SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Vesna Vulović

1950 - 2016

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Vesna Vulović (Serbian Cyrillic: Весна Вуловић, pronounced [ʋêsna ʋûːloʋitɕ]; 3 January 1950 – 23 December 2016) was a Serbian flight attendant who survived the highest fall without a parachute: 10.16 kilometres (6.31 miles) or 33,338 feet. She was the sole survivor after an explosion tore through the baggage compartment of JAT Flight 367 on 26 January 1972, causing it to crash near Srbská Kamenice, Czechoslovakia (now part of the Czech Republic). Air safety investigators attributed the explosion to a briefcase bomb. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vesna Vulović has received more than 4,709,482 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Vesna Vulović is the 132nd most popular social activist (down from 121st in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from Serbia (down from 54th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Serbian Social Activist.

Vesna Vulović is most famous for the incident where she fell from a plane at 33,000 feet without a parachute and survived.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Vesna Vulović ranks 132 out of 840. Before her are Denis Mukwege, Antipope Clement III, Georgy Gapon, George Stinney, Steve Biko, and Musa al-Sadr. After her are Pier Gerlofs Donia, Abimael Guzmán, Mairead Maguire, Gangubai Kothewali, Hilda Gadea, and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Vesna Vulović ranks 53. Before her are Suzi Quatro, Jussi Adler-Olsen, Roza Otunbayeva, Julie Walters, Laura Gemser, and Tsugumi Ohba. After her are Janez Drnovšek, Christina Onassis, Lakshmi Mittal, Alan Silvestri, Mark Spitz, and Cybill Shepherd. Among people deceased in 2016, Vesna Vulović ranks 66. Before her are Patricio Aylwin, Hilary Putnam, Robert Vaughn, Jacques Rivette, Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, and Michel Tournier. After her are Sonia Rykiel, Marvin Minsky, Walter Kohn, Chyna, Queen Anne of Romania, and Thomas Luckmann.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Vesna Vulović ranks 63 out of 661. Before her are Radomir Putnik (1847), Saliha Sultan (1680), Olivera Despina (1372), Milena Dravić (1940), Dragan Stojković (1965), and Aşub Sultan (1627). After her are Radomir Antić (1948), Moša Pijade (1890), Milan Milutinović (1942), Draga Mašin (1864), Dušan Simović (1882), and Radoje Domanović (1873).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Serbia

Among social activists born in Serbia, Vesna Vulović ranks 2. Before her are Dragutin Dimitrijević (1876). After her are Lepa Mladjenovic (1954).

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