Tim Curry is rank 1 on Wikipedia on August 29, 2026, four days after manager Marcia Hurwitz confirmed the Rocky Horror actor died at 80 in Toluca Lake. Dolly Parton, who led the August 27 board, slips to rank 2. Peter Cullen is a new rank 3 after Variety and Deadline said the Optimus Prime voice actor died August 26 at 85. Versus August 27, Jed York, Grain Rot, and the East Palestine arrest cluster are gone. A Wikipedia 7D growth call for Tim Curry returned collapsed_range; the 30D window resolved to July 1 versus June 1, so that figure is skipped.
Top trending articles on Wikipedia: August 29
Tim Curry: English actor who died August 25 at 80. BBC said LAPD responded to a death investigation at 23:23 local time; no cause was released. The article was rank 2 on August 27 behind Dolly Parton.
Dolly Parton: Country singer who died August 25 at Vanderbilt-Ingram after a brief cancer battle. AP and her publicist Marcel Pariseau confirmed the death at 80. The article drops from rank 1 on August 27 to rank 2. Wikipedia 30D growth through July 1 was +24.48 percent (volume 674 versus 556), which predates the death and is not used as a same-week spike.
Peter Cullen: Canadian voice actor (July 28, 1941 to August 26, 2026) behind Optimus Prime from the 1984 series through Rise of the Beasts. Agent Kevin Motley confirmed the Los Angeles death on August 27. The article was not in the August 27 top 10. A Wikipedia growth call returned no_data.
Toxic (2026 film): Yash-led gangster film directed by Geetu Mohandas, released worldwide August 26 in standard and IMAX. Wikipedia and Times of India put Day 1 India net near Rs 101 crore and Day 2 India net at Rs 137.50 crore after a 64 percent drop. New versus August 27.
Lake Ontario: Great Lake covered by Executive Order 14422, signed August 27, directing a rename to Lake America within 30 days. CNN and AP covered the Oval Office signing and the Seneca Nation response. New versus August 27.
Yayoi Kusama: Japanese artist who died August 14 at 97 in a Tokyo hospital from multiple organ failure, announced later by her foundation. The Art Newspaper on August 27 said the Stedelijk retrospective opening September 11 is now a posthumous tribute. She was rank 5 on the August 27 X board, not on that day's Wikipedia list.
2026 Nepal floods: Glacier-collapse floods on August 26 along the Nepal-Tibet border. Euronews cited 579 dead and 1,924 missing; LA Times described nearly 600 dead and almost 2,500 missing. The article is new versus August 27, when Nepal traffic sat on Google rather than this Wikipedia title.
Killing of the Clancy children: 2023 Duxbury case now at verdict watch. NBC News and CNN said the jury ended Friday without a decision after about 10.5 hours across two days, returning Monday. New versus August 27.
Deaths in 2026: Recurring Wikipedia index that aggregates high-profile obituaries. The page is a fixture when several notable deaths land in the same week. Rank 9, new versus the August 27 list.
Ratko Mladic: Bosnian Serb general convicted of genocide, who died August 27 at 84 in The Hague UN detention hospital. BBC and AP said he had been serving a 2017 life sentence; the Mechanism ordered an inquiry under Judge Iain Bonomy. New versus August 27.
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What changed on Wikipedia since August 27
New entrants: Peter Cullen (3), Toxic (2026 film) (4), Lake Ontario (5), Yayoi Kusama (6), 2026 Nepal floods (7), Killing of the Clancy children (8), Deaths in 2026 (9), Ratko Mladic (10).
Big movers: Tim Curry 2 to 1; Dolly Parton 1 to 2.
Drop-offs from the August 27 top 10 include names that were on that board's remaining slots after Dolly and Tim Curry (the August 27 list was led by those two deaths). Eight of today's ten titles were not in that prior top 10.
What today's Wikipedia board reveals
The page-view board is an obituary stack with one theatrical opener mixed in. Curry, Parton, Cullen, Kusama, and Mladic are five death articles in the same top 10. Nepal floods and the Clancy trial are the news-event pages. Toxic at 4 is the odd one: a same-week film release, not a memorial.
Lake Ontario at 5 shows policy renaming can outrank older obituaries once the executive order is signed. Recurring fixtures such as Deaths in 2026 sit at the bottom rather than leading.
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This ranked list came from the Trends MCP get_top_trends feed for Wikipedia Trending with limit 10 as of 2026-08-29T02:01:36.626516+00:00. The matching data source page is Wikipedia Trending API.
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