SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Dorothy Day

1897 - 1980

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Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic without abandoning her social activism. She was perhaps the best-known political radical among American Catholics. Day's conversion is described in her 1952 autobiography, The Long Loneliness. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dorothy Day has received more than 2,389,515 page views. Her biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Dorothy Day is the 350th most popular social activist (up from 356th in 2019), the 4,119th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,693rd in 2019) and the 37th most popular American Social Activist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Dorothy Day ranks 350 out of 840. Before her are Anatoly Marchenko, Sumner Paine, Lempira, Sophie Adlersparre, Mehdi Huseynzade, and Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior. After her are Ninomiya Sontoku, Klara Zamenhof, Wei Jingsheng, Cindy Kiro, Peter Arshinov, and Flora Brovina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Dorothy Day ranks 169. Before her are Pavel Batov, Alberto Cavalcanti, Natacha Rambova, Gunta Stölzl, Erwin von Lahousen, and André Marie. After her are Maximus V of Constantinople, Werner Voss, Gerardo Matos Rodríguez, Kurt Feldt, Adolfo Baloncieri, and Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia. Among people deceased in 1980, Dorothy Day ranks 146. Before her are Sohrab Sepehri, Boun Oum, John W. McCormack, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Rachel Roberts, and Gerhard Hanappi. After her are Jan Werich, Allan Pettersson, Torcuato Fernández-Miranda, Miliza Korjus, Sonja Wigert, and Ángel Sanz Briz.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dorothy Day ranks 4,119 out of 20,380. Before her are Bill Irwin (1950), Dee Dee Warwick (1942), Rob Cohen (1949), Harry Hillman (1881), Paul Rand (1914), and Paul Milgrom (1948). After her are Sherilyn Fenn (1965), Meredith Monk (1942), Mickey Spillane (1918), Harry Carey Jr. (1921), Horace Parnell Tuttle (1837), and Charles T. Kowal (1940).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Dorothy Day ranks 37. Before her are Jesse Jackson (1941), Amelia Bloomer (1818), Abbie Hoffman (1936), Edna Parker (1893), Susannah Mushatt Jones (1899), and Sumner Paine (1868). After her are Black Elk (1863), Clara Barton (1821), Lucretia Mott (1793), Marsha P. Johnson (1945), Otto Warmbier (1994), and Claudette Colvin (1939).

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