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Thích Quảng Đức

1897 - 1963

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Thích Quảng Đức (chữ Hán: 釋廣德, Vietnamese: [tʰǐk̟ kʷâːŋ ɗɨ̌k] ; born Lâm Văn Túc; c. 1897 – 11 June 1963) was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who died by self-immolation at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963. Quảng Đức was protesting against the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government of Ngô Đình Diệm, a staunch Roman Catholic. Photographs of his self-immolation circulated around the world, drawing attention to the policies of the Diệm government. John F. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thích Quảng Đức has received more than 5,585,687 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Thích Quảng Đức is the 62nd most popular social activist (down from 45th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Vietnam (down from 7th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Vietnamese Social Activist.

Thích Quảng Đức was a Buddhist monk who burned himself to death in 1963 to protest the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government.

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  • 66.62

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  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.69

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  • 3.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Thích Quảng Đức ranks 62 out of 840. Before him are Alfred Hermann Fried, Túpac Amaru II, Babak Khorramdin, Stenka Razin, Alexei Navalny, and Mustafa Barzani. After him are Mukhtar al-Thaqafi, José Rizal, Witold Pilecki, Camilo Cienfuegos, Beatrice Cenci, and Bhagat Singh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Thích Quảng Đức ranks 24. Before him are Soong Mei-ling, Gordon Allport, Tadeusz Reichstein, Frank Capra, Kurt Schuschnigg, and Pola Negri. After him are Odd Hassel, Yun Posun, Enid Blyton, Paul Delvaux, Kurt Daluege, and Karl Gebhardt. Among people deceased in 1963, Thích Quảng Đức ranks 23. Before him are Francis Poulenc, Sylvia Plath, Paul Hindemith, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Herbert Spencer Gasser, and Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria. After him are Abd al-Karim Qasim, Carmen Amaya, Rajendra Prasad, Theodore von Kármán, Oleg Penkovsky, and Jacques Hadamard.

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In Vietnam

Among people born in Vietnam, Thích Quảng Đức ranks 8 out of 136. Before him are Ngo Dinh Diem (1901), Võ Nguyên Giáp (1911), Marguerite Duras (1914), Amanda Lear (1939), Lê Đức Thọ (1911), and Thích Nhất Hạnh (1926). After him are Nguyễn Phú Trọng (1944), Bảo Đại (1913), Ieng Sary (1925), Lady Sun (192), Dương Văn Minh (1916), and Lê Duẩn (1907).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Vietnam

Among social activists born in Vietnam, Thích Quảng Đức ranks 2. Before him are Lê Đức Thọ (1911). After him are Peter Nguyen Van Hung (1958).

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