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Richard Ramirez

1960 - 2013

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Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramirez (; February 29, 1960 – June 7, 2013), better known as Richard Ramirez, and nicknamed the Night Stalker, was an American serial killer and sex offender whose killing spree occurred in Greater Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area in the state of California. From April 1984 to August 1985, Ramirez murdered at least fourteen people during various break-ins, with his crimes usually taking place in the afternoon, leading to him being dubbed the Night Stalker, the Walk-In Killer, and the Valley Intruder. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Ramirez has received more than 30,510,193 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Richard Ramirez is the 105th most popular extremist (down from 73rd in 2019), the 2,200th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,497th in 2019) and the 30th most popular American Extremist.

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  • 57.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Richard Ramirez ranks 105 out of 283. Before him are Wilhelm Voigt, Oskar Gröning, Robert Hansen, Leonarda Cianciulli, Barry Seal, and Johann Rattenhuber. After him are Monika Ertl, Horst Mahler, Baruch Goldstein, Therese Brandl, Eugen Weidmann, and Dokka Umarov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Richard Ramirez ranks 76. Before him are Fayez al-Sarraj, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran, Gazebo, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, and Igor Belanov. After him are Laurent Fignon, Steve Vai, Simonetta Sommaruga, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Hiroshi Amano, and Yannick Noah. Among people deceased in 2013, Richard Ramirez ranks 99. Before him are Sergei Belov, Eleanor Parker, Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse, Nguyễn Khánh, Otfried Preußler, and Glafcos Clerides. After him are Wolfgang Sawallisch, Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, Ray Harryhausen, Taihō Kōki, Frederik Pohl, and Deanna Durbin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Ramirez ranks 2,200 out of 20,380. Before him are Dorothy Parker (1893), Maxwell D. Taylor (1901), Patricia Clarkson (1959), Michael Emerson (1954), Don S. Davis (1942), and Linda Blair (1959). After him are Linda Evans (1942), Richard Ford (1944), Paul Marcinkus (1922), Billy Gibbons (1949), Suzanne Collins (1962), and Kim Hunter (1922).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Richard Ramirez ranks 30. Before him are James Earl Ray (1928), Susan Atkins (1948), Henry Lee Lucas (1936), Whitey Bulger (1929), Robert Hansen (1939), and Barry Seal (1939). After him are Baruch Goldstein (1956), Delphine LaLaurie (1787), Aldrich Ames (1941), David Berkowitz (1953), Stephen Paddock (1953), and Rodney Alcala (1943).

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