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John Wilkes Booth

1838 - 1865

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John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American stage actor who assassinated United States president Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. A member of the prominent 19th-century Booth theatrical family from Maryland, he was a noted actor who was also a Confederate sympathizer; denouncing Lincoln, he lamented the then-recent abolition of slavery in the United States. Originally, Booth and his small group of conspirators had plotted to kidnap Lincoln to aid the Confederate cause. They later decided to murder him, as well as Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Wilkes Booth is the 2nd most popular extremist (up from 4th in 2019), the 55th most popular biography from United States (up from 60th in 2019) and the most popular American Extremist.

John Wilkes Booth was most famous for assassinating Abraham Lincoln.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, John Wilkes Booth ranks 2 out of 283. Before him are Jack the Ripper. After him are 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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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, John Wilkes Booth ranks 1. After him are Georges Bizet, Liliʻuokalani, Ernst Mach, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Max Bruch, Tobias Asser, Jan Matejko, Edward W. Morley, Franz Brentano, Luís I of Portugal, and Émile Loubet. Among people deceased in 1865, John Wilkes Booth ranks 2. Before him is Abraham Lincoln. After him are Ignaz Semmelweis, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Leopold I of Belgium, William Rowan Hamilton, Emil Lenz, Anna Pavlovna of Russia, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Johann Franz Encke, William Jackson Hooker, and Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Wilkes Booth ranks 55 out of 20,380. Before him are Maria Callas (1923), George Marshall (1880), Mark Twain (1835), Aretha Franklin (1942), Janis Joplin (1943), and Robert De Niro (1943). After him are Harry S. Truman (1884), Joan Baez (1941), Howard Hughes (1905), Robert Frost (1874), Wallis Simpson (1896), and James Watson (1928).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, John Wilkes Booth ranks 1. After him are Charles Manson (1934), 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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