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Charles Whitman

1941 - 1966

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Charles Joseph Whitman (June 24, 1941 – August 1, 1966) was an American mass murderer and Marine veteran who became known as the "Texas Tower Sniper". On August 1, 1966, Whitman used knives to kill his mother and his wife in their respective homes, then went to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) with multiple firearms and began indiscriminately shooting at people. He fatally shot three people inside UT Austin's Main Building, then accessed the 28th-floor observation deck on the building's clock tower. There, he fired at random people for 96 minutes, killing an additional eleven people and wounding 31 others before he was shot dead by the Austin Police Department. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Whitman is the 160th most popular extremist (down from 134th in 2019), the 4,026th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,980th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular American Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Charles Whitman ranks 160 out of 283. Before him are Joseph Bonanno, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, Elisabeth Becker, Peter Sutcliffe, Anatoly Onoprienko, and Samuel Little. After him are Sam Giancana, Luciano Moggi, Andrew Cunanan, Richard Chase, Nancy Spungen, and Cleveland Torso Murderer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Charles Whitman ranks 241. Before him are Jiří Raška, George P. Cosmatos, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Bob Wilson, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, and Sarah Miles. After him are Lynne Cheney, Prince William of Gloucester, Lothar Bisky, Richard Martin West, Jesse Jackson, and Sean Flynn. Among people deceased in 1966, Charles Whitman ranks 100. Before him are Vera Weizmann, Arthur Percival, Albrecht Brandi, Petar Radaković, Vilis Lācis, and Philipp Frank. After him are Victor Kravchenko, Elio Vittorini, Sutan Sjahrir, George Ohsawa, Gaspar Cassadó, and Otto von Knobelsdorff.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Whitman ranks 4,026 out of 20,380. Before him are Horace Greeley (1811), James Waddell Alexander II (1888), Edward Bellamy (1850), Richie Ginther (1930), Jessie Royce Landis (1896), and Raymond Smith Dugan (1878). After him are Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878), Tony Robbins (1960), William Joyce (1906), Stewart Copeland (1952), Kit Carson (1809), and Tallulah Bankhead (1902).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Charles Whitman ranks 53. Before him are Baruch Goldstein (1956), Patricia Krenwinkel (1947), Whitey Bulger (1929), Stephen Paddock (1953), Joseph Valachi (1904), and Samuel Little (1940). After him are Sam Giancana (1908), Andrew Cunanan (1969), Richard Chase (1950), Nancy Spungen (1958), Jerry Brudos (1939), and Ross Ulbricht (1984).

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