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Adolphe Sax

Belgian musical instrument designer and musician

1814 - 1894

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His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia. Adolphe Sax is the 43rd most popular inventor (down from 39th in 2024), the 58th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 53rd in 2019) and the most popular Belgian Inventor.

Adolphe Sax was a Belgian inventor and musician who is most famous for inventing the saxophone.

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Adolphe Sax is the most memorable of the 4 notable people born in Dinant, Belgium.

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Of the 7 Inventors born in Belgium, Adolphe Sax ranks first.

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Adolphe Sax's biography appears in 63 language editions of Wikipedia — more than 93% of all Inventors.

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Adolphe Sax shares a November 6 birthday with Suleiman the Magnificent, Joanna of Castile, and Charles II of Spain.

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Among Inventors

Among inventors, Adolphe Sax ranks 43 out of 426. Before him are Igor Sikorsky, László Bíró, Joseph Marie Jacquard, Frank Whittle, Bob Kahn, and Ismail al-Jazari. After him are Wilhelm Maybach, Herman Hollerith, Robert Fulton, Steve Wozniak, Karl Drais, and George Westinghouse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Adolphe Sax ranks 7. Before him are Mikhail Bakunin, Jean-François Millet, Taras Shevchenko, Mikhail Lermontov, Samuel Colt, and Anders Jonas Ångström. After him are Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Julius von Mayer, Edwin Stanton, Hong Xiuquan, Henri Nestlé, and Jenny von Westphalen. Among people deceased in 1894, Adolphe Sax ranks 9. Before him are Robert Louis Stevenson, Hermann von Helmholtz, Francis II of the Two Sicilies, Lajos Kossuth, Ferdinand de Lesseps, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.. After him are Anton Rubinstein, Gustave Caillebotte, Hans von Bülow, Marie François Sadi Carnot, Prince Philippe, Count of Paris, and John Sparrow David Thompson.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Adolphe Sax ranks 58 out of 1,190. Before him are Victor Horta (1861), Julio Cortázar (1914), Albert Claude (1899), Samo (600), Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (1338), and Pepin of Landen (585). After him are Simon Stevin (1548), Henry van de Velde (1863), Yves Chauvin (1930), Marguerite Yourcenar (1903), Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium (1927), and Dominique Pire (1910).

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Among Inventors In Belgium

Among inventors born in Belgium, Adolphe Sax ranks 1. After him are Étienne Lenoir (1822), Jacques Piccard (1922), Paul Otlet (1868), Zénobe Gramme (1826), Robert Cailliau (1947), and George Washington (1871).

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