1897 - 1963
Thích Quảng Đức (chữ Hán: 釋廣德, Vietnamese: [tʰǐk̟ kʷâːŋ ɗɨ̌k] ; born Lâm Văn Túc; 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 5,019,904 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia. Thích Quảng Đức is the 45th most popular social activist (up from 46th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Vietnam (down from 6th in 2019) and the 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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Among social activists, Thích Quảng Đức ranks 45 out of 538. Before him are Jan Palach, Emma Goldman, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Emmeline Pankhurst, Alfred Hermann Fried, and Carl von Ossietzky. After him are Yemelyan Pugachev, Stenka Razin, Hassan al-Banna, Shirin Ebadi, Babak Khorramdin, and Alexey Stakhanov.
1948 - 1969
HPI: 68.53
Rank: 39
1869 - 1940
HPI: 68.27
Rank: 40
1837 - 1897
HPI: 68.14
Rank: 41
1858 - 1928
HPI: 68.06
Rank: 42
1864 - 1921
HPI: 67.93
Rank: 43
1889 - 1938
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 44
1897 - 1963
HPI: 67.75
Rank: 45
1742 - 1775
HPI: 67.64
Rank: 46
1630 - 1671
HPI: 67.59
Rank: 47
1906 - 1949
HPI: 67.50
Rank: 48
1947 - Present
HPI: 67.07
Rank: 49
798 - 838
HPI: 67.04
Rank: 50
1906 - 1977
HPI: 67.02
Rank: 51
Among people born in 1897, Thích Quảng Đức ranks 17. Before him are Wilhelm Reich, Paavo Nurmi, Georges Bataille, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia, Norbert Elias, and Pola Negri. After him are Louis Aragon, Gordon Allport, Enid Blyton, Ferenc Szálasi, Kurt Schuschnigg, and Frank Capra. Among people deceased in 1963, Thích Quảng Đức ranks 20. Before him are Paul Hindemith, Nâzım Hikmet, Francis Poulenc, Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, Sylvia Plath, and Theodor Heuss. After him are Yasujirō Ozu, Herbert Spencer Gasser, Rajendra Prasad, Abd al-Karim Qasim, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, and Michael Rockefeller.
1897 - 1957
HPI: 70.37
Rank: 11
1897 - 1973
HPI: 69.81
Rank: 12
1897 - 1962
HPI: 69.26
Rank: 13
1897 - 1918
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 14
1897 - 1990
HPI: 68.34
Rank: 15
1897 - 1987
HPI: 68.07
Rank: 16
1897 - 1963
HPI: 67.75
Rank: 17
1897 - 1982
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 18
1897 - 1967
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 19
1897 - 1968
HPI: 67.36
Rank: 20
1897 - 1946
HPI: 67.01
Rank: 21
1897 - 1977
HPI: 66.85
Rank: 22
1897 - 1991
HPI: 66.58
Rank: 23
1895 - 1963
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 14
1902 - 1963
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 15
1899 - 1963
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 16
1883 - 1963
HPI: 68.18
Rank: 17
1932 - 1963
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 18
1884 - 1963
HPI: 67.84
Rank: 19
1897 - 1963
HPI: 67.75
Rank: 20
1903 - 1963
HPI: 67.32
Rank: 21
1888 - 1963
HPI: 66.01
Rank: 22
1884 - 1963
HPI: 64.61
Rank: 23
1914 - 1963
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 24
1884 - 1963
HPI: 64.26
Rank: 25
1938 - 1963
HPI: 63.92
Rank: 26
Among people born in Vietnam, Thích Quảng Đức ranks 7 out of 124. Before him are Ho Chi Minh (1890), Ngo Dinh Diem (1901), Amanda Lear (1939), Võ Nguyên Giáp (1911), Marguerite Duras (1914), and Thích Nhất Hạnh (1926). After him are Bảo Đại (1913), Lê Đức Thọ (1911), Nguyễn Phú Trọng (1944), Dương Văn Minh (1916), Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (1923), and Lady Sun (192).
1890 - 1969
HPI: 77.58
Rank: 1
1901 - 1963
HPI: 72.00
Rank: 2
1939 - Present
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 3
1911 - 2013
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 4
1914 - 1996
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 5
1926 - 2022
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 6
1897 - 1963
HPI: 67.75
Rank: 7
1913 - 1997
HPI: 66.01
Rank: 8
1911 - 1990
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 9
1944 - Present
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 10
1916 - 2001
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 11
1923 - 2001
HPI: 63.21
Rank: 12
192 - Present
HPI: 62.72
Rank: 13
Among social activists born in Vietnam, Thích Quảng Đức ranks 1. After him are Lê Đức Thọ (1911).