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Marcel Dassault

1892 - 1986

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Marcel Dassault (French pronunciation: [maʁsɛl daso]; born Marcel Ferdinand Bloch; 23 January 1892 – 17 April 1986) was a French engineer and industrialist who spent his career in aircraft manufacturing. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcel Dassault has received more than 490,400 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Marcel Dassault is the 69th most popular engineer (down from 68th in 2019), the 1,504th most popular biography from France (up from 1,538th in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Marcel Dassault ranks 69 out of 389Before him are Kurt Gerstein, Nikolay Zhukovsky, Hans Kammler, Walter Dornberger, Paul Cornu, and Jimmy Doolittle. After him are Colin Chapman, Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt, Su Song, Adam Czerniaków, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and Mikhail Gurevich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Marcel Dassault ranks 67Before him are Tamon Yamaguchi, Eiji Yoshikawa, Tazio Nuvolari, Guo Moruo, Paul Abraham, and Alfonsina Storni. After him are Edith Södergran, Mikhail Gurevich, Germaine Tailleferre, S. R. Ranganathan, César Vallejo, and Günther Blumentritt. Among people deceased in 1986, Marcel Dassault ranks 56Before him are Juan Rulfo, Michel de Certeau, Serge Lifar, Theodor Busse, Gusztáv Sebes, and Lilli Palmer. After him are Raymond Loewy, Ferdinand Daučík, Donna Reed, Sterling Hayden, Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, and Omar Ali Saifuddien III.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marcel Dassault ranks 1,504 out of 6,770Before him are René Just Haüy (1743), Paloma Picasso (1949), Bernard Courtois (1777), Sextus Afranius Burrus (1), Jean Tirole (1953), and Henri, Prince of Condé (1552). After him are William I, Duke of Aquitaine (875), Rose Bertin (1747), Peter Faber (1506), Paul Gachet (1828), Fredegund (545), and Humbert of Silva Candida (1000).

Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Marcel Dassault ranks 7Before him are Gustave Eiffel (1832), Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796), Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633), André Citroën (1878), Villard de Honnecourt (1200), and Paul Cornu (1881). After him are Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt (1240), Marcel Renault (1872), Henri Farman (1874), André Courrèges (1923), Henry Darcy (1803), and François Laurent d'Arlandes (1742).