1881 - 1965
Jānis Balodis (20 February 1881 – 8 August 1965) was an army general, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Latvia (1919–1921), Minister of War (1931–1940), and a politician who was one of the principal figures during the Latvian War of Independence and the dictatorship of Kārlis Ulmanis, when he was officially the number two of the regime as the Minister of War, Deputy Prime Minister and Vice President. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jānis Balodis has received more than 40,404 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Jānis Balodis is the 1,182nd most popular military personnel (down from 1,159th in 2019), the 77th most popular biography from Latvia (up from 84th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Latvian Military Personnel.
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Among military personnels, Jānis Balodis ranks 1,182 out of 1,468. Before him are James Jesus Angleton, Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg, Moritz von Auffenberg, Meleager, Hulusi Akar, and Guillaume Philibert Duhesme. After him are Máximo Gómez, Saad el-Shazly, Valentin Varennikov, Antonio Maceo Grajales, Ōtomo no Otomaro, and Gaius Sulpicius Gallus.
1917 - 1987
HPI: 51.71
Rank: 1,176
1615 - 1690
HPI: 51.71
Rank: 1,177
1852 - 1928
HPI: 51.71
Rank: 1,178
400 BC - 323 BC
HPI: 51.71
Rank: 1,179
1952 - Present
HPI: 51.70
Rank: 1,180
1766 - 1815
HPI: 51.68
Rank: 1,181
1881 - 1965
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 1,182
1836 - 1905
HPI: 51.66
Rank: 1,183
1922 - 2011
HPI: 51.66
Rank: 1,184
1923 - 2009
HPI: 51.62
Rank: 1,185
1845 - 1896
HPI: 51.61
Rank: 1,186
731 - 809
HPI: 51.59
Rank: 1,187
300 BC - 260 BC
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 1,188
Among people born in 1881, Jānis Balodis ranks 102. Before him are Matrona Nikonova, Alberts Kviesis, Valery Larbaud, Israel Zolli, Nuri Killigil, and Zoltán Halmay. After him are Nasib Yusifbeyli, Richard C. Tolman, Yakov Protazanov, Ernest Bevin, Pablo Gargallo, and Ber Borochov. Among people deceased in 1965, Jānis Balodis ranks 89. Before him are Odile Defraye, Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Roberto Cherro, Linda Darnell, Dorothy Dandridge, and D. N. Aidit. After him are Maria Dąbrowska, Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Erik Heinrichs, Judy Holliday, Vittorio Jano, and Arthur Holmes.
1881 - 1952
HPI: 52.24
Rank: 96
1881 - 1944
HPI: 52.23
Rank: 97
1881 - 1957
HPI: 52.12
Rank: 98
1881 - 1956
HPI: 52.01
Rank: 99
1881 - 1949
HPI: 51.86
Rank: 100
1881 - 1956
HPI: 51.76
Rank: 101
1881 - 1965
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 102
1881 - 1920
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 103
1881 - 1948
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 104
1881 - 1945
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 105
1881 - 1951
HPI: 51.15
Rank: 106
1881 - 1934
HPI: 51.15
Rank: 107
1881 - 1917
HPI: 51.15
Rank: 108
1888 - 1965
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 83
1895 - 1965
HPI: 52.24
Rank: 84
1907 - 1965
HPI: 52.23
Rank: 85
1923 - 1965
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 86
1922 - 1965
HPI: 51.83
Rank: 87
1923 - 1965
HPI: 51.69
Rank: 88
1881 - 1965
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 89
1889 - 1965
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 90
1891 - 1965
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 91
1890 - 1965
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 92
1921 - 1965
HPI: 51.35
Rank: 93
1891 - 1965
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 94
1890 - 1965
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 95
Among people born in Latvia, Jānis Balodis ranks 77 out of 284. Before him are Ivars Godmanis (1951), Jacob W. Davis (1831), Georg August Schweinfurth (1836), Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven (1899), Karl Eichwald (1795), and Kristjan Jaak Peterson (1801). After him are Juris Hartmanis (1928), Jānis Rudzutaks (1887), Lina Stern (1878), Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903), Vilhelms Purvītis (1872), and Arvīds Jansons (1914).
1951 - Present
HPI: 51.94
Rank: 71
1831 - 1908
HPI: 51.89
Rank: 72
1836 - 1925
HPI: 51.84
Rank: 73
1899 - 1944
HPI: 51.81
Rank: 74
1795 - 1876
HPI: 51.74
Rank: 75
1801 - 1822
HPI: 51.70
Rank: 76
1881 - 1965
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 77
1928 - 2022
HPI: 51.66
Rank: 78
1887 - 1938
HPI: 51.63
Rank: 79
1878 - 1968
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 80
1903 - 1994
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 81
1872 - 1945
HPI: 51.14
Rank: 82
1914 - 1984
HPI: 51.11
Rank: 83
Among military personnels born in Latvia, Jānis Balodis ranks 5. Before him are Wolfgang Lüth (1913), Jukums Vācietis (1873), Yevgeny Miller (1867), and Herberts Cukurs (1900).
1913 - 1945
HPI: 57.66
Rank: 1
1873 - 1938
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 2
1867 - 1939
HPI: 54.34
Rank: 3
1900 - 1965
HPI: 52.67
Rank: 4
1881 - 1965
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 5