# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-gillespie-magee-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:00:30.151Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-gillespie-magee-jr"
name: "John Gillespie Magee, Jr."
slug: "john-gillespie-magee-jr"
description: "John Gillespie Magee Jr. was a World War II Anglo-American Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot and war poet, who wrote the sonnet \"High Flight\". He was killed in an accidental mid-air collision over England in 1941."
tagline: "Aviator and poet (1922-1941)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Gillespie_Magee%2C_Jr.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1922-06-09"
deathDate: "1941-12-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.871532
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "جون جيليسپى ماجى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Gillespie Magee Jr."
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gillespie_Magee"
    title: "John Gillespie Magee"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gillespie_Magee_Jr."
    title: "John Gillespie Magee Jr."
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gillespie_Magee"
    title: "John Gillespie Magee"
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  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gillespie_Magee_Jr."
    title: "John Gillespie Magee Jr."
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  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Gillespie_Magee_Jr."
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1700222"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump