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Tamon Yamaguchi

1892 - 1942

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Tamon Yamaguchi (山口 多聞, Yamaguchi Tamon, 17 August 1892 – 5 June 1942) was a rear admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy who served during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and in the Pacific War during World War II. Yamaguchi′s carrier force was part of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tamon Yamaguchi has received more than 810,242 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Tamon Yamaguchi is the 477th most popular military personnel (up from 506th in 2019), the 255th most popular biography from Japan (down from 250th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Tamon Yamaguchi ranks 477 out of 2,058. Before him are Minamoto no Yoshinaka, Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., Alfred Redl, Honda Tadakatsu, Karl von Bülow, and Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov. After him are Peter Townsend, Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Erich Fellgiebel, Alfred von Waldersee, Yu Jin, and Adolf Strauss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Tamon Yamaguchi ranks 61. Before him are Mikhail Kirponos, Juan Negrín, Oswald Pohl, Erich Auerbach, Johannes Frießner, and Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth. After him are Eiji Yoshikawa, Tazio Nuvolari, Guo Moruo, Paul Abraham, Alfonsina Storni, and Marcel Dassault. Among people deceased in 1942, Tamon Yamaguchi ranks 40. Before him are Tina Modotti, Michel Fokine, Chen Duxiu, Felix Hausdorff, Jan Kubiš, and Yosano Akiko. After him are Daniil Kharms, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Leopold Mandić, Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia, and Adam Czerniaków.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tamon Yamaguchi ranks 255 out of 6,245. Before him are Emperor Go-Mizunoo (1596), Hideo Kojima (1963), Ōkuma Shigenobu (1838), Rumiko Takahashi (1957), Honda Tadakatsu (1548), and Yoshio Okada (1926). After him are Masaru Ibuka (1908), Emperor Senka (467), Kitasato Shibasaburō (1853), Kenji Miyazawa (1896), Emperor Tsuchimikado (1196), and Eiichiro Oda (1975).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Tamon Yamaguchi ranks 26. Before him are Iwane Matsui (1878), Sanada Yukimura (1567), Mitsuru Ushijima (1887), Nogi Maresuke (1849), Shoichi Yokoi (1915), and Honda Tadakatsu (1548). After him are Hijikata Toshizō (1835), Saitō Hajime (1844), Mitsuo Fuchida (1902), Kawakami Gensai (1834), Seishirō Itagaki (1885), and Jisaburō Ozawa (1886).

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