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Ramón Mercader

1913 - 1978

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Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río (Spanish: [raˈmom meɾkaˈðeɾ]; Catalan: Jaume Ramon Mercader del Río [rəˈmom məɾkəˈðe]; 7 February 1913 – 18 October 1978) was a Spanish communist and NKVD secret agent who assassinated the revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in August 1940. Mercader was imprisoned for 19 years and 8 months in Mexico for murdering Trotsky with an ice axe. In 1960, after release from Mexican imprisonment, Mercader was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union medal and the Order of Lenin medal , and lived at different times in Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Czechoslovakia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ramón Mercader is the 20th most popular extremist (down from 16th in 2019), the 108th most popular biography from Spain (down from 85th in 2019) and the most popular Spanish Extremist.

Ramón Mercader is most famous for assassinating Leon Trotsky, a Russian revolutionary and Marxist theorist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Ramón Mercader ranks 20 out of 283. Before him are Man in the Iron Mask, Gilles de Rais, Leon Czolgosz, Golden State Killer, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Jeffrey Dahmer. After him are Patrizia Reggiani, Andrei Chikatilo, Mehmet Ali Ağca, Ted Kaczynski, John Wayne Gacy, and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Ramón Mercader ranks 19. Before him are Paul Ricœur, Josef Bican, Willis Lamb, Jesse Owens, Bảo Đại, and Gustáv Husák. After him are Makarios III, Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, Stanford Moore, Benjamin Britten, Sabiha Gökçen, and Bill Hewlett. Among people deceased in 1978, Ramón Mercader ranks 14. Before him are Aldo Moro, Jacques Brel, Mohammed Daoud Khan, Giorgio de Chirico, Robert Shaw, and Harry Martinson. After him are Adolf Dassler, Vincent du Vigneaud, Jack L. Warner, Anastas Mikoyan, Ricardo Zamora, and Umberto Nobile.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Ramón Mercader ranks 108 out of 3,355. Before him are Francisco Tárrega (1852), Santiago Calatrava (1951), Antipope Benedict XIII (1328), Manuel de Falla (1876), Luis Aragonés (1938), and Dolores Ibárruri (1895). After him are Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress (1528), Francisco de Orellana (1511), Vincent of Saragossa (300), Pelagius of Asturias (685), Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona (1913), and Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Spain

Among extremists born in Spain, Ramón Mercader ranks 1. After him are Luis Carrero Blanco (1904), Émile Henry (1872), and Amparo Poch y Gascón (1902).

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