1729 - 1814
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, (10 August 1729 – 12 July 1814), was a British Army officer who rose to become Commander-in-Chief of British land forces in the Colonies during the American War of Independence. Howe was one of three brothers who had distinguished military careers. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe has received more than 1,056,605 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe is the 1,074th most popular military personnel (down from 1,000th in 2019), the 1,828th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,859th in 2019) and the 38th most popular British Military Personnel.
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Among military personnels, William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe ranks 1,074 out of 2,058. Before him are Callicratidas, Olivier V de Clisson, Ernest King, Lucius Flavius Silva, Blas de Lezo, and Otto Weddigen. After him are Manshuk Mametova, Gildo, Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi, Wilhelm Marschall, Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Sotomayor, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, and Oskar von Hutier.
500 BC - 406 BC
HPI: 54.63
Rank: 1,068
1336 - 1407
HPI: 54.59
Rank: 1,069
1878 - 1956
HPI: 54.59
Rank: 1,070
40 - 81
HPI: 54.59
Rank: 1,071
1689 - 1741
HPI: 54.57
Rank: 1,072
1882 - 1915
HPI: 54.57
Rank: 1,073
1729 - 1814
HPI: 54.57
Rank: 1,074
1922 - 1943
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 1,075
350 - 398
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 1,076
1788 - 1860
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 1,077
1886 - 1976
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 1,078
1550 - 1615
HPI: 54.54
Rank: 1,079
1857 - 1934
HPI: 54.54
Rank: 1,080
Among people born in 1729, William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe ranks 16. Before him are Antonio Soler, Johann Daniel Titius, Johann Reinhold Forster, Giuseppe Sarti, Gaétan Vestris, and Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg. After him are Anders Chydenius, Pierre André de Suffren, Florian Leopold Gassmann, Michał Kazimierz Ogiński, Michael von Melas, and Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing. Among people deceased in 1814, William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe ranks 20. Before him are Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, Aleijadinho, Georg Joseph Vogler, Matthew Flinders, Elbridge Gerry, and Louis François Joseph, Prince of Conti. After him are Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto, Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen, Johan Tobias Sergel, Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Charles Burney, and Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau.
1729 - 1783
HPI: 59.55
Rank: 10
1729 - 1796
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 11
1729 - 1798
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 12
1729 - 1802
HPI: 56.94
Rank: 13
1729 - 1808
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 14
1729 - 1818
HPI: 54.80
Rank: 15
1729 - 1814
HPI: 54.57
Rank: 16
1729 - 1803
HPI: 54.37
Rank: 17
1729 - 1788
HPI: 54.09
Rank: 18
1729 - 1774
HPI: 53.99
Rank: 19
1729 - 1800
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 20
1729 - 1806
HPI: 53.44
Rank: 21
1729 - 1794
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 22
1756 - 1814
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 14
1738 - 1814
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 15
1749 - 1814
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 16
1774 - 1814
HPI: 55.69
Rank: 17
1744 - 1814
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 18
1734 - 1814
HPI: 54.98
Rank: 19
1729 - 1814
HPI: 54.57
Rank: 20
1751 - 1814
HPI: 53.96
Rank: 21
1763 - 1814
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 22
1740 - 1814
HPI: 52.99
Rank: 23
1752 - 1814
HPI: 52.47
Rank: 24
1726 - 1814
HPI: 52.11
Rank: 25
1769 - 1814
HPI: 51.76
Rank: 26
Among people born in United Kingdom, William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe ranks 1,828 out of 8,785. Before him are Matthew Paris (1200), Leo Genn (1905), John Wetton (1949), Andrew Irvine (1902), Allan Octavian Hume (1829), and Thomas Beecham (1879). After him are Adam Sedgwick (1785), Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (1984), Terry Venables (1943), Margaret Douglas (1515), Christabel Pankhurst (1880), and Eleanor of Woodstock (1318).
1200 - 1259
HPI: 54.60
Rank: 1,822
1905 - 1978
HPI: 54.59
Rank: 1,823
1949 - 2017
HPI: 54.58
Rank: 1,824
1902 - 1924
HPI: 54.57
Rank: 1,825
1829 - 1912
HPI: 54.57
Rank: 1,826
1879 - 1961
HPI: 54.57
Rank: 1,827
1729 - 1814
HPI: 54.57
Rank: 1,828
1785 - 1873
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 1,829
1984 - Present
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 1,830
1943 - 2023
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 1,831
1515 - 1578
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 1,832
1880 - 1958
HPI: 54.54
Rank: 1,833
1318 - 1355
HPI: 54.53
Rank: 1,834
Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe ranks 38. Before him are John French, 1st Earl of Ypres (1852), Robert Blake (1599), Paddy Roy Bates (1921), George Rooke (1650), Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (1775), and John Fastolf (1380). After him are Horatio Gates (1727), FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788), Arthur Percival (1887), James Wolfe (1727), Arthur Rostron (1869), and Edward Vernon (1684).
1852 - 1925
HPI: 55.23
Rank: 32
1599 - 1657
HPI: 55.21
Rank: 33
1921 - 2012
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 34
1650 - 1709
HPI: 55.12
Rank: 35
1775 - 1860
HPI: 54.93
Rank: 36
1380 - 1459
HPI: 54.79
Rank: 37
1729 - 1814
HPI: 54.57
Rank: 38
1727 - 1806
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 39
1788 - 1855
HPI: 54.42
Rank: 40
1887 - 1966
HPI: 54.41
Rank: 41
1727 - 1759
HPI: 54.22
Rank: 42
1869 - 1940
HPI: 54.09
Rank: 43
1684 - 1757
HPI: 54.08
Rank: 44