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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Adolphe Pégoud

1889 - 1915

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Adolphe Célestin Pégoud (13 June 1889 – 31 August 1915) was a French aviator and flight instructor who became the first fighter ace in history during World War I. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolphe Pégoud has received more than 159,250 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Adolphe Pégoud is the 1,035th most popular military personnel (down from 1,021st in 2019), the 2,749th most popular biography from France (up from 2,756th in 2019) and the 109th most popular French Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Adolphe Pégoud ranks 1,035 out of 1,468Before him are François Séverin Marceau, Charles-Denis Bourbaki, Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan, François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, Grigory Shtern, and Captain Tom. After him are Richard Ruoff, Holland Smith, Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle, Chram, Agustina de Aragón, and Mikhail Katukov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Adolphe Pégoud ranks 109Before him are Warner Baxter, Henri Pélissier, Kōichi Kido, Isak Samokovlija, Ernst Niekisch, and Lev Mekhlis. After him are Baba Sali, Gabriel Hanot, Charles Kay Ogden, Vasiliy Ulrikh, Musidora, and Albin Stenroos. Among people deceased in 1915, Adolphe Pégoud ranks 52Before him are Karl Lamprecht, Theodor Boveri, Joe Hill, Józef Brandt, Mubarak Al-Sabah, and Béla Kiss. After him are Carlos Finlay, Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, Arthur Hughes, Pierre-Émile Martin, Daniel Varoujan, and Booker T. Washington.

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In France

Among people born in France, Adolphe Pégoud ranks 2,749 out of 6,011Before him are Eugène Schneider (1805), Christian Kramp (1760), Guillaume Rondelet (1507), André Salmon (1881), Fabrice Luchini (1951), and Louis Le Chatelier (1815). After him are Henri Gervex (1852), Jean Lorrain (1855), François-Xavier Ortoli (1925), Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle (1684), John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (1373), and Joseph Paul-Boncour (1873).

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