MILITARY PERSONNEL

Jozef Gabčík

1912 - 1942

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Jozef Gabčík (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈjɔzev ˈɡaptʂiːk]; 8 April 1912 – 18 June 1942) was a Slovak soldier in the Czechoslovak Army involved in the Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of acting Reichsprotektor (Realm-Protector) of Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jozef Gabčík has received more than 1,167,320 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Jozef Gabčík is the 357th most popular military personnel (down from 290th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 19th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Slovak Military Personnel.

Jozef Gabčík is most famous for being one of the two Czechoslovakian soldiers who assassinated Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi SS-Obergruppenführer and General der Polizei.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Jozef Gabčík ranks 357 out of 2,058. Before him are Hugo Sperrle, Huang Zhong, Francisco de Miranda, Günther Prien, Maximilian von Spee, and Ivan Paskevich. After him are Omar Pasha, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, Levin August von Bennigsen, Sergei Skripal, Nicolas Chauvin, and Tomoyuki Yamashita.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Jozef Gabčík ranks 43. Before him are Pierre Boulle, Chien-Shiung Wu, Glenn T. Seaborg, Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, Kim Philby, and Tibor Sekelj. After him are Otto Ernst Remer, George Emil Palade, Julius Axelrod, Otto Kretschmer, Ghazi of Iraq, and Minoru Yamasaki. Among people deceased in 1942, Jozef Gabčík ranks 32. Before him are Carole Lombard, Hector Guimard, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Herschel Grynszpan, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Prince George, Duke of Kent. After him are Grant Wood, Tina Modotti, Michel Fokine, Chen Duxiu, Felix Hausdorff, and Jan Kubiš.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Jozef Gabčík ranks 21 out of 418. Before him are Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795), Maurice Benyovszky (1746), Vladimír Mečiar (1942), Ármin Vámbéry (1832), Vojtech Tuka (1880), and Tibor Sekelj (1912). After him are Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880), Zuzana Čaputová (1973), Rudolf Schuster (1934), Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734), Pribina (800), and Ľudovít Štúr (1815).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Slovakia

Among military personnels born in Slovakia, Jozef Gabčík ranks 2. Before him are Maurice Benyovszky (1746). After him are Pál Maléter (1917), Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria (1833), János Pálffy (1664), and Paul Kray (1735).

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