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Louis Blériot

1872 - 1936

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Louis Charles Joseph Blériot ( BLERR-ee-oh, also US: BLAY-ree-oh, -⁠OH, blair-YOH, French: [lwi ʃaʁl ʒozɛf bleʁjo]; 1 July 1872 – 1 August 1936) was a French aviator, inventor, and engineer. He developed the first practical headlamp for cars and established a profitable business manufacturing them, using much of the money he made to finance his attempts to build a successful aircraft. Blériot was the first to use the combination of hand-operated joystick and foot-operated rudder control as used to the present day to operate the aircraft control surfaces. Blériot was also the first to make a working, powered, piloted monoplane. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Blériot is the 60th most popular inventor, the 742nd most popular biography from France (down from 645th in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Inventor.

Louis Blériot was most famous for being the first person to fly across the English Channel in 1909.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Louis Blériot ranks 60 out of 426. Before him are Richard Trevithick, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, Adam Opel, Charles Goodyear, William G. Morgan, and John Boyd Dunlop. After him are Emile Berliner, Willis Carrier, Étienne Lenoir, Theodore Maiman, Louis Renault, and Isaac Singer.

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Among people born in 1872, Louis Blériot ranks 20. Before him are Paul Langevin, Anton Denikin, Marcel Mauss, Djemal Pasha, Maurice Gamelin, and Sergei Diaghilev. After him are Sri Aurobindo, Jože Plečnik, Norman Angell, Aubrey Beardsley, Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein, and Wilhelm Miklas. Among people deceased in 1936, Louis Blériot ranks 23. Before him are Eleftherios Venizelos, Miguel de Unamuno, Alexander Glazunov, G. K. Chesterton, Albert Fish, and Ottorino Respighi. After him are José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Hans von Seeckt, Elsa Einstein, Karl Kraus, Premchand, and Buenaventura Durruti.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Blériot ranks 742 out of 6,770. Before him are Jan Gossaert (1478), Michel Barnier (1951), Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805), Léon Bourgeois (1851), Antipope Clement VII (1342), and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772). After him are Adela of Champagne (1140), Marie of Anjou (1404), Louise de La Vallière (1644), Raymond Queneau (1903), Louise of Lorraine (1553), and Simone Veil (1927).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Louis Blériot ranks 9. Before him are Nicolas Appert (1749), Rudolf Diesel (1858), Nicéphore Niépce (1765), Denis Papin (1647), Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752), and Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725). After him are Louis Renault (1877), Claude Chappe (1763), Jacques de Vaucanson (1709), Alphonse Bertillon (1853), André-Jacques Garnerin (1769), and Charles-Émile Reynaud (1844).

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