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MILITARY PERSONNEL

John C. Woods

1911 - 1950

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John Clarence Woods (June 5, 1911 – July 21, 1950) was a United States Army master sergeant who, with Joseph Malta, carried out the Nuremberg executions of ten former top leaders of the Third Reich on October 16, 1946, after they were sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials. Time magazine credited him with 347 executions to that date during a 15-year career. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John C. Woods has received more than 1,194,321 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. John C. Woods is the 1,146th most popular military personnel, the 3,733rd most popular biography from United States and the 61st most popular American Military Personnel.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.29

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  • 2.64

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, John C. Woods ranks 1,146 out of 1,468. Before him are Joachim Lemelsen, Franz Rohr von Denta, Quintus Salvidienus Rufus, Claude François de Malet, Emiliano Mercado del Toro, and Werner Goldberg. After him are Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Fyodor Apraksin, Pyotr Koshevoy, Oleg Kalugin, Wesley Clark, and Søren Kam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, John C. Woods ranks 132. Before him are Theodore Romzha, Barbara West, Prince Carl Bernadotte, José María Arguedas, Guy Burgess, and Son Sann. After him are Hervé Bazin, Gabriel Almond, Leah Goldberg, Mark Bernes, Allan Pettersson, and E. F. Schumacher. Among people deceased in 1950, John C. Woods ranks 85. Before him are Yi Kwang-su, Arturo Alessandri, Nikolai Luzin, Harold Laski, Alma Karlin, and Al Jolson. After him are Raymond Sommer, Ernst Wiechert, Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Vasily Gordov, Edward Arthur Milne, and Miklós Bánffy.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John C. Woods ranks 3,733 out of 18,182. Before him are Jim Hall (1930), Lauren Graham (1967), Hal Roach (1892), Dustin Moskovitz (1984), Peter Strauss (1947), and David Boreanaz (1969). After him are Arthur Janov (1924), Alexandra Daddario (1986), Richard Mentor Johnson (1780), James Marsden (1973), Helen Frankenthaler (1928), and Thomas Sowell (1930).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, John C. Woods ranks 61. Before him are Doris Miller (1919), George Dewey (1837), Charles Robert Jenkins (1940), Thomas C. Kinkaid (1888), Marc Mitscher (1887), and James M. Gavin (1907). After him are Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1887), Wesley Clark (1944), William Calley (1943), Alvin York (1887), James Jesus Angleton (1917), and Walter Short (1880).

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