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Joe Masseria

1886 - 1931

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Giuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe masseˈriːa]; January 17, 1886 – April 15, 1931) was an Italian-American Mafia boss in New York City. He was boss of what is now called the Genovese crime family, one of the New York City Mafia's Five Families, from 1922 to 1931. In 1930, he battled in the Castellammarese War to take over the criminal activities in New York City. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joe Masseria has received more than 2,388,299 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Joe Masseria is the 30th most popular mafioso (up from 31st in 2019).

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  • 20

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MAFIOSOS

Among mafiosos, Joe Masseria ranks 30 out of 70Before him are Vito Genovese, Vito Cascio Ferro, Jenny-Wanda Barkmann, Salvatore Giuliano, Khun Sa, and Amado Carrillo Fuentes. After him are Du Yuesheng, Richard Hauptmann, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, Richard Kuklinski, Frank Lucas, and Sundance Kid.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Joe Masseria ranks 70Before him are Hugh Lofting, Mary Wigman, Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, Nobutake Kondō, Walter H. Schottky, and Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg. After him are Frederic Bartlett, Taimur bin Feisal, Edward Bach, Ali Sami Yen, Henry King, and Amédée Ozenfant. Among people deceased in 1931, Joe Masseria ranks 41Before him are Vincent d'Indy, Jaime, Duke of Madrid, Auguste Forel, Charles Algernon Parsons, Antonio Salandra, and Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia. After him are Santiago Rusiñol, Eugene de Blaas, Motilal Nehru, Alexandre Darracq, Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, and Nellie Melba.

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