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Akechi Mitsuhide

1526 - 1582

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Akechi Mitsuhide (明智 光秀, March 10, 1528 – July 2, 1582), first called Jūbei from his clan and later Koretō Hyūga no Kami (惟任日向守) from his title, was a Japanese samurai general of the Sengoku period. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Akechi Mitsuhide has received more than 1,735,976 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Akechi Mitsuhide is the 176th most popular military personnel (up from 179th in 2019), the 65th most popular biography from Japan (down from 58th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

Akechi Mitsuhide is most famous for his betrayal of Oda Nobunaga, which led to the death of Nobunaga.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Akechi Mitsuhide ranks 176 out of 2,058. Before him are Helmuth Weidling, Zhao Yun, Georg von Küchler, Auguste de Marmont, Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, and Jean-de-Dieu Soult. After him are Michiel de Ruyter, Hans Krebs, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Khalifa Haftar, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, and Parmenion.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1526, Akechi Mitsuhide ranks 3. Before him are Giuseppe Arcimboldo, and Catherine Jagiellon. After him are Elizabeth of Austria, Augustus, Elector of Saxony, Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Rafael Bombelli, Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Bâkî, Benedict the Moor, Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, and Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquess of Santa Cruz. Among people deceased in 1582, Akechi Mitsuhide ranks 4. Before him are Oda Nobunaga, Teresa of Ávila, and Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba. After him are Wu Cheng'en, Altan Khan, Takeda Katsuyori, Diego, Prince of Asturias, Mori Ranmaru, Oda Nobutada, Zhang Juzheng, and Charlotte of Bourbon.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Akechi Mitsuhide ranks 65 out of 6,245. Before him are Junji Nishikawa (1907), Empress Michiko (1934), Mako (1933), Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916), Natsume Sōseki (1867), and Kane Tanaka (1903). After him are Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837), Hideki Yukawa (1907), Kenzō Tange (1913), Fumio Kishida (1957), Akira Toriyama (1955), and Uesugi Kenshin (1530).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Akechi Mitsuhide ranks 9. Before him are Isoroku Yamamoto (1884), Hattori Hanzō (1542), Saigō Takamori (1828), Hiroo Onoda (1922), Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159), and Chūichi Nagumo (1887). After him are Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837), Date Masamune (1567), Tōgō Heihachirō (1848), Tadamichi Kuribayashi (1891), Okita Sōji (1842), and Shunroku Hata (1879).

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