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Jorge Chávez

1887 - 1910

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Georges Antoine Chavez (January 13, 1887 – September 27, 1910), also known as Jorge Chávez or Géo Chavez, was a Peruvian aviator. At a young age, he achieved fame for his aeronautical feats. He died in 1910 after a heavy wind broke the wings of his fragile airplane Bleriot XI, falling from a twenty-meter height upon landing, after achieving the first air crossing of the Pennine Alps. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jorge Chávez is the 190th most popular engineer (up from 192nd in 2019), the 3,392nd most popular biography from France (down from 3,327th in 2019) and the 28th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Jorge Chávez ranks 190 out of 389. Before him are Pierre-Paul Riquet, Kelly Johnson, Agustín de Betancourt, Genichi Taguchi, Eduard Totleben, and Louis Dollo. After him are Marc Isambard Brunel, Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse, Joseph Strauss, Alexey Sudayev, Sergei Tumansky, and Philippe LeBon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Jorge Chávez ranks 147. Before him are Ricardo Wolf, Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Abolqasem Lahouti, Ernst Wiechert, Armen Ohanian, and Jim Thorpe. After him are Omer Nishani, Prince Gabriel Constantinovich of Russia, Chico Marx, Hristo Lukov, Sylvia Beach, and August Kork. Among people deceased in 1910, Jorge Chávez ranks 62. Before him are Hormuzd Rassam, Laza Kostić, Edouard Van Beneden, Paolo Mantegazza, William Graham Sumner, and Gustav Adolf von Götzen. After him are Édouard Colonne, George Turner, Kurd Lasswitz, Bertalan Székely, Kálmán Mikszáth, and Michele Rua.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jorge Chávez ranks 3,392 out of 6,770. Before him are Juliette Adam (1836), Paul Ranson (1861), Hermano da Silva Ramos (1925), Princess Anne Charlotte of Lorraine (1714), Louis Dollo (1857), and Margaret of Foix (1453). After him are Élisabeth Badinter (1944), François de Tournon (1489), Marc Isambard Brunel (1769), Zacharie Astruc (1833), Jean-Étienne Montucla (1725), and Peter II, Duke of Brittany (1418).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Jorge Chávez ranks 28. Before him are Louis Charles Breguet (1880), Alphonse Pénaud (1850), Gérard Larrousse (1940), Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1754), Pierre-Paul Riquet (1609), and Louis Dollo (1857). After him are Marc Isambard Brunel (1769), Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse (1822), Philippe LeBon (1767), Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (1798), François Hennebique (1842), and Adolphe Alphand (1817).

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