MILITARY PERSONNEL

Chūichi Nagumo

1887 - 1944

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Chūichi Nagumo (南雲 忠一, Nagumo Chūichi, 25 March 1887 – 6 July 1944) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II. Nagumo led Japan's main carrier battle group, the Kido Butai, in the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Indian Ocean raid and the Battle of Midway. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chūichi Nagumo has received more than 1,380,093 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia. Chūichi Nagumo is the 151st most popular military personnel (up from 155th in 2019), the 51st most popular biography from Japan (down from 48th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

Chūichi Nagumo was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He was commander of the First Air Fleet, which attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Chūichi Nagumo ranks 151 out of 2,058. Before him are José de San Martín, Draža Mihailović, Louis-Alexandre Berthier, Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Ludwig Beck, and Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse. After him are Antipater, Paul Tibbets, Pittacus of Mytilene, Józef Poniatowski, Alfred von Schlieffen, and Semyon Timoshenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Chūichi Nagumo ranks 18. Before him are Arthur Rubinstein, Jozef Tiso, Bernard Montgomery, Wilhelm Canaris, Juan Gris, and Vidkun Quisling. After him are Heitor Villa-Lobos, Saint-John Perse, Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, James B. Sumner, Felix Yusupov, and Georg Trakl. Among people deceased in 1944, Chūichi Nagumo ranks 22. Before him are Michael Wittmann, Alexis Carrel, Marc Bloch, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, Ludwig Beck, and Ernst Thälmann. After him are Florence Foster Jenkins, Hilma af Klint, Milena Jesenská, Galeazzo Ciano, Louis Renault, and Henning von Tresckow.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Chūichi Nagumo ranks 51 out of 6,245. Before him are Takeshi Kitano (1947), Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147), Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159), Yoshinori Ohsumi (1945), Soichiro Honda (1906), and Olivia de Havilland (1916). After him are Emperor Ninkō (1800), Emperor Kōkaku (1771), Tadao Ando (1941), Koxinga (1624), Isamu Akasaki (1929), and Emperor Suizei (-669).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Chūichi Nagumo ranks 8. Before him are Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542), Isoroku Yamamoto (1884), Hattori Hanzō (1542), Saigō Takamori (1828), Hiroo Onoda (1922), and Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159). After him are Akechi Mitsuhide (1526), Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837), Date Masamune (1567), Tōgō Heihachirō (1848), Tadamichi Kuribayashi (1891), and Okita Sōji (1842).

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