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Crazy Horse

1840 - 1877

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Crazy Horse (Lakota: Tȟašúŋke Witkó [tˣaˈʃʊ̃kɛ witˈkɔ], lit. 'His-Horse-Is-Crazy'; c. 1840 – September 5, 1877) was a Lakota war leader of the Oglala band in the 19th century. He took up arms against the United States federal government to fight against encroachment by White American settlers on Native American territory and to preserve the traditional way of life of the Lakota people. His participation in several famous battles of the Black Hills War on the northern Great Plains, among them the Fetterman Fight in 1866, in which he acted as a decoy, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, in which he led a war party to victory, earned him great respect from both his enemies and his own people. In September 1877, four months after surrendering to U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Crazy Horse has received more than 5,284,518 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Crazy Horse is the 319th most popular politician (up from 1,619th in 2019), the 100th most popular biography from United States (up from 491st in 2019) and the 29th most popular American Politician.

Crazy Horse was a Lakota Sioux warrior who fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. Crazy Horse was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn on September 5, 1877.

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  • 15.74

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  • 1.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Crazy Horse ranks 319 out of 19,576. Before him are Croesus, Djoser, Alexander Dubček, Turhan Hatice Sultan, Vyacheslav Molotov, and Ivar the Boneless. After him are Elizabeth of Russia, Charles V of France, Shivaji, Paul I of Russia, Abbas the Great, and Sejong the Great.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Crazy Horse ranks 5. Before him are Claude Monet, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Émile Zola, and Auguste Rodin. After him are Murad V, Victoria, Princess Royal, Alphonse Daudet, Odilon Redon, Edward Drinker Cope, Carl Menger, and Ernst Abbe. Among people deceased in 1877, Crazy Horse ranks 2. Before him is Gustave Courbet. After him are Brigham Young, Saigō Takamori, Adolphe Thiers, Urbain Le Verrier, Henry Fox Talbot, Gustav, Prince of Vasa, Maria Anna of Bavaria, Sophie of Württemberg, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, and Amalie Auguste of Bavaria.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Crazy Horse ranks 100 out of 20,380. Before him are Vince McMahon (1945), Gerald Ford (1913), John Jay (1745), Harrison Ford (1942), Warren Buffett (1930), and Bob Dylan (1941). After him are Lyndon B. Johnson (1908), Frank Sinatra (1915), Nicolas Cage (1964), Vin Diesel (1967), Jimi Hendrix (1942), and Jim Morrison (1943).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Crazy Horse ranks 29. Before him are George W. Bush (1946), George H. W. Bush (1924), Bill Clinton (1946), Theodore Roosevelt (1858), Woodrow Wilson (1856), and Gerald Ford (1913). After him are Lyndon B. Johnson (1908), Bhumibol Adulyadej (1927), Barack Obama (1961), John Adams (1735), James Monroe (1758), and Herbert Hoover (1874).

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