The List of 5 Most Well-Known People in World War I

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VIVA – World War I was a global conflict between Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire or Turkey, Bulgaria, and the allies involving many countries, including Great Britain, France, Russia, Japan and Italy.

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It began with the Austro-Hungarian declaration of war against Serbia on July 28, 1914 and ended with the surrender of Germany on November 11, 1918.

There are many well-known legendary figures associated with World War I. One of them is Gavrilo Princip.

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The figure who is considered responsible for the outbreak of war because of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Red Baron, a German fighter pilot who has 80 victories in aerial combat.

So, here are some famous people from World War I besides Gavrilo Princip.

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1. Grigori Rasputin

Grigori Rasputin was a farmer from Siberia, with a claim and reputation for heal a disease ability in Russian history.

At the age of 18, he went to the monastery at Verkhoture, where he was introduced to the Flagellants sect. Rasputin left after a few months, then he married and had three children. However, the marriage did not settle him and he became a traveler traveling to Greece, the Middle East, and Jerusalem.

Rasputin's journey took him to St. Petersburg in 1903 and he finally found himself in the court of Tsar Nicholas II, due to his ability to heal a disease.

2. Red Baron

Manfred von Richthofen or well-known as the Red Baron is a fighter pilot in the German Air Force. He defied the odds to claim 80 aerial combat victories during World War I and became a legend in the air.

Initially, Richthofen served first on the east and then on the western front. As trench warfare settled on the western front, the Red Baron was transferred to the Signal Corps, where he was soon to be frustrated by the life of trench warfare.

In 1915, he volunteered for the Air Service as an observer, where he learned to fly over the next few months. He became one of the first recruits for the Jagdstaffel 2 fighter squadron in 1916.

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