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Jānis Balodis

1881 - 1965

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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 43,467 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Jānis Balodis is the 1,405th most popular military personnel (down from 1,182nd in 2019), the 85th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 77th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Latvian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Jānis Balodis ranks 1,405 out of 2,058. Before him are Inigo Campioni, Erwin Rösener, Helmut Kunz, Johann von Aldringen, Violette Szabo, and Al-Salih Hajji. After him are Wehib Pasha, Prince Frederick of Württemberg, Shōji Nishimura, Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet, Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor, and Godfrid, Duke of Frisia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Jānis Balodis ranks 114. Before him are Felix von Luckner, Yakov Protazanov, Vlas Chubar, Jacob Israël de Haan, Nasib Yusifbeyli, and Harry Hillman. After him are Giuseppe Amisani, Heinrich Barkhausen, Dora Boothby, Henri Le Fauconnier, Vilhelm Buhl, and Curt Haase. Among people deceased in 1965, Jānis Balodis ranks 103. Before him are Nikolay Lossky, Maria Dąbrowska, Daniel-Rops, Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Dorothy Dandridge, and Píndaro de Carvalho Rodrigues. After him are Edward R. Murrow, Clemente Micara, John Kitzmiller, Georges Vantongerloo, Judy Holliday, and Laureano Gómez.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Jānis Balodis ranks 85 out of 323. Before him are Valdis Dombrovskis (1971), Annie Londonderry (1870), Arkady Raikin (1911), Yury Tynyanov (1894), Jānis Rudzutaks (1887), and Gustavs Zemgals (1871). After him are Lina Stern (1878), Alexander Kovalevsky (1840), Janis Rozentāls (1866), Heinz Christian Pander (1794), Jacob W. Davis (1831), and Anatolijs Gorbunovs (1942).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Latvia

Among military personnels born in Latvia, Jānis Balodis ranks 5. Before him are Wolfgang Lüth (1913), Herberts Cukurs (1900), Jukums Vācietis (1873), and Yevgeny Miller (1867). After him are Hans-Diedrich von Tiesenhausen (1913).

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