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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 1,289,308 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Chūichi Nagumo is the 155th most popular military personnel (down from 142nd in 2019), the 48th most popular biography from Japan (down from 43rd in 2019) and the 7th 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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  • 38

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Chūichi Nagumo ranks 155 out of 1,468. Before him are Friedrich Olbricht, Dragut, Paul Hausser, Ferdinand Schörner, Yūsuf Balasaguni, and Georg von Küchler. After him are Helmuth Weidling, Mardonius, Semyon Budyonny, Charles V, Duke of Lorraine, Alfred von Schlieffen, and José de San Martín.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Chūichi Nagumo ranks 22. Before him are Georgia O'Keeffe, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Juan Gris, Vidkun Quisling, Felix Yusupov, and Saint-John Perse. After him are Henry Moseley, Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Ruth Benedict, Georg Trakl, and Nikolai Vavilov. Among people deceased in 1944, Chūichi Nagumo ranks 22. Before him are Alexis Carrel, Marc Bloch, Ludwig Beck, Michael Wittmann, Galeazzo Ciano, and Friedrich Olbricht. After him are Ernst Thälmann, Milena Jesenská, Florence Foster Jenkins, Charles Glover Barkla, Nikolai Vatutin, and Henning von Tresckow.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Chūichi Nagumo ranks 48 out of 6,048. Before him are Hiroshige (1797), Takeshi Kitano (1947), Emperor Kōkaku (1771), Saigō Takamori (1828), Itō Hirobumi (1841), and Yoshinori Ohsumi (1945). After him are Takeda Shingen (1521), Utamaro (1753), Isao Takahata (1935), Soichiro Honda (1906), Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159), and Joan Fontaine (1917).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Chūichi Nagumo ranks 7. Before him are Oda Nobunaga (1534), Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542), Isoroku Yamamoto (1884), Hiroo Onoda (1922), Hattori Hanzō (1542), and Saigō Takamori (1828). After him are Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159), Akechi Mitsuhide (1526), Tadamichi Kuribayashi (1891), Date Masamune (1567), Tōgō Heihachirō (1848), and Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837).

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