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Ruth Bader Ginsburg

1933 - 2020

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Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg ( BAY-dər GHINZ-burg; née Bader; March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton to replace retiring justice Byron White, and at the time was viewed as a moderate consensus-builder. Ginsburg was the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve on the Court, after Sandra Day O'Connor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ruth Bader Ginsburg has received more than 31,985,961 page views. Her biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the 4th most popular judge (up from 6th in 2019), the 662nd most popular biography from United States (up from 1,157th in 2019) and the most popular American Judge.

Ruth bader ginsburg is most famous for being the second woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States. She was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1993. She was the first ever female justice to serve on the Supreme Court.

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Among JUDGES

Among judges, Ruth Bader Ginsburg ranks 4 out of 41Before her are Deborah, Giovanni Falcone, and Roland Freisler. After her are Adly Mansour, Paolo Borsellino, Fritz Bauer, Georg Konrad Morgen, Panagiotis Pikrammenos, John Marshall, Earl Warren, and Vassiliki Thanou-Christophilou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Ruth Bader Ginsburg ranks 34Before her are Arno Allan Penzias, Wilbur Smith, Richard Rogers, Kim Novak, Philip Zimbardo, and Álvaro Siza Vieira. After her are Stanley Milgram, Steven Weinberg, John Barry, Oliver Sacks, Gian Maria Volonté, and Bernardo Provenzano. Among people deceased in 2020, Ruth Bader Ginsburg ranks 22Before her are Michel Piccoli, Albert Uderzo, Alan Parker, Juliette Gréco, Tabaré Vázquez, and Paolo Rossi. After her are Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Betty Williams, Geert Hofstede, Robert Hossein, Stanley Cohen, and Diana Rigg.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ruth Bader Ginsburg ranks 662 out of 18,182Before her are Linda Lovelace (1949), Val Logsdon Fitch (1923), Douglass North (1920), Terrence Malick (1943), Hugh Glass (1783), and Hugh Everett III (1930). After her are Carl Barks (1901), Joseph McCarthy (1908), Jim Jarmusch (1953), Nancy Reagan (1921), Frances McDormand (1957), and Stanley Milgram (1933).

Among JUDGES In United States

Among judges born in United States, Ruth Bader Ginsburg ranks 1After her are John Marshall (1755), Earl Warren (1891), Antonin Scalia (1936), Stephen Breyer (1938), John Roberts (1955), Thurgood Marshall (1908), Clarence Thomas (1948), Sonia Sotomayor (1954), Maryanne Trump Barry (1937), Warren E. Burger (1907), and Anthony Kennedy (1936).