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Tamam Shud case

1903 - 1948

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The Somerton Man was an unidentified man whose body was found on 1 December 1948 on the beach at Somerton Park, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. The case is also known after the Persian phrase tamám shud (تمام شد), meaning "It is over" or "It is finished", which was printed on a scrap of paper found months later in the fob pocket of the man's trousers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tamam Shud case has received more than 3,550,569 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Tamam Shud case is the 23rd most popular mafioso (down from 16th in 2019), the 34th most popular biography from Australia (down from 21st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Australian Mafioso.

The case of the Tamam Shud case is most famous for the discovery of a copy of a poem, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The poem was found in the pocket of a man who was found dead on December 1, 1948.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Tamam Shud cases by language

Over the past year Tamam Shud case has had the most page views in the with 83,478 views, followed by English (48,698), and Japanese (33,520). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Sinhalese (107.81%), Simple English (70.96%), and Azerbaijani (40.37%)

Among MAFIOSOS

Among mafiosos, Tamam Shud case ranks 23 out of 70. Before her are Wyatt Earp, John Gotti, Semion Mogilevich, Velupillai Prabhakaran, Ned Kelly, and Ta Mok. After her are Vito Genovese, Vito Cascio Ferro, Jenny-Wanda Barkmann, Salvatore Giuliano, Khun Sa, and Amado Carrillo Fuentes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Tamam Shud case ranks 65. Before her are Abul A'la Maududi, Eliot Ness, George Davis Snell, Vincente Minnelli, Maud Lewis, and Raymond Radiguet. After her are Louis Leakey, Irving Stone, Erskine Caldwell, Joan Robinson, Sadegh Hedayat, and Fritz Bauer. Among people deceased in 1948, Tamam Shud case ranks 42. Before her are Emil Ludwig, Yoshiko Kawashima, Zelda Fitzgerald, Hans Aumeier, Uzeyir Hajibeyov, and Kōki Hirota. After her are Josef Bühler, Dieter Wisliceny, Rudolf Brandt, Seishirō Itagaki, Otto Rasch, and Kenji Doihara.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Tamam Shud case ranks 34 out of 1,143. Before her are Macfarlane Burnet (1899), Steve Irwin (1962), John Cornforth (1917), P. L. Travers (1899), Lionel Logue (1880), and Ned Kelly (1855). After her are John Noble (1948), Kylie Minogue (1968), Joan Sutherland (1926), Alan Jones (1946), Lisa Gerrard (1961), and Phil Rudd (1954).

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Among MAFIOSOS In Australia

Among mafiosos born in Australia, Tamam Shud case ranks 2. Before her are Ned Kelly (1855).

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