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Richard O'Connor

1889 - 1981

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General Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor, (21 August 1889 – 17 June 1981) was a senior British Army officer who fought in both the First and Second World Wars, and commanded the Western Desert Force in the early years of the Second World War. He was the field commander for Operation Compass, in which his forces destroyed a much larger Italian army – a victory which nearly drove the Axis from Africa, and in turn, led Adolf Hitler to send the Afrika Korps under Erwin Rommel to try to reverse the situation. O'Connor was captured by a German reconnaissance patrol during the night of 7 April 1941 and spent over two years in an Italian prisoner of war camp. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard O'Connor has received more than 307,714 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Richard O'Connor is the 1,476th most popular military personnel (down from 1,265th in 2019). (up from 405th in 2019)

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  • 310k

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  • 47.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Richard O'Connor ranks 1,476 out of 1,468. Before him are Mark Milley, Cort Adeler, Frederick Townsend Ward, Nozu Michitsura, Timothy Laurence, and Perseus. After him are Nikola Ivanov, John Shalikashvili, Axel von dem Bussche, Lionel Dunsterville, Ivan Maslennikov, and Walter Krueger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Richard O'Connor ranks 192. Before him are Gerhard Marcks, Anita Loos, Francis Spellman, Adrian Boult, Vera Karalli, and Amrit Kaur. After him are Géo André, Efrem Zimbalist, Clifton Webb, Ralph H. Fowler, Albert Hill, and Balthasar van der Pol. Among people deceased in 1981, Richard O'Connor ranks 155. Before him are Paul Hörbiger, Mark Donskoy, Tadeusz Kotarbiński, Rosa Ponselle, Fredric Wertham, and Ludwig Goldbrunner. After him are Bob Hite, Rino Gaetano, János Pilinszky, Mikhail Zharov, Leonard Howell, and Curtis Bernhardt.

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