Charles Manson

I write about Charles Manson with deliberate caution, because notoriety should never be confused with achievement. What I take from his story is a warning about charisma: a failed musician who learned, across a lifetime spent mostly in institutions, how to find lost young people and weaponize their need to belong. The murders his followers committed in 1969 ended innocent lives and scarred a culture. If there is any value in studying him, it lies in recognizing how cults recruit and control, and in keeping our attention on the victims rather than on the myth that grew around their killer.

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Name (English)

Charles Manson

Name (Japanese)

チャールズ・マンソン

Reading

ちゃーるず・まんそん

Born

November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017

Origin

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Height

157 cm

Occupation

criminal / cult leader / serial killer / musician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Dog

High school

Arroyo High School

University

Pasadena City College

• Official sitehttps://www.charlesmanson.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Manson
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q485508

Tags

• Ohio
• criminal
• cult leader
• serial killer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.