1886 - 1945
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. ( SY-mən BOL-i-vər BUK-nər; July 18, 1886 – June 18, 1945) was a lieutenant general in the United States Army during World War II. He served in the Pacific Theater of Operations and commanded the defenses of Alaska early in the war. Following that assignment, he was promoted to command the Tenth Army, which conducted the amphibious assault on the Japanese island of Okinawa on April 1, 1945. He was killed during the closing days of the Battle of Okinawa by enemy artillery fire, making him the highest-ranking United States military officer lost to enemy fire during World War II. He would remain the highest-ranking U.S. military member to be killed by a foreign armed action until the death of Lieutenant General Timothy Maude during the September 11 attacks.Buckner, Lesley J. McNair, Frank Maxwell Andrews, and Millard Harmon, all lieutenant generals at the time of their deaths, were the highest-ranking Americans to be killed in World War II. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. has received more than 360,359 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. is the 721st most popular military personnel, the 2,274th most popular biography from United States and the 33rd most popular American Military Personnel.
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Among military personnels, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. ranks 721 out of 1,466. Before him are Iona Yakir, Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, Maurice Sarrail, Marcantonio Colonna, Wilhelm Schepmann, and Heinrich Bär. After him are Jarosław Dąbrowski, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, Yasuji Okamura, P. G. T. Beauregard, Joseph Boxhall, and Matthew Ridgway.
1896 - 1937
HPI: 66.23
Rank: 715
1891 - 1948
HPI: 66.23
Rank: 716
1856 - 1929
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 717
1535 - 1584
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 718
1894 - 1970
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 719
1913 - 1957
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 720
1886 - 1945
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 721
1836 - 1871
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 722
1905 - 1980
HPI: 66.17
Rank: 723
1884 - 1966
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 724
1818 - 1893
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 725
1884 - 1967
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 726
1895 - 1993
HPI: 66.12
Rank: 727
Among people born in 1886, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. ranks 78. Before him are Ali Sami Yen, Chester Barnard, Hitoshi Imamura, Edwin Fischer, Nobutake Kondō, and Ernst Robert Curtius. After him are Frederic Bartlett, Firmin Lambot, Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma, Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, and Olaf Stapledon. Among people deceased in 1945, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. ranks 131. Before him are Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, Wolfgang Lüth, Alexander Siloti, Robert Brasillach, Seiichi Itō, and Eduard Wirths. After him are Joseph Darnand, André Tardieu, Richard Thomalla, Julius Dorpmüller, Leonardo Conti, and Zinaida Gippius.
1886 - 1951
HPI: 66.37
Rank: 72
1886 - 1961
HPI: 66.34
Rank: 73
1886 - 1968
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 74
1886 - 1960
HPI: 66.30
Rank: 75
1886 - 1953
HPI: 66.27
Rank: 76
1886 - 1956
HPI: 66.26
Rank: 77
1886 - 1945
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 78
1886 - 1969
HPI: 66.13
Rank: 79
1886 - 1964
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 80
1886 - 1934
HPI: 66.02
Rank: 81
1886 - 1974
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 82
1886 - 1937
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 83
1886 - 1950
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 84
1893 - 1945
HPI: 66.54
Rank: 125
1913 - 1945
HPI: 66.42
Rank: 126
1863 - 1945
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 127
1909 - 1945
HPI: 66.26
Rank: 128
1890 - 1945
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 129
1909 - 1945
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 130
1886 - 1945
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 131
1897 - 1945
HPI: 66.12
Rank: 132
1876 - 1945
HPI: 65.96
Rank: 133
1903 - 1945
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 134
1869 - 1945
HPI: 65.88
Rank: 135
1900 - 1945
HPI: 65.77
Rank: 136
1869 - 1945
HPI: 65.67
Rank: 137
Among people born in United States, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. ranks 2,274 out of 15,968. Before him are Leslie White (1900), George Lakoff (1941), Ken Mattingly (1936), George Segal (1934), Stephen Foster (1826), and Steve Fossett (1944). After him are William Bates (1860), Harold Bloom (1930), Patricia Arquette (1968), Ernie Hudson (1945), Frank Knight (1885), and Jay Rockefeller (1937).
1900 - 1971
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 2,268
1941 - Present
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 2,269
1936 - Present
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 2,270
1934 - Present
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 2,271
1826 - 1864
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 2,272
1944 - 2007
HPI: 66.20
Rank: 2,273
1886 - 1945
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 2,274
1860 - 1931
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 2,275
1930 - 2019
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 2,276
1968 - Present
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 2,277
1945 - Present
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 2,278
1885 - 1972
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 2,279
1937 - Present
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 2,280
Among military personnels born in United States, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. ranks 33. Before him are Charles Sweeney (1919), Mark W. Clark (1896), Abner Doubleday (1819), Frank Jack Fletcher (1885), Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821), and Charlie Wilson (1933). After him are P. G. T. Beauregard (1818), Matthew Ridgway (1895), William Halsey Jr. (1882), Joseph Stilwell (1883), Henry H. Arnold (1886), and Philip Sheridan (1831).
1919 - 2004
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 27
1896 - 1984
HPI: 67.25
Rank: 28
1819 - 1893
HPI: 67.15
Rank: 29
1885 - 1973
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 30
1821 - 1877
HPI: 66.74
Rank: 31
1933 - 2010
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 32
1886 - 1945
HPI: 66.19
Rank: 33
1818 - 1893
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 34
1895 - 1993
HPI: 66.12
Rank: 35
1882 - 1959
HPI: 65.96
Rank: 36
1883 - 1946
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 37
1886 - 1950
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 38
1831 - 1888
HPI: 65.42
Rank: 39