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 1,182,241 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). John C. Woods is the 898th most popular military personnel (up from 1,146th in 2019), the 2,609th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,723rd in 2019) and the 41st most popular American Military Personnel.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of John C. Woods by language

Over the past year John C. Woods has had the most page views in the with 131,435 views, followed by German (25,260), and Russian (12,446). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (81.52%), Armenian (66.51%), and Bengali (30.42%)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, John C. Woods ranks 898 out of 2,058. Before him are Heinrich von Plauen, Otto Wöhler, José Miaja, Matthew Ridgway, Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, 2nd Count of Bucquoy, and Marcantonio Colonna. After him are Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel, Fakhri Pasha, Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov, Walther von Lüttwitz, Vasili Mitrokhin, and Yevgeny Miller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, John C. Woods ranks 103. Before him are Alfredo Foni, Maureen O'Sullivan, Shiing-Shen Chern, Martin Sandberger, Franz Binder, and Zenkō Suzuki. After him are Prince Carl Bernadotte, Andor Lilienthal, Merle Oberon, Infanta María Cristina of Spain, David Ogilvy, and Jehan Alain. Among people deceased in 1950, John C. Woods ranks 64. Before him are Kim Kyu-sik, Henry H. Arnold, Walter Huston, Abraham Wald, Olaf Stapledon, and Hantaro Nagaoka. After him are Walter Eucken, Yvan Goll, Traian Vuia, Nikolai Voznesensky, William Lyon Mackenzie King, and Shigenori Tōgō.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John C. Woods ranks 2,609 out of 20,380. Before him are Melissa Leo (1960), Mike Markkula (1942), Bill Hewlett (1913), Frank Marshall (1877), Van Heflin (1908), and Melvyn Douglas (1901). After him are Mercedes McCambridge (1916), Robert Grant Aitken (1864), Billy Ray Cyrus (1961), Barry Nelson (1917), Adrian Smith (1944), and Chester Carlson (1906).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, John C. Woods ranks 41. Before him are Henry H. Arnold (1886), Alexander Haig (1924), David Farragut (1801), P. G. T. Beauregard (1818), Joseph Stilwell (1883), and Matthew Ridgway (1895). After him are Monte Melkonian (1957), John Basilone (1916), Philip Sheridan (1831), Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. (1886), Chris Kyle (1974), and Charles Robert Jenkins (1940).

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