1919 - 2004
Charles William Sweeney (December 27, 1919 – July 16, 2004) was an officer in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II and the pilot who flew Bockscar carrying the Fat Man atomic bomb to the Japanese city of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Sweeney has received more than 658,130 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Charles Sweeney is the 673rd most popular military personnel (down from 609th in 2019), the 2,008th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,890th in 2019) and the 29th most popular American Military Personnel.
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Among military personnels, Charles Sweeney ranks 673 out of 1,468. Before him are Iphicrates, Nikolai Ogarkov, Jules Brunet, Helmuth von Pannwitz, Takeo Kurita, and Hermocrates. After him are Bardas Skleros, Mahmud Shevket Pasha, Lei Feng, Yoshijirō Umezu, Adrian Carton de Wiart, and Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este.
415 BC - 353 BC
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 667
1917 - 1994
HPI: 57.33
Rank: 668
1838 - 1911
HPI: 57.33
Rank: 669
1898 - 1947
HPI: 57.28
Rank: 670
1889 - 1977
HPI: 57.27
Rank: 671
500 BC - 408 BC
HPI: 57.27
Rank: 672
1919 - 2004
HPI: 57.26
Rank: 673
1000 - 991
HPI: 57.26
Rank: 674
1856 - 1913
HPI: 57.25
Rank: 675
1940 - 1962
HPI: 57.23
Rank: 676
1882 - 1949
HPI: 57.23
Rank: 677
1880 - 1963
HPI: 57.22
Rank: 678
1781 - 1850
HPI: 57.21
Rank: 679
Among people born in 1919, Charles Sweeney ranks 71. Before him are Archduke Rudolf of Austria, Kiichi Miyazawa, Peter Abrahams, Wolfgang Wagner, Liberace, and Maurice Herzog. After him are François Périer, Merce Cunningham, Licio Gelli, Joe Weider, George Wallace, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Among people deceased in 2004, Charles Sweeney ranks 64. Before him are Jean Rouch, Lennart Bernadotte, Harold Shipman, Nikolai Chernykh, Nino Manfredi, and Marika Rökk. After him are Philippe de Broca, Mercedes McCambridge, Thanom Kittikachorn, Brian Clough, Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, and John Charles.
1919 - 2010
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 65
1919 - 2007
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 66
1919 - 2017
HPI: 57.66
Rank: 67
1919 - 2010
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 68
1919 - 1987
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 69
1919 - 2012
HPI: 57.32
Rank: 70
1919 - 2004
HPI: 57.26
Rank: 71
1919 - 2002
HPI: 57.26
Rank: 72
1919 - 2009
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 73
1919 - 2015
HPI: 56.76
Rank: 74
1919 - 2013
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 75
1919 - 1998
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 76
1919 - 2021
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 77
1917 - 2004
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 58
1909 - 2004
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 59
1946 - 2004
HPI: 57.55
Rank: 60
1931 - 2004
HPI: 57.48
Rank: 61
1921 - 2004
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 62
1913 - 2004
HPI: 57.28
Rank: 63
1919 - 2004
HPI: 57.26
Rank: 64
1933 - 2004
HPI: 57.17
Rank: 65
1916 - 2004
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 66
1911 - 2004
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 67
1935 - 2004
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 68
1947 - 2004
HPI: 56.75
Rank: 69
1931 - 2004
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 70
Among people born in United States, Charles Sweeney ranks 2,008 out of 18,182. Before him are George Lakoff (1941), John Landis (1950), Peter Criss (1945), Jim Henson (1936), Jack Welch (1935), and Irving Penn (1917). After him are Jim Parsons (1973), Megan Fox (1986), King Vidor (1894), Jamie Foxx (1967), Ben Carson (1951), and Lewis Mumford (1895).
1941 - Present
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 2,002
1950 - Present
HPI: 57.28
Rank: 2,003
1945 - Present
HPI: 57.28
Rank: 2,004
1936 - 1990
HPI: 57.28
Rank: 2,005
1935 - 2020
HPI: 57.27
Rank: 2,006
1917 - 2009
HPI: 57.26
Rank: 2,007
1919 - 2004
HPI: 57.26
Rank: 2,008
1973 - Present
HPI: 57.25
Rank: 2,009
1986 - Present
HPI: 57.24
Rank: 2,010
1894 - 1982
HPI: 57.24
Rank: 2,011
1967 - Present
HPI: 57.23
Rank: 2,012
1951 - Present
HPI: 57.23
Rank: 2,013
1895 - 1990
HPI: 57.22
Rank: 2,014
Among military personnels born in United States, Charles Sweeney ranks 29. Before him are Creighton Abrams (1914), Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (1915), Wild Bill Hickok (1837), Matthew Ridgway (1895), Chris Kyle (1974), and Mark W. Clark (1896). After him are P. G. T. Beauregard (1818), William Halsey Jr. (1882), Abner Doubleday (1819), Frank Jack Fletcher (1885), Paul Revere (1735), and Doc Holliday (1851).
1914 - 1974
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 23
1915 - 1944
HPI: 58.04
Rank: 24
1837 - 1876
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 25
1895 - 1993
HPI: 57.48
Rank: 26
1974 - 2013
HPI: 57.48
Rank: 27
1896 - 1984
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 28
1919 - 2004
HPI: 57.26
Rank: 29
1818 - 1893
HPI: 57.08
Rank: 30
1882 - 1959
HPI: 56.97
Rank: 31
1819 - 1893
HPI: 56.93
Rank: 32
1885 - 1973
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 33
1735 - 1818
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 34
1851 - 1887
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 35