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Osaka (jpn)

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Osaka ranks 148th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Caracas, Genoa, and Memphis, Tennessee. Memorable people born in Osaka include Yasunari Kawabata, Lee Myung-bak, and Paulo Miki. Memorable people who died in Osaka include Matsuo Bashō, Sanada Yukimura, and Ashikaga Yoshiaki. Osaka has been the birth place of many soccer players, and writers and the death place of many writers, and politicians. Osaka is located in Japan.

Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan, and one of the three major cities of Japan (Tokyo-Osaka-Nagoya). It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third-most populous city in Japan, following the special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2.7 million in the 2020 census, it is also the largest component of the Keihanshin Metropolitan Area, which is the second-largest metropolitan area in Japan and the 10th-largest urban area in the world with more than 19 million inhabitants. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 0 and 2007, Osaka was the birth place of 77 globally memorable people, including Yasunari Kawabata, Lee Myung-bak, and Paulo Miki. Additionaly, 15 globally memorable people have passed away in Osaka including Matsuo Bashō, Sanada Yukimura, and Ashikaga Yoshiaki.

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Osaka were soccer players (30), writers (10), athletes (7), tennis players (5), and actors (4),  while most who died were writers (5), politicians (4), athletes (2), military personnels (1), and soccer players (1).

Over the past 100 years, soccer players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Osaka, including Eizo Yuguchi, Takeshi Okada, and Hideo Hashimoto. Whereas, throughout history, soccer players have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Osaka, including Eizo Yuguchi, Shojiro Sugimura, and Uichiro Hatta.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 17 globally memorable people born in Osaka since 1700.