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William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe

1729 - 1814

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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 1,047,477 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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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe has had the most page views in the with 109,128 views, followed by German (6,803), and Russian (5,265). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Esperanto (977.42%), Simple English (139.32%), and Finnish (47.34%)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

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.

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Contemporaries

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.

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In United Kingdom

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).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

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).

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