1896 - 1940
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 810,378 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Italo Balbo is the 263rd most popular military personnel (down from 251st in 2019), the 787th most popular biography from Italy (down from 765th in 2019) and the 13th 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, Italo Balbo ranks 263 out of 1,468. Before him are Pittacus of Mytilene, Franz Stangl, Rochus Misch, Otto Liman von Sanders, Ivan Bagramyan, and Władysław Sikorski. After him are Maurice de Saxe, Lothar Rendulic, Svetozar Boroević, Andranik, Alois Brunner, and Matthew C. Perry.
650 BC - 570 BC
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 257
1908 - 1971
HPI: 64.72
Rank: 258
1917 - 2013
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 259
1855 - 1929
HPI: 64.55
Rank: 260
1897 - 1982
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 261
1881 - 1943
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 262
1896 - 1940
HPI: 64.50
Rank: 263
1696 - 1750
HPI: 64.49
Rank: 264
1887 - 1971
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 265
1856 - 1920
HPI: 64.46
Rank: 266
1865 - 1927
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 267
1912 - 2010
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 268
1794 - 1858
HPI: 64.36
Rank: 269
Among people born in 1896, Italo Balbo ranks 29. Before him are Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Donald Winnicott, Ernst Udet, Howard Hawks, Célestin Freinet, and Buenaventura Durruti. After him are Erich Koch, Helen of Greece and Denmark, Anna Anderson, Carl Ferdinand Cori, John Dos Passos, and A. J. Cronin. Among people deceased in 1940, Italo Balbo ranks 21. Before him are Gerda Wegener, Wladimir Köppen, Isaac Babel, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, and Spyridon Louis. After him are Verner von Heidenstam, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, John Buchan, Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, Vsevolod Meyerhold, and Arthur Harden.
1896 - 1985
HPI: 66.24
Rank: 23
1896 - 1971
HPI: 65.78
Rank: 24
1896 - 1941
HPI: 65.35
Rank: 25
1896 - 1977
HPI: 64.86
Rank: 26
1896 - 1966
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 27
1896 - 1936
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 28
1896 - 1940
HPI: 64.50
Rank: 29
1896 - 1986
HPI: 64.35
Rank: 30
1896 - 1982
HPI: 64.31
Rank: 31
1896 - 1984
HPI: 64.09
Rank: 32
1896 - 1984
HPI: 63.82
Rank: 33
1896 - 1970
HPI: 63.73
Rank: 34
1896 - 1981
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 35
1886 - 1940
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 15
1846 - 1940
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 16
1894 - 1940
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 17
1857 - 1940
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 18
1860 - 1940
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 19
1873 - 1940
HPI: 64.65
Rank: 20
1896 - 1940
HPI: 64.50
Rank: 21
1859 - 1940
HPI: 64.39
Rank: 22
1880 - 1940
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 23
1875 - 1940
HPI: 62.99
Rank: 24
1868 - 1940
HPI: 62.94
Rank: 25
1874 - 1940
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 26
1865 - 1940
HPI: 62.47
Rank: 27
Among people born in Italy, Italo Balbo ranks 787 out of 4,668. Before him are Pope Leo V (870), Lucius Cornelius Cinna (-135), Ferruccio Busoni (1866), Charles Martel of Anjou (1271), Lorenzo Lotto (1480), and Peter, King of Hungary (1011). After him are Laura Bassi (1711), Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1671), Poliziano (1454), Carlo Gozzi (1720), Herod Agrippa II (28), and Curzio Malaparte (1898).
870 - 905
HPI: 64.57
Rank: 781
135 BC - 84 BC
HPI: 64.55
Rank: 782
1866 - 1924
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 783
1271 - 1295
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 784
1480 - 1556
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 785
1011 - 1050
HPI: 64.52
Rank: 786
1896 - 1940
HPI: 64.50
Rank: 787
1711 - 1778
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 788
1671 - 1737
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 789
1454 - 1494
HPI: 64.46
Rank: 790
1720 - 1806
HPI: 64.46
Rank: 791
28 - 100
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 792
1898 - 1957
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 793
Among military personnels born in Italy, Italo Balbo ranks 13. Before him are Matilda of Tuscany (1046), Giovanni Giustiniani (1418), Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus (-229), Gaius Claudius Glaber (-200), Sejanus (-20), and Federico da Montefeltro (1422). After him are Emilio De Bono (1866), Roger de Flor (1267), Titus Labienus (-100), Giovanni Messe (1883), Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli (1856), and Italo Gariboldi (1879).
1046 - 1115
HPI: 66.74
Rank: 7
1418 - 1453
HPI: 66.12
Rank: 8
229 BC - 160 BC
HPI: 66.05
Rank: 9
200 BC - 100 BC
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 10
20 BC - 31
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 11
1422 - 1482
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 12
1896 - 1940
HPI: 64.50
Rank: 13
1866 - 1944
HPI: 63.24
Rank: 14
1267 - 1305
HPI: 62.85
Rank: 15
100 BC - 45 BC
HPI: 62.60
Rank: 16
1883 - 1968
HPI: 62.58
Rank: 17
1856 - 1941
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 18
1879 - 1970
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 19