MILITARY PERSONNEL

Mickey Marcus

1901 - 1948

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David Daniel "Mickey" Marcus (February 22, 1901 – June 10, 1948) was a United States Army colonel, later Israel's first General, who was a principal architect of the U.S. military's World War II civil affairs policies, including the organization of the war crimes trials in Germany and in Japan. He assisted Israel during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, one of the well known Israeli Machal soldiers, becoming Israel's first modern general (Hebrew: Aluf). He was killed by friendly fire. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mickey Marcus has received more than 620,779 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Mickey Marcus is the 1,687th most popular military personnel (down from 1,510th in 2019), the 5,727th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,758th in 2019) and the 100th most popular American Military Personnel.

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  • 620k

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  • 49.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Mickey Marcus ranks 1,687 out of 2,058. Before him are Karl von Pflanzer-Baltin, Michael von Kienmayer, Hal Moore, Dragan Vasiljković, Leo Phokas the Younger, and Prince Frederick of Prussia. After him are Kurt Martti Wallenius, Nelson A. Miles, Arthur MacArthur Jr., Francisco Ascaso, Anatoly Kvashnin, and George Pickett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Mickey Marcus ranks 210. Before him are Erich Ollenhauer, Gaston Waringhien, Valerian Pidmohylny, Lajos Dinnyés, Frederick Loewe, and Roy Urquhart. After him are Francisco Ascaso, Florence Green, Andrée Brunet, Gerhard von Rad, Ivar Lo-Johansson, and Cyril of Bulgaria. Among people deceased in 1948, Mickey Marcus ranks 136. Before him are Lajos Bíró, Elsa Brändström, Siegmund von Hausegger, Mahmoud El Nokrashy Pasha, Jāzeps Vītols, and Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington. After him are Ernst Herzfeld, Wesley Clair Mitchell, Alfredo Baldomir, Marcel Brillouin, Yevgeniy Abalakov, and Abraham Brill.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mickey Marcus ranks 5,727 out of 20,380. Before him are Vince Lombardi (1913), Robert W. Floyd (1936), Francis Hunter (1894), Raymond J. Barry (1939), Reggie Miller (1965), and Jack Bender (1949). After him are Christopher Guest (1948), Tyson Gay (1982), Oswald Veblen (1880), Helen Johns (1914), Barrington Moore Jr. (1913), and Lou Thesz (1916).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Mickey Marcus ranks 100. Before him are Henry Gunther (1895), Henry Halleck (1815), Frederick Townsend Ward (1831), J. D. Tippit (1924), J. Lawton Collins (1896), and Hal Moore (1922). After him are Nelson A. Miles (1839), Arthur MacArthur Jr. (1845), George Pickett (1825), James Joseph Dresnok (1941), James Van Fleet (1892), and Lewis Powell (1844).

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