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Gary Gilmore

1940 - 1977

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Gary Mark Gilmore (born Faye Robert Coffman; December 4, 1940 – January 17, 1977) was an American criminal who gained international attention for demanding the implementation of his death sentence for two murders he had admitted to committing in Utah. After the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a new series of death penalty statutes in the 1976 decision Gregg v. Georgia, he became the first person in almost ten years to be executed in the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gary Gilmore has received more than 1,881,458 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Gary Gilmore is the 220th most popular extremist (down from 192nd in 2019), the 6,323rd most popular biography from United States (up from 6,464th in 2019) and the 74th most popular American Extremist.

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  • 48.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Gary Gilmore ranks 220 out of 283. Before him are Dick Turpin, Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi, Ottis Toole, Marshall Applewhite, Alexander Pichushkin, and Nguyễn Văn Trỗi. After him are Robert Berdella, John List, Amparo Poch y Gascón, John Christie, Mildred Gillars, and Mikhail Popkov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Gary Gilmore ranks 353. Before him are Peter Gethin, Jacques Higelin, Győző Kulcsár, Eugen Drewermann, Claire Bretécher, and Nguyễn Văn Trỗi. After him are Vicente Miera, Michael Sarrazin, Adam Przeworski, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Ole Ernst, and Billy McNeill. Among people deceased in 1977, Gary Gilmore ranks 180. Before him are Robert Lowell, Oğuz Atay, Ibrahim al-Hamdi, Sid Atkinson, Georges Grignard, and Zero Mostel. After him are André Labatut, Roberto Emílio da Cunha, Franco Albini, Franco Rol, Gummo Marx, and José Planas.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gary Gilmore ranks 6,323 out of 20,380. Before him are Bill Holland (1874), Mike Krzyzewski (1947), Garry Winogrand (1928), Joshua Bell (1967), Frank Irons (1886), and Anne Jackson (1925). After him are Lee Barnes (1906), Cornelius Warmerdam (1915), Anna Kendrick (1985), Roger Sessions (1896), Preston Tucker (1903), and Stephen Hopkins (1707).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Gary Gilmore ranks 74. Before him are Herbert Mullin (1947), Axeman of New Orleans (null), Christopher Scarver (1969), William Bonin (1947), Ottis Toole (1947), and Marshall Applewhite (1931). After him are Robert Berdella (1949), John List (1925), Mildred Gillars (1900), Marvin Heemeyer (1951), John Hinckley Jr. (1955), and Warren Jeffs (1955).

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