MILITARY PERSONNEL

William Halsey Jr.

1882 - 1959

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William Frederick "Bull" Halsey Jr. (October 30, 1882 – August 16, 1959) was an American Navy admiral during World War II. He is one of four officers to have attained the rank of five-star fleet admiral of the United States Navy, the others being William Leahy, Ernest J. King, and Chester W. Nimitz. Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Halsey graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1904. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Halsey Jr. has received more than 2,668,917 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). William Halsey Jr. is the 695th most popular military personnel (down from 691st in 2019), the 1,997th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,080th in 2019) and the 27th most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, William Halsey Jr. ranks 695 out of 2,058. Before him are Hermocrates, Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, Nobutake Kondō, Alexander Pokryshkin, and Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria. After him are Abner Doubleday, Ludwig von Benedek, Sergey Gorshkov, Wilhelm Schepmann, Gordon Gollob, and Bardas Skleros.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, William Halsey Jr. ranks 83. Before him are Natalia Sedova, Feng Yuxiang, Ernst von Weizsäcker, August Kopff, Yoshijirō Umezu, and Eugène Joseph Delporte. After him are Princess Louise of Orléans, Sylvia Pankhurst, Artur Schnabel, John Barrymore, David Burliuk, and Princess Alexandra of Hanover. Among people deceased in 1959, William Halsey Jr. ranks 47. Before him are Barthélemy Boganda, Cecil B. DeMille, Sisavang Vong, Ernest Bloch, Zhang Jinghui, and Elias, Duke of Parma. After him are Grock, Edvard Eriksen, Aleksandar Tsankov, Victor McLaglen, Benjamin Péret, and Curt Sachs.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Halsey Jr. ranks 1,997 out of 20,380. Before him are Candice Bergen (1946), Frank Borzage (1894), Samuel Adams (1722), Hubert Humphrey (1911), Eartha Kitt (1927), and Hayden White (1928). After him are Abner Doubleday (1819), Margaret Sanger (1879), William H. Seward (1801), James Heckman (1944), Jeff Koons (1955), and Rhea Perlman (1948).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, William Halsey Jr. ranks 27. Before him are Paul Revere (1735), Raymond A. Spruance (1886), William Tecumseh Sherman (1820), Husband E. Kimmel (1882), Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (1915), and Mark W. Clark (1896). After him are Abner Doubleday (1819), James Bowie (1796), Wild Bill Hickok (1837), George B. McClellan (1826), Doc Holliday (1851), and Joseph E. Johnston (1807).

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