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Vincent Gigante

1928 - 2005

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Vincent Louis Gigante ( jig-AN-tee, Italian: [dʒiˈɡante]; March 29, 1928 – December 19, 2005), also known as "The Chin", was an American mobster who was boss of the Genovese crime family in New York City from 1981 to 2005. Gigante started out as a professional boxer who fought in 25 matches between 1944 and 1947. He then started working as a Mafia enforcer for what was then the Luciano crime family, forerunner of the Genovese family. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vincent Gigante has received more than 4,725,309 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Vincent Gigante is the 49th most popular mafioso, the 4,846th most popular biography from United States and the 20th most popular American Mafioso.

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  • 49.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MAFIOSOS

Among mafiosos, Vincent Gigante ranks 49 out of 52. Before him are Robert Hanssen, Lepke Buchalter, Dutch Schultz, Teresa Claramunt Creus, Jonathan Pollard, and Salomon Morel. After him are Belle Starr, Tony Accardo, Kenneth Lay, Sergei Magnitsky, Rakhat Aliyev, and Assata Shakur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Vincent Gigante ranks 293. Before him are Hidetaka Nishiyama, Qian Qichen, Ruth Westheimer, Elio Sgreccia, Mary Daly, and Bob Crane. After him are Steingrímur Hermannsson, Minas Avetisyan, Anatoly Filipchenko, Charles David Keeling, Tzannis Tzannetakis, and Pierre Étaix. Among people deceased in 2005, Vincent Gigante ranks 161. Before him are Suzanne Flon, Zurab Zhvania, Ralph Erskine, Pál Losonczi, Marc Lawrence, and Else Krüger. After him are Tetyana Yablonska, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Laurel Aitken, Lucien Carr, Dorothy Stang, and Charles David Keeling.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Vincent Gigante ranks 4,846 out of 18,182. Before him are Maggie Q (1979), Antonio Fargas (1946), Elaine May (1932), Rube Goldberg (1883), George Washington Williams (1849), and Bob Crane (1928). After him are Murray Leinster (1896), Wesley Clair Mitchell (1874), Charles Hallahan (1943), Virginia Rappe (1895), Tony Randall (1920), and Virgil Abloh (1980).

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Among MAFIOSOS In United States

Among mafiosos born in United States, Vincent Gigante ranks 20. Before him are Sundance Kid (1867), Iva Toguri D'Aquino (1916), Robert Hanssen (1944), Lepke Buchalter (1897), Dutch Schultz (1902), and Jonathan Pollard (1954). After him are Belle Starr (1848), Tony Accardo (1906), Kenneth Lay (1942), Assata Shakur (1947), Troy Davis (1968), and Amanda Knox (1987).

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