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Ramón Mercader

1913 - 1978

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Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río (Spanish: [raˈmom meɾkaˈðeɾ]; Catalan: Jaume Ramon Mercader del Río [rəˈmom məɾkəˈðe]; 7 February 1913 – 18 October 1978) was a Spanish communist and NKVD secret agent who assassinated the revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in August 1940. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ramón Mercader has received more than 1,698,934 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Ramón Mercader is the 16th most popular extremist (down from 14th in 2019), the 85th most popular biography from Spain (down from 84th in 2019) and the most popular Spanish Extremist.

Ramón Mercader is most famous for assassinating Leon Trotsky, a Russian revolutionary and Marxist theorist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Ramón Mercader ranks 16 out of 283Before him are Herostratus, Gilles de Rais, Man in the Iron Mask, Abdullah Öcalan, Jeffrey Dahmer, and John Wayne Gacy. After him are Andrei Chikatilo, Ted Kaczynski, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Ulrike Meinhof, Ed Gein, and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Ramón Mercader ranks 16Before him are Josef Bican, Claude Simon, Jesse Owens, Klaus Barbie, Gustáv Husák, and Burt Lancaster. After him are Paul Ricœur, Willis Lamb, Makarios III, Sabiha Gökçen, Benjamin Britten, and Kenzō Tange. Among people deceased in 1978, Ramón Mercader ranks 13Before him are Aldo Moro, Jacques Brel, Giorgio de Chirico, Manne Siegbahn, Adolf Dassler, and Umberto Nobile. After him are Anastas Mikoyan, Ricardo Zamora, John Cazale, Harry Martinson, Kurt Student, and Houari Boumédiène.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Ramón Mercader ranks 85 out of 3,355Before him are Antonio Banderas (1960), Ferdinand VI of Spain (1713), Muhammad XII of Granada (1459), Alfonso VI of León and Castile (1040), Santiago Calatrava (1951), and Vicente del Bosque (1950). After him are Al-Zahrawi (936), Magnus Maximus (335), Isaac Albéniz (1860), Pablo Casals (1876), Peter III of Aragon (1239), and José Ortega y Gasset (1883).

Among EXTREMISTS In Spain

Among extremists born in Spain, Ramón Mercader ranks 1After him are Luis Carrero Blanco (1904), Émile Henry (1872), and Amparo Poch y Gascón (1902).