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Mary Ann Cotton

1832 - 1873

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Mary Ann Cotton (née Robson; 31 October 1832 – 24 March 1873) was an English convicted murderer who was executed for poisoning her stepson. Despite her sole conviction for murder, she is believed to have been a serial killer who killed many others including 11 of her 13 children and three of her four husbands for their life insurance policies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Ann Cotton has received more than 2,684,067 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Mary Ann Cotton is the 116th most popular extremist, the 1,576th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 6th most popular British Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Mary Ann Cotton ranks 116 out of 209. Before her are Cleveland Torso Murderer, Elisabeth Becker, Aldrich Ames, Peter Sutcliffe, Rodney Alcala, and Robert Hansen. After her are Joseph Bonanno, Dokka Umarov, Baruch Goldstein, Belle Gunness, Mohamed Atta, and Aslan Usoyan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Mary Ann Cotton ranks 34. Before her are Hudson Taylor, Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev, Khurshidbanu Natavan, Rudolf Lipschitz, William Le Baron Jenney, and Pavel Tretyakov. After her are Louis Paul Cailletet, Ivan Zajc, Charles Lecocq, Charles Boycott, Emilio Castelar, and Miguel Miramón. Among people deceased in 1873, Mary Ann Cotton ranks 25. Before her are Pauline Therese of Württemberg, Sheridan Le Fanu, Viktor Hartmann, Jean Chacornac, José Antonio Páez, and Friedrich Wieck. After her are Charles II, Duke of Brunswick, Muhammad IV of Morocco, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Prince August, Duke of Dalarna, Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, and Urbano Rattazzi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Ann Cotton ranks 1,576 out of 7,765. Before her are Margaret Douglas (1515), William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708), John Barbirolli (1899), Oliver Hart (1948), Maurice Wilkes (1913), and Rupert Sheldrake (1942). After her are Rafael Merry del Val (1865), Roger Hunt (1938), Eric Knight (1897), George Smith (1840), Kate Moss (1974), and Sam Worthington (1976).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United Kingdom

Among extremists born in United Kingdom, Mary Ann Cotton ranks 6. Before her are Emperor Norton (1818), Sawney Bean (1600), Harold Shipman (1946), Dennis Nilsen (1945), and Peter Sutcliffe (1946). After her are John Adams (1767), Mary Bell (1957), Guy Burgess (1911), Fred West (1941), John Haigh (1909), and John Christie (1899).

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