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Aaron Kosminski

1865 - 1919

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Aaron Kosminski (born Aron Mordke Kozmiński; 11 September 1865 – 24 March 1919) was a Polish hairdresser who is a suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888. Kosminski was a Polish Jew who emigrated from Congress Poland to England in the 1880s. He worked as a hairdresser in Whitechapel in the East End of London, where a series of murders ascribed to an unidentified person nicknamed "Jack the Ripper" were committed in 1888. Beginning in 1891, Kosminski was institutionalised after he threatened his sister with a knife. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aaron Kosminski is the 69th most popular celebrity (up from 81st in 2019), the 515th most popular biography from Poland (up from 653rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Celebrity.

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Among celebrities, Aaron Kosminski ranks 69 out of 265. Before him are Mary Ann Bevan, Alice Keppel, William Masters, Maria von Trapp, Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., and Nicolas Chopin. After him are Titus van Rijn, Babushka Lady, Lizzie Borden, Madeleine Astor, Ethel Kennedy, and Annie Oakley.

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Among people born in 1865, Aaron Kosminski ranks 77. Before him are Aspazija, Hantaro Nagaoka, Said Halim Pasha, Eduardo di Capua, Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg, and Princess Olga Paley. After him are Prince Kan'in Kotohito, Andrey Sheptytsky, Max Fabiani, Hannah Chaplin, Isaac Israëls, and Archibald Leitch. Among people deceased in 1919, Aaron Kosminski ranks 70. Before him are Raymonde de Laroche, Evelyn De Morgan, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Jérôme Eugène Coggia, Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia, and Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern. After him are Louis Botha, Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, Alexander Izvolsky, Mark Sykes, Itagaki Taisuke, and Laurence Doherty.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Aaron Kosminski ranks 515 out of 1,694. Before him are Jerzy Hoffman (1932), Marek Grechuta (1945), Mieszko I Tanglefoot (1132), Stanisława Leszczyńska (1896), Wilhelm Gliese (1915), and Stefania Wilczyńska (1886). After him are Stanisław Kania (1927), Maciej Stryjkowski (1547), Aleksander Orłowski (1777), Franz Waxman (1906), Israel Joshua Singer (1893), and Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring (1755).

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Among CELEBRITIES In Poland

Among celebrities born in Poland, Aaron Kosminski ranks 2. Before him are Anna Anderson (1896). After him are Marlene Schmidt (1937), Aneta Kręglicka (1965), and Karolina Bielawska (1999).

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