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Daniel Pearl

1963 - 2002

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Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963 – February 1, 2002) was an American journalist who worked for The Wall Street Journal. On January 23, 2002, he was kidnapped near a restaurant in downtown Karachi and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan.Pearl's kidnapping was carried out by Islamist militants after Pearl had gone to Pakistan as part of an investigation into the alleged links between British citizen Richard Reid (known as the "Shoe Bomber") and al-Qaeda. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Daniel Pearl has received more than 3,685,331 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Daniel Pearl is the 4,714th most popular writer (up from 4,842nd in 2019), the 6,811th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,796th in 2019) and the 545th most popular American Writer.

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  • 3.7M

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  • 46.23

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  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.82

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  • 4.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Daniel Pearl ranks 4,714 out of 5,755Before him are Karim Rashid, Fyodor Abramov, Dimitar Dimov, Lucy Hawking, Dương Thu Hương, and Julia Ward Howe. After him are Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Jorge Edwards, Mamoni Raisom Goswami, Joanna Russ, Béla Illés, and Konstantin Vasilyevich Ivanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Daniel Pearl ranks 249Before him are Jiang Wen, Francesco Quinn, Alberigo Evani, Kevin Smith, Andrei Tchmil, and Dizzy Reed. After him are Raimond Aumann, Randy Johnson, Jake Weber, Kalusha Bwalya, Henri Leconte, and Rocky Carroll. Among people deceased in 2002, Daniel Pearl ranks 220Before him are Neal E. Miller, R. A. Lafferty, Eddie Meduza, Kevin Smith, Kakhi Asatiani, and Kaisa Parviainen. After him are Ekrem Akurgal, Reginald Rose, John Baptist Wu, Indra Devi, Alexander Kazantsev, and Hans-Peter Tschudi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Daniel Pearl ranks 6,811 out of 18,182Before him are Lee Barnes (1906), Telma Hopkins (1948), C. Gordon Fullerton (1936), Annie Easley (1933), Judy Greer (1975), and Julia Ward Howe (1819). After him are David Ray Griffin (1939), Louis Clarke (1901), Akebono Tarō (1969), Joanna Russ (1937), Will Wright (1960), and Helene Madison (1913).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Daniel Pearl ranks 545Before him are Steven Millhauser (1943), Bill O'Reilly (1949), Ben Bova (1932), Richard Russo (1949), David Peoples (1940), and Julia Ward Howe (1819). After him are Joanna Russ (1937), Richard Scarry (1919), Reginald Rose (1920), Art Buchwald (1925), Stephen Hunter (1946), and Larry McMurtry (1936).