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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 851,558 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Troy Davis is the 59th most popular mafioso (down from 47th in 2019), the 11,727th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,350th in 2019) and the 25th most popular American Mafioso.

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  • 38.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MAFIOSOS

Among mafiosos, Troy Davis ranks 59 out of 52Before him are Sergei Magnitsky, Rakhat Aliyev, Assata Shakur, Abu Qatada, Anna Sorokin, and Salah Abdeslam. After him are Abu Hamza al-Masri, Aafia Siddiqui, Amanda Knox, Ram Bahadur Bomjon, and Delara Darabi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Troy Davis ranks 453Before him are Pat O'Brien, Yoo Nam-kyu, Ali Benarbia, Emanuele Naspetti, Javier Sánchez, and Koji Igarashi. After him are Michael Herbig, Atticus Ross, Guinevere Turner, Ivan Sokolov, Ioan Sabău, and Antonio Rossi. Among people deceased in 2011, Troy Davis ranks 428Before him are Vladimir Ryzhkin, Pauline Betz, John M. Lounge, Sada Thompson, Fe del Mundo, and Dan Wheldon. After him are Margaret Whiting, Tom Aldredge, Neil Young, Ellen Stewart, Charlie Callas, and Carl Robie.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Troy Davis ranks 11,727 out of 18,182Before him are Amy Klobuchar (1960), Vince Gill (1957), Montel Vontavious Porter (1973), Kristin Bauer van Straten (1966), Irving Bacon (1893), and Dean Winters (1964). After him are DeAndre Jordan (1988), Alex Kurtzman (1973), Harley Jane Kozak (1957), Dorothy Phillips (1889), Marsha Blackburn (1952), and Todd Howard (1971).

Among MAFIOSOS In United States

Among mafiosos born in United States, Troy Davis ranks 25Before him are Jonathan Pollard (1954), Vincent Gigante (1928), Belle Starr (1848), Tony Accardo (1906), Kenneth Lay (1942), and Assata Shakur (1947). After him are Amanda Knox (1987).