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Ted Kaczynski

1942 - 2023

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Theodore John Kaczynski ( kə-ZIN-skee; May 22, 1942 – June 10, 2023), also known as the Unabomber ( YOO-nə-bom-ər), was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. He was a mathematics prodigy, but abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a reclusive primitive lifestyle. Kaczynski murdered three people and injured 23 others between 1978 and 1995 in a nationwide mail bombing campaign against people he believed to be advancing modern technology and the destruction of the natural environment. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ted Kaczynski has received more than 44,238,599 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Ted Kaczynski is the 18th most popular extremist (down from 12th in 2019), the 322nd most popular biography from United States (down from 240th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Extremist.

Ted Kaczynski is most famous for being the Unabomber. He sent a series of bombs to people in universities and airlines. He killed three people and injured 23 others.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Ted Kaczynski ranks 18 out of 283. Before him are Man in the Iron Mask, Abdullah Öcalan, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Ramón Mercader, and Andrei Chikatilo. After him are Ayman al-Zawahiri, Ulrike Meinhof, Ed Gein, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Albert Fish, and Charles Ponzi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Ted Kaczynski ranks 24. Before him are Peter Handke, Barbra Streisand, Brian Wilson, Ronnie James Dio, John Wayne Gacy, and Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. After him are Daniel Barenboim, Brian Jones, Calvin Klein, Michael Haneke, Alassane Ouattara, and Werner Herzog. Among people deceased in 2023, Ted Kaczynski ranks 19. Before him are Giorgio Napolitano, Martti Ahtisaari, Kenzaburō Ōe, Just Fontaine, Fernando Botero, and Lisa Marie Presley. After him are Louise Glück, Mohamed Al-Fayed, Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Paco Rabanne, Ryan O'Neal, and Jacques Delors.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ted Kaczynski ranks 322 out of 20,380. Before him are Claude Shannon (1916), James Buchanan (1791), Grover Cleveland (1837), Paul Samuelson (1915), George Westinghouse (1846), and Henry Miller (1891). After him are Angelina Jolie (1975), Zachary Taylor (1784), Ezra Pound (1885), Stevie Wonder (1950), Warren G. Harding (1865), and Eminem (1972).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Ted Kaczynski ranks 8. Before him are Zodiac Killer (1940), John Wilkes Booth (1838), Charles Manson (1934), Ted Bundy (1946), Jeffrey Dahmer (1960), and John Wayne Gacy (1942). After him are Ed Gein (1906), Albert Fish (1870), H. H. Holmes (1861), Jim Jones (1931), William Kemmler (1860), and Timothy McVeigh (1968).

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