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Pretty Boy Floyd

1904 - 1934

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Charles Arthur Floyd (February 3, 1904 – October 22, 1934), nicknamed Pretty Boy Floyd, was an American bank robber. He operated in the West and Central states, and his criminal exploits gained widespread press coverage in the 1930s. He was seen positively by the public because, during robberies, he burned mortgage documents, freeing many people from their debts. He was pursued and killed by a group of Bureau of Investigation (BOI, later renamed FBI) agents led by Melvin Purvis. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pretty Boy Floyd is the 476th most popular social activist (up from 497th in 2019), the 6,891st most popular biography from United States (up from 7,005th in 2019) and the 66th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Pretty Boy Floyd ranks 476 out of 840. Before him are Hereward the Wake, William Lloyd Garrison, Rajendra K. Pachauri, Donald Watson, Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed, and Sugathakumari. After him are Dewi Sartika, Nelly Diener, Tarana Burke, Entisar Elsaeed, Lev Chernyi, and Helene Stöcker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Pretty Boy Floyd ranks 235. Before him are Tita Merello, J. R. D. Tata, Jimmy McGrory, Käthe von Nagy, Vladimir Kokkinaki, and Erwin Komenda. After him are Gregg Toland, Josef Pieper, Abdullah Goran, Gino Rossetti, Sabin Carr, and Joel de Oliveira Monteiro. Among people deceased in 1934, Pretty Boy Floyd ranks 122. Before him are Fritz Graebner, Jafar Jabbarly, Heinz Prüfer, Surya Sen, Hulda Garborg, and Aristarkh Belopolsky. After him are Nelly Diener, Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso, Sergey Oldenburg, Oskar von Miller, E. A. Wallis Budge, and Toros Toramanian.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Pretty Boy Floyd ranks 6,893 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert Richardson (1955), Sandra Brown (1948), Albina Osipowich (1911), George Woods (1943), Paul Arizin (1928), and Jim Reeves (1923). After him are Sonny Stitt (1924), Gregg Toland (1904), Bobby Helms (1933), Stan Hansen (1949), Michael Cudlitz (1964), and Fred Gwynne (1926).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Pretty Boy Floyd ranks 66. Before him are Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826), Phyllis Schlafly (1924), Mary McLeod Bethune (1875), Eugene V. Debs (1855), Mary Edwards Walker (1832), and William Lloyd Garrison (1805). After him are Tarana Burke (1973), Sam Childers (1963), Medgar Evers (1925), Lucy Stone (1818), Ruby Bridges (1954), and Katie Eder (1950).

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