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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 920,990 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Vincenzo Peruggia is the 38th most popular extremist (up from 70th in 2019), the 897th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,324th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Italian Extremist.

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

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Vincenzo Peruggia ranks 38 out of 209Before him are Otto Ohlendorf, H. H. Holmes, Andreas Baader, Tommaso Buscetta, Nathuram Godse, and Peter Kürten. After him are William Kemmler, Emperor Norton, George Jung, Issei Sagawa, Henri Désiré Landru, and Jeffrey Dahmer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Vincenzo Peruggia ranks 36Before him are Natalia Goncharova, Hermann Staudinger, Juan Ramón Jiménez, François Darlan, Władysław Sikorski, and Walter Rudolf Hess. After him are Otto Wille Kuusinen, Carlo Carrà, Asta Nielsen, Theodore von Kármán, Ivan Ribar, and Otto Bauer. Among people deceased in 1925, Vincenzo Peruggia ranks 24Before him are Wong Fei-hung, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Władysław Reymont, Johann Palisa, Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar, and Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf. After him are Félix Vallotton, Duchess Mathilde Ludovika in Bavaria, John Singer Sargent, Oliver Heaviside, Vajiravudh, and Fritz Haarmann.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Vincenzo Peruggia ranks 897 out of 4,668Before him are Emilio De Bono (1866), Peter Damian (1007), Natalia Ginzburg (1916), Mario Monti (1943), Errico Malatesta (1853), and Dino De Laurentiis (1919). After him are Quirinius (-45), Rachele Mussolini (1890), Cola di Rienzo (1313), Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1843), Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandia (1474), and Aloysius Lilius (1510).

Among EXTREMISTS In Italy

Among extremists born in Italy, Vincenzo Peruggia ranks 4Before him are Man in the Iron Mask (1640), Charles Ponzi (1882), and Tommaso Buscetta (1928). After him are Patrizia Reggiani (1948), Johnny Torrio (1882), Carlo Gambino (1902), Frank Nitti (1886), Joseph Bonanno (1905), Albert Anastasia (1902), and Matteo Messina Denaro (1962).