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Evelyn McHale

1923 - 1947

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Evelyn Francis McHale (September 20, 1923 – May 1, 1947) was an American bookkeeper who jumped to her death from the 86th-floor observation deck of the Empire State Building. A photography student took a picture of her corpse where it lay on top of a crushed car. The photograph of the dead lady had a "beautiful" aesthetic quality, and was republished around the world. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Evelyn McHale has received more than 2,589,758 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Evelyn McHale is the 71st most popular celebrity (down from 67th in 2019), the 3,578th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,081st in 2019) and the 27th most popular American Celebrity.

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  • 2.6M

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  • 52.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CELEBRITIES

Among celebrities, Evelyn McHale ranks 71 out of 181. Before her are Bep Voskuijl, Christine Keeler, Natascha Kampusch, Jane Morris, Afghan Girl, and Sally Hemings. After her are Kourtney Kardashian, Denise Perrier, Ethel Kennedy, Lindow Man, Joseph Augustus Zarelli, and Michel Lotito.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Evelyn McHale ranks 164. Before her are Ferenc Szusza, Erroll Garner, Sam Francis, Cesare Siepi, Inge Morath, and Ellsworth Kelly. After her are Ziba Ganiyeva, Lydia Clarke, Gerard Reve, Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, Jozef Lenárt, and José Giovanni. Among people deceased in 1947, Evelyn McHale ranks 105. Before her are Aleksandër Stavre Drenova, Andrei Shkuro, Franz Joseph Emil Fischer, August Schmidhuber, Stepan Petrichenko, and Theodore Romzha. After her are Phraya Phahonphonphayuhasena, Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Marc Mitscher, Francesc Cambó, Emma Orczy, and Frances Cleveland.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Evelyn McHale ranks 3,578 out of 18,182. Before her are Carla Gugino (1971), Judith Reisman (1935), Kevin Sorbo (1958), Emmett Till (1941), Bobby Seale (1936), and Bruce Buck (1946). After her are Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1919), Larry Clark (1943), Adam Baldwin (1962), Hal Clement (1922), Joyce Meyer (1943), and Kourtney Kardashian (1979).

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Among CELEBRITIES In United States

Among celebrities born in United States, Evelyn McHale ranks 27. Before her are Annie Oakley (1860), Barbara Hutton (1912), Lizzie Borden (1860), Paris Hilton (1981), Madeleine Astor (1893), and Sally Hemings (1773). After her are Kourtney Kardashian (1979), Ethel Kennedy (1928), Joseph Augustus Zarelli (1953), Roy Sullivan (1912), Johnny Appleseed (1774), and William Masters (1915).

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