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Timothy McVeigh

1968 - 2001

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Timothy James McVeigh (April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001) was an American domestic terrorist who masterminded and perpetrated the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995. The bombing killed 168 people, including 19 children, injured 684, and destroyed one-third of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. It remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Timothy McVeigh has received more than 15,967,540 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Timothy McVeigh is the 46th most popular extremist (up from 62nd in 2019), the 1,080th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,259th in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Extremist.

Timothy McVeigh is most famous for bombing the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. He was convicted of the bombing and executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001.

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  • 62.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Timothy McVeigh ranks 46 out of 283. Before him are Joseph Kony, William Kemmler, Mehmet Ali Ağca, Fritz Haarmann, Gudrun Ensslin, and Madame de Brinvilliers. After him are George Jung, Karl Denke, Pavlik Morozov, Edmund Kemper, Butch Cassidy, and Issei Sagawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Timothy McVeigh ranks 12. Before him are Daniel Craig, Didier Deschamps, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, Hugh Jackman, Davor Šuker, and Marine Le Pen. After him are Mika Häkkinen, Brendan Fraser, Susan Wojcicki, Naomi Watts, Marcel Desailly, and Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Among people deceased in 2001, Timothy McVeigh ranks 35. Before him are Zhang Xueliang, John Lee Hooker, Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, Morris, and W. G. Sebald. After him are Charles Trenet, Juan Antonio Villacañas, Giovanni Leone, Balthus, Chung Ju-yung, and Anna Mani.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Timothy McVeigh ranks 1,080 out of 20,380. Before him are Michelle Phillips (1944), Steve Carell (1962), Brian Dennehy (1938), Percival Lowell (1855), David Caruso (1956), and Joseph Erlanger (1874). After him are John Heard (1946), John Vincent Atanasoff (1903), Piper Laurie (1932), Janet Yellen (1946), Mike Pence (1959), and Harvey J. Alter (1935).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Timothy McVeigh ranks 14. Before him are Ted Kaczynski (1942), Ed Gein (1906), Albert Fish (1870), H. H. Holmes (1861), Jim Jones (1931), and William Kemmler (1860). After him are George Jung (1942), Edmund Kemper (1948), Butch Cassidy (1866), Aileen Wuornos (1956), Dennis Rader (1945), and Gary Ridgway (1949).

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