MILITARY PERSONNEL

Tōgō Heihachirō

1848 - 1934

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Tōgō Heihachirō (東郷 平八郎, 27 January 1848 – 30 May 1934), served as a gensui or admiral of the fleet in the Imperial Japanese Navy and became one of Japan's greatest naval heroes. As Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, he successfully confined the Russian Pacific naval forces to Port Arthur before winning a decisive victory over a relieving fleet at Tsushima in May 1905. Western journalists called Tōgō "the Nelson of the East". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tōgō Heihachirō has received more than 1,082,498 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Tōgō Heihachirō is the 233rd most popular military personnel (up from 239th in 2019), the 82nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 74th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

Tōgō heihachirō is most famous for the Battle of Sekigahara.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Tōgō Heihachirō ranks 233 out of 2,058. Before him are Walther von Reichenau, Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, Sun Bin, Wilhelm Mohnke, Hans von Seeckt, and Gotthard Heinrici. After him are Amr ibn al-As, Otto Carius, Lysander, Maurice Gamelin, Władysław Sikorski, and Albert Pike.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Tōgō Heihachirō ranks 11. Before him are Otto Lilienthal, Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, Gustave Caillebotte, Otto of Bavaria, Joris-Karl Huysmans, and Arthur Balfour. After him are Hugo de Vries, Albert I, Prince of Monaco, Robert I, Duke of Parma, Wyatt Earp, Wilhelm Windelband, and Viktor Vasnetsov. Among people deceased in 1934, Tōgō Heihachirō ranks 17. Before him are Sergey Kirov, Nestor Makhno, Engelbert Dollfuss, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Gregor Strasser, and Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont. After him are John Dillinger, Edmond James de Rothschild, Augusto César Sandino, Gustav Holst, Marinus van der Lubbe, and Louis Barthou.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tōgō Heihachirō ranks 82 out of 6,245. Before him are Utamaro (1753), Dōgen (1200), Tomoe Gozen (1157), Nichiren (1222), Emperor Annei (-577), and Jiro Horikoshi (1903). After him are Yoshihide Suga (1948), Kiichiro Toyoda (1894), Himiko (175), Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (1906), Sakamoto Ryōma (1836), and Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Tōgō Heihachirō ranks 12. Before him are Hiroo Onoda (1922), Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159), Chūichi Nagumo (1887), Akechi Mitsuhide (1526), Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837), and Date Masamune (1567). After him are Tadamichi Kuribayashi (1891), Okita Sōji (1842), Shunroku Hata (1879), Ishida Mitsunari (1559), Yamagata Aritomo (1838), and Toyotomi Hideyori (1593).

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