MILITARY PERSONNEL

Takeo Kurita

1889 - 1977

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Takeo Kurita (Japanese: 栗田 健男, Hepburn: Kurita Takeo, 28 April 1889 – 19 December 1977) was a vice admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Takeo Kurita has received more than 343,049 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Takeo Kurita is the 704th most popular military personnel (down from 671st in 2019), the 472nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 411th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Takeo Kurita ranks 704 out of 2,058. Before him are Sergey Gorshkov, Wilhelm Schepmann, Gordon Gollob, Bardas Skleros, Xu Da, and Jean-Baptiste Bessières. After him are Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow, Stanisław Sosabowski, Nikolai Ogarkov, Momčilo Đujić, Iphicrates, and James Bowie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Takeo Kurita ranks 63. Before him are Richard Glücks, Eberhard von Mackensen, Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland, Zoltán Tildy, Gunnar Gunnarsson, and Pierre Reverdy. After him are Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, R. G. Collingwood, María Capovilla, Alma Karlin, Khudiram Bose, and Philippe Thys. Among people deceased in 1977, Takeo Kurita ranks 60. Before him are Paul Desmond, Hamida Djandoubi, Marc Bolan, John Dickson Carr, Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani, and Carlos Pace. After him are Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, Félix Gouin, Marien Ngouabi, Tom Pryce, Edmond Hamilton, and Juan Velasco Alvarado.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Takeo Kurita ranks 472 out of 6,245. Before him are Keizō Obuchi (1937), Oichi (1547), Hon'inbō Shūsaku (1829), Emperor Kōkō (830), Takeda Sōkaku (1859), and Hidetoshi Nakata (1977). After him are Tokugawa Ienobu (1662), Hayato Ikeda (1899), Tokugawa Ieshige (1712), Noboru Takeshita (1924), Matsukata Masayoshi (1835), and Emperor Ichijō (980).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Takeo Kurita ranks 42. Before him are Takeichi Nishi (1902), Hisaichi Terauchi (1879), Sadao Araki (1877), Yoshijirō Umezu (1882), Takijirō Ōnishi (1891), and Nobutake Kondō (1886). After him are Soemu Toyoda (1885), Yasuji Okamura (1884), Minamoto no Yorimasa (1106), Osami Nagano (1880), Wakisaka Yasuharu (1554), and Otozō Yamada (1881).

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