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Nguyễn Văn Trỗi

1940 - 1964

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Nguyễn Văn Trỗi (1 February 1940 – 15 October 1964) was a Vietnamese revolutionary and member of the Việt Cộng (National Liberation Front). He gained notoriety after being captured by South Vietnamese forces while trying to assassinate United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nguyễn Văn Trỗi has received more than 85,003 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Nguyễn Văn Trỗi is the 187th most popular extremist, the 82nd most popular biography from Vietnam and the 2nd most popular Vietnamese Extremist.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.98

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Nguyễn Văn Trỗi ranks 187 out of 209Before him are Ernst Zündel, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, Ross Ulbricht, Jonathan Wild, Irmgard Möller, and Alexander Pichushkin. After him are Ahmad Sa'adat, Marshall Applewhite, Dick Turpin, Joseph Paul Franklin, Gary Gilmore, and Édouard Vaillant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Nguyễn Văn Trỗi ranks 314Before him are Giacomo Bulgarelli, Roy Thomas, Norman Spinrad, Larry Brown, Issake Dabore, and Berit Mørdre. After him are Gene Pitney, Franco Balmamion, Souleymane Cissé, Vladimir Korenev, Aracy Balabanian, and Farooq Leghari. Among people deceased in 1964, Nguyễn Văn Trỗi ranks 128Before him are Pentti Eskola, Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, Jan de Vries, Seán O'Casey, Cecília Meireles, and Reg Parnell. After him are Bodil Ipsen, Maurice Farman, Agnes Miegel, Erik Malmberg, Amrit Kaur, and Arpenik Nalbandyan.

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In Vietnam

Among people born in Vietnam, Nguyễn Văn Trỗi ranks 82 out of 124Before him are Võ Văn Kiệt (1922), Chantal Goya (1942), Henri Laborit (1914), Trịnh Công Sơn (1939), Phạm Hùng (1912), and Tran Anh Hung (1962). After him are Phan Thanh Giản (1796), Hanoi Hannah (1931), Jonathan Ke Quan (1971), Nick Ut (1951), Gaston Aumoitte (1884), and Phạm Duy (1921).

Among EXTREMISTS In Vietnam

Among extremists born in Vietnam, Nguyễn Văn Trỗi ranks 2Before him are Charles Sobhraj (1944).