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Whitey Bulger

1929 - 2018

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James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger Jr. (; September 3, 1929 – October 30, 2018) was an American organized crime boss who led the Winter Hill Gang in the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts, a city directly northwest of Boston. On December 23, 1994, Bulger fled the Boston area and went into hiding after his former FBI handler, John Connolly, tipped him off about a pending RICO indictment against him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Whitey Bulger has received more than 22,796,314 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Whitey Bulger is the 97th most popular extremist (down from 50th in 2019), the 2,176th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,050th in 2019) and the 31st most popular American Extremist.

Whitey Bulger is most famous for being an Irish-American mobster who became a government informant and was a fugitive from the law for 16 years before being captured in 2011.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Whitey Bulger ranks 97 out of 209. Before him are Aileen Wuornos, Matija Gubec, David Berkowitz, Michel Fourniret, Jacques Mesrine, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. After him are Charles Whitman, Joachim Kroll, Luciano Leggio, Sirhan Sirhan, Dennis Nilsen, and Delphine LaLaurie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Whitey Bulger ranks 132. Before him are Menahem Golan, Nureddin al-Atassi, Sam Nujoma, Édouard Balladur, Eric Carle, and Zillur Rahman. After him are Kateb Yacine, Vladimír Menšík, George Crumb, Vasily Shukshin, Carlos Lacoste, and Michael Michai Kitbunchu. Among people deceased in 2018, Whitey Bulger ranks 93. Before him are Nicole Fontaine, John Young, Josep Lluís Núñez, Lill-Babs, Aaron Klug, and Luisa Cuesta. After him are Princess Elisabeth of Denmark, Tsukasa Hosaka, Joseph Kobzon, Quini, Dennis Nilsen, and Henri Michel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Whitey Bulger ranks 2,176 out of 18,182. Before him are Kevin A. Lynch (1918), Nina Hartley (1959), Sam Loyd (1841), Jack Warden (1920), Robert Smithson (1938), and Fred Willard (1939). After him are Alyssa Milano (1972), Tony Lip (1930), Peter Agre (1949), Henry J. Heinz (1844), Maria Mitchell (1818), and Neil Sedaka (1939).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Whitey Bulger ranks 31. Before him are Richard Ramirez (1960), James Earl Ray (1928), Gary Ridgway (1949), Susan Atkins (1948), Aileen Wuornos (1956), and David Berkowitz (1953). After him are Charles Whitman (1941), Delphine LaLaurie (1787), Andrew Cunanan (1969), Baby Face Nelson (1908), Aldrich Ames (1941), and Rodney Alcala (1943).

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