MILITARY PERSONNEL

Theodore Van Kirk

1921 - 2014

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Theodore Jerome "Dutch" Van Kirk (February 27, 1921 – July 28, 2014) was a navigator in the United States Army Air Forces, best known as the navigator of the Enola Gay when it dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Theodore Van Kirk has received more than 354,036 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Theodore Van Kirk is the 1,868th most popular military personnel, the 8,111th most popular biography from United States and the 134th most popular American Military Personnel.

Memorability Metrics

  • 350k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Theodore Van Kirk ranks 1,868 out of 2,058. Before him are Zhanna Yorkina, Afanasy Beloborodov, A. P. Hill, Harry Crerar, Michael Mullen, and Oskar Gripenberg. After him are Francis Pegahmagabow, John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, Lyman Lemnitzer, Don Carlos Buell, Andrew Scott Waugh, and Stanley A. McChrystal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Theodore Van Kirk ranks 356. Before him are Denys de La Patellière, Herb Ellis, Giorgio Scarlatti, Josef Holeček, Abdul Qadir al-Badri, and Patricia Wrightson. After him are Jimmy Giuffre, Joann Lõssov, Alexis Smith, Stanisław Nagy, Karel Husa, and Jesse Helms. Among people deceased in 2014, Theodore Van Kirk ranks 389. Before him are Jan Werner, Richard Hoggart, Barbro Kollberg, Ivica Brzić, Andriy Bal, and Carla Laemmle. After him are David Malet Armstrong, Blagoje Paunović, Isabelle Collin Dufresne, Odd Iversen, Mustapha Zitouni, and Jürgen Kurbjuhn.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Theodore Van Kirk ranks 8,111 out of 20,380. Before him are Carla Laemmle (1909), The Fabulous Moolah (1923), James P. Johnson (1894), Ferde Grofé (1892), Laurel Clark (1961), and Mary Brian (1906). After him are Wilbur Ross (1937), Donald Gibb (1954), Mike Patton (1968), Kyle Eastwood (1968), Sidney Franklin (1893), and Asa Hutchinson (1950).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Theodore Van Kirk ranks 134. Before him are John Bell Hood (1831), Hugh S. Johnson (1882), Charles Q. Brown Jr. (1962), William Alexander Morgan (1928), A. P. Hill (1825), and Michael Mullen (1946). After him are Lyman Lemnitzer (1899), Don Carlos Buell (1818), Stanley A. McChrystal (1954), Alexander Patch (1889), William T. Anderson (1839), and Eugene Bullard (1895).

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