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Jack Kevorkian

1928 - 2011

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Murad Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian (May 26, 1928 – June 3, 2011) was an American pathologist and euthanasia proponent. He publicly championed a terminal patient's right to die by physician-assisted suicide, embodied in his quote, "Dying is not a crime". Kevorkian said that he assisted at least 130 patients to that end. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jack Kevorkian has received more than 5,429,304 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Jack Kevorkian is the 333rd most popular physician (down from 233rd in 2019), the 3,051st most popular biography from United States (down from 1,927th in 2019) and the 36th most popular American Physician.

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  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.60

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  • 4.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Jack Kevorkian ranks 333 out of 726. Before him are Clarke Abel, Carlos Finlay, Friedrich Kasimir Medikus, Tomáš Špidlík, Eugene Botkin, and Gabor Maté. After him are William Bates, Realdo Colombo, Filippo Pacini, Victor Babeș, Mondino de Luzzi, and Nikolai Korotkov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Jack Kevorkian ranks 196. Before him are Cannonball Adderley, William Peter Blatty, Laurence Harvey, Dominique Colonna, Stuart Whitman, and Frank Wolff. After him are Lennart Carleson, Friedrich Wetter, Sid Watkins, János Kornai, Alexis Korner, and Eeva Kilpi. Among people deceased in 2011, Jack Kevorkian ranks 125. Before him are Violetta Villas, John Paul Getty III, Ange-Félix Patassé, Abdul Fatah Younis, Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Hohenberg, and María Elena Walsh. After him are Inese Jaunzeme, Lazar Mojsov, Josef Suk, Susannah York, Édouard Glissant, and Peter Yates.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jack Kevorkian ranks 3,051 out of 20,380. Before him are George Ord (1781), Robert Conrad (1935), Mary Mapes Dodge (1831), Robert Sean Leonard (1969), Arielle Dombasle (1953), and Captain Beefheart (1941). After him are Judy Chicago (1939), Lisa Bonet (1967), Dana Andrews (1909), William Bates (1860), Cedric Gibbons (1893), and Ted Levine (1957).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Jack Kevorkian ranks 36. Before him are Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923), Richard Axel (1946), Michael DeBakey (1908), Drew Weissman (1959), Horace Wells (1815), and James Curtis Hepburn (1815). After him are William Bates (1860), Anthony Fauci (1940), Mehmet Oz (1960), Walter Jackson Freeman II (1895), Andrew Taylor Still (1828), and Warren Sturgis McCulloch (1898).

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