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Hirohito

1901 - 1989

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Hirohito (裕仁; 29 April 1901 – 7 January 1989), posthumously honored as Emperor Shōwa (昭和天皇, Shōwa Tennō), was the 124th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 1926 until his death in 1989. He remains the longest-reigning emperor in Japanese history and one of the longest-reigning monarchs in the world. As emperor during the Shōwa era, Hirohito presided over the rise of Japanese militarism, Japan's invasion of mainland Asia, the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Second World War, and the nation's postwar economic miracle. Hirohito was born during the reign of his paternal grandfather, Emperor Meiji, as the first child of Crown Prince Yoshihito and Crown Princess Sadako (later Emperor Taishō and Empress Teimei). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 135 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 129 in 2024). Hirohito is the 128th most popular politician (down from 92nd in 2024), the most popular biography from Japan and the most popular Japanese Politician.

Hirohito was the emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989. He is most famous for being the emperor of Japan during World War II.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hirohito ranks 128 out of 19,576. Before him are Leonid Brezhnev, Nebuchadnezzar II, Basil II, Brutus the Younger, Nicolae Ceaușescu, and Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor. After him are Mary I of England, Louis XIII of France, Selim I, Ferdinand Marcos, Ashoka, and Napoleon III.

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Among people born in 1901, Hirohito ranks 1. After him are Walt Disney, Werner Heisenberg, Marlene Dietrich, Enrico Fermi, Sukarno, Louis Armstrong, Rudolf Höss, Jacques Lacan, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, Fulgencio Batista, and Clark Gable. Among people deceased in 1989, Hirohito ranks 3. Before him are Salvador Dalí, and Nicolae Ceaușescu. After him are Ferdinand Marcos, Ruhollah Khomeini, Herbert von Karajan, Samuel Beckett, Konrad Lorenz, Ted Bundy, Georges Simenon, Sergio Leone, and Zita of Bourbon-Parma.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hirohito ranks 1 out of 6,245. After him are Matsuo Bashō (1644), Hokusai (1760), Hayao Miyazaki (1941), Akihito (1933), Oda Nobunaga (1534), Akira Kurosawa (1910), Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542), Emperor Meiji (1852), Miyamoto Musashi (1584), Naruhito (1960), and Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Hirohito ranks 1. After him are Emperor Meiji (1852), Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536), Hideki Tojo (1884), Shinzō Abe (1954), Emperor Jimmu (-711), Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894), Lee Myung-bak (1941), Emperor Kōmei (1831), Jiroemon Kimura (1897), Itō Hirobumi (1841), and Sasaki Kojirō (1583).

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