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Steven Sotloff

1983 - 2014

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Steven Joel Sotloff (Hebrew: סטיבן סוטלוף; May 11, 1983 – c. September 2, 2014) was an American-Israeli journalist. In August 2013, he was kidnapped in Aleppo, Syria, and held captive by militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Steven Sotloff has received more than 1,063,721 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Steven Sotloff is the 142nd most popular journalist (down from 127th in 2019), the 14,062nd most popular biography from United States (up from 15,035th in 2019) and the 34th most popular American Journalist.

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  • 37.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Steven Sotloff ranks 142 out of 196. Before him are Greg Burke, Louis Fischer, Olga Skabeyeva, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Anastasia Baburova, and Yvonne Ridley. After him are Khadija Ismayilova, Adrian Lamo, Zhanna Nemtsova, Halyna Hutchins, Fatih Portakal, and Lesley Stahl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1983, Steven Sotloff ranks 330. Before him are Nicky Hilton Rothschild, Braun Strowman, June Huh, Amantle Montsho, Alexei Eremenko, and Travis Pastrana. After him are Michel Vorm, Gabriel Tamaș, Guillermo García López, Aaron Rodgers, Yasuyuki Konno, and Florian Mayer. Among people deceased in 2014, Steven Sotloff ranks 553. Before him are Barbara Murray, Joan Mondale, Dora Bryan, Bob Hastings, Mavis Gallant, and Fernandão. After him are Deven Verma, Valyantsin Byalkevich, Jimmy Ruffin, Christopher Malcolm, Audrey Long, and Thomas Menino.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Steven Sotloff ranks 14,062 out of 20,380. Before him are Taye Diggs (1971), Jack Sikma (1955), Teddy Sears (1977), Bud Yorkin (1926), Jason Gedrick (1965), and Travis Pastrana (1983). After him are Maxine Hong Kingston (1940), Daniel W. Bursch (1957), Brutus Beefcake (1957), Roscoe Conkling (1829), Johnny Gioeli (1967), and Melanie Mayron (1952).

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Among JOURNALISTS In United States

Among journalists born in United States, Steven Sotloff ranks 34. Before him are Megyn Kelly (1970), Sydney Schanberg (1934), Amy Goodman (1957), Greg Burke (1959), Louis Fischer (1896), and Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890). After him are Adrian Lamo (1981), Lesley Stahl (1941), Richard Corliss (1944), Brent Renaud (1971), Evan Gershkovich (1991), and Frances Bean Cobain (1992).

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