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Troy Davis

1968 - 2011

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Troy Anthony Davis (October 9, 1968 – September 21, 2011) was a man convicted of and executed for the August 19, 1989 murder of police officer Mark MacPhail in Savannah, Georgia. MacPhail was working as a security guard at a Burger King restaurant and was intervening to defend a man being assaulted in a nearby parking lot when he was murdered. During Davis's 1991 trial, seven witnesses testified they had seen Davis shoot MacPhail, and two others testified Davis had confessed the murder to them. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Troy Davis has received more than 910,155 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Troy Davis is the 66th most popular mafioso (down from 59th in 2019), the 13,544th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,700th in 2019) and the 26th most popular American Mafioso.

Memorability Metrics

  • 910k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MAFIOSOS

Among mafiosos, Troy Davis ranks 66 out of 70. Before him are Iva Toguri D'Aquino, Abu Qatada, Rakhat Aliyev, Salah Abdeslam, Abu Hamza al-Masri, and Anna Sorokin. After him are Ram Bahadur Bomjon, Delara Darabi, Peggy Hettrick murder case, and Murder of Emily Armstrong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Troy Davis ranks 543. Before him are Dragan Skočić, Scott Putesky, Bjarne Goldbæk, Erik Palladino, Dalton Tagelagi, and Margaret Cho. After him are Anne Briand, Luminița Anghel, Dirk Medved, Midori, Sibylle Berg, and Dimitri Diatchenko. Among people deceased in 2011, Troy Davis ranks 484. Before him are Anwar al-Awlaki, Mike Barrett, Laura Ziskin, Ellen Stewart, Zyzz, and Xavier Tondo. After him are Ángel Pedraza, Dan Wheldon, Gary Winick, Bill Clements, Salvatore Licitra, and Laurie Hughes.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Troy Davis ranks 13,544 out of 20,380. Before him are Sarah J. Maas (1986), Marisa Miller (1978), James Clapper (1941), Stepin Fetchit (1902), Donald Howard Menzel (1901), and Sidney Drell (1926). After him are Guy Clark (1941), Eugenie Clark (1922), Paul Herman (1946), Mark Aguirre (1959), Abby Wambach (1980), and Jack Webb (1920).

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Among MAFIOSOS In United States

Among mafiosos born in United States, Troy Davis ranks 26. Before him are Joseph Colombo (1923), Tony Accardo (1906), Jonathan Pollard (1954), Assata Shakur (1947), Kenneth Lay (1942), and Iva Toguri D'Aquino (1916).

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