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Sirhan Sirhan

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Sirhan Bishara Sirhan (; Arabic: سرحان بشارة سرحان Sirḥān Bišāra Sirḥān; born March 19, 1944) is a Palestinian-Jordanian man who assassinated Senator Robert F. Kennedy, a younger brother of American president John F. Kennedy and a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 1968 United States presidential election, on June 5, 1968. Kennedy died the next day at the Good Samaritan Hospital of Los Angeles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sirhan Sirhan has received more than 12,298,333 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Sirhan Sirhan is the 98th most popular extremist (up from 101st in 2019), the 160th most popular biography from Israel (down from 147th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Israeli Extremist.

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  • 35

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  • 2.78

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  • 4.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Sirhan Sirhan ranks 98 out of 283. Before him are Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Whitey Bulger, Jacques Mesrine, Luciano Leggio, Jack Unterweger, and Harold Shipman. After him are Wilhelm Voigt, Oskar Gröning, Robert Hansen, Leonarda Cianciulli, Barry Seal, and Johann Rattenhuber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Sirhan Sirhan ranks 159. Before him are Carlos Pace, Everaldo, Tommie Smith, Sergei Belov, Denny Laine, and Jon Anderson. After him are Frances de la Tour, Kemal Sunal, Yury Romanenko, Albert Hammond, Bernard Tschumi, and Marc Ouellet.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Sirhan Sirhan ranks 160 out of 466. Before him are Moshe Ya'alon (1950), Angelus of Jerusalem (1185), Rafael Eitan (1929), Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani (1909), Dirk III, Count of Holland (982), and Yaacov Agam (1928). After him are Ahmed Jibril (1938), Hugh I of Cyprus (1194), Yitzhak Hofi (1927), Meir Amit (1921), Lusius Quietus (100), and Al-Hafiz (1074).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Israel

Among extremists born in Israel, Sirhan Sirhan ranks 4. Before him are George Habash (1926), Abu Nidal (1937), and Wadie Haddad (1927). After him are Yigal Amir (1970).

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