1904 - 1971
Joseph Michael Valachi (September 22, 1904 – April 3, 1971) was an American gangster in the Genovese crime family who is notable as the first member of the Italian-American Mafia to, in 1963, acknowledge its existence publicly. He is credited with popularization of the term cosa nostra.Valachi was convicted of drug trafficking in 1959, and sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment. In 1962 while he and Genovese family boss Vito Genovese were in prison together, he murdered an inmate he thought was a hitman sent by Genovese, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Valachi subsequently became a government witness, and the next year testified before a U.S. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Valachi has received more than 758,989 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Valachi is the 111th most popular extremist (down from 108th in 2019), the 2,900th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,024th in 2019) and the 37th most popular American Extremist.
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Among extremists, Joseph Valachi ranks 111 out of 205. Before him are Alexandros Koryzis, Baby Face Nelson, Omar Abdel-Rahman, Aslan Usoyan, Joseph Bonanno, and Wadie Haddad. After him are John Adams, Béla Kiss, Albert Anastasia, Sam Giancana, David Berkowitz, and Luis Garavito.
1885 - 1941
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 105
1908 - 1934
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 106
1938 - 2017
HPI: 64.72
Rank: 107
1937 - 2013
HPI: 64.72
Rank: 108
1905 - 2002
HPI: 64.68
Rank: 109
1927 - 1978
HPI: 64.65
Rank: 110
1904 - 1971
HPI: 64.60
Rank: 111
1767 - 1829
HPI: 64.57
Rank: 112
1877 - 1915
HPI: 64.55
Rank: 113
1902 - 1957
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 114
1908 - 1975
HPI: 64.36
Rank: 115
1953 - Present
HPI: 64.35
Rank: 116
1957 - Present
HPI: 64.34
Rank: 117
Among people born in 1904, Joseph Valachi ranks 110. Before him are Ding Ling, Wang Ming, Christian-Jaque, Leo Joseph Suenens, Prince Ernst of Hohenberg, and Delmer Daves. After him are Anna Mahler, Ellen Church, Achille Varzi, Goffredo Petrassi, Margaret Bourke-White, and Sergei Yutkevich. Among people deceased in 1971, Joseph Valachi ranks 71. Before him are Pedro Rodríguez, Hermann Ehrhardt, August Derleth, Amet-khan Sultan, Erich Abraham, and Dimitrios Loundras. After him are Princess Maria Bona of Savoy-Genoa, Mak Dizdar, Yrjö Väisälä, Albin Stenroos, Margaret Bourke-White, and Paul Lévy.
1904 - 1986
HPI: 64.84
Rank: 104
1904 - 1974
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 105
1904 - 1994
HPI: 64.76
Rank: 106
1904 - 1996
HPI: 64.69
Rank: 107
1904 - 1954
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 108
1904 - 1977
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 109
1904 - 1971
HPI: 64.60
Rank: 110
1904 - 1988
HPI: 64.54
Rank: 111
1904 - 1965
HPI: 64.54
Rank: 112
1904 - 1948
HPI: 64.46
Rank: 113
1904 - 2003
HPI: 64.36
Rank: 114
1904 - 1971
HPI: 64.35
Rank: 115
1904 - 1985
HPI: 64.19
Rank: 116
1940 - 1971
HPI: 65.41
Rank: 65
1881 - 1971
HPI: 65.35
Rank: 66
1909 - 1971
HPI: 64.95
Rank: 67
1920 - 1971
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 68
1895 - 1971
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 69
1885 - 1971
HPI: 64.61
Rank: 70
1904 - 1971
HPI: 64.60
Rank: 71
1896 - 1971
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 72
1917 - 1971
HPI: 64.56
Rank: 73
1891 - 1971
HPI: 64.48
Rank: 74
1889 - 1971
HPI: 64.44
Rank: 75
1904 - 1971
HPI: 64.35
Rank: 76
1886 - 1971
HPI: 64.35
Rank: 77
Among people born in United States, Joseph Valachi ranks 2,900 out of 15,968. Before him are Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915), Mary-Louise Parker (1964), James Rosenquist (1933), Ernest King (1878), Chris McCandless (1968), and Dan Quayle (1947). After him are Katherine MacGregor (1925), Vito Acconci (1940), Stephenie Meyer (1973), Stanley Schachter (1922), The Big Bopper (1930), and Waylon Jennings (1937).
1915 - 1973
HPI: 64.61
Rank: 2,894
1964 - Present
HPI: 64.61
Rank: 2,895
1933 - 2017
HPI: 64.61
Rank: 2,896
1878 - 1956
HPI: 64.61
Rank: 2,897
1968 - 1992
HPI: 64.60
Rank: 2,898
1947 - Present
HPI: 64.60
Rank: 2,899
1904 - 1971
HPI: 64.60
Rank: 2,900
1925 - 2018
HPI: 64.60
Rank: 2,901
1940 - 2017
HPI: 64.60
Rank: 2,902
1973 - Present
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 2,903
1922 - 1997
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 2,904
1930 - 1959
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 2,905
1937 - 2002
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 2,906
Among extremists born in United States, Joseph Valachi ranks 37. Before him are Robert Hansen (1939), Gary Ridgway (1949), Charles Whitman (1941), Andrew Cunanan (1969), Aldrich Ames (1941), and Baby Face Nelson (1908). After him are Sam Giancana (1908), David Berkowitz (1953), Jerry Brudos (1939), Robert Stroud (1890), Patty Hearst (1954), and Louis Farrakhan (1933).
1939 - 2014
HPI: 66.78
Rank: 31
1949 - Present
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 32
1941 - 1966
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 33
1969 - 1997
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 34
1941 - Present
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 35
1908 - 1934
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 36
1904 - 1971
HPI: 64.60
Rank: 37
1908 - 1975
HPI: 64.36
Rank: 38
1953 - Present
HPI: 64.35
Rank: 39
1939 - 2006
HPI: 64.30
Rank: 40
1890 - 1963
HPI: 63.94
Rank: 41
1954 - Present
HPI: 63.91
Rank: 42
1933 - Present
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 43