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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 33,330 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 4,418,191 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Vesna Vulović is the 121st most popular social activist (up from 123rd in 2019), the 54th most popular biography from Serbia (up from 57th 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 121 out of 538. Before her are George Stinney, Vinoba Bhave, Georgy Gapon, Hans Scholl, Hilda Gadea, and Rashid ad-Din Sinan. After her are Denis Mukwege, Flora Tristan, Maria Altmann, Vasil Levski, Alfred Naujocks, and Sophia of Prussia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Vesna Vulović ranks 41. Before her are William H. Macy, Marcheline Bertrand, Daniel Auteuil, Jody Scheckter, Tsugumi Ohba, and Russell Alan Hulse. After her are Georg Bednorz, Morgan Fairchild, Grzegorz Lato, Jorge Carlos Fonseca, Nouri al-Maliki, and Nora Roberts. Among people deceased in 2016, Vesna Vulović ranks 62. Before her are Jacques Rivette, Harry Kroto, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Viktor Korchnoi, Esma Redžepova, and Patricio Aylwin. After her are Takahito, Prince Mikasa, Sonia Rykiel, Ahmed Zewail, Toots Thielemans, Margot Honecker, and Michel Tournier.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Vesna Vulović ranks 54 out of 564. Before her are Aleksandar Ranković (1909), Dragan Džajić (1946), Bora Milutinović (1944), Milena Dravić (1940), Aleksandar Vučić (1970), and Danilo Kiš (1935). After her are Dragan Stojković (1965), Mihailo Obrenović (1823), Dobrica Ćosić (1921), Radomir Putnik (1847), Branislav Nušić (1864), and Olivera Despina (1372).

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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).

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