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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Romas Kalanta

1953 - 1972

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Romas Kalanta (22 February 1953 – 14 May 1972) was a 19-year-old Lithuanian high school student who killed himself by self-immolation in an act of protest against the Soviet regime in Lithuania. His death provoked the largest post-war riots in Lithuania and inspired similar self-immolations. In 1972, 13 more people committed suicide by self-immolation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Romas Kalanta has received more than 161,113 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Romas Kalanta is the 405th most popular social activist (down from 387th in 2019), the 123rd most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 115th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Lithuanian Social Activist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Romas Kalanta ranks 405 out of 538. Before him are Miroslav Tyrš, Christine Delphy, Anna Louise Strong, Pjetër Arbnori, Afeni Shakur, and William Lloyd Garrison. After him are Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed, Eugene V. Debs, Otto Warmbier, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Grey Owl, and Frances Ames.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Romas Kalanta ranks 231. Before him are Gernot Rohr, Attilio Bettega, Louie Anderson, Ernest Bai Koroma, Abdelmajid Dolmy, and Oliver Ivanović. After him are Mike Stern, Michaël Dudok de Wit, Andrey Makarevich, Artūras Paulauskas, Colleen Camp, and Neda Arnerić. Among people deceased in 1972, Romas Kalanta ranks 155. Before him are Moe Berg, Abeid Karume, Vera Inber, Mitchell Leisen, Brandon deWilde, and Gustav Wiederkehr. After him are Harold Rainsford Stark, Prithviraj Kapoor, Louise Arner Boyd, Ntare V of Burundi, Vera Karalli, and Edmund Wilson.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Romas Kalanta ranks 123 out of 287. Before him are Henryk Gulbinowicz (1923), Grigory Gershuni (1870), Steponas Darius (1896), Lasar Segall (1891), Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius (1882), and Źmitrok Biadula (1886). After him are Sigitas Tamkevičius (1938), Kārlis Zāle (1888), Artūras Paulauskas (1953), Ben Shahn (1898), Michał Elwiro Andriolli (1836), and Rimas Kurtinaitis (1960).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Lithuania

Among social activists born in Lithuania, Romas Kalanta ranks 4. Before him are Emma Goldman (1869), Emilia Plater (1806), and Klara Zamenhof (1863).

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