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Giovanni Battista Caproni

1886 - 1957

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Giovanni Battista "Gianni" Caproni, 1st Count of Taliedo (July 3, 1886 – October 27, 1957) was an Italian aeronautical engineer, civil engineer, electrical engineer, and aircraft designer who founded the Caproni aircraft-manufacturing company. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Giovanni Battista Caproni is the 187th most popular businessperson (down from 144th in 2019), the 361st most popular biography from Austria (down from 310th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Austrian Businessperson.

Giovanni Battista Caproni was an Italian aircraft designer who is most famous for his design of the Caproni Ca.3.

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Among businesspeople, Giovanni Battista Caproni ranks 187 out of 847. Before him are Ambroise Vollard, Ajay Banga, Paul Elvstrøm, James Mayer de Rothschild, Sung Jae-gi, and Lady Bird Johnson. After him are Henry Ford II, Torakusu Yamaha, François-Henri Pinault, Madame Clicquot Ponsardin, Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici, and Fusajiro Yamauchi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Giovanni Battista Caproni ranks 62. Before him are Gyula Gömbös, Jisaburō Ozawa, Paul Lévy, Hitoshi Imamura, Mary Wigman, and Karl Korsch. After him are Raoul Hausmann, Tsuguharu Foujita, Raymond A. Spruance, Werner Kempf, Sessue Hayakawa, and Georg Stumme. Among people deceased in 1957, Giovanni Battista Caproni ranks 62. Before him are Louis B. Mayer, Leo Perutz, Sacha Guitry, Qi Baishi, Hermann Buhl, and Rudolf Diels. After him are Harald Sverdrup, Kurt von Tippelskirch, Shoghi Effendi, Johann Rattenhuber, Joseph Augustus Zarelli, and Théophile de Donder.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Giovanni Battista Caproni ranks 361 out of 1,424. Before him are Archduchess Margarete Sophie of Austria (1870), Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (1614), Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797), Herman VI, Margrave of Baden (1226), Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria (1868), and Karl Silberbauer (1911). After him are Otto Hofmann (1896), Zoltán Tildy (1889), Senta Berger (1941), Raoul Hausmann (1886), Ettore Sottsass (1917), and Margaret of Austria, Queen of Bohemia (1204).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Austria

Among businesspeople born in Austria, Giovanni Battista Caproni ranks 5. Before him are Dietrich Mateschitz (1944), Mercédès Jellinek (1889), Ferdinand Piëch (1937), and Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche (1909). After him are Franz Josef Popp (1886), and Toto Wolff (1972).

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