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Iva Toguri D'Aquino

1916 - 2006

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Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino (Japanese: 戸栗郁子 アイバ; July 4, 1916 – September 26, 2006) was an American disc jockey and radio personality who participated in English-language radio broadcasts transmitted by Radio Tokyo to Allied troops in the South Pacific during World War II on the Zero Hour radio show. Toguri called herself "Orphan Ann", but she quickly became inaccurately identified with the name "Tokyo Rose", coined by Allied soldiers and which predated her broadcasts. After the surrender of Japan, Toguri was detained for a year by the United States military for possible wrongdoing against the U.S. but was released for lack of evidence and U.S. Department of Justice officials agreed that her broadcasts were "innocuous". However, when Toguri tried to return to the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Iva Toguri D'Aquino has received more than 810,705 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Iva Toguri D'Aquino is the 40th most popular mafioso (down from 39th in 2019), the 2,952nd most popular biography from United States (up from 5,783rd in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Mafioso.

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  • 54.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MAFIOSOS

Among mafiosos, Iva Toguri D'Aquino ranks 40 out of 52. Before her are Mickey Cohen, Sundance Kid, Du Yuesheng, Murder of Kitty Genovese, Richard Hauptmann, and Salvatore Maranzano. After her are Russell Bufalino, Vyacheslav Ivankov, Robert Hanssen, Lepke Buchalter, Dutch Schultz, and Teresa Claramunt Creus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Iva Toguri D'Aquino ranks 101. Before her are Chiang Wei-kuo, Betty Grable, Amha Selassie, Vladimir Demikhov, Zein Al-Sharaf Talal, and Anthony Dawson. After her are Manea Mănescu, Benjamin Libet, Pietro Rava, Maurice Bavaud, Rossano Brazzi, and Helmut Gröttrup. Among people deceased in 2006, Iva Toguri D'Aquino ranks 116. Before her are Coretta Scott King, Basil Poledouris, Jerry Brudos, June Allyson, Alberto Spencer, and Angelica Rozeanu. After her are Joe Rosenthal, Pietro Rava, Gérard Oury, Silva Kaputikyan, Malcolm Arnold, and Ibolya Csák.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Iva Toguri D'Aquino ranks 2,952 out of 18,182. Before her are Laurie Anderson (1947), Kevin Federline (1978), Dana Ivey (1941), Bruno Mars (1985), Screamin' Jay Hawkins (1929), and Jerry Siegel (1914). After her are Xander Berkeley (1955), Frank Grillo (1965), Benjamin Libet (1916), Tallulah Bankhead (1902), Linda Blair (1959), and William Bates (1860).

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Among MAFIOSOS In United States

Among mafiosos born in United States, Iva Toguri D'Aquino ranks 15. Before her are Mark David Chapman (1955), John Gotti (1940), Richard Kuklinski (1935), Frank Lucas (1930), Mickey Cohen (1913), and Sundance Kid (1867). After her are Robert Hanssen (1944), Lepke Buchalter (1897), Dutch Schultz (1902), Jonathan Pollard (1954), Vincent Gigante (1928), and Belle Starr (1848).

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