MILITARY PERSONNEL

Takijirō Ōnishi

1891 - 1945

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Takijirō Ōnishi (大西 瀧治郎, Ōnishi Takijirō, 2 June 1891 – 16 August 1945) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II who came to be known as the father of the kamikaze. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Takijirō Ōnishi has received more than 263,549 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Takijirō Ōnishi is the 674th most popular military personnel (down from 626th in 2019), the 433rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 362nd in 2019) and the 40th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Takijirō Ōnishi ranks 674 out of 2,058. Before him are Lei Feng, Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg, Karl-Adolf Hollidt, Arslan Isra'il, Heinz Hitler, and Maarten Tromp. After him are Juan José Flores, Marie-Pierre Kœnig, August Hirt, Ling Tong, Duško Popov, and Grigory Kulik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Takijirō Ōnishi ranks 53. Before him are Olga Khokhlova, Otto Schmidt, Cole Porter, Pier Luigi Nervi, Walter A. Shewhart, and Karl-Adolf Hollidt. After him are Shukri al-Quwatli, John Heartfield, Hu Shih, Jacques Lipchitz, Hans F. K. Günther, and Johannes R. Becher. Among people deceased in 1945, Takijirō Ōnishi ranks 114. Before him are Franz Hössler, Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, Werner Ostendorff, Lord Alfred Douglas, Richard Glücks, and Wilhelm Rediess. After him are Leonid Pasternak, August Hirt, Robert Brasillach, Rudolf Lange, Roza Shanina, and Le Pétomane.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Takijirō Ōnishi ranks 433 out of 6,245. Before him are Tokugawa Iesada (1824), Junji Ito (1963), Mamoru Oshii (1951), Noritaka Hidaka (1947), Emperor Shijō (1231), and Yoshihiko Noda (1957). After him are Kiichi Miyazawa (1919), Katsuhiro Otomo (1954), Satoshi Kon (1963), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (1950), Takeo Fukuda (1905), and Eisai (1141).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Takijirō Ōnishi ranks 40. Before him are Kenji Doihara (1883), Taira no Masakado (903), Takeichi Nishi (1902), Hisaichi Terauchi (1879), Sadao Araki (1877), and Yoshijirō Umezu (1882). After him are Nobutake Kondō (1886), Takeo Kurita (1889), Soemu Toyoda (1885), Yasuji Okamura (1884), Minamoto no Yorimasa (1106), and Osami Nagano (1880).

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