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Charles Starkweather

1938 - 1959

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Charles Raymond Starkweather (November 24, 1938 – June 25, 1959) was an American spree killer who murdered eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming between November 1957 and January 1958, when he was nineteen years old. He killed ten of his victims between January 21 and January 29, 1958, the date of his arrest. During his spree in 1958, Starkweather was accompanied by his fourteen-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate.Both Starkweather and Fugate were convicted on charges for their parts in the homicides; Starkweather was sentenced to death and executed seventeen months after the events. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Starkweather has received more than 3,176,746 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Charles Starkweather is the 199th most popular extremist (down from 169th in 2019), the 5,166th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,259th in 2019) and the 64th most popular American Extremist.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Charles Starkweathers by language

Over the past year Charles Starkweather has had the most page views in the with 408,712 views, followed by Russian (28,694), and German (20,804). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Italian (95.66%), French (71.08%), and Azerbaijani (69.74%)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Charles Starkweather ranks 199 out of 283. Before him are Yoo Young-chul, Mohamed Atta, Richard Speck, Stanley Williams, Ross Ulbricht, and Mary Surratt. After him are Stand Watie, Ronald DeFeo Jr., Frank James, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, Irmgard Möller, and Abdullah Çatlı.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Charles Starkweather ranks 314. Before him are Shi Pei Pu, Giorgia Moll, Henk Groot, Pat Buchanan, Manuel Blum, and Bahram Beyzai. After him are Leonid Zhabotinsky, Tang Jiaxuan, Tony Renis, Sigitas Tamkevičius, Waheeda Rehman, and Theo-Ben Gurirab. Among people deceased in 1959, Charles Starkweather ranks 117. Before him are Albert Namatjira, Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho, Heleno de Freitas, Mutara III Rudahigwa, Edmund Goulding, and Pierre Frieden. After him are Friedrich Waismann, Maxwell Anderson, Benjamin Christensen, Franz Blücher, Boris Eikhenbaum, and Sténio Vincent.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Starkweather ranks 5,166 out of 20,380. Before him are James Pickens Jr. (1954), Susanna Kaysen (1948), Felicia Farr (1932), Pauline Kael (1919), Nas (1973), and Robert Webber (1924). After him are Mary Daly (1928), Val Valentino (1956), Dr. John (1941), Herbert Friedman (1916), Nancy Kerrigan (1969), and William Hickey (1927).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Charles Starkweather ranks 64. Before him are Carl Panzram (1892), John Wesley Hardin (1853), Richard Speck (1941), Stanley Williams (1953), Ross Ulbricht (1984), and Mary Surratt (1823). After him are Stand Watie (1806), Ronald DeFeo Jr. (1951), Frank James (1843), Herbert Mullin (1947), Axeman of New Orleans (null), and Christopher Scarver (1969).

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