MILITARY PERSONNEL

Saburō Sakai

1916 - 2000

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Saburō Sakai (坂井 三郎, Sakai Saburō, 25 August 1916 – 22 September 2000) was a Japanese naval aviator and flying ace ("Gekitsui-O", 撃墜王) of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saburō Sakai has received more than 634,958 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Saburō Sakai is the 563rd most popular military personnel (down from 452nd in 2019), the 336th most popular biography from Japan (down from 206th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

Saburo Sakai is most famous for being the first Japanese fighter pilot to shoot down an American plane in the Pacific War.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Saburō Sakai ranks 563 out of 2,058. Before him are Bob Denard, Oenomaus, Hans Baur, Kurt Franz, Adolf Heusinger, and Jisaburō Ozawa. After him are Kenji Doihara, Raymond A. Spruance, Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon, Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Louis-Gabriel Suchet, and Oghul Qaimish.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Saburō Sakai ranks 59. Before him are Alberto Ginastera, Rafael Caldera, Consuelo Velázquez, Henri Dutilleux, Hamani Diori, and Glenn Ford. After him are Kristján Eldjárn, Richard Fleischer, Carl Johan Bernadotte, Georg Henrik von Wright, Michael Gough, and Hassan Gouled Aptidon. Among people deceased in 2000, Saburō Sakai ranks 47. Before him are Merton Miller, Akira Nozawa, Leonid Rogozov, A. E. van Vogt, Frederick Herzberg, and Michael Smith. After him are Petar Mladenov, Jan Karski, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Yasuo Suzuki, Moacir Barbosa Nascimento, and Lazar Koliševski.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Saburō Sakai ranks 336 out of 6,245. Before him are Kawakami Gensai (1834), Seishirō Itagaki (1885), Sesshū Tōyō (1420), Tokugawa Ieharu (1737), Emperor Go-Hanazono (1419), and Jisaburō Ozawa (1886). After him are Kenji Doihara (1883), Saionji Kinmochi (1849), Kaoru Ishikawa (1915), Inukai Tsuyoshi (1855), Izumo no Okuni (1572), and Emperor Go-Shirakawa (1127).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Saburō Sakai ranks 33. Before him are Hijikata Toshizō (1835), Saitō Hajime (1844), Mitsuo Fuchida (1902), Kawakami Gensai (1834), Seishirō Itagaki (1885), and Jisaburō Ozawa (1886). After him are Kenji Doihara (1883), Taira no Masakado (903), Takeichi Nishi (1902), Hisaichi Terauchi (1879), Sadao Araki (1877), and Yoshijirō Umezu (1882).

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