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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 228,291 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Takijirō Ōnishi is the 626th most popular military personnel (down from 603rd in 2019), the 364th most popular biography from Japan (up from 395th in 2019) and the 38th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Takijirō Ōnishi ranks 626 out of 1,468Before him are Casimir Pulaski, Giorgio Basta, Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours, Raoul Salan, Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, and Živojin Mišić. After him are Artur Phleps, Ma Dai, Sergei Skripal, Ivan Panfilov, Henri de la Rochejaquelein, and Yevhen Konovalets.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Takijirō Ōnishi ranks 49Before him are Antonio Segni, Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Moïse Kisling, Arthur Drewry, Otto Schmidt, and Jacques Lipchitz. After him are Yevhen Konovalets, John Heartfield, John Langenus, Shizo Kanakuri, Oswald Boelcke, and Hu Shih. Among people deceased in 1945, Takijirō Ōnishi ranks 112Before him are Constanze Manziarly, Takeichi Nishi, Lord Alfred Douglas, Josef Čapek, Wilhelm Rediess, and Richard Glücks. After him are Leonid Pasternak, Wolfgang Lüth, Walther Hewel, Mário de Andrade, Bogdan Filov, and Albrecht Penck.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Takijirō Ōnishi ranks 364 out of 6,048Before him are Emperor Uda (867), Azai Nagamasa (1545), Inukai Tsuyoshi (1855), Torakusu Yamaha (1851), Kenichi Fukui (1918), and Hirohiko Araki (1960). After him are Keizō Obuchi (1937), Masao Takada (null), Hishikawa Moronobu (1618), Takeshi Natori (null), Fusajiro Yamauchi (1859), and Emperor Nijō (1143).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Takijirō Ōnishi ranks 38Before him are Saitō Hajime (1844), Takeichi Nishi (1902), Hisaichi Terauchi (1879), Hijikata Toshizō (1835), Nobutake Kondō (1886), and Seishirō Itagaki (1885). After him are Otozō Yamada (1881), Sadao Araki (1877), Takeo Kurita (1889), Yoshijirō Umezu (1882), Hiroyoshi Nishizawa (1920), and Yasuji Okamura (1884).