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Brian Horrocks

1895 - 1985

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Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Gwynne Horrocks, (7 September 1895 – 4 January 1985) was a British Army officer, chiefly remembered as the commander of XXX Corps in Operation Market Garden and other operations during the Second World War. He also served in the First World War and the Russian Civil War, was taken prisoner twice, and competed in the modern pentathlon at the 1924 Paris Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Brian Horrocks has received more than 663,463 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Brian Horrocks is the 675th most popular companion (down from 663rd in 2019), the 408th most popular biography from India (up from 470th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Indian Companion.

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Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Brian Horrocks ranks 675 out of 673. Before him are Burgravine Louise Isabelle of Kirchberg, Nicole Brown Simpson, Morphia of Melitene, Ælfgifu of Northampton, Theodora, daughter of Constantine VII, and Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein. After him are Rudolf I, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Felicia of Roucy, Sophia of Denmark, Douce II, Countess of Provence, Théodrate of Troyes, and Richardis of Schwerin, Queen of Sweden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Brian Horrocks ranks 155. Before him are Itō Noe, Vsevolod Ivanov, Mario Camerini, Egon Pearson, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Hari Singh. After him are Harold Hotelling, Marie-Dominique Chenu, Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, Neco, Virginia Rappe, and Corrado Alvaro. Among people deceased in 1985, Brian Horrocks ranks 116. Before him are John G. Trump, Renato Castellani, Oreco, Jock Stein, Vivien Thomas, and Yusuf Lule. After him are Gale Sondergaard, Sergei Gerasimov, Clarence Nash, Michel Audiard, Sanjeev Kumar, and Helene Engelmann.

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In India

Among people born in India, Brian Horrocks ranks 408 out of 1,493. Before him are B. D. Jatti (1912), Bhimsen Joshi (1922), Ibn Warraq (1946), Anupam Kher (1955), Altaf Hussain Hali (1837), and The Great Khali (1972). After him are Sabu Dastagir (1924), Bhāskara I (600), Priyanka Chopra (1982), Balaji Vishwanath (1662), Jaswant Singh (1938), and Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV (1884).

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Among COMPANIONS In India

Among companions born in India, Brian Horrocks ranks 4. Before him are Mumtaz Mahal (1593), Mariam-uz-Zamani (1542), and Mastani (1699). After him are Jagat Gosain (1573).

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