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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 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

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.

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Contemporaries

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.

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In Latvia

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).

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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), Jukums Vācietis (1873), Yevgeny Miller (1867), and Herberts Cukurs (1900).

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