SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Otto Warmbier

1994 - 2017

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Otto Frederick Warmbier (December 12, 1994 – June 19, 2017) was an American college student who was imprisoned in North Korea in 2016 on a charge of subversion. In June 2017, he was released by North Korea in a vegetative state and died soon after his parents requested his feeding tube be removed. Warmbier entered North Korea as part of a guided tour group on December 29, 2015. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto Warmbier has received more than 11,481,288 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Otto Warmbier is the 383rd most popular social activist (up from 408th in 2019), the 4,681st most popular biography from United States (up from 5,778th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular American Social Activist.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Otto Warmbier ranks 383 out of 840Before him are Tatyana Baramzina, Marsha P. Johnson, Marie Popelin, Germaine Tillion, Pingali Venkayya, and Anita Augspurg. After him are Ivan Bolotnikov, Claudette Colvin, Azucena Villaflor, Alice Paul, Toyohiko Kagawa, and Chen Qimei.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1994, Otto Warmbier ranks 13Before him are Halsey, João Cancelo, Christina Grimmie, Aleksandar Mitrović, Mateo Kovačić, and Hakan Çalhanoğlu. After him are Bernardo Silva, Memphis Depay, Harry Styles, Dakota Fanning, Leandro Paredes, and Kai. Among people deceased in 2017, Otto Warmbier ranks 236Before him are Velasio de Paolis, Holger Czukay, A. R. Penck, Jan Tříska, John Ashbery, and Qian Qichen. After him are Daphne Caruana Galizia, Jana Novotná, Jeffrey Tate, Ilya Glazunov, Prodigy, and Hans Alfredson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Otto Warmbier ranks 4,681 out of 20,380Before him are John Ashbery (1927), Michael Kors (1959), Robert Z'Dar (1950), Ryan Murphy (1965), Charles Best (1899), and Carey Lowell (1961). After him are Walter Bedell Smith (1895), Richard Yates (1926), Radia Perlman (1951), Ruth Teitelbaum (1924), Estelle Harris (1928), and Seymour Cray (1925).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Otto Warmbier ranks 42Before him are Sumner Paine (1868), Dorothy Day (1897), Black Elk (1863), Clara Barton (1821), Lucretia Mott (1793), and Marsha P. Johnson (1945). After him are Claudette Colvin (1939), Alice Paul (1885), Huey P. Newton (1942), Bayard Rustin (1912), Catharine MacKinnon (1946), and Mathew Brady (1822).