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Butch Cassidy

1866 - 1908

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Robert LeRoy Parker (April 13, 1866 – November 7, 1908), better known as Butch Cassidy, was an American train and bank robber and the leader of a gang of criminal outlaws known as the "Wild Bunch" in the Old West. Parker engaged in criminal activity for more than a decade at the end of the 19th century and the early 20th century, but the pressures of being pursued by law enforcement, notably the Pinkerton detective agency, forced him to flee the United States. He fled with his accomplice Harry Longabaugh, known as the "Sundance Kid", and Longabaugh's girlfriend Etta Place. The trio traveled first to Argentina and then to Bolivia, where Parker and Longabaugh are believed to have been killed in a shootout with the Bolivian Army in November 1908; the exact circumstances of their fate are unclear. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Butch Cassidy is the 54th most popular extremist (down from 51st in 2019), the 1,390th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,196th in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Extremist.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are most famous for robbing trains in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Butch Cassidy ranks 54 out of 283. Before him are Joseph Kony, Jim Jones, Sawney Bean, William Kemmler, Abu Nidal, and Mohamed Atta. After him are Pavlik Morozov, Tex Watson, Karl Denke, Friedrich Jeckeln, Gary Gilmore, and Dennis Rader.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Butch Cassidy ranks 26. Before him are Antoine Meillet, Ferruccio Busoni, Anne Sullivan, Ramsay MacDonald, Lizzie Magie, and Léon Bakst. After him are Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria, Mahboob Ali Khan, August von Wassermann, Emilio De Bono, and George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon. Among people deceased in 1908, Butch Cassidy ranks 14. Before him are Demetrius Vikelas, Carlos I of Portugal, Edmondo De Amicis, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Jonas Lie, and Victorien Sardou. After him are Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal, Radoje Domanović, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Mikhail Chigorin, Wilhelm Busch, and Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Butch Cassidy ranks 1,390 out of 20,380. Before him are Asher Brown Durand (1796), Charlie Munger (1924), Edward Norton Lorenz (1917), Sherwood Anderson (1876), Paul Bremer (1941), and Thomas Wolfe (1900). After him are George Davis Snell (1903), Ash Carter (1954), Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967), Edna Purviance (1895), Leo Fender (1909), and Burgess Meredith (1907).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Butch Cassidy ranks 20. Before him are Frank Sheeran (1920), John Hinckley Jr. (1955), H. H. Holmes (1861), Timothy McVeigh (1968), Jim Jones (1931), and William Kemmler (1860). After him are Tex Watson (1945), Gary Gilmore (1940), Dennis Rader (1945), Edmund Kemper (1948), Aileen Wuornos (1956), and Rodney Alcala (1943).

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