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Tsutomu Yamaguchi

1916 - 2010

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Tsutomu Yamaguchi (山口 彊, Yamaguchi Tsutomu) (16 March 1916 – 4 January 2010) was a Japanese marine engineer who survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings during World War II. Although at least 160 people are known to have been affected by both bombings, he is the only person to have been officially recognized by the government of Japan as surviving both explosions. A resident of Nagasaki, Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on business for his employer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries when the city was bombed at 8:15 AM, on 6 August 1945. He returned to Nagasaki the following day and, despite his wounds, returned to work on 9 August, the day of the second atomic bombing. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tsutomu Yamaguchi has received more than 1,994,677 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Tsutomu Yamaguchi is the 23rd most popular engineer (down from 21st in 2019), the 81st most popular biography from Japan (down from 73rd in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Engineer.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi was most famous for being the only person to survive the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Tsutomu Yamaguchi ranks 23 out of 323. Before him are Willy Messerschmitt, Hans Albert Einstein, Jack Kilby, Andrei Tupolev, Hermann Oberth, and Artem Mikoyan. After him are Abram Petrovich Gannibal, Philo of Byzantium, Albert Göring, August Horch, José Echegaray, and Hugo Junkers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Tsutomu Yamaguchi ranks 22. Before him are João Havelange, Ferruccio Lamborghini, Hans Eysenck, Yehudi Menuhin, Maurice Wilkins, and Camilo José Cela. After him are Robert McNamara, Frederick Chapman Robbins, Dương Văn Minh, Natalia Ginzburg, Marcel Cerdan, and Peter Weiss. Among people deceased in 2010, Tsutomu Yamaguchi ranks 18. Before him are Claude Chabrol, Dennis Hopper, Bobby Farrell, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Gennady Yanayev, and Ali Hassan al-Majid. After him are Maurice Allais, Georges Charpak, Alois Brunner, Jean Simmons, Vasily Smyslov, and Viktor Chernomyrdin.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tsutomu Yamaguchi ranks 81 out of 6,048. Before him are Shirō Ishii (1892), Emperor Go-Momozono (1758), Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837), Kenji Mizoguchi (1898), Nichiren (1222), and Emperor Nakamikado (1702). After him are Tomoe Gozen (1157), Emperor Annei (-577), Dōgen (1200), Akira Toriyama (1955), Empress Go-Sakuramachi (1740), and Syukuro Manabe (1931).

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Among ENGINEERS In Japan

Among engineers born in Japan, Tsutomu Yamaguchi ranks 1. After him are Jiro Horikoshi (1903), Masaru Ibuka (1908), Hidetsugu Yagi (1886), and Naoki Hattori (1966).

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