MILITARY PERSONNEL

Nathan Hale

1755 - 1776

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Nathan Hale (June 6, 1755 – September 22, 1776) was an American Patriot, soldier and spy for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He volunteered for an intelligence-gathering mission in New York City but was captured by the British and executed. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nathan Hale has received more than 2,850,077 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Nathan Hale is the 1,828th most popular military personnel (down from 1,502nd in 2019), the 7,337th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,484th in 2019) and the 124th most popular American Military Personnel.

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  • 47.09

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Nathan Hale ranks 1,828 out of 2,058. Before him are Oliver Hazard Perry, Berenguer de Palou II, George Milne, 1st Baron Milne, Mariya Polivanova, Axel von dem Bussche, and Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton. After him are Hudson Austin, Alberto Natusch, Malik Ambar, Ahmad Vahidi, George Crook, and Israel Putnam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1755, Nathan Hale ranks 45. Before him are Abol-Fath Khan Zand, Dorothea Viehmann, Nicolas Fuss, Jean Louis Marie Poiret, Marc-Antoine Parseval, and Jacques Labillardière. After him are Johann Christoph Wendland, Oliver Evans, William Bradford, Thomas Hardwicke, Rufus King, and Narayan Rao. Among people deceased in 1776, Nathan Hale ranks 14. Before him are Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse, Duchess Maria Anna Josepha of Bavaria, Johann Adolf Scheibe, John Ellis, Giuseppe Asclepi, and Johann Jakob Breitinger. After him is James Ferguson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Nathan Hale ranks 7,337 out of 20,380. Before him are Lili Taylor (1967), James Spriggs Payne (1819), Harry Lennix (1964), Theodore Roberts (1861), Wallace Reid (1891), and Jeff Hardy (1977). After him are Michael Bowen (1957), Wally Pfister (1961), Coleen Gray (1922), Phil Heath (1979), Tony Lo Bianco (1936), and David Tudor (1926).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Nathan Hale ranks 124. Before him are Richard Marcinko (1940), John Eisenhower (1922), Martin Dempsey (1952), Stephen Decatur (1779), Jacob L. Devers (1887), and Oliver Hazard Perry (1785). After him are George Crook (1828), Israel Putnam (1718), Frederick C. Weyand (1916), John Bell Hood (1831), Hugh S. Johnson (1882), and Charles Q. Brown Jr. (1962).

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