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Italo Balbo

1896 - 1940

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Italo Balbo (6 June 1896 – 28 June 1940) was an Italian fascist politician and Blackshirts' leader who served as Italy's Marshal of the Air Force, Governor-General of Italian Libya and Commander-in-Chief of Italian North Africa. Due to his young age, he was sometimes seen as a possible successor to dictator Benito Mussolini. After serving in World War I, Balbo became the leading Fascist party organizer in his home region of Ferrara. He was one of the Quadrumvirs, the four principal architects (Quadrumviri del Fascismo) of the March on Rome that brought Mussolini and the Fascists to power in 1922, along with Michele Bianchi, Emilio De Bono and Cesare Maria De Vecchi. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Italo Balbo is the 350th most popular military personnel (down from 254th in 2019), the 1,025th most popular biography from Italy (down from 776th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Italian Military Personnel.

Italo Balbo was an Italian Air Force officer and politician. He is most famous for being the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe to America.

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Among military personnels, Italo Balbo ranks 350 out of 2,058. Before him are Meng Tian, Nikolai Vatutin, Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, Jozef Gabčík, Dmitry Yazov, and John J. Pershing. After him are Leopold Joseph von Daun, Wang Jian, Georg von Frundsberg, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, Fyodor Tolbukhin, and Qasem Soleimani.

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Among people born in 1896, Italo Balbo ranks 42. Before him are Oswald Mosley, Célestin Freinet, Wallace Carothers, Anastasio Somoza García, Lewis Strauss, and John Dos Passos. After him are Nobusuke Kishi, Nikolay Semyonov, Paulino Alcántara, Rolf Maximilian Sievert, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Herbert Backe. Among people deceased in 1940, Italo Balbo ranks 29. Before him are Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Gerda Wegener, Jesse Livermore, Kyösti Kallio, Lluís Companys, and Eugène Dubois. After him are Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Vito Volterra, Katharina Schratt, Édouard Vuillard, Vsevolod Meyerhold, and John A. Hobson.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Italo Balbo ranks 1,025 out of 5,161. Before him are Antipope Anacletus II (1090), Bartolomeo Colleoni (1400), Luisa of Naples and Sicily (1773), Luigi Riva (1944), Emma Morano (1899), and Stesichorus (-630). After him are Barbara Strozzi (1619), Ibycus (-600), Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484), Andrea Gabrieli (1533), Charles Martel of Anjou (1271), and Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy (1634).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Italy

Among military personnels born in Italy, Italo Balbo ranks 16. Before him are Federico da Montefeltro (1422), Sejanus (-20), Raimondo Montecuccoli (1609), Italo Gariboldi (1879), Titus Labienus (-100), and Roger de Flor (1267). After him are Luigi Cadorna (1850), Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli (1856), Gaius Claudius Glaber (-200), Erasmo of Narni (1370), Giovanni Messe (1883), and Emilio De Bono (1866).

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