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John Christie

1899 - 1953

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John Reginald Halliday Christie (8 April 1899 – 15 July 1953) was an English serial killer and serial rapist active during the 1940s and early 1950s. He murdered at least eight people—including his wife Ethel—by strangling them inside his flat at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London. The bodies of three of his victims were found in a wallpaper-covered kitchen alcove soon after he had moved out of Rillington Place during March 1953. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Christie has received more than 23,922 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. John Christie is the 224th most popular extremist (down from 177th in 2019), the 3,594th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,704th in 2019) and the 16th most popular British Extremist.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, John Christie ranks 224 out of 283. Before him are Alexander Pichushkin, Nguyễn Văn Trỗi, Gary Gilmore, Robert Berdella, John List, and Amparo Poch y Gascón. After him are Mildred Gillars, Mikhail Popkov, Marvin Heemeyer, Donato Bilancia, John Hinckley Jr., and Édouard Vaillant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, John Christie ranks 230. Before him are Gerald Moore, Bo Lindman, Väinö Kokkinen, György Piller, Indra Devi, and Willem Jacob Luyten. After him are Chief Dan George, Byron Haskin, Curtis Bernhardt, Frances Yates, Harald Tammer, and Yervand Kochar. Among people deceased in 1953, John Christie ranks 140. Before him are Alwin Mittasch, Florence R. Sabin, Ekvtime Takaishvili, Francis Ford, Emil Filla, and Leslie Graham. After him are Johannes Baumann, Lewis Stone, Szilárd Bogdánffy, Sara Adler, Edmund Dulac, and Syama Prasad Mukherjee.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Christie ranks 3,594 out of 8,785. Before him are Sam Houser (1972), Ian Livingstone (1949), Shirley Manson (1966), Carlos Raúl Villanueva (1900), Laurie Cunningham (1956), and Piers Anthony (1934). After him are Eric Brook (1907), John Paul Young (1950), Edward Pigott (1753), Doug Bradley (1954), Kay Kendall (1927), and John Taylor (1808).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United Kingdom

Among extremists born in United Kingdom, John Christie ranks 16. Before him are Peter Sutcliffe (1946), Guy Burgess (1911), Amelia Dyer (1837), John Bodkin Adams (1899), Jonathan Wild (1683), and Dick Turpin (1705). After him are Howard Marks (1945), Stuart Christie (1946), Colin Pitchfork (1960), Beverley Allitt (1968), Tommy Robinson (1982), and Lucy Letby (1990).

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