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Joseph Bonanno

1905 - 2002

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Joseph Charles Bonanno (born Giuseppe Carlo Bonanno; Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe ˈkarlo boˈnanno]; January 18, 1905 – May 11, 2002), sometimes referred to as Joe Bananas, was an Italian-American crime boss of the Bonanno crime family, which he ran from 1931 to 1968. Bonanno was born in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, where his father was also involved in organized crime. At the age of three, Bonanno immigrated to New York City with his family, where he lived for about 10 years before he moved back to Italy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Bonanno has received more than 2,822,153 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Joseph Bonanno is the 138th most popular extremist (down from 117th in 2019), the 2,358th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,991st in 2019) and the 14th most popular Italian Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Joseph Bonanno ranks 138 out of 283Before him are Robert Stroud, Albert Anastasia, Charles Whitman, Fred West, Jalaluddin Haqqani, and Richard Chase. After him are Patricia Krenwinkel, Sam Giancana, Leon Czolgosz, Ahmed Jabari, Ahmad Sa'adat, and Anatoly Onoprienko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Joseph Bonanno ranks 117Before him are Wanda Wasilewska, Martin Gottfried Weiss, Bruno Rossi, Anfilogino Guarisi, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, and Victor Kravchenko. After him are Harry Harlow, Leo Genn, Hiroshi Inagaki, Maximilian Grabner, Louis Harold Gray, and Henry Koster. Among people deceased in 2002, Joseph Bonanno ranks 108Before him are Dhirubhai Ambani, Robert Guéï, Spyros Kyprianou, Văn Tiến Dũng, Domènec Balmanya, and Barbara Valentin. After him are Brad Dexter, Joseph Luns, John Cocke, Humaira Begum, Zaid ibn Shaker, and Herb Ritts.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Joseph Bonanno ranks 2,358 out of 5,161Before him are Lamberto Maggiorani (1909), Luigi Longo (1900), Realdo Colombo (1516), Pierina Legnani (1863), Medardo Rosso (1858), and Filippo Pacini (1812). After him are Eugenio Beltrami (1835), Elio Petri (1929), Renato Carosone (1920), Alberto Colombo (1946), Perino del Vaga (1501), and Alvise Giovanni Mocenigo (1701).

Among EXTREMISTS In Italy

Among extremists born in Italy, Joseph Bonanno ranks 14Before him are Vincenzo Peruggia (1881), Luciano Leggio (1925), Leonarda Cianciulli (1893), Sante Geronimo Caserio (1873), Frank Nitti (1886), and Albert Anastasia (1902). After him are Stefano Delle Chiaie (1936), and Donato Bilancia (1951).