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Émile Henry

1872 - 1894

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Émile Henry (26 September 1872 – 21 May 1894) was a French anarchist who engaged in several terrorist attacks. First, he bombed a police station, in 1892, killing 5 people, then, on 12 February 1894 detonated a bomb at the Café Terminus in the Parisian Gare Saint-Lazare, killing one person and wounding seventy. Though his activity in the anarchist movement was limited, he garnered much attention as a result of his crimes and of his age. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Émile Henry has received more than 5,422 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Émile Henry is the 173rd most popular extremist (down from 149th in 2019), the 1,041st most popular biography from Spain (down from 877th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Spanish Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Émile Henry ranks 173 out of 283. Before him are Ibn al-Khattab, Eugène Terre'Blanche, Baby Face Nelson, Radislav Krstić, Nancy Spungen, and Dean Corll. After him are Tex Watson, John Haigh, Heinrich XIII Prinz Reuss, Perkin Warbeck, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, and Jane Toppan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Émile Henry ranks 89. Before him are Juho Vennola, Dionysios Kasdaglis, George S. Robertson, Bak Jungyang, Símun av Skarði, and Théophile de Donder. After him are Edward Wilson, Déodat de Séverac, William Larned, Mikhail Kuzmin, Camille Guérin, and Paul Reinecke. Among people deceased in 1894, Émile Henry ranks 47. Before him are Walter Pater, Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Pavel Yablochkov, Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Heinrich Karl Brugsch. After him are Princess Amalie of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Philipp Spitta, Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher, Franjo Rački, Rafael Núñez, and Jubal Early.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Émile Henry ranks 1,041 out of 3,355. Before him are Juan O'Donojú (1762), Joaquín Navarro-Valls (1936), Ignacio Ramonet (1943), Maria de Luna (1353), José Enrique Varela (1891), and Justo Tejada (1933). After him are Ibn Hayyan (987), Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro (1676), Pilar Lorengar (1928), Jesús López Cobos (1940), Nacho (1990), and Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo (1450).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Spain

Among extremists born in Spain, Émile Henry ranks 3. Before him are Ramón Mercader (1913), and Luis Carrero Blanco (1904). After him are Amparo Poch y Gascón (1902).

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