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John List

1925 - 2008

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John Emil List (September 17, 1925 – March 21, 2008) was an American mass murderer and long-time fugitive. On November 9, 1971, he killed his wife, mother, and three children at their home in Westfield, New Jersey, and then disappeared. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John List has received more than 3,897,090 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). John List is the 222nd most popular extremist (down from 164th in 2019), the 6,701st most popular biography from United States (down from 4,131st in 2019) and the 76th most popular American Extremist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, John List ranks 222 out of 283. Before him are Ottis Toole, Marshall Applewhite, Alexander Pichushkin, Nguyễn Văn Trỗi, Gary Gilmore, and Robert Berdella. After him are Amparo Poch y Gascón, John Christie, Mildred Gillars, Mikhail Popkov, Marvin Heemeyer, and Donato Bilancia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, John List ranks 346. Before him are Wolfgang Unzicker, Klara Luchko, Antonio Puchades, Gunther Schuller, Dany Dauberson, and Vladimir Shainsky. After him are András Toma, Tankred Dorst, Anne-Marie Colchen, Luis Alberto Monge, Angelo Conterno, and Alain Peyrefitte. Among people deceased in 2008, John List ranks 234. Before him are Dith Pran, Mustafa Khalil, Johnny Griffin, Valentin Bubukin, Sergey Mergelyan, and Norman Smith. After him are Elfriede Kaun, Anatoly Khrapaty, Natalia Bekhtereva, Adolfo Suárez Rivera, Yegor Letov, and Rafael Azcona.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John List ranks 6,701 out of 20,380. Before him are Campbell Scott (1961), John E. Blaha (1942), Candy Barr (1935), Elliot See (1927), Jeremy Davies (1969), and David Amram (1930). After him are Tom Kane (1962), Eydie Gormé (1928), Lee Smolin (1955), Galo Plaza (1906), F. Holland Day (1864), and Hugo Benioff (1899).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, John List ranks 76. Before him are Christopher Scarver (1969), William Bonin (1947), Ottis Toole (1947), Marshall Applewhite (1931), Gary Gilmore (1940), and Robert Berdella (1949). After him are Mildred Gillars (1900), Marvin Heemeyer (1951), John Hinckley Jr. (1955), Warren Jeffs (1955), Joseph Paul Franklin (1950), and Francis Parker Yockey (1917).

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