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Rubin Carter

1937 - 2014

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Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (May 6, 1937 – April 20, 2014) was a Black American middleweight boxer who was wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for murder, until released following a petition of habeas corpus after spending 18 years and 4 months in prison. In 1966, Carter and his co-accused, John Artis, were arrested for a triple homicide which was committed at the Lafayette Bar and Grill in Paterson, New Jersey, United States. Shortly after the killings at 2:30 am, a car, carrying Carter, Artis and a third man, was stopped by police outside the bar while its occupants were on their way home from a nearby nightclub. They were allowed to go on their way but, after dropping off the third man, Carter and Artis were stopped and arrested while they were passing the bar a second time 45 minutes later. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rubin Carter is the 13th most popular boxer (up from 19th in 2019), the 1,671st most popular biography from United States and the 10th most popular American Boxer.

Rubin Carter was a boxer who was wrongly convicted of murder and spent 19 years in prison.

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Among BOXERS

Among boxers, Rubin Carter ranks 13 out of 496. Before him are Sugar Ray Robinson, Max Schmeling, Ján Zachara, Vitali Klitschko, Floyd Mayweather Jr., and Sonny Liston. After him are Teófilo Stevenson, Carlos Monzón, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, László Papp, Wladimir Klitschko, and Jake LaMotta.

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Among people born in 1937, Rubin Carter ranks 74. Before him are Thomas Pynchon, Paolo Conte, Roger Zelazny, Joseph Nye, Richard Møller Nielsen, and Anatoly Sobchak. After him are Rafael Moneo, George Carlin, Maryanne Trump Barry, Kōichirō Matsuura, Ratan Tata, and Michael Jeffery. Among people deceased in 2014, Rubin Carter ranks 65. Before him are Louis Zamperini, Stephanie Kwolek, Dale T. Mortensen, Ernesto Laclau, Ernst Albrecht, and Richard Møller Nielsen. After him are Maurice Duverger, Vujadin Boškov, Miklós Jancsó, Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, Mary Anderson, and Leo Tindemans.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Rubin Carter ranks 1,671 out of 20,380. Before him are Herbert Blomstedt (1927), Ron Jeremy (1953), Dwight Schultz (1947), Queen Noor of Jordan (1951), Rosemary Kennedy (1918), and Eric Johnson (1954). After him are Ken Thompson (1943), Marvin Heemeyer (1951), Garry Marshall (1934), Michael Stuart Brown (1941), George Read (1733), and Dean Reed (1938).

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Among BOXERS In United States

Among boxers born in United States, Rubin Carter ranks 10. Before him are Mike Tyson (1966), George Foreman (1949), Joe Louis (1914), Sugar Ray Robinson (1921), Floyd Mayweather Jr. (1977), and Sonny Liston (1932). After him are Marvelous Marvin Hagler (1954), Jake LaMotta (1922), Jack Dempsey (1895), Evander Holyfield (1962), Floyd Patterson (1935), and Larry Holmes (1949).

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