MILITARY PERSONNEL

Tōgō Heihachirō

1848 - 1934

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Tōgō Heihachirō (東郷 平八郎; 27 January 1848 – 30 May 1934), served as a gensui or admiral of the fleet in the Imperial Japanese Navy and became one of Japan's greatest naval heroes. As Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, he successfully confined the Russian Pacific naval forces to Port Arthur before winning a decisive victory over a relieving fleet at Tsushima in May 1905. Western journalists called Tōgō "the Nelson of the East". He remains deeply revered as a national hero in Japan, with shrines and streets named in his honour. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tōgō Heihachirō is the 300th most popular military personnel (down from 233rd in 2019), the 124th most popular biography from Japan (down from 82nd in 2019) and the 16th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

Tōgō heihachirō is most famous for the Battle of Sekigahara.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Tōgō Heihachirō ranks 300 out of 2,058. Before him are Svetozar Boroević, Qutayba ibn Muslim, Yermak Timofeyevich, François Achille Bazaine, Vasily Stalin, and Ernest King. After him are Ivan Bagramyan, Andranik, Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, Baji Rao I, Andrey Yeryomenko, and Werner Mölders.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Tōgō Heihachirō ranks 15. Before him are Joris-Karl Huysmans, Gustave Caillebotte, Hugo de Vries, Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, Albert I, Prince of Monaco, and Arthur Balfour. After him are Aleksey Kuropatkin, Viktor Vasnetsov, Robert I, Duke of Parma, Wilhelm Windelband, Stepan Makarov, and Wyatt Earp. Among people deceased in 1934, Tōgō Heihachirō ranks 20. Before him are Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Gregor Strasser, Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, John Dillinger, John Collier, and Gustav Holst. After him are Augusto César Sandino, Charley Patton, Louis Barthou, Marinus van der Lubbe, Alice Liddell, and Edmond James de Rothschild.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tōgō Heihachirō ranks 124 out of 6,245. Before him are Eisaku Satō (1901), Emperor Nintoku (290), Joe Hisaishi (1950), Emperor Kōshō (-505), Kakuichi Mimura (1931), and Emperor Go-Daigo (1288). After him are Jiro Horikoshi (1903), Emperor Kōan (-427), Ko Yong-hui (1952), Kenji Mizoguchi (1898), Ko Arima (1917), and Emperor Reigen (1654).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Tōgō Heihachirō ranks 16. Before him are Chūichi Nagumo (1887), Ishida Mitsunari (1559), Toyotomi Hideyori (1593), Date Masamune (1567), Tomoyuki Yamashita (1885), and Tadamichi Kuribayashi (1891). After him are Shunroku Hata (1879), Okita Sōji (1842), Iwane Matsui (1878), Honda Tadakatsu (1548), Sanada Yukimura (1567), and Nogi Maresuke (1849).

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