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Jack Ruby

1911 - 1967

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Jack Leon Ruby (born Jacob Leon Rubenstein; c. March 25, 1911 – January 3, 1967) was an American nightclub owner who killed Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963, two days after Oswald was accused of assassinating President John F. Kennedy. Ruby shot and mortally wounded Oswald on live television in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters and was immediately arrested. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jack Ruby has received more than 13,986,320 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Jack Ruby is the 7th most popular mafioso (up from 8th in 2019), the 410th most popular biography from United States (down from 342nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Mafioso.

Jack Ruby was a Dallas nightclub owner who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of John F. Kennedy, on November 24, 1963.

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  • 67.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MAFIOSOS

Among mafiosos, Jack Ruby ranks 7 out of 70. Before him are Pablo Escobar, Al Capone, Griselda Blanco, Salvatore Riina, Lucky Luciano, and Billy the Kid. After him are Jesse James, Bernardo Provenzano, Meyer Lansky, Frank Abagnale, Karl Gebhardt, and John Dillinger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Jack Ruby ranks 17. Before him are Todor Zhivkov, William Golding, Nino Rota, Czesław Miłosz, Mikhail Botvinnik, and Marshall McLuhan. After him are Melvin Calvin, Lê Đức Thọ, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Robert Johnson, Tennessee Williams, and Klaus Fuchs. Among people deceased in 1967, Jack Ruby ranks 14. Before him are Vladimir Komarov, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Clement Attlee, Ilse Koch, Spencer Tracy, and Zoltán Kodály. After him are André Maurois, Edward Hopper, Jayne Mansfield, Gordon Allport, Rodion Malinovsky, and Ilya Ehrenburg.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jack Ruby ranks 410 out of 20,380. Before him are Florence Foster Jenkins (1868), Sarah Vaughan (1924), Philip Roth (1933), Billie Holiday (1915), Frank Herbert (1920), and Prince (1958). After him are Paul Tibbets (1915), Willis Carrier (1876), Kurt Vonnegut (1922), Jon Brower Minnoch (1941), Charles Francis Richter (1900), and Herman Hollerith (1860).

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Among MAFIOSOS In United States

Among mafiosos born in United States, Jack Ruby ranks 3. Before him are Al Capone (1899), and Billy the Kid (1859). After him are Jesse James (1847), Frank Abagnale (1948), John Dillinger (1903), Mark David Chapman (1955), Wyatt Earp (1848), John Gotti (1940), Richard Kuklinski (1935), Frank Lucas (1930), and Sundance Kid (1867).

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