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Gunichi Mikawa

1888 - 1981

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Gunichi Mikawa (三川 軍一, Mikawa Gun'ichi, 29 August 1888 – 25 February 1981) was a vice-admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II. Mikawa was the commander of a heavy cruiser force that defeated the U.S. Navy and the Royal Australian Navy at the Battle of Savo Island in Ironbottom Sound on the night of 8–9 August 1942. In this battle, his squadron of cruisers, plus one destroyer, sank three USN cruisers, plus the RAN heavy cruiser HMAS Canberra; Mikawa's force suffered no losses in the actual battle, although heavy cruiser Kako was sunk by the undetected American submarine S-44 on the return to their base near Rabaul in the Bismarck Archipelago. However, his later career was of mixed success, and he was reassigned to lesser posts after the loss of a troop convoy destined for New Guinea. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gunichi Mikawa has received more than 198,981 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Gunichi Mikawa is the 855th most popular military personnel (down from 796th in 2019), the 597th most popular biography from Japan (down from 546th in 2019) and the 56th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Gunichi Mikawa ranks 855 out of 2,058. Before him are Gerhard Schmidhuber, Max Simon, Andrew Parker Bowles, Erhard Raus, Ernst Linder, and Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma. After him are Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin, Karol Świerczewski, Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel, Hiroshi Ōshima, Hamazasp Babadzhanian, and Serena.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Gunichi Mikawa ranks 86. Before him are Grigori Sokolnikov, Jean Wahl, Jakow Trachtenberg, Prince Axel of Denmark, Royal Rife, and Victor Goldschmidt. After him are Chōjun Miyagi, Hans Richter, Hans von Salmuth, Milan Stojadinović, Masaharu Homma, and Paul Morand. Among people deceased in 1981, Gunichi Mikawa ranks 61. Before him are Albert Cohen, Mao Dun, Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, Josep Pla, Giuseppe Pella, and Lotte Reiniger. After him are Valeri Kharlamov, Gloria Grahame, Natalia Pavlovna Paley, Melvyn Douglas, D. R. Bendre, and Ferruccio Parri.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Gunichi Mikawa ranks 597 out of 6,245. Before him are Hiroyoshi Nishizawa (1920), Taro Kagawa (1922), Akira Nishino (1955), Sawao Kato (1946), Hiroshi Saeki (1936), and Ishirō Honda (1911). After him are Seki Matsunaga (1928), Atsushi Nakajima (1909), Kōzō Okamoto (1947), Hiroshi Ōshima (1886), Chōjun Miyagi (1888), and Ukita Hideie (1573).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Gunichi Mikawa ranks 56. Before him are Minamoto no Yoshitomo (1123), Shibata Katsuie (1522), Sakanoue no Tamuramaro (758), Ōtani Yoshitsugu (1559), Hitoshi Imamura (1886), and Hiroyoshi Nishizawa (1920). After him are Hiroshi Ōshima (1886), Shūmei Ōkawa (1886), Takeo Takagi (1892), Nakano Takeko (1847), Takasugi Shinsaku (1839), and Hōjō Ujiyasu (1515).

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