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Jack the Ripper

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Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer who was active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of London, England, in 1888. In both criminal case files and the contemporaneous journalistic accounts, the killer was also called the Whitechapel Murderer and Leather Apron. Attacks ascribed to Jack the Ripper typically involved women working as prostitutes who lived in the slums of the East End of London. Their throats were cut prior to abdominal mutilations. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jack the Ripper is the most popular extremist. (down from 5th in 2019)

Jack the Ripper is most famous for being a serial killer who murdered prostitutes in London's East End.

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Among extremists, Jack the Ripper ranks 1 out of 283. After him are John Wilkes Booth, Gavrilo Princip, Elizabeth Báthory, Osama bin Laden, Charles Manson, Zodiac Killer, Ted Bundy, Abdullah Öcalan, Herostratus, Amon Göth, and Lee Harvey Oswald.

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Among people born in 1850, Jack the Ripper ranks 1. After him are Guy de Maupassant, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Robert Louis Stevenson, Karl Ferdinand Braun, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, Edward Smith, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Eduard Bernstein, Hermann Ebbinghaus, and Charles Richet.

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