SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Vesna Vulović

1950 - 2016

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Vesna Vulović (Serbian Cyrillic: Весна Вуловић, pronounced [ʋêsna ʋûːloʋitɕ]; 3 January 1950 – 23 December 2016) was a Serbian flight attendant who survived the highest fall without a parachute: 10.16 kilometres (6.31 miles) or 33,333 feet. She was the sole survivor of JAT Flight 367 after an explosion tore through the baggage compartment on 26 January 1972, causing it to crash near Srbská Kamenice, Czechoslovakia (now part of the Czech Republic). Air safety investigators attributed the explosion to a briefcase bomb. The Yugoslav authorities suspected that émigré Croatian nationalists were to blame, but no one was ever arrested. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vesna Vulović is the 118th most popular social activist (up from 133rd in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from Serbia (up from 63rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Serbian Social Activist.

Vesna Vulović is most famous for the incident where she fell from a plane at 33,000 feet without a parachute and survived.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Vesna Vulović ranks 118 out of 840. Before her are Marinus van der Lubbe, René Just Haüy, Thomas Cranmer, Annie Besant, Flora Tristan, and Betty Ford. After her are Pier Gerlofs Donia, Edmond James de Rothschild, Rashid ad-Din Sinan, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, René Cassin, and Catharine MacKinnon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Vesna Vulović ranks 40. Before her are Joe Hisaishi, Suzi Quatro, Daniel Auteuil, Choe Ryong-hae, Jörg Haider, and Janez Drnovšek. After her are Chris Norman, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Gemser, Morgan Fairchild, Nouri al-Maliki, and Grzegorz Lato. Among people deceased in 2016, Vesna Vulović ranks 56. Before her are Esma Redžepova, Viktor Korchnoi, Gene Wilder, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Michael Cimino, and Yasuo Takamori. After her are George Gaynes, Ahmed Zewail, Robert Vaughn, Ray Tomlinson, Michèle Morgan, and Hans-Dietrich Genscher.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Vesna Vulović ranks 53 out of 661. Before her are Milan Nedić (1878), Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia (1806), Aleksandar Ranković (1909), Milorad Pavić (1929), Duško Popov (1912), and Danilo Kiš (1935). After her are Dobrica Ćosić (1921), Radomir Putnik (1847), Mihajlo Pupin (1858), Branislav Nušić (1864), Bora Milutinović (1944), and Lazar Branković (1421).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Serbia

Among social activists born in Serbia, Vesna Vulović ranks 2. Before her are Dragutin Dimitrijević (1876). After her are Lepa Mladjenovic (1954).

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