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Dan White

1946 - 1985

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Daniel James White (September 2, 1946 – October 21, 1985) was an American politician who assassinated George Moscone, the 37th mayor of San Francisco, and Harvey Milk, a fellow member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, inside San Francisco City Hall on November 27, 1978. During trial his lawyers argued, controversially, that White did not have the mental capacity required to be found guilty of murder, due to his depression and his consumption of junk food. White was convicted, not of murder, but on two counts of voluntary manslaughter and served five years of a seven-year and eight-month prison sentence. Less than two years after his release, he returned to San Francisco and later committed suicide. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dan White has received more than 4,008,701 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Dan White is the 16,667th most popular politician (down from 15,242nd in 2019), the 10,327th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,470th in 2019) and the 681st most popular American Politician.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Dan White ranks 16,667 out of 19,576. Before him are Zindzi Mandela, Ulrike Lunacek, Jean-François Deniau, Ranulf Flambard, Princess Nathalie of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, and Mickey Kantor. After him are Volker Beck, Maxime Verhagen, Janusz Lewandowski, Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst, Keen Johnson, and Albert Oldman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Dan White ranks 686. Before him are Paul Cremona, Michael Coats, Tonicha, Lyudmila Titova, Clive Bunker, and Bruce Robinson. After him are Flossie Wong-Staal, Josef Augusta, Bryan D. O'Connor, Bill Plympton, Ileana Gyulai-Drîmbă-Jenei, and Dennis Muren. Among people deceased in 1985, Dan White ranks 263. Before him are Phil Silvers, Erich Koschik, Gladys Egan, Dragomir Tošić, Gabriel Elorde, and Leatrice Joy. After him are Margaret Molesworth, Harold Whitlock, Yevgeny Maskinskov, Edward Andrews, Jack Medica, and Isabel Jeans.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dan White ranks 10,327 out of 20,380. Before him are Todd Howard (1971), Malachi Throne (1928), Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806), Jerry Doyle (1956), Elizabeth F. Ellet (1818), and Mickey Kantor (1939). After him are Dean Smith (1932), Shy Love (1978), Roger Smith (1932), Kathryn Stockett (1969), Joe Namath (1943), and Jeanie MacPherson (1886).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Dan White ranks 681. Before him are John N. Mitchell (1913), Roland Burris (1937), Steven Mnuchin (1962), William Barr (1950), Happy Chandler (1898), and Mickey Kantor (1939). After him are Keen Johnson (1896), George Clymer (1739), Chris Dodd (1944), LeRoy Pope Walker (1817), Thomas Mifflin (1744), and John Langdon (1741).

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