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Carlo Gambino

1902 - 1976

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Carlo Gambino (Italian: [ˈkarlo ɡamˈbiːno]; August 24, 1902 – October 15, 1976) was a Sicilian crime boss who was the leader and namesake of the Gambino crime family of New York City. Following the Apalachin Meeting in 1957, and the imprisonment of Vito Genovese in 1959, Gambino took over the Commission of the American Mafia and played a powerful role in organized crime until his death from a heart attack in 1976. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carlo Gambino has received more than 5,533,217 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Carlo Gambino is the 66th most popular extremist (up from 77th in 2019), the 1,360th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,396th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Italian Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Carlo Gambino ranks 66 out of 283. Before him are Henri Désiré Landru, Luis Garavito, Boris Savinkov, Jean II, Duke of Alençon, Taha Yassin Ramadan, and Pedro López. After him are Kang Kek Iew, Matteo Messina Denaro, Johnny Torrio, Gary Ridgway, Willi Herold, and Charles Sobhraj.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Carlo Gambino ranks 54. Before him are Lúcio Costa, George Ostrogorsky, Pascual Jordan, Oskar Morgenstern, Wilhelm Stuckart, and Mohammad Hatta. After him are Mitsuo Fuchida, Josep Samitier, Léon M'ba, Gianpiero Combi, Carlo Levi, and David O. Selznick. Among people deceased in 1976, Carlo Gambino ranks 51. Before him are João Goulart, Kazi Nazrul Islam, George Whipple, George Ostrogorsky, Eileen Gray, and Phil Ochs. After him are Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Carol Reed, Ivan Yakubovsky, Silvana Armenulić, Mitsuo Fuchida, and Michael Polanyi.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Carlo Gambino ranks 1,360 out of 5,161. Before him are Paolo Ruffini (1765), Vittorio Alfieri (1749), Vittorio Storaro (1940), Paolo Giovio (1483), Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (-49), and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727). After him are Liliana Cavani (1933), Alfredo Ferrari (1932), Battista Farina (1893), Renato Dulbecco (1914), Walter Bonatti (1930), and Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri (1667).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Italy

Among extremists born in Italy, Carlo Gambino ranks 5. Before him are Man in the Iron Mask (1640), Charles Ponzi (1882), Patrizia Reggiani (1948), and Tommaso Buscetta (1928). After him are Matteo Messina Denaro (1962), Johnny Torrio (1882), Vincenzo Peruggia (1881), Luciano Leggio (1925), Leonarda Cianciulli (1893), Sante Geronimo Caserio (1873), and Frank Nitti (1886).

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