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Nobutake Kondō

1886 - 1953

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Nobutake Kondō (近藤 信竹, Kondō Nobutake; 25 September 1886 – 19 February 1953) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. As commander of IJN 2nd Fleet, the Navy's principal detached force for independent operations, Kondō was regarded as second in importance only to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2024). Nobutake Kondō is the 729th most popular military personnel (down from 692nd in 2024), the 562nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 460th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Nobutake Kondō ranks 729 out of 2,058. Before him are Heinz Harmel, Taira no Masakado, Arnold Jackson, Hans Langsdorff, Stepa Stepanović, and Gordon Gollob. After him are Seiichi Itō, Archduke Stephen, Palatine of Hungary, Raoul Salan, Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg, Werner Ostendorff, and Wei Qing.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Nobutake Kondō ranks 70. Before him are Tsuguharu Foujita, Raymond A. Spruance, Werner Kempf, Sessue Hayakawa, Georg Stumme, and Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg. After him are Walter H. Schottky, Joe Masseria, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., Franz Josef Popp, Olaf Stapledon, and Taimur bin Feisal. Among people deceased in 1953, Nobutake Kondō ranks 50. Before him are Jean Epstein, Hugo Schmeisser, John Christie, Noe Zhordania, Moïse Kisling, and Mary Anderson. After him are Hank Williams, Sergei Winogradsky, Stanisław Wojciechowski, Jacques Thibaud, Jim Lightbody, and Syama Prasad Mukherjee.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Nobutake Kondō ranks 562 out of 6,245. Before him are Tokugawa Ieshige (1712), Ryozo Suzuki (1939), Hajime Sugiyama (1880), Ryū Murakami (1952), Kuroda Kiyotaka (1840), and Ryuzo Hiraki (1931). After him are Seiichi Itō (1890), Emperor Shirakawa (1053), Ashikaga Yoshiteru (1536), Emperor Konoe (1139), Ichiro Hosotani (1946), and Mitsumasa Yonai (1880).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Nobutake Kondō ranks 43. Before him are Saitō Hajime (1844), Takijirō Ōnishi (1891), Kawakami Gensai (1834), Sadao Araki (1877), Shibata Katsuie (1522), and Taira no Masakado (903). After him are Seiichi Itō (1890), Takeo Kurita (1889), Yasuji Okamura (1884), Otozō Yamada (1881), George W. Casey Jr. (1948), and Takeo Takagi (1892).

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