bach (1953), Pope Victor II (1018), Maria Sophie of Bavaria (1841), Kurt Weill (1900), and Otto Günsche (1917).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Germany

Among social activists born in Germany, Anneliese Michel ranks 6. Before her are Claus von Stauffenberg (1907), Thomas Müntzer (1489), Martin Niemöller (1892), Sophie Scholl (1921), and Carl von Ossietzky (1889). After her are Horst Wessel (1907), Jenny von Westphalen (1814), Paul Schäfer (1921), Hans Scholl (1918), Alfred Naujocks (1911), and Sophia of Prussia (1870).

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