1942 - 1994
John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured and murdered at least 33 young men and boys in Norwood Park Township, near Chicago, Illinois. He became known as the Killer Clown due to his public performances as a clown prior to the discovery of his crimes. Gacy committed all of his known murders inside his ranch-style house. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Wayne Gacy has received more than 34,513,856 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). John Wayne Gacy is the 23rd most popular extremist (up from 26th in 2019), the 449th most popular biography from United States (up from 562nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular American Extremist.
John Wayne Gacy was an American serial killer and rapist. He was convicted of the sexual assault and murder of 33 teenage boys and young men in the 1970s. He was sentenced to death and executed by lethal injection in 1994.
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Among extremists, John Wayne Gacy ranks 23 out of 209. Before him are Ed Gein, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Albert Fish, Ulrike Meinhof, Charles Ponzi, and Ayman al-Zawahiri. After him are Jim Jones, Carlos the Jackal, Amon Göth, Cleon, Machine Gun Kelly, and Luis Carrero Blanco.
1906 - 1984
HPI: 68.39
Rank: 17
1971 - 2019
HPI: 68.11
Rank: 18
1870 - 1936
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 19
1934 - 1976
HPI: 67.62
Rank: 20
1882 - 1949
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 21
1951 - 2022
HPI: 67.34
Rank: 22
1942 - 1994
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 23
1931 - 1978
HPI: 67.28
Rank: 24
1949 - Present
HPI: 66.74
Rank: 25
1908 - 1946
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 26
450 BC - 422 BC
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 27
1895 - 1954
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 28
1904 - 1973
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 29
Among people born in 1942, John Wayne Gacy ranks 30. Before him are Dino Zoff, Michael Haneke, Calvin Klein, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Werner Herzog, and Ian McShane. After him are Javier Solana, Giorgio Agamben, Ehud Barak, José Eduardo dos Santos, Jochen Rindt, and Lou Reed. Among people deceased in 1994, John Wayne Gacy ranks 19. Before him are Andrei Chikatilo, Giulietta Masina, Kurt Cobain, Léon Degrelle, Melina Mercouri, and Antônio Carlos Jobim. After him are Paul Feyerabend, Mas Oyama, Guy Debord, George Peppard, Dorothy Hodgkin, and Henry Mancini.
1942 - Present
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 24
1942 - Present
HPI: 69.47
Rank: 25
1942 - Present
HPI: 68.37
Rank: 26
1942 - Present
HPI: 68.07
Rank: 27
1942 - Present
HPI: 67.93
Rank: 28
1942 - Present
HPI: 67.53
Rank: 29
1942 - 1994
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 30
1942 - Present
HPI: 67.25
Rank: 31
1942 - Present
HPI: 67.19
Rank: 32
1942 - Present
HPI: 67.05
Rank: 33
1942 - 2022
HPI: 66.87
Rank: 34
1942 - 1970
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 35
1942 - 2013
HPI: 66.54
Rank: 36
1936 - 1994
HPI: 69.53
Rank: 13
1921 - 1994
HPI: 69.21
Rank: 14
1967 - 1994
HPI: 68.23
Rank: 15
1906 - 1994
HPI: 68.17
Rank: 16
1920 - 1994
HPI: 67.82
Rank: 17
1927 - 1994
HPI: 67.39
Rank: 18
1942 - 1994
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 19
1924 - 1994
HPI: 67.20
Rank: 20
1923 - 1994
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 21
1931 - 1994
HPI: 66.23
Rank: 22
1928 - 1994
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 23
1910 - 1994
HPI: 65.99
Rank: 24
1924 - 1994
HPI: 65.69
Rank: 25
Among people born in United States, John Wayne Gacy ranks 449 out of 18,182. Before him are Louisa May Alcott (1832), Gordon Allport (1897), Tennessee Williams (1911), Cliff Burton (1962), Montgomery Clift (1920), and The Notorious B.I.G. (1972). After him are Glenn Close (1947), Pat Morita (1932), Jim Jones (1931), Rutherford B. Hayes (1822), Sharon Stone (1958), and Willis Carrier (1876).
1832 - 1888
HPI: 67.45
Rank: 443
1897 - 1967
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 444
1911 - 1983
HPI: 67.41
Rank: 445
1962 - 1986
HPI: 67.39
Rank: 446
1920 - 1966
HPI: 67.37
Rank: 447
1972 - 1997
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 448
1942 - 1994
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 449
1947 - Present
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 450
1932 - 2005
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 451
1931 - 1978
HPI: 67.28
Rank: 452
1822 - 1893
HPI: 67.27
Rank: 453
1958 - Present
HPI: 67.27
Rank: 454
1876 - 1950
HPI: 67.26
Rank: 455
Among extremists born in United States, John Wayne Gacy ranks 9. Before him are Ted Bundy (1946), Lee Harvey Oswald (1939), Ted Kaczynski (1942), Zodiac Killer (1940), Ed Gein (1906), and Albert Fish (1870). After him are Jim Jones (1931), Machine Gun Kelly (1895), H. H. Holmes (1861), William Kemmler (1860), George Jung (1942), and Jeffrey Dahmer (1960).
1946 - 1989
HPI: 75.74
Rank: 3
1939 - 1963
HPI: 72.83
Rank: 4
1942 - 2023
HPI: 70.46
Rank: 5
1940 - Present
HPI: 68.43
Rank: 6
1906 - 1984
HPI: 68.39
Rank: 7
1870 - 1936
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 8
1942 - 1994
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 9
1931 - 1978
HPI: 67.28
Rank: 10
1895 - 1954
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 11
1861 - 1896
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 12
1860 - 1890
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 13
1942 - 2021
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 14
1960 - 1994
HPI: 62.35
Rank: 15