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Isoroku Yamamoto

1884 - 1943

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Isoroku Yamamoto (山本 五十六, Yamamoto Isoroku; April 4, 1884 – April 18, 1943) was a Marshal Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II. He commanded the fleet from 1939 until his death in 1943, overseeing the start of the Pacific War in 1941 and Japan's initial successes and defeats before his plane was shot down by U.S. fighter aircraft over New Guinea. Yamamoto graduated from the Imperial Naval Academy in 1904 and served in the Russo-Japanese War, where he lost two fingers at the Battle of Tsushima. He later studied at Harvard University in the United States and was appointed naval attaché to the Japanese embassy in Washington. His experiences convinced him that naval power depended on access to oil and industrial capacity, and that Japan thus had little hope to defeat the U.S. in a war. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Isoroku Yamamoto is the 54th most popular military personnel (down from 47th in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 16th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

Ishoroku Yamamoto was a Japanese military officer who was the Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1939 to 1944. He was the architect of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and is most famous for his role in World War II.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Isoroku Yamamoto ranks 54 out of 2,058. Before him are Alfred Jodl, Douglas MacArthur, Hiroo Onoda, Seleucus I Nicator, Alfred Dreyfus, and Germanicus. After him are Lü Bu, Gerd von Rundstedt, Tughril, Otto Skorzeny, Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, and Mikhail Kutuzov.

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Among people born in 1884, Isoroku Yamamoto ranks 5. Before him are Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Amedeo Modigliani, and Hideki Tojo. After him are Edvard Beneš, İsmet İnönü, Bronisław Malinowski, Édouard Daladier, Peter Debye, Max Brod, and Walther von Reichenau. Among people deceased in 1943, Isoroku Yamamoto ranks 8. Before him are David Hilbert, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Pieter Zeeman, Karl Landsteiner, George Washington Carver, and Camille Claudel. After him are Simone Weil, Henrik Pontoppidan, Leslie Howard, Boris III of Bulgaria, Henri La Fontaine, and Theodor Eicke.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Isoroku Yamamoto ranks 23 out of 6,245. Before him are Emperor Taishō (1879), Murasaki Shikibu (973), Shinzō Abe (1954), Satoshi Nakamoto (1975), Hiroo Onoda (1922), and Yoko Ono (1933). After him are Emperor Jimmu (-711), Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894), Osamu Dazai (1909), Lee Myung-bak (1941), Kenzaburō Ōe (1935), and Yoshinori Ohsumi (1945).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Isoroku Yamamoto ranks 4. Before him are Oda Nobunaga (1534), Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542), and Hiroo Onoda (1922). After him are Hattori Hanzō (1542), Saigō Takamori (1828), Akechi Mitsuhide (1526), Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159), Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837), Chūichi Nagumo (1887), Ishida Mitsunari (1559), and Toyotomi Hideyori (1593).

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