MILITARY PERSONNEL

John Alcock

1892 - 1919

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Captain Sir John William Alcock (5 November 1892 – 19 December 1919) was a British Royal Navy and later Royal Air Force officer who, with navigator Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, piloted the first non-stop transatlantic flight from St. John's, Newfoundland to Clifden, Ireland in June 1919. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Alcock has received more than 10,368 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. John Alcock is the 1,483rd most popular military personnel (down from 1,026th in 2019), the 2,472nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,912th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular British Military Personnel.

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, John Alcock ranks 1,483 out of 2,058. Before him are François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, Karl Koller, Søren Kam, Zhang Zongchang, Coenus, and Dobromir Chrysos. After him are Akashi Motojiro, Sun Chuanfang, George Lawrence Price, Justin, Sudirman, and Alberto Bayo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, John Alcock ranks 166. Before him are Tsuru Aoki, Augusto Genina, Carl Panzram, Corrie ten Boom, Juana de Ibarbourou, and Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia. After him are George Lawrence Price, Alberto Bayo, Mercedes de Acosta, Mieczysław Horszowski, Pierre Blanchar, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Among people deceased in 1919, John Alcock ranks 102. Before him are Edward Poynter, Ernest von Koerber, Victor Segalen, Maryana Marrash, Saovabha Phongsri, and Princess Augusta of Saxe-Meiningen. After him are Akashi Motojiro, Laurence Doherty, Maria Nikiforova, Aaron Aaronsohn, Victorino de la Plaza, and Pavel Chistyakov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Alcock ranks 2,472 out of 8,785. Before him are Sydney Chapman (1888), Richard Marquand (1937), Robert Kerr (1755), David Bailey (1938), Paul Smith (1946), and Geoff Bent (1932). After him are Mary Ann Bevan (1874), Sally Hawkins (1976), Barbara Hepworth (1903), David Seaman (1963), William Hunter (1718), and David C. H. Austin (1926).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, John Alcock ranks 63. Before him are John Paul Jones (1747), Gregor MacGregor (1786), David Stirling (1915), Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1880), Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet (1772), and Sidney Smith (1764). After him are Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape (1888), Patrick Gordon (1635), Douglas Bader (1910), Henry Maitland Wilson (1881), Thomas Gage (1719), and Trafford Leigh-Mallory (1892).

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