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Butch Cassidy

1866 - 1908

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Robert LeRoy Parker (April 13, 1866 – November 7, 1908), better known as Butch Cassidy, was an American train and bank robber and the leader of a gang of criminal outlaws known as the "Wild Bunch" in the Old West. Parker engaged in criminal activity for more than a decade at the end of the 19th century and the early 20th century, but the pressures of being pursued by law enforcement, notably the Pinkerton detective agency, forced him to flee the United States. He fled with his accomplice Harry Longabaugh, known as the "Sundance Kid", and Longabaugh's girlfriend Etta Place. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Butch Cassidy has received more than 5,229,220 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Butch Cassidy is the 51st most popular extremist (down from 50th in 2019), the 1,196th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,066th in 2019) and the 17th most popular American Extremist.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are most famous for robbing trains in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

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  • 31

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  • 4.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Butch Cassidy ranks 51 out of 283. Before him are Madame de Brinvilliers, Timothy McVeigh, George Jung, Karl Denke, Pavlik Morozov, and Edmund Kemper. After him are Issei Sagawa, Friedrich Jeckeln, Aileen Wuornos, Sawney Bean, Michel Fourniret, and Dennis Rader.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Butch Cassidy ranks 27. Before him are Ramsay MacDonald, Nathan Söderblom, Emilio De Bono, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ambroise Vollard, and Léon Bakst. After him are George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria, Enrique Simonet, Princess Milica of Montenegro, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, and Leopold Mandić. Among people deceased in 1908, Butch Cassidy ranks 16. Before him are Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Demetrius Vikelas, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal, Victorien Sardou, and Machado de Assis. After him are Radoje Domanović, Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Wilhelm Busch, Mikhail Chigorin, Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia, and Enomoto Takeaki.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Butch Cassidy ranks 1,196 out of 20,380. Before him are George Stinney (1929), Edward Emerson Barnard (1857), Edmund Kemper (1948), Herbie Hancock (1940), Dwayne Johnson (1972), and Little Richard (1932). After him are Marshall Rosenberg (1934), Sam Shepard (1943), John Denver (1943), Norman Rockwell (1894), Ethan Allen (1738), and Robert Englund (1947).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Butch Cassidy ranks 17. Before him are H. H. Holmes (1861), Jim Jones (1931), William Kemmler (1860), Timothy McVeigh (1968), George Jung (1942), and Edmund Kemper (1948). After him are Aileen Wuornos (1956), Dennis Rader (1945), Gary Ridgway (1949), Jordan Belfort (1962), Frank Sheeran (1920), and Ma Barker (1873).

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