1910 - 1949
Nathuram Vinayak Godse (19 May 1910 – 15 November 1949) () was a Hindu nationalist who on 30 January 1948 assassinated Mahatma Gandhi. Godse was a member of the political party, the Hindu Mahasabha; and a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindu paramilitary volunteer organisation; and a populariser of the work of his mentor Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, who had created the ideology of Hindutva.Godse together with Narayan Apte made two unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Mahatma Gandhi in 1944 before they succeeded the third time in 1948. After the 1948 assassination, Godse claimed Gandhi favoured the political demands of British India's Muslims during the partition of India of 1947.After a trial that lasted over a year, Godse was sentenced to death on 8 November 1949. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nathuram Godse has received more than 8,350,428 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Nathuram Godse is the 36th most popular extremist (down from 34th in 2019), the 88th most popular biography from India (down from 69th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Extremist.
Nathuram Godse was a Hindu nationalist who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi in 1948.
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Among extremists, Nathuram Godse ranks 36 out of 209. Before him are Mehmet Ali Ağca, Frederick Trump, Otto Ohlendorf, H. H. Holmes, Andreas Baader, and Tommaso Buscetta. After him are Peter Kürten, Vincenzo Peruggia, William Kemmler, Emperor Norton, George Jung, and Issei Sagawa.
1958 - Present
HPI: 64.08
Rank: 30
1869 - 1918
HPI: 64.06
Rank: 31
1907 - 1951
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 32
1861 - 1896
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 33
1943 - 1977
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 34
1928 - 2000
HPI: 63.47
Rank: 35
1910 - 1949
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 36
1883 - 1931
HPI: 63.33
Rank: 37
1881 - 1925
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 38
1860 - 1890
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 39
1818 - 1880
HPI: 62.94
Rank: 40
1942 - 2021
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 41
1949 - 2022
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 42
Among people born in 1910, Nathuram Godse ranks 28. Before him are Kurt Meyer, William Shockley, Lee Byung-chul, William Hanna, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, and Ludwig Stumpfegger. After him are Helenio Herrera, Samuel Barber, Momofuku Ando, Jean Anouilh, August Landmesser, and Jean-Louis Barrault. Among people deceased in 1949, Nathuram Godse ranks 21. Before him are Victor Fleming, Axel Munthe, Kim Jong-suk, Kim Koo, Sarojini Naidu, and Klaus Mann. After him are Fyodor Tolbukhin, Marcel Cerdan, Angela Hitler, Gustav Radbruch, Henri Giraud, and Niceto Alcalá-Zamora.
1910 - 1961
HPI: 65.26
Rank: 22
1910 - 1989
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 23
1910 - 1987
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 24
1910 - 2001
HPI: 64.87
Rank: 25
1910 - 1995
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 26
1910 - 1945
HPI: 63.61
Rank: 27
1910 - 1949
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 28
1910 - 1997
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 29
1910 - 1981
HPI: 63.28
Rank: 30
1910 - 2007
HPI: 62.67
Rank: 31
1910 - 1987
HPI: 62.46
Rank: 32
1910 - 1944
HPI: 62.26
Rank: 33
1910 - 1994
HPI: 61.99
Rank: 34
1889 - 1949
HPI: 64.40
Rank: 15
1857 - 1949
HPI: 64.29
Rank: 16
1919 - 1949
HPI: 64.13
Rank: 17
1876 - 1949
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 18
1879 - 1949
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 19
1906 - 1949
HPI: 63.49
Rank: 20
1910 - 1949
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 21
1894 - 1949
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 22
1916 - 1949
HPI: 62.97
Rank: 23
1883 - 1949
HPI: 62.95
Rank: 24
1878 - 1949
HPI: 62.34
Rank: 25
1879 - 1949
HPI: 61.99
Rank: 26
1877 - 1949
HPI: 61.19
Rank: 27
Among people born in India, Nathuram Godse ranks 88 out of 1,493. Before him are Sri Aurobindo (1872), Sher Shah Suri (1486), Vātsyāyana (300), Cliff Richard (1940), Tukaram (1608), and Sarojini Naidu (1879). After him are Gerald Durrell (1925), Mahākāśyapa (-550), Satyendra Nath Bose (1894), Chandragupta II (400), Vishvamitra (-2000), and Guru Gobind Singh (1666).
1872 - 1950
HPI: 64.19
Rank: 82
1486 - 1545
HPI: 64.03
Rank: 83
300 - 500
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 84
1940 - Present
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 85
1608 - 1650
HPI: 63.65
Rank: 86
1879 - 1949
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 87
1910 - 1949
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 88
1925 - 1995
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 89
550 BC - 549 BC
HPI: 63.35
Rank: 90
1894 - 1974
HPI: 63.25
Rank: 91
400 - 500
HPI: 63.25
Rank: 92
2000 BC - 2000 BC
HPI: 63.19
Rank: 93
1666 - 1708
HPI: 63.17
Rank: 94
Among extremists born in India, Nathuram Godse ranks 1. After him are Dawood Ibrahim (1955).