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Charles Manson

1934 - 2017

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Charles Milles Manson (né Maddox; November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017) was an American criminal, cult leader, and musician who led the Manson Family, a cult based in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Some cult members committed a series of at least nine murders at four locations in July and August 1969. In 1971, Manson was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder for the deaths of seven people, including the film actress Sharon Tate. The prosecution contended that, while Manson never directly ordered the murders, his ideology constituted an overt act of conspiracy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Manson is the 6th most popular extremist (up from 8th in 2019), the 117th most popular biography from United States (down from 87th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Extremist.

Charles Manson is most famous for being the leader of the Manson Family, a quasi-commune in California in the late 1960s. Manson's followers committed a series of nine murders at four locations in July and August 1969.

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Among extremists, Charles Manson ranks 6 out of 283. Before him are Jack the Ripper, John Wilkes Booth, Gavrilo Princip, Elizabeth Báthory, and Osama bin Laden. After him are Zodiac Killer, Ted Bundy, Abdullah Öcalan, Herostratus, Amon Göth, and Lee Harvey Oswald.

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Among people born in 1934, Charles Manson ranks 5. Before him are Yuri Gagarin, Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, and Pratibha Patil. After him are Leonard Cohen, David J. Thouless, Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, Albert II of Belgium, Gene Cernan, Maggie Smith, and Richard Chamberlain. Among people deceased in 2017, Charles Manson ranks 2. Before him is Helmut Kohl. After him are Michael I of Romania, Gene Cernan, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, Stanislav Petrov, Zygmunt Bauman, Roger Moore, Bill Paxton, Tom Petty, Raymond Kopa, and Jalal Talabani.

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Among people born in United States, Charles Manson ranks 117 out of 20,380. Before him are Calvin Klein (1942), John Stith Pemberton (1831), Edwin McMillan (1907), Samuel Morse (1791), Ezra Pound (1885), and Frank Sinatra (1915). After him are Grace Hopper (1906), Herbert A. Simon (1916), Raymond Davis Jr. (1914), Nicolas Cage (1964), Debbie Reynolds (1932), and Dr. Seuss (1904).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Charles Manson ranks 2. Before him are John Wilkes Booth (1838). After him are Zodiac Killer (1940), Ted Bundy (1946), Lee Harvey Oswald (1939), Leon Czolgosz (1873), Golden State Killer (1945), Jeffrey Dahmer (1960), Ted Kaczynski (1942), John Wayne Gacy (1942), Ed Gein (1906), and Albert Fish (1870).

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