MILITARY PERSONNEL

Italo Balbo

1896 - 1940

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Italo Balbo (6 June 1896 – 28 June 1940) was an Italian fascist politician and Blackshirts' leader who served as Italy's Marshal of the Air Force, Governor-General of Italian Libya and Commander-in-Chief of Italian North Africa. Due to his young age, he was sometimes seen as a possible successor to dictator Benito Mussolini. After serving in World War I, Balbo became the leading Fascist party organizer in his home region of Ferrara. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Italo Balbo has received more than 884,858 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Italo Balbo is the 254th most popular military personnel (up from 263rd in 2019), the 776th most popular biography from Italy (up from 785th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Italian Military Personnel.

Italo Balbo was an Italian Air Force officer and politician. He is most famous for being the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe to America.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Italo Balbo ranks 254 out of 2,058. Before him are Eumenes, Roger de Flor, Matthew C. Perry, Qutayba ibn Muslim, Jean Victor Marie Moreau, and Karl Wolff. After him are Ivan Bagramyan, Otto Günsche, Otto Liman von Sanders, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Craterus, and Hasdrubal Barca.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Italo Balbo ranks 28. Before him are Eugenio Montale, Oswald Mosley, Donald Winnicott, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Buenaventura Durruti, and Carl Ferdinand Cori. After him are Ernst Udet, Anna Anderson, Erich Koch, Célestin Freinet, Howard Hawks, and John Dos Passos. Among people deceased in 1940, Italo Balbo ranks 21. Before him are Manuel Azaña, Verner von Heidenstam, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Isaac Babel, Wladimir Köppen, and John Buchan. After him are Spyridon Louis, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Gerda Wegener, Kyösti Kallio, and Lluís Companys.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Italo Balbo ranks 776 out of 5,161. Before him are Charles Martel of Anjou (1271), Lucius Cornelius Cinna (-135), Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (1397), Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778), Giovanni Paisiello (1740), and Amalasuntha (495). After him are Agostino Carracci (1557), Vannozza dei Cattanei (1442), Mina (1940), Maria Luisa of Spain (1745), Lorenzo Lotto (1480), and Isabella of Aragon, Queen of France (1248).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Italy

Among military personnels born in Italy, Italo Balbo ranks 11. Before him are Gaius Julius Caesar (-135), Bohemond I of Antioch (1054), Matilda of Tuscany (1046), Giovanni Giustiniani (1418), Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus (-229), and Roger de Flor (1267). After him are Raimondo Montecuccoli (1609), Federico da Montefeltro (1422), Titus Labienus (-100), Sejanus (-20), Emilio De Bono (1866), and Italo Gariboldi (1879).

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