1944 - 1962
Peter Fechter (14 January 1944 – 17 August 1962) was a German bricklayer who became the twenty-seventh known person to die at the Berlin Wall. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Killing of Peter Fechter has received more than 425,554 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Killing of Peter Fechter is the 866th most popular religious figure (up from 931st in 2019), the 1,066th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,309th in 2019) and the 24th most popular German Religious Figure.
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Among religious figures, Killing of Peter Fechter ranks 866 out of 2,238. Before him are Charalambos, Apollinaris of Laodicea, Safi-ad-din Ardabili, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Ubayy ibn Ka'b, and Benedict of Aniane. After him are Agnes of Bohemia, Odilo of Cluny, Juan Diego, Abdullah ibn Muhammad, Lucian of Antioch, and John of Ávila.
87 - 202
HPI: 60.55
Rank: 860
310 - 390
HPI: 60.55
Rank: 861
1252 - 1334
HPI: 60.53
Rank: 862
1918 - 2008
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 863
600 - 649
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 864
750 - 821
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 865
1944 - 1962
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 866
1211 - 1282
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 867
961 - 1049
HPI: 60.39
Rank: 868
1474 - 1548
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 869
600 - 615
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 870
240 - 312
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 871
1500 - 1569
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 872
Among people born in 1944, Killing of Peter Fechter ranks 82. Before him are Serge Haroche, Jeroen Krabbé, Thein Sein, Gérard Mourou, Donna Haraway, and Askar Akayev. After him are Bernard Hill, Leila Khaled, Claudia Mori, Sondra Locke, Mairead Maguire, and Antonio Damasio. Among people deceased in 1962, Killing of Peter Fechter ranks 36. Before him are Hans Lammers, Georgios Papanikolaou, Charles Laughton, Jacques Ibert, Hanns Eisler, and Gabriele Münter. After him are Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Eiji Yoshikawa, Shunroku Hata, André Lhote, Ivan Meštrović, and Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg.
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.81
Rank: 76
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.78
Rank: 77
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 78
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.72
Rank: 79
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.58
Rank: 80
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 81
1944 - 1962
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 82
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.40
Rank: 83
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 84
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 85
1944 - 2018
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 86
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.16
Rank: 87
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.12
Rank: 88
1879 - 1962
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 30
1883 - 1962
HPI: 61.35
Rank: 31
1899 - 1962
HPI: 61.30
Rank: 32
1890 - 1962
HPI: 60.98
Rank: 33
1898 - 1962
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 34
1877 - 1962
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 35
1944 - 1962
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 36
1872 - 1962
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 37
1892 - 1962
HPI: 60.06
Rank: 38
1879 - 1962
HPI: 59.90
Rank: 39
1885 - 1962
HPI: 59.67
Rank: 40
1883 - 1962
HPI: 59.36
Rank: 41
1902 - 1962
HPI: 59.22
Rank: 42
Among people born in Germany, Killing of Peter Fechter ranks 1,066 out of 6,142. Before him are Rainer Weiss (1932), Karl von Bülow (1846), Johann Jakob Froberger (1616), Caroline of Brunswick (1768), Gerhard Herzberg (1904), and Carl Gustav Hempel (1905). After him are Levin August von Bennigsen (1745), Christina of Saxony (1461), Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg (1797), Harald Schumacher (1954), Helmut Schön (1915), and Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg (1484).
1932 - Present
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 1,060
1846 - 1921
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 1,061
1616 - 1667
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 1,062
1768 - 1821
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 1,063
1904 - 1999
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 1,064
1905 - 1997
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 1,065
1944 - 1962
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 1,066
1745 - 1826
HPI: 60.42
Rank: 1,067
1461 - 1521
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 1,068
1797 - 1829
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 1,069
1954 - Present
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 1,070
1915 - 1996
HPI: 60.41
Rank: 1,071
1484 - 1535
HPI: 60.40
Rank: 1,072
Among religious figures born in Germany, Killing of Peter Fechter ranks 24. Before him are Johann Tetzel (1460), Therese Neumann (1898), Albert of Brandenburg (1490), Bruno of Querfurt (970), Nicolaus Zinzendorf (1700), and Conrad Schumann (1942). After him are Severinus of Noricum (410), Gotthard of Hildesheim (960), Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg (1744), Clemens August Graf von Galen (1878), Otto of Bamberg (1060), and Mechtilde (1241).
1460 - 1519
HPI: 63.18
Rank: 18
1898 - 1962
HPI: 62.18
Rank: 19
1490 - 1545
HPI: 61.76
Rank: 20
970 - 1009
HPI: 61.67
Rank: 21
1700 - 1760
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 22
1942 - 1998
HPI: 60.95
Rank: 23
1944 - 1962
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 24
410 - 482
HPI: 59.48
Rank: 25
960 - 1038
HPI: 59.42
Rank: 26
1744 - 1817
HPI: 59.08
Rank: 27
1878 - 1946
HPI: 58.90
Rank: 28
1060 - 1139
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 29
1241 - 1298
HPI: 58.79
Rank: 30