MILITARY PERSONNEL

Matome Ugaki

1890 - 1945

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Matome Ugaki (宇垣 纏, Ugaki Matome, 15 February 1890 – 15 August 1945) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, remembered for his extensive and revealing war diary, role at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and participation in one of the final kamikaze sorties hours after the announced surrender of Japan at the end of the war. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Matome Ugaki has received more than 361,563 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Matome Ugaki is the 991st most popular military personnel, the 684th most popular biography from Japan and the 64th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Matome Ugaki ranks 991 out of 2,058Before him are Yakov Pavlov, Fukushima Masanori, René Schneider, Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon, Constantin Prezan, and Tōdō Takatora. After him are Matteo I Visconti, François Joseph Paul de Grasse, Gaius Laelius, John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, Alime Abdenanova, and Heinrich Bär.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Matome Ugaki ranks 92Before him are Solomon Mikhoels, Ferruccio Parri, Rachel Bluwstein, Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger, Claire Lee Chennault, and Konstantin Melnikov. After him are Johannes Vares, Paul Strand, Duke Kahanamoku, Robert Stroud, László Bárdossy, and Mustafa Shokay. Among people deceased in 1945, Matome Ugaki ranks 165Before him are Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., Prince Kan'in Kotohito, Nikolai Berzarin, Eduard Wirths, Jacques Doriot, and Richard Thomalla. After him are Gustav Flatow, Hazi Aslanov, Achille Starace, Fritz Klingenberg, Ernst-Günther Baade, and Alfred Meyer.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Matome Ugaki ranks 684 out of 6,245Before him are Hōjō Ujiyasu (1515), Shintaro Katsu (1931), Gotō Shinpei (1857), Yoshio Fujiwara (null), Saigyō (1118), and Tōdō Takatora (1556). After him are Kujō Yoritsune (1218), Shibusawa Eiichi (1840), Motoori Norinaga (1730), Mie Hama (1943), Heisuke Hironaka (1931), and Nagakura Shinpachi (1839).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Matome Ugaki ranks 64Before him are Shūmei Ōkawa (1886), Takeo Takagi (1892), Nakano Takeko (1847), Takasugi Shinsaku (1839), Hōjō Ujiyasu (1515), and Tōdō Takatora (1556). After him are Nagakura Shinpachi (1839), Tomoji Tanabe (1895), Isamu Chō (1895), Harukichi Hyakutake (1888), Katō Yoshiaki (1563), and Jirō Minami (1874).