MILITARY PERSONNEL

William Guarnere

1923 - 2014

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William J. Guarnere Sr. (April 28, 1923 – March 8, 2014) was a United States Army paratrooper who fought in World War II as a non-commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division. Guarnere wrote Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends: Two WWII Paratroopers from the Original Band of Brothers Tell Their Story with long-time friend Edward "Babe" Heffron and journalist Robyn Post in 2007. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Guarnere has received more than 2,499,639 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). William Guarnere is the 1,502nd most popular military personnel (down from 1,447th in 2019), the 4,515th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,658th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular American Military Personnel.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, William Guarnere ranks 1,502 out of 2,058. Before him are Dimitrios Loundras, Peter Tordenskjold, Bardanes Tourkos, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Xie Lingyun, and Krystyna Skarbek. After him are Ivan Gudovich, Georges Mouton, Nathanael Greene, Félix Rodríguez, Alfonso Cano, and Franz Bäke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, William Guarnere ranks 217. Before him are Inger Jacobsen, Jamshid Amouzegar, Gerald Götting, Bryce DeWitt, Leon Niemczyk, and Jean Delumeau. After him are Lydia Clarke, Ryōtarō Shiba, Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, Gordon Jackson, Michael V. Gazzo, and Murray Hamilton. Among people deceased in 2014, William Guarnere ranks 191. Before him are Pino Cerami, José Wilker, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Yuri Lyubimov, Martha Hyer, and Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani. After him are Josep Maria Subirachs, Yoshihito, Prince Katsura, Andréa Parisy, Tom Finney, Richard Dürr, and Joel Camargo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Guarnere ranks 4,515 out of 20,380. Before him are Gilbert Gottfried (1955), Link Wray (1929), Moe Tucker (1944), Adam Riess (1969), Bryce Dallas Howard (1981), and Antonin Scalia (1936). After him are Sara Teasdale (1884), Keenan Wynn (1916), Zeppo Marx (1901), Robert Kerman (1947), Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892), and Kevin Nash (1959).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, William Guarnere ranks 73. Before him are William Calley (1943), James Longstreet (1821), Walter Short (1880), Hugh Thompson Jr. (1943), Thomas C. Kinkaid (1888), and James M. Gavin (1907). After him are Nathanael Greene (1742), Alvin York (1887), Courtney Hodges (1887), Braxton Bragg (1817), Herman Kahn (1922), and Walter Bedell Smith (1895).

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