SOCCER PLAYER

Akira Kitaguchi

1935 - Today

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Akira Kitaguchi (北口 晃, Kitaguchi Akira, born March 8, 1935) is a former Japanese football player. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Akira Kitaguchi has received more than 8,905 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia. Akira Kitaguchi is the 292nd most popular soccer player (down from 228th in 2019), the 302nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 277th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Japanese Soccer Player.

Akira Kitaguchi is most famous for being the first person to be killed by an atomic bomb. He was a Japanese citizen who was living in Hiroshima when the bomb was dropped.

Memorability Metrics

  • 8.9k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 26.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Akira Kitaguchi ranks 292 out of 21,273Before him are David Trezeguet, Akira Nozawa, Gennaro Gattuso, Kunitaka Sueoka, Jan Koller, and Ange Postecoglou. After him are Jens Lehmann, Alain Giresse, Hugo Meisl, Uli Stielike, Ricardo Quaresma, and Dragoslav Šekularac.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Akira Kitaguchi ranks 66Before him are Udo Lattek, Lorenzo Bandini, Wim Duisenberg, Pranab Mukherjee, Elsa Martinelli, and Gnassingbé Eyadéma. After him are Brian Clough, Ken Kesey, Roger B. Chaffee, António Ramalho Eanes, Abdou Diouf, and Sonny Bono.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Akira Kitaguchi ranks 302 out of 6,245Before him are Akira Nozawa (1914), Chūya Nakahara (1907), Kunitaka Sueoka (1917), Maeda Toshiie (1538), Mamoru Shigemitsu (1887), and Empress Masako (1963). After him are Ryōji Noyori (1938), Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado (1442), Emperor Sushun (520), Empress Teimei (1884), Ikkyū (1394), and Nobuyoshi Araki (1940).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Japan

Among soccer players born in Japan, Akira Kitaguchi ranks 17Before him are Kenji Tochio (1941), Ken Noritake (1922), Yoshio Okada (1926), Takashi Kano (1920), Akira Nozawa (1914), and Kunitaka Sueoka (1917). After him are Waichiro Omura (1933), Shoichi Nishimura (1912), Kiyonosuke Marutani (null), Hideo Sakai (1909), Takashi Kasahara (1918), and Kazuyoshi Nakamura (1955).