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Jan Kubiš

1913 - 1942

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Jan Kubiš (24 June 1913 – 18 June 1942) was a Czech soldier, one of a team of Czechoslovak British-trained paratroopers sent to eliminate acting Reichsprotektor (Realm-Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia, SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, in 1942 as part of Operation Anthropoid. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Kubiš has received more than 1,096,359 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Jan Kubiš is the 455th most popular military personnel (down from 423rd in 2019), the 125th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 117th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Czech Military Personnel.

Jan Kubiš was a Czechoslovakian soldier and spy who was a key figure in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi SS-Obergruppenführer and General der Polizei.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Jan Kubiš ranks 455 out of 1,468. Before him are Hasdrubal Gisco, George Maniakes, Oghul Qaimish, Saburō Sakai, Raymond A. Spruance, and Pavel Nakhimov. After him are Paul von Rennenkampf, Okita Sōji, Gustav Wagner, Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Christian Wirth, and Zinovy Rozhestvensky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Jan Kubiš ranks 61. Before him are Paul Grice, Gerda Christian, Irwin Shaw, Sergey Mikhalkov, Xi Zhongxun, and Otto Wichterle. After him are Benjamin Bloom, Peter Cushing, Roger Caillois, Alan Ladd, Méret Oppenheim, and Tito Gobbi. Among people deceased in 1942, Jan Kubiš ranks 39. Before him are Alexander von Zemlinsky, Felix Hausdorff, Henri de Baillet-Latour, Prince George, Duke of Kent, Tina Modotti, and Chen Duxiu. After him are Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia, Tamon Yamaguchi, Flinders Petrie, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria, and Louis Franchet d'Espèrey.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jan Kubiš ranks 125 out of 973. Before him are Emil Škoda (1839), Adalbert Stifter (1805), Rudolf Weigl (1883), Agnes of Bohemia (1211), Oldřich Nejedlý (1909), and Otto Wichterle (1913). After him are Jan Neruda (1834), Milada Horáková (1901), Johann Josef Loschmidt (1821), Josef Mysliveček (1737), Bretislav I (1005), and Eduard Hanslick (1825).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Czechia

Among military personnels born in Czechia, Jan Kubiš ranks 6. Before him are Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583), Joseph Radetzky von Radetz (1766), Jan Žižka (1360), Kurt Knispel (1921), and Prokop the Great (1380). After him are Julius von Payer (1841), Otto Kittel (1917), Erhard Raus (1889), Moritz von Auffenberg (1852), and Alexander von Krobatin (1849).

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