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Black Dahlia

1924 - 1947

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Elizabeth Short (July 29, 1924 – c. January 14–15, 1947), known as the Black Dahlia, was an American woman found murdered in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on January 15, 1947. Her case became highly publicized owing to the gruesome nature of the crime, which included the mutilation and bisection of her corpse. A native of Boston, Short spent her early life in New England and Florida before relocating to California, where her father lived. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Black Dahlia has received more than 17,596,590 page views. Her biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Black Dahlia is the 21st most popular celebrity (down from 10th in 2019), the 670th most popular biography from United States (down from 416th in 2019) and the 9th most popular American Celebrity.

The Black Dahlia is most famous for being the nickname of a woman, Elizabeth Short, who was found murdered in 1947.

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  • 64.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CELEBRITIES

Among celebrities, Black Dahlia ranks 21 out of 265. Before her are Maria von Trapp, Buffalo Bill, Joseph Merrick, Tollund Man, Monica Lewinsky, and Dodi Fayed. After her are Anna Anderson, Rosalia Lombardo, Kim Kardashian, Myrtle Corbin, Mehran Karimi Nasseri, and Marie Duplessis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Black Dahlia ranks 32. Before her are Roger Guillemin, Robert Solow, James Baldwin, Mário Soares, Sidney Lumet, and Kōbō Abe. After her are Lee Marvin, Henry Mancini, Truman Capote, Lys Assia, Amílcar Cabral, and Christopher Tolkien. Among people deceased in 1947, Black Dahlia ranks 27. Before her are Han van Meegeren, G. H. Hardy, Karl Mannheim, Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Pierre Bonnard, and Nicholas Roerich. After her are Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Stanley Baldwin, Victor Lustig, Alexander Löhr, and Qazi Muhammad.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Black Dahlia ranks 670 out of 20,380. Before her are Bill Bixby (1934), David Copperfield (1956), Laura Branigan (1952), Colin Powell (1937), Harper Lee (1926), and Irwin Rose (1926). After her are Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839), Michael Mann (1943), Donald Knuth (1938), Charles H. Townes (1915), Ursula K. Le Guin (1929), and Frances Farmer (1913).

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Among CELEBRITIES In United States

Among celebrities born in United States, Black Dahlia ranks 9. Before her are Phineas Gage (1823), Robert Wadlow (1918), Anna Nicole Smith (1967), Jon Brower Minnoch (1941), Buffalo Bill (1846), and Monica Lewinsky (1973). After her are Kim Kardashian (1980), Myrtle Corbin (1868), Margaret Brown (1867), Peggy Guggenheim (1898), Rosemary Kennedy (1918), and Don King (1931).

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