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Aurel Vlaicu

1882 - 1913

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Aurel Vlaicu (Romanian pronunciation: [a.uˈrel ˈvlajku] ; 19 November 1882 – 13 September 1913) was a Romanian engineer, inventor, airplane constructor, and early pilot. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aurel Vlaicu is the 165th most popular engineer (down from 132nd in 2019), the 591st most popular biography from Austria (down from 504th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Austrian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Aurel Vlaicu ranks 165 out of 389. Before him are Alec Issigonis, Ivan Yarkovsky, Pierre Berthier, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, Yaakov Ziv, and Essam Sharaf. After him are John Hughes, Hugo Eckener, Antoine de Chézy, Peter Hirsch, Alexei Tupolev, and Riccardo Morandi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Aurel Vlaicu ranks 132. Before him are Ernst Weiss, Paul Anspach, Auguste Herbin, Walter Jakobsson, Maurice Germot, and Halil Kut. After him are Cai E, Edmund Glaise-Horstenau, Joseph Marx, Giorgio Abetti, Subramania Bharati, and Noah Beery. Among people deceased in 1913, Aurel Vlaicu ranks 44. Before him are Carl Hagenbeck, Okakura Kakuzō, Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo, Mahmud Shevket Pasha, Faisal bin Turki, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, and Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay. After him are Karl Wittgenstein, Anthimus VII of Constantinople, Marie Popelin, Hjalmar Johansen, Paul Friedrich August Ascherson, and Mikoláš Aleš.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Aurel Vlaicu ranks 591 out of 1,424. Before him are Alfred Körner (1926), Marian Smoluchowski (1872), Philipp Frank (1884), Alfons Maria Stickler (1910), Magda Frank (1914), and Princess Marie Louise of Hanover (1879). After him are Albert Apponyi (1846), Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria (1874), Maria Altmann (1916), Edmund Glaise-Horstenau (1882), Joseph Weigl (1766), and Ingrid Haebler (1926).

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Among ENGINEERS In Austria

Among engineers born in Austria, Aurel Vlaicu ranks 6. Before him are Hermann Oberth (1894), Alexander Wienerberger (1891), Hans Ledwinka (1878), Viktor Kaplan (1876), and Carlo Abarth (1908). After him are Hanns Hörbiger (1867), Béla Barényi (1907), Hans Moravec (1948), and Erwin Komenda (1904).

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