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Nancy Spungen

1958 - 1978

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Nancy Laura Spungen (; February 27, 1958 – October 12, 1978) was the American girlfriend of English musician Sid Vicious and a figure of the 1970s punk rock scene. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Spungen was an emotionally disturbed child who was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 15. After being expelled from college, she flew to London in December 1976 at the height of the punk rock movement, where she became involved with Vicious, the bassist for the Sex Pistols. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nancy Spungen has received more than 4,989,424 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Nancy Spungen is the 171st most popular extremist (down from 163rd in 2019), the 3,991st most popular biography from United States (up from 4,070th in 2019) and the 51st most popular American Extremist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Nancy Spungen ranks 171 out of 283. Before her are Machine Gun Kelly, Mary Bell, Ibn al-Khattab, Eugène Terre'Blanche, Baby Face Nelson, and Radislav Krstić. After her are Dean Corll, Émile Henry, Tex Watson, John Haigh, Heinrich XIII Prinz Reuss, and Perkin Warbeck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Nancy Spungen ranks 122. Before her are Zdravko Krivokapić, Mágico González, Charlie Kaufman, Limahl, Serena Grandi, and Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh. After her are Belinda Carlisle, Jennifer Tilly, Alain Chabat, Li Shangfu, Rosa Mota, and Cindy Kiro. Among people deceased in 1978, Nancy Spungen ranks 113. Before her are Bernhard Karlgren, Julio Jaramillo, Carlos Chávez, Prince Sigismund of Prussia, Zivia Lubetkin, and Raymond Braine. After her are Federico Chávez, Harold Abrahams, José Gonzalvo, John D. Rockefeller III, Rubén Morán, and Nicolau dos Reis Lobato.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Nancy Spungen ranks 3,991 out of 20,380. Before her are Robert Motherwell (1915), Tammi Terrell (1945), Scott Walker (1943), Arnold Rothstein (1882), Jeanne Tripplehorn (1963), and Maureen Stapleton (1925). After her are Stewart Copeland (1952), Richard C. Sarafian (1930), Dorothy Dandridge (1922), Dean Corll (1939), Renée Taylor (1933), and Susannah Mushatt Jones (1899).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Nancy Spungen ranks 51. Before her are Jerry Brudos (1939), Louis Farrakhan (1933), Robert Ford (1862), Golden State Killer (1945), Machine Gun Kelly (1895), and Baby Face Nelson (1908). After her are Dean Corll (1939), Tex Watson (1945), Jane Toppan (1854), Samuel Little (1940), Bugs Moran (1893), and Andrew Cunanan (1969).

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