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Ted Kaczynski

1942 - 2023

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Theodore John Kaczynski ( kə-ZIN-skee; May 22, 1942 – June 10, 2023), also known as the Unabomber ( YOO-nə-bom-ər), was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. A mathematics prodigy, he abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a reclusive primitive lifestyle and lone wolf terrorism campaign. Kaczynski murdered three people and injured 23 others between 1978 and 1995 in a nationwide mail bombing campaign against people he believed to be advancing modern technology and the destruction of the natural environment. He authored a roughly 35,000-word manifesto and social critique called Industrial Society and Its Future which opposes all forms of technology, rejects leftism and fascism, advocates cultural primitivism, and ultimately suggests violent revolution. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ted Kaczynski is the 24th most popular extremist (down from 18th in 2019), the 552nd most popular biography from United States (down from 322nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular American Extremist.

Ted Kaczynski is most famous for being the Unabomber. He sent a series of bombs to people in universities and airlines. He killed three people and injured 23 others.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Ted Kaczynski ranks 24 out of 283. Before him are Ayman al-Zawahiri, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ramón Mercader, Patrizia Reggiani, Andrei Chikatilo, and Mehmet Ali Ağca. After him are John Wayne Gacy, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Ed Gein, Albert Fish, Carlos the Jackal, and Machine Gun Kelly.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Ted Kaczynski ranks 35. Before him are Mohamed ElBaradei, Brian Jones, Ehud Barak, Javier Solana, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, and Daniel Barenboim. After him are John Wayne Gacy, José Eduardo dos Santos, Michael Haneke, Ian McShane, Werner Herzog, and David Bradley. Among people deceased in 2023, Ted Kaczynski ranks 22. Before him are Michael Gambon, Sinéad O'Connor, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Just Fontaine, Robert Lucas Jr., and Harald zur Hausen. After him are Fernando Botero, Louise Glück, Paul Berg, Rosalynn Carter, Paco Rabanne, and Pat Robertson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ted Kaczynski ranks 552 out of 20,380. Before him are Danny Trejo (1944), John Malkovich (1953), Raymond Chandler (1888), Robert Fulton (1765), Henry James (1843), and Frances Cleveland (1864). After him are Philip Roth (1933), Steve Wozniak (1950), Pontiac (1714), Dick Cheney (1941), Herbert A. Hauptman (1917), and Michael Clarke Duncan (1957).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Ted Kaczynski ranks 9. Before him are Zodiac Killer (1940), Ted Bundy (1946), Lee Harvey Oswald (1939), Leon Czolgosz (1873), Golden State Killer (1945), and Jeffrey Dahmer (1960). After him are John Wayne Gacy (1942), Ed Gein (1906), Albert Fish (1870), Machine Gun Kelly (1895), Frank Sheeran (1920), and John Hinckley Jr. (1955).

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