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Albert Fish

1870 - 1936

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Hamilton Howard "Albert" Fish (May 19, 1870 – January 16, 1936) was an American serial killer, rapist, child molester and cannibal who committed at least three child murders between July 1924 and June 1928. He was also known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, the Moon Maniac, and the Boogey Man. Fish was a suspect in at least ten murders during his lifetime, although he only confessed to three murders that police were able to trace to a known homicide. He also confessed to stabbing at least two other people. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Albert Fish is the 28th most popular extremist (down from 23rd in 2019), the 674th most popular biography from United States (down from 439th in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Extremist.

Albert Fish is most famous for being a serial killer and cannibal. Fish was born in 1870 and was executed in 1936. He killed at least 10 children and mutilated their bodies.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Albert Fish ranks 28 out of 283. Before him are Andrei Chikatilo, Mehmet Ali Ağca, Ted Kaczynski, John Wayne Gacy, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and Ed Gein. After him are Carlos the Jackal, Machine Gun Kelly, Ulrike Meinhof, Frank Sheeran, Cleon, and Charles Ponzi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Albert Fish ranks 14. Before him are Jean Baptiste Perrin, Adolf Loos, Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Ivan Bunin, and Miguel Primo de Rivera. After him are Karl Renner, Louis II, Prince of Monaco, Sigfrid Edström, Lavr Kornilov, William G. Morgan, and Maurice Denis. Among people deceased in 1936, Albert Fish ranks 21. Before him are Fuad I of Egypt, Charles Nicolle, Eleftherios Venizelos, Miguel de Unamuno, Alexander Glazunov, and G. K. Chesterton. After him are Ottorino Respighi, Louis Blériot, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Hans von Seeckt, Elsa Einstein, and Karl Kraus.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Albert Fish ranks 674 out of 20,380. Before him are Edwin Stanton (1814), Burton Richter (1931), Harold Lloyd (1893), William E. Moerner (1953), Kamala Harris (1964), and Richard Bach (1936). After him are James Avery (1945), Ralph Lauren (1939), Dennis Hopper (1936), Kevin Spacey (1959), Sydney Chaplin (1926), and John McCarthy (1927).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Albert Fish ranks 12. Before him are Leon Czolgosz (1873), Golden State Killer (1945), Jeffrey Dahmer (1960), Ted Kaczynski (1942), John Wayne Gacy (1942), and Ed Gein (1906). After him are Machine Gun Kelly (1895), Frank Sheeran (1920), John Hinckley Jr. (1955), H. H. Holmes (1861), Timothy McVeigh (1968), and Jim Jones (1931).

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