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 171,306 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Adolphe Pégoud is the 1,308th most popular military personnel (down from 1,035th in 2019), the 3,185th most popular biography from France (down from 2,740th in 2019) and the 123rd most popular French Military Personnel.

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  • 2.06

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Adolphe Pégoud ranks 1,308 out of 2,058. Before him are Shigeyoshi Inoue, Friedrich Kirchner, Nam Il, Gaius Sulpicius Gallus, Fayruz al-Daylami, and Meleager. After him are Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt, Laomedon of Mytilene, Aliagha Shikhlinski, Kiyonao Ichiki, Maksim Purkayev, and János Pálffy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Adolphe Pégoud ranks 138. Before him are Lloyd Bacon, Zhang Qun, Muhammad Jamalul Alam II, Albin Stenroos, Ralph Craig, and Shigeyoshi Inoue. After him are Edith Tolkien, Bodil Ipsen, Abbās al-Aqqād, Lord Leopold Mountbatten, Maria Dąbrowska, and Angelo Iachino. Among people deceased in 1915, Adolphe Pégoud ranks 62. Before him are Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Theodor Boveri, Inoue Kaoru, Hugo Schiff, Daniel Varoujan, and Joe Hill. After him are Arthur Hughes, Eugène Jansson, Serafino Vannutelli, Ruben Sevak, Emil Rathenau, and Morgan Robertson.

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In France

Among people born in France, Adolphe Pégoud ranks 3,185 out of 6,770. Before him are Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval (1808), Jacques-André Naigeon (1738), Henri Meilhac (1831), Aimeric de Peguilhan (1200), Bernard Morel (1925), and Marc Ferro (1924). After him are Jean Guillou (1930), J. F. Oberlin (1740), Frédéric Cuvier (1773), Samir Nasri (1987), Peter Julian Eymard (1811), and Jean-Joseph, Marquis Dessolles (1767).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Adolphe Pégoud ranks 123. Before him are Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle (1684), Charles-Denis Bourbaki (1816), Anne Hilarion de Tourville (1642), Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine (1740), Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing (1729), and Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544). After him are François de Créquy (1625), Amédée Courbet (1827), Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud (1798), Violette Szabo (1921), Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor (1770), and Guillaume Philibert Duhesme (1766).

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