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Clifton Williams

1932 - 1967

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Clifton Curtis Williams Jr. (September 26, 1932 – October 5, 1967), was an American naval aviator, test pilot, mechanical engineer, major in the United States Marine Corps, and NASA astronaut, who was killed in a plane crash; he never went into space. The crash was caused by a mechanical failure in a NASA T-38 jet trainer, which he was piloting to visit his parents in Mobile, Alabama. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Clifton Williams has received more than 215,361 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Clifton Williams is the 168th most popular astronaut (up from 172nd in 2019), the 6,889th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,608th in 2019) and the 68th most popular American Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Clifton Williams ranks 168 out of 524. Before him are Reinhard Furrer, Aleksandr Viktorenko, C. Gordon Fullerton, Christer Fuglesang, Fyodor Yurchikhin, and Theodore Freeman. After him are Eileen Collins, Valeri Tokarev, Laurel Clark, Patrick Baudry, Yuri Malenchenko, and Claudie Haigneré.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Clifton Williams ranks 318. Before him are Lyudvig Chibirov, Joe Engle, Ben Bova, Neil Bartlett, Pik Botha, and John Lyons. After him are Stéphane Bruey, Leonid Spirin, Louis Rwagasore, Sígfrid Gràcia, Els Borst, and István Bilek. Among people deceased in 1967, Clifton Williams ranks 195. Before him are Rexhep Mitrovica, Enrico Porro, Óscar Diego Gestido, Eugénie Cotton, Vilho Tuulos, and Paul Whiteman. After him are Johan Falkberget, Mary Garden, Joseph Perotaux, Juan Luque de Serrallonga, Sergey Gorodetsky, and Bert Lahr.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Clifton Williams ranks 6,889 out of 18,182. Before him are Albert George Wilson (1918), Jello Biafra (1958), Vivica A. Fox (1964), Jacqueline Susann (1918), Louis Wolheim (1880), and Vinny Appice (1957). After him are Richard Corben (1940), Gilbert Strang (1934), Michael Lewis (1960), Clyfford Still (1904), Thomas Hart Benton (1889), and Nat Adderley (1931).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Clifton Williams ranks 68. Before him are Edward Gibson (1936), Paul J. Weitz (1932), Jack Lousma (1936), Joe Engle (1932), C. Gordon Fullerton (1936), and Theodore Freeman (1930). After him are Eileen Collins (1956), Laurel Clark (1961), Robert Crippen (1937), John Oliver Creighton (1943), Scott Kelly (1964), and James McDivitt (1929).

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