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Gerhard Barkhorn

1919 - 1983

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Gerhard "Gerd" Barkhorn (20 March 1919 – 11 January 1983) was a German military aviator who was a renowned wing commander in the Luftwaffe during World War II. As a fighter ace, he was the second most successful fighter pilot of all time after fellow pilot Erich Hartmann. Other than Hartmann, Barkhorn is the only fighter ace to ever exceed 300 claimed victories. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerhard Barkhorn has received more than 577,993 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Gerhard Barkhorn is the 288th most popular military personnel (down from 278th in 2019), the 236th most popular biography from Russia (down from 230th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

Gerhard Barkhorn is most famous for being a German fighter pilot during World War II. He was a member of the Luftwaffe and flew over 500 combat missions.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Gerhard Barkhorn ranks 288 out of 2,058. Before him are Roman Shukhevych, Federico da Montefeltro, Titus Labienus, Nicolas Oudinot, Maurice de Saxe, and Juan Pujol García. After him are Bahram Chobin, Wang Jian, Jiang Wei, Georges Picquart, Xiahou Dun, and Uqba ibn Nafi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Gerhard Barkhorn ranks 23. Before him are Margot Fonteyn, Jack Palance, Matilde Camus, Nat King Cole, Hans-Joachim Marseille, and Pierre Trudeau. After him are Donald Pleasence, Dino De Laurentiis, Lex Barker, Oleg Penkovsky, Boris Shcherbina, and Iris Murdoch. Among people deceased in 1983, Gerhard Barkhorn ranks 21. Before him are Nikolai Podgorny, Raymond Aron, David Niven, George Cukor, Haldan Keffer Hartline, and Buckminster Fuller. After him are Alfred Tarski, Gloria Swanson, Ulf von Euler, Aleksandar Ranković, John Fante, and Klaus Nomi.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Gerhard Barkhorn ranks 236 out of 3,761. Before him are Ivan Kramskoi (1837), Gennady Yanayev (1937), Algirdas Julien Greimas (1917), Ilya Frank (1908), Daniel of Moscow (1261), and Pyotr Kapitsa (1894). After him are Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904), Ivan Krylov (1769), Leonid Kantorovich (1912), Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), Boris Nemtsov (1959), and Pitirim Sorokin (1889).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Gerhard Barkhorn ranks 19. Before him are Johannes Blaskowitz (1883), Andrey Vlasov (1901), Gotthard Heinrici (1886), Valery Gerasimov (1955), Vasily Stalin (1921), and Nikolai Vatutin (1901). After him are Vasily Blyukher (1889), Dmitry Yazov (1924), Boris Shaposhnikov (1882), Fyodor Tolbukhin (1894), Nikolai Yudenich (1862), and Yermak Timofeyevich (1532).

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