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Carl Osburn

1884 - 1966

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Carl Townsend Osburn (May 5, 1884 – December 28, 1966) was a United States Navy officer and sport shooter from Jacksontown, Ohio. After graduating from the United States Naval Academy in 1906, Osburn went on to reach the rank of commander. He competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics, 1920 Summer Olympics, and 1924 Summer Olympics, winning a total of eleven Olympic medals: five gold (including two individual golds), four silver, and two bronze. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Osburn has received more than 47,964 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Carl Osburn is the 1,729th most popular athlete (down from 1,242nd in 2019), the 10,255th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,560th in 2019) and the 295th most popular American Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Carl Osburn ranks 1,729 out of 6,025Before him are Isabelle Daniels, Alfred Lane, Helmut Berthold, Giancarlo Ferrari, Erika Lechner, and Katrin Krabbe. After him are Bengt Nilsson, Francis Frederick, Anna Dresden-Polak, Lyudmila Titova, Konstantin Volkov, and Dragutin Topić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Carl Osburn ranks 240Before him are Edward Archibald, Frank Waller, Alma Gluck, Thomas Blamey, Ivy Compton-Burnett, and William Hogenson. After him are Stuart Holmes, Richard Louis Duckett, George Goulding, Carl Kempe, Oscar Micheaux, and Calvin Bricker. Among people deceased in 1966, Carl Osburn ranks 215Before him are Manuel María Ponce Brousset, Mina Loy, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Joe Spence, Frankie Genaro, and Esna Boyd. After him are Anders Petersen, Francis X. Bushman, Heinrich Keimig, Eric Fleming, Knut Torell, and George Goulding.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Carl Osburn ranks 10,255 out of 20,380Before him are Alexi Lalas (1970), Kerri Walsh Jennings (1978), Vincent Sherman (1906), Blind Boy Fuller (1904), Richard G. Hovannisian (1932), and Edna May Oliver (1883). After him are Francis Frederick (1907), John Sloan (1871), Dorothy Allison (1949), Josh Homme (1973), John O. Brennan (1955), and Gideon Welles (1802).

Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Carl Osburn ranks 295Before him are Ronnie Ray Smith (1949), John Miller (1903), Leroy Burrell (1967), William Hogenson (1884), Isabelle Daniels (1937), and Alfred Lane (1891). After him are Francis Frederick (1907), Marilyn White (1944), Wesley Coe (1879), Billy Mills (1938), Dean Smith (1932), and George Woods (1943).