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Vincenzo Peruggia

1881 - 1925

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Vincenzo Peruggia (8 October 1881 – 8 October 1925) was an Italian museum worker, artist and thief, most famous for stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre Museum in Paris on 21 August 1911. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vincenzo Peruggia has received more than 909,321 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Vincenzo Peruggia is the 82nd most popular extremist (down from 38th in 2019), the 1,540th most popular biography from Italy (down from 895th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Italian Extremist.

Vincenzo Peruggia is most famous for stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911.

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  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Vincenzo Peruggia has had the most page views in the with 139,303 views, followed by Italian (30,507), and Spanish (19,839). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Mongolian (379.28%), Latin (80.31%), and Venetian (70.85%)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Vincenzo Peruggia ranks 82 out of 283Before him are Shamil Basayev, Ma Barker, Emperor Norton, Wadie Haddad, Matija Gubec, and James Earl Ray. After him are Armin Meiwes, Robert-François Damiens, Sada Abe, Anders Behring Breivik, Susan Atkins, and Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Vincenzo Peruggia ranks 58Before him are P. G. Wodehouse, Paul Cornu, Eugène Schueller, L. E. J. Brouwer, Vincenzo Lancia, and Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax. After him are Cecil B. DeMille, H. H. Kung, Günther Quandt, Muhammad VIII al-Amin, Ramón Grau, and Ernst Gräfenberg. Among people deceased in 1925, Vincenzo Peruggia ranks 49Before him are August von Wassermann, Michel Verne, Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow, Nariman Narimanov, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, and Antti Aarne. After him are Christian Michelsen, Pier Giorgio Frassati, Khải Định, René Viviani, Moritz Moszkowski, and Cyril Genik.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Vincenzo Peruggia ranks 1,540 out of 5,161Before him are Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1726), Accursius (1182), Simone Inzaghi (1976), Luca Marenzio (1553), Aistulf (null), and Mario Balotelli (1990). After him are Naevius Sutorius Macro (-21), James III of Majorca (1315), Carlo Maratta (1625), Pietro Longhi (1701), Mariano Rampolla (1843), and Damiano Damiani (1922).

Among EXTREMISTS In Italy

Among extremists born in Italy, Vincenzo Peruggia ranks 8Before him are Charles Ponzi (1882), Patrizia Reggiani (1948), Tommaso Buscetta (1928), Carlo Gambino (1902), Matteo Messina Denaro (1962), and Johnny Torrio (1882). After him are Luciano Leggio (1925), Leonarda Cianciulli (1893), Sante Geronimo Caserio (1873), Frank Nitti (1886), Albert Anastasia (1902), and Joseph Bonanno (1905).