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Joseph Valachi

1904 - 1971

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Joseph Michael Valachi (September 22, 1904 – April 3, 1971) was an American mobster in the Genovese crime family who was the first member of the Italian-American Mafia to acknowledge its existence publicly in 1963. He is credited with the popularization of the term cosa nostra. Valachi was convicted of drug trafficking in 1959, and sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Valachi has received more than 1,478,436 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Valachi is the 146th most popular extremist (down from 125th in 2019), the 3,221st most popular biography from United States (down from 2,734th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular American Extremist.

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  • 17

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  • 3.96

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  • 2.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Joseph Valachi ranks 146 out of 283. Before him are Sam Giancana, Leon Czolgosz, Ahmed Jabari, Ahmad Sa'adat, Anatoly Onoprienko, and Tsutomu Miyazaki. After him are Belle Gunness, Viktor Bout, Patty Hearst, Dinko Šakić, Wilhelm Boger, and Béla Kiss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Joseph Valachi ranks 127. Before him are Tevfik Esenç, Franz Kutschera, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, Lidia Zamenhof, Max Mallowan, and Prince Ernst of Hohenberg. After him are Seán MacBride, Edvard Kocbek, Helen Kane, Berta Karlik, Edgar P. Jacobs, and Attilio Ferraris. Among people deceased in 1971, Joseph Valachi ranks 79. Before him are Duane Allman, August Derleth, Frank Wolff, Mak Dizdar, Amet-khan Sultan, and Georgi Asparuhov. After him are Georgy Babakin, Mikhail Yangel, Bella Darvi, Gertrud von Le Fort, Vikram Sarabhai, and Mikhail Romm.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Valachi ranks 3,221 out of 20,380. Before him are Christian Slater (1969), Sherm Clark (1899), Eric Hoffer (1898), Lois McMaster Bujold (1949), Douglas Diamond (1953), and Edward Calvin Kendall (1972). After him are Edith Head (1897), Jennifer Rush (1960), M. Emmet Walsh (1935), Ciara (1985), Herb Ritts (1952), and Andrea Dworkin (1946).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Joseph Valachi ranks 43. Before him are Robert Stroud (1890), Charles Whitman (1941), Richard Chase (1950), Patricia Krenwinkel (1947), Sam Giancana (1908), and Leon Czolgosz (1873). After him are Patty Hearst (1954), Jerry Brudos (1939), Louis Farrakhan (1933), Robert Ford (1862), Golden State Killer (1945), and Machine Gun Kelly (1895).

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