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Michael R. Clifford

1952 - 2021

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Michael Richard Clifford (October 13, 1952 – December 28, 2021) was a United States Army officer and NASA astronaut. Clifford was a Master Army Aviator and logged over 3,400 hours flying in a wide variety of fixed and rotary winged aircraft. He retired from the U.S. Army at the rank of lieutenant colonel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael R. Clifford has received more than 102,147 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Michael R. Clifford is the 145th most popular astronaut (up from 450th in 2019), the 5,982nd most popular biography from United States (up from 13,099th in 2019) and the 55th most popular American Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Michael R. Clifford ranks 145 out of 524Before him are Anatoly Levchenko, Rick Husband, William Shepherd, Peggy Whitson, Vance D. Brand, and Ronald McNair. After him are Roberta Bondar, Vitaly Sevastyanov, David M. Brown, Pavel Vinogradov, Valentina Ponomaryova, and William E. Thornton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Michael R. Clifford ranks 301Before him are Liu He, Martin Parr, Essam Sharaf, Kurban Berdyev, Rick Aviles, and Jorge Luis Pinto. After him are Mahmoud Jibril, Philippe Kahn, CCH Pounder, Jim Cummings, Robert C. Martin, and Monique van de Ven. Among people deceased in 2021, Michael R. Clifford ranks 425Before him are Vera Nikolić, Arturo Armando Molina, Vladimir Korenev, Adrián Campos, Juan Masnik, and Boško Abramović. After him are Cristóbal Halffter, Michael Fisher, Kadir Topbaş, Alberto Grimaldi, Mehdi Cerbah, and Milan Bandić.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Michael R. Clifford ranks 5,982 out of 18,182Before him are Julia Gardiner Tyler (1820), George Kennan (1845), Jim Keltner (1942), Mark Milley (1958), Rick Aviles (1952), and Norman Vincent Peale (1898). After him are Alice Drummond (1928), Beals Wright (1879), Zero Mostel (1915), Dorothea Klumpke (1861), Martha Jefferson (1748), and Rosa Ponselle (1897).

Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Michael R. Clifford ranks 55Before him are Barbara Morgan (1951), Rick Husband (1957), William Shepherd (1949), Peggy Whitson (1960), Vance D. Brand (1931), and Ronald McNair (1950). After him are David M. Brown (1956), William E. Thornton (1929), Elliot See (1927), Charles Bassett (1931), Story Musgrave (1935), and Owen Garriott (1930).