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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 1,149,078 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Jan Kubiš is the 457th most popular military personnel (down from 455th in 2019), the 133rd most popular biography from Czechia (down from 125th 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 457 out of 2,058. Before him are Georg-Hans Reinhardt, Viktor Lutze, George I Rákóczi, Xu Chu, Ante Gotovina, and José Sanjurjo. After him are Arthur III, Duke of Brittany, Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria, Elisabeth Volkenrath, Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, and Max Hoffmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Jan Kubiš ranks 55. Before him are Charles Trenet, Mary Ainsworth, Gert Fröbe, Tito Gobbi, Mehmet Shehu, and Xi Zhongxun. After him are Peter Cushing, Roger Caillois, Boris Pahor, Richard Stone, Gerda Christian, and Stewart Granger. Among people deceased in 1942, Jan Kubiš ranks 38. Before him are Jozef Gabčík, Grant Wood, Tina Modotti, Michel Fokine, Chen Duxiu, and Felix Hausdorff. After him are Yosano Akiko, Tamon Yamaguchi, Daniil Kharms, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Leopold Mandić, and Louis Franchet d'Espèrey.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jan Kubiš ranks 133 out of 1,200. Before him are Jarmila Kratochvílová (1951), Adalbert Stifter (1805), Rudolf Slánský (1901), Antonín Zápotocký (1884), Barbara Bouchet (1943), and Vladislaus II, Duke of Bohemia (1110). After him are Bretislav I (1005), Jan Svatopluk Presl (1791), Johann Palisa (1848), Bořivoj I, Duke of Bohemia (852), Princess Sophie of Hohenberg (1901), and Alfred Brendel (1931).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Czechia

Among military personnels born in Czechia, Jan Kubiš ranks 6. Before him are Jan Žižka (1360), Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583), Joseph Radetzky von Radetz (1766), Kurt Knispel (1921), and Prokop the Great (1380). After him are Otto Kittel (1917), Julius von Payer (1841), Erhard Raus (1889), Karl Fritzsch (1903), Ferenc Wesselényi (1605), and Moritz von Auffenberg (1852).

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