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Charles Lindbergh

1902 - 1974

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Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, and author. On May 20–21, 1927, he made the first nonstop flight from New York to Paris, a distance of 3,600 miles (5,800 km), flying alone for 33.5 hours. His aircraft, the Spirit of St. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Lindbergh has received more than 12,229,565 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Charles Lindbergh is the most popular pilot, the 69th most popular biography from United States (down from 64th in 2019) and the most popular American Pilot.

Charles Lindbergh is most famous for being the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

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Among PILOTS

Among pilots, Charles Lindbergh ranks 1 out of 71. After him are Amelia Earhart, Roland Garros, Sabiha Gökçen, Hanna Reitsch, Adolf Galland, Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, Ernst Udet, Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, Francis Gary Powers, Ivan Kozhedub, and Hermann Graf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Charles Lindbergh ranks 3. Before him are Ruhollah Khomeini, and Karl Popper. After him are Georgy Malenkov, Paul Dirac, Leni Riefenstahl, Erik Erikson, Carl Rogers, John Steinbeck, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Halldór Laxness, and Talcott Parsons. Among people deceased in 1974, Charles Lindbergh ranks 1. After him are Oskar Schindler, Georgy Zhukov, Juan Perón, Georges Pompidou, Amin al-Husseini, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, James Chadwick, Vittorio De Sica, Pär Lagerkvist, U Thant, and Baldur von Schirach.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Lindbergh ranks 69 out of 20,380. Before him are Marlon Brando (1924), Stanley Kubrick (1928), Bill Gates (1955), Danny DeVito (1944), James Stewart (1908), and George H. W. Bush (1924). After him are Henry David Thoreau (1817), Helen Keller (1880), Jack London (1876), Toni Morrison (1931), Patrick Swayze (1952), and Bill Clinton (1946).

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Among PILOTS In United States

Among pilots born in United States, Charles Lindbergh ranks 1. After him are Amelia Earhart (1897), Francis Gary Powers (1929), Chesley Sullenberger (1951), Chuck Yeager (1923), Joseph Kittinger (1928), Claire Lee Chennault (1890), Bessie Coleman (1892), Jacqueline Cochran (1906), Jerrie Cobb (1931), Wally Funk (1939), and Cornelia Fort (1919).

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