Isoroku Yamamoto
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Admiral of the Fleet Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was Commander in Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the early years of the Second World War, and author of the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor in 1941, although he personally considered the decision to attack the United States to be a grave error.
He was killed on 17 April 1943 while on an inspection tour of Japanese positions in the Solomon Islands, when his aircraft was ambushed and shot down by American P-38 Lightning fighters.