1913 - 1978
Ramón Mercader (Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río, 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 1,586,081 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Ramón Mercader is the 14th most popular extremist, the 84th most popular biography from Spain (down from 77th 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, Ramón Mercader ranks 14 out of 209. Before him are Herostratus, Lee Harvey Oswald, Man in the Iron Mask, Gilles de Rais, Ted Kaczynski, and Andrei Chikatilo. After him are Abdullah Öcalan, Zodiac Killer, Ed Gein, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Albert Fish, and Ulrike Meinhof.
301 BC - 356 BC
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 8
1939 - 1963
HPI: 72.83
Rank: 9
1640 - 1703
HPI: 72.71
Rank: 10
1405 - 1440
HPI: 72.60
Rank: 11
1942 - 2023
HPI: 70.46
Rank: 12
1936 - 1994
HPI: 69.53
Rank: 13
1913 - 1978
HPI: 69.35
Rank: 14
1949 - Present
HPI: 69.02
Rank: 15
1940 - Present
HPI: 68.43
Rank: 16
1906 - 1984
HPI: 68.39
Rank: 17
1971 - 2019
HPI: 68.11
Rank: 18
1870 - 1936
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 19
1934 - 1976
HPI: 67.62
Rank: 20
Among people born in 1913, Ramón Mercader ranks 16. Before him are Josef Bican, Jesse Owens, Burt Lancaster, Claude Simon, Klaus Barbie, and Paul Ricœur. After him are Gustáv Husák, Benjamin Britten, Sabiha Gökçen, Makarios III, Lon Nol, and Paul Erdős. Among people deceased in 1978, Ramón Mercader ranks 12. Before him are Aldo Moro, Jacques Brel, Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Giorgio de Chirico, Adolf Dassler, and Mohammed Daoud Khan. After him are Margaret Mead, Manne Siegbahn, Anastas Mikoyan, Jim Jones, Umberto Nobile, and Ronnie Peterson.
1913 - 2001
HPI: 71.63
Rank: 10
1913 - 1980
HPI: 71.38
Rank: 11
1913 - 1994
HPI: 70.44
Rank: 12
1913 - 2005
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 13
1913 - 1991
HPI: 69.82
Rank: 14
1913 - 2005
HPI: 69.69
Rank: 15
1913 - 1978
HPI: 69.35
Rank: 16
1913 - 1991
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 17
1913 - 1976
HPI: 68.71
Rank: 18
1913 - 2001
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 19
1913 - 1977
HPI: 67.40
Rank: 20
1913 - 1985
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 21
1913 - 1996
HPI: 66.35
Rank: 22
1916 - 1978
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 6
1929 - 1978
HPI: 71.11
Rank: 7
1895 - 1978
HPI: 70.31
Rank: 8
1888 - 1978
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 9
1900 - 1978
HPI: 69.61
Rank: 10
1909 - 1978
HPI: 69.56
Rank: 11
1913 - 1978
HPI: 69.35
Rank: 12
1901 - 1978
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 13
1886 - 1978
HPI: 68.34
Rank: 14
1895 - 1978
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 15
1931 - 1978
HPI: 67.28
Rank: 16
1885 - 1978
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 17
1944 - 1978
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 18
Among people born in Spain, Ramón Mercader ranks 84 out of 2,932. Before him are José Ortega y Gasset (1883), Josep Borrell (1947), Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba (1507), Alfonso VI of León and Castile (1040), Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress (1528), and Al-Zahrawi (936). After him are Isaac Albéniz (1860), Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (1470), Blanche of Castile (1188), José Carreras (1946), Peter III of Aragon (1239), and Juan Gris (1887).
1883 - 1955
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 78
1947 - Present
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 79
1507 - 1582
HPI: 69.46
Rank: 80
1040 - 1109
HPI: 69.46
Rank: 81
1528 - 1603
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 82
936 - 1013
HPI: 69.44
Rank: 83
1913 - 1978
HPI: 69.35
Rank: 84
1860 - 1909
HPI: 69.28
Rank: 85
1470 - 1498
HPI: 69.27
Rank: 86
1188 - 1252
HPI: 69.27
Rank: 87
1946 - Present
HPI: 69.20
Rank: 88
1239 - 1285
HPI: 69.20
Rank: 89
1887 - 1927
HPI: 69.15
Rank: 90
Among extremists born in Spain, Ramón Mercader ranks 1. After him are Luis Carrero Blanco (1904) and Émile Henry (1872).
1913 - 1978
HPI: 69.35
Rank: 1
1904 - 1973
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 2
1872 - 1894
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 3