OCCULTIST

Baba Vanga

1911 - 1996

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Vangeliya Pandeva Gushterova (née Surcheva; Bulgarian: Вангелия Пандева Гущерова, née Сурчева, [vɐnˈɡɛlijɐ ˈpɑndevɐ ɡuˈʃtɛrovɐ (ˈsurt͡ʃevɐ)]; 3 October 1911 – 11 August 1996), commonly known as Baba Vanga (Bulgarian: Баба Ванга, lit. 'Grandmother Vanga'), was a Bulgarian attributed mystic and healer who claimed to have foreseen the future. Blind since her early childhood, she spent most of her life in the Rupite area of the Belasica mountains in Bulgaria. In the late 1970s and 1980s, she was widely known in Eastern Europe for her alleged abilities of clairvoyance and precognition. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Baba Vanga has received more than 6,838,210 page views. Her biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Baba Vanga is the 4th most popular occultist (down from 3rd in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from North Macedonia and the most popular Macedonian Occultist.

Baba Vanga is most famous for predicting the September 11 attacks. She also predicted that the 44th President of the United States would be African-American.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 58

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among OCCULTISTS

Among occultists, Baba Vanga ranks 4 out of 41. Before her are Nostradamus, Grigori Rasputin, and John Dee. After her are Helena Blavatsky, Aleister Crowley, Count of St. Germain, Alessandro Cagliostro, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Allan Kardec, Éliphas Lévi, and Joachim of Fiore.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Baba Vanga ranks 5. Before her are Ronald Reagan, Josef Mengele, Konstantin Chernenko, and Georges Pompidou. After her are Naguib Mahfouz, Władysław Szpilman, Emil Cioran, Juan Manuel Fangio, Võ Nguyên Giáp, Todor Zhivkov, and William Golding. Among people deceased in 1996, Baba Vanga ranks 4. Before her are François Mitterrand, Marcello Mastroianni, and Tupac Shakur. After her are Thomas Kuhn, Carl Sagan, Marguerite Duras, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Dzhokhar Dudayev, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Joseph Brodsky, and Ella Fitzgerald.

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In North Macedonia

Among people born in North Macedonia, Baba Vanga ranks 3 out of 156. Before her are Justinian I (482), and Mother Teresa (1910). After her are Justin I (450), Theodahad (480), Kiro Gligorov (1917), Esma Redžepova (1943), Nexhmije Hoxha (1921), Sigeric (370), Ljubiša Samardžić (1936), Stobaeus (401), and Dragoslav Šekularac (1937).

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Among OCCULTISTS In North Macedonia

Among occultists born in North Macedonia, Baba Vanga ranks 1. 

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