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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 perpetrated the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995. The bombing killed 168 people (19 of whom were children), injured 680, 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 15,033,660 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Timothy McVeigh is the 62nd most popular extremist, the 1,259th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,276th in 2019) and the 21st 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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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

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  • 12.35

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  • 1.77

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Timothy McVeigh ranks 62 out of 209. Before him are George Habash, Frank Sheeran, Karl Denke, Hermine Braunsteiner, Johnny Torrio, and Barry Seal. After him are Dennis Rader, Marc Dutroux, Shamil Basayev, Sada Abe, Charles Sobhraj, and Boris Savinkov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Timothy McVeigh ranks 16. Before him are Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, Didier Deschamps, Marine Le Pen, Guy Ritchie, Davor Šuker, and Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark. After him are Kylie Minogue, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Josh Brolin, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Eric Bana, and Helen McCrory. Among people deceased in 2001, Timothy McVeigh ranks 40. Before him are Juan Antonio Villacañas, Morris, Stanley Kramer, Chung Ju-yung, Jacques Mayol, and Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark. After him are Isaac Stern, Ken Kesey, Henry Lee Lucas, Giovanni Leone, Emilie Schindler, and Edward Gierek.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Timothy McVeigh ranks 1,259 out of 18,182. Before him are Cole Porter (1891), Walter Gilbert (1932), Donna Haraway (1944), Dwight Schultz (1947), David McClelland (1917), and Alyson Hannigan (1974). After him are Erskine Caldwell (1903), Robert Rauschenberg (1925), Chris Columbus (1958), Alan J. Heeger (1936), Lisa Kudrow (1963), and John Forsythe (1918).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Timothy McVeigh ranks 21. Before him are Jeffrey Dahmer (1960), Butch Cassidy (1866), Edmund Kemper (1948), Jordan Belfort (1962), Frank Sheeran (1920), and Barry Seal (1939). After him are Dennis Rader (1945), Henry Lee Lucas (1936), Ma Barker (1873), Richard Ramirez (1960), James Earl Ray (1928), and Gary Ridgway (1949).

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