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Salvatore Riina

1930 - 2017

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Salvatore Riina (Italian pronunciation: [salvaˈtoːre (toˈtɔ r)riˈiːna]; 16 November 1930 – 17 November 2017), called Totò (sicilian diminutive of Salvatore), was an Italian mobster and chief of the Sicilian Mafia, known for a ruthless murder campaign that reached a peak in the early 1990s with the assassinations of Antimafia Commission prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, resulting in widespread public outcry, legal change and a major crackdown by the authorities. He was also known by the nicknames la belva ("the beast") and il capo dei capi (Sicilian: 'u capu di 'i capi, "the boss of bosses"). Riina succeeded Luciano Leggio as head of the Corleonesi criminal organisation in the mid-1970s and achieved dominance through a campaign of violence, which caused police to target his rivals. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Salvatore Riina has received more than 2,628,845 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Salvatore Riina is the 4th most popular mafioso (up from 7th in 2019), the 329th most popular biography from Italy (up from 433rd in 2019) and the most popular Italian Mafioso.

Salvatore Riina is most famous for being the boss of the Sicilian Mafia. He was also known as "The Beast" and "The Boss of Bosses." Riina was arrested in 1993 and is currently serving a life sentence.

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Among MAFIOSOS

Among mafiosos, Salvatore Riina ranks 4 out of 70. Before him are Pablo Escobar, Al Capone, and Griselda Blanco. After him are Lucky Luciano, Billy the Kid, Jack Ruby, Jesse James, Bernardo Provenzano, Meyer Lansky, Frank Abagnale, and Karl Gebhardt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Salvatore Riina ranks 18. Before him are Jean-Luc Godard, Mobutu Sese Seko, Hafez al-Assad, Baudouin of Belgium, Steve McQueen, and Buzz Aldrin. After him are Pete Conrad, Gene Hackman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Noiret, Tu Youyou, and Richard Harris. Among people deceased in 2017, Salvatore Riina ranks 8. Before him are Helmut Kohl, Michael I of Romania, Roger Moore, Stanislav Petrov, Gene Cernan, and Zygmunt Bauman. After him are Ali Abdullah Saleh, David Rockefeller, Jalal Talabani, Raymond Kopa, Chuck Berry, and Zbigniew Brzezinski.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Salvatore Riina ranks 329 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Alexander I (100), Charles Borromeo (1538), Aldo Moro (1916), Pope Eugene I (600), Pope Alexander III (1100), and Pope Marinus I (830). After him are Man in the Iron Mask (1640), Pope Eugene II (780), Giambattista Vico (1668), Antonio da Correggio (1489), Cosimo de' Medici (1389), and Pope Agatho (574).

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Among MAFIOSOS In Italy

Among mafiosos born in Italy, Salvatore Riina ranks 1. After him are Lucky Luciano (1897), Bernardo Provenzano (1933), Vito Genovese (1897), Vito Cascio Ferro (1862), Salvatore Giuliano (1922), Salvatore Maranzano (1886), Giuseppe Morello (1867), Russell Bufalino (1903), Joe Profaci (1897), and Peggy Hettrick murder case (null).

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