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Marshall Applewhite

1931 - 1997

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Marshall Herff Applewhite Jr. (May 17, 1931 – March 26, 1997), also known as Do, among other names, was an American religious leader who founded and led the Heaven's Gate new religious movement (often described as a cult), and organized their mass suicide in 1997. The suicide is the largest mass suicide to occur inside the U.S. As a young man, Applewhite attended several universities and served in the United States Army. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marshall Applewhite has received more than 4,063,578 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Marshall Applewhite is the 217th most popular extremist (down from 189th in 2019), the 6,232nd most popular biography from United States (down from 6,090th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular American Extremist.

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  • 4.1M

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  • 55.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Marshall Applewhite ranks 217 out of 283. Before him are William Bonin, Dawood Ibrahim, Jonathan Wild, Dick Turpin, Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi, and Ottis Toole. After him are Alexander Pichushkin, Nguyễn Văn Trỗi, Gary Gilmore, Robert Berdella, John List, and Amparo Poch y Gascón.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Marshall Applewhite ranks 343. Before him are Ángel Berni, George Maxwell Richards, Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton, Dan Rather, Hal Needham, and Gordon Willis. After him are Anatoli Ilyin, Denise Scott Brown, Ibrahim Biogradlić, Tamara Rylova, Shuntarō Tanikawa, and Zakaria Tamer. Among people deceased in 1997, Marshall Applewhite ranks 208. Before him are Agnieszka Osiecka, Denver Pyle, Norris Bradbury, Roger Marche, Bobby Helms, and Cyril Toumanoff. After him are Ondino Viera, Ben Hogan, David Doyle, Ivan Yarygin, Charles Hallahan, and Sotiria Bellou.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Marshall Applewhite ranks 6,232 out of 20,380. Before him are Jason Patric (1966), Sandy Dennis (1937), Lee Ritenour (1952), Glynn Turman (1947), Laurene Powell Jobs (1963), and Gordon Willis (1931). After him are Sting (1959), Theodore Freeman (1930), Corinne Griffith (1894), Anita Loos (1889), Gary Ross (1956), and Robert Lowell (1917).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Marshall Applewhite ranks 73. Before him are Frank James (1843), Herbert Mullin (1947), Axeman of New Orleans (null), Christopher Scarver (1969), William Bonin (1947), and Ottis Toole (1947). After him are Gary Gilmore (1940), Robert Berdella (1949), John List (1925), Mildred Gillars (1900), Marvin Heemeyer (1951), and John Hinckley Jr. (1955).

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