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Wild Bill Hickok

1837 - 1876

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James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 – August 2, 1876), better known as "Wild Bill" Hickok, was a folk hero of the American Old West known for his life on the frontier as a soldier, scout, lawman, cattle rustler, gunslinger, gambler, showman, and actor, and for his involvement in many famous gunfights. He earned a great deal of notoriety in his own time, much of it bolstered by the many outlandish and often fabricated tales he told about himself. Some contemporaneous reports of his exploits are known to be fictitious, but they remain the basis of much of his fame and reputation. Hickok was born and raised on a farm in northern Illinois at a time when lawlessness and vigilante activity were rampant because of the influence of the "Banditti of the Prairie". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wild Bill Hickok is the 85th most popular military personnel (up from 724th in 2019), the 306th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,106th in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Wild Bill Hickok ranks 85 out of 2,058. Before him are Günther von Kluge, Albrecht von Wallenstein, Nero Claudius Drusus, Tadeusz Kościuszko, Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., and Klaus Barbie. After him are Vasily Arkhipov, Ivan Konev, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, José de San Martín, Subutai, and Alexander Suvorov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Wild Bill Hickok ranks 7. Before him are Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Mary Harris Jones, Alois Hitler, Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Grover Cleveland, and Fredrik Bajer. After him are Mily Balakirev, J. P. Morgan, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Yohannes IV, and Cosima Wagner. Among people deceased in 1876, Wild Bill Hickok ranks 4. Before him are Mikhail Bakunin, Abdülaziz, and George Sand. After him are Antonio López de Santa Anna, Karl Ernst von Baer, George Armstrong Custer, Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Truganini, Catherine Labouré, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, and Ildefons Cerdà.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wild Bill Hickok ranks 306 out of 20,380. Before him are George Shultz (1920), Percy Williams Bridgman (1882), Jerry Brown (1938), Calvin Coolidge (1872), Neilia Hunter Biden (1942), and Leon Czolgosz (1873). After him are Steve Ballmer (1956), Samuel P. Huntington (1927), William Jennings Bryan (1860), Orson Welles (1915), Tommy Lee Jones (1946), and Billy the Kid (1859).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Wild Bill Hickok ranks 4. Before him are Stonewall Jackson (1824), Douglas MacArthur (1880), and Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. (1934). After him are George S. Patton (1885), Robert E. Lee (1807), Yonatan Netanyahu (1946), Robert Peary (1856), George Armstrong Custer (1839), Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (1915), Chester W. Nimitz (1885), and William Halsey Jr. (1882).

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