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Gunichi Mikawa

1888 - 1981

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Gunichi Mikawa (三川 軍一, Mikawa Gun'ichi; 29 August 1888 – 25 February 1981) was a vice admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II. Mikawa was the commander of a heavy cruiser force that defeated the United States Navy (USN) and the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) at the Battle of Savo Island in Ironbottom Sound on the night of 8–9 August 1942. In this battle, his squadron of cruisers, plus one destroyer, sank three USN cruisers, plus the RAN heavy cruiser HMAS Canberra; Mikawa's force suffered no losses in the actual battle, although heavy cruiser Kako was sunk by the undetected American submarine S-44 on the return to their base near Rabaul in the Bismarck Archipelago. However, his later career was of mixed success, and he was reassigned to lesser posts after the loss of a troop convoy destined for New Guinea. After the war Mikawa retired back to Japan, where he died in 1981 at the age of 92. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gunichi Mikawa is the 894th most popular military personnel (down from 856th in 2019), the 701st most popular biography from Japan (down from 597th in 2019) and the 56th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Gunichi Mikawa ranks 894 out of 2,058. Before him are Quintus Titurius Sabinus, Ernst Barkmann, Henri Winkelman, Abdul-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr, Hermann Ehrhardt, and Ōtani Yoshitsugu. After him are Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel, Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, 2nd Count of Bucquoy, John Moore, Hermann von François, Mad Mike Hoare, and Karl Mauss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Gunichi Mikawa ranks 85. Before him are Milan Stojadinović, Domenico Tardini, Paul Morand, Soong Ai-ling, Nikolay Shvernik, and Prince Axel of Denmark. After him are David Jacobs, Alphonse Juin, Fritz Reiner, Lead Belly, Princess Helena Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, and Richard Courant. Among people deceased in 1981, Gunichi Mikawa ranks 73. Before him are Christy Brown, Ziaur Rahman, Jim Davis, Kirill Kondrashin, Grunya Sukhareva, and Henry Eyring. After him are Bernard Lee, Albert Cohen, Ferruccio Parri, Natalia Pavlovna Paley, Carl Ludwig Siegel, and Jean Eustache.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Gunichi Mikawa ranks 701 out of 6,245. Before him are Shibusawa Eiichi (1840), Matsukata Masayoshi (1835), Shigeko Higashikuni (1925), Emperor Sanjō (976), Yoshida Kenkō (1283), and Ōtani Yoshitsugu (1559). After him are Hōjō Sōun (1432), Toru Iwatani (1955), Kōzō Okamoto (1947), Nitobe Inazō (1862), Toyohiro Akiyama (1942), and Osami Nagano (1880).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Gunichi Mikawa ranks 56. Before him are Soemu Toyoda (1885), Hiroshi Ōshima (1886), Shūmei Ōkawa (1886), Minamoto no Yorimasa (1106), Minamoto no Yoshitomo (1123), and Ōtani Yoshitsugu (1559). After him are Osami Nagano (1880), Hiroyoshi Nishizawa (1920), Sakanoue no Tamuramaro (758), Nakano Takeko (1847), Wakisaka Yasuharu (1554), and Hōjō Ujiyasu (1515).

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