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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Balthasar Gérard

1557 - 1584

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Balthasar Gérard (alternative spellings Gerards or Gerardts; c. 1557 – 14 July 1584) was the assassin of the Dutch revolt's leader, William the Silent of the House of Orange (William the Silent, and later known as the "Father of the Fatherland"). He killed William the Silent in Delft on 10 July 1584, by shooting him twice with a pair of pistols, and was afterwards tried, convicted, tortured, and executed. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Balthasar Gérard has received more than 495,981 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Balthasar Gérard is the 161st most popular social activist (down from 154th in 2019), the 1,489th most popular biography from France (down from 1,471st in 2019) and the 13th most popular French Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Balthasar Gérard ranks 161 out of 538. Before him are Musa al-Sadr, Manuela Sáenz, Ilya Ulyanov, Abbé Pierre, Alexander Pechersky, and René Just Haüy. After him are Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Bukovsky, Rigoberta Menchú, Jan Karski, Unity Mitford, and Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1557, Balthasar Gérard ranks 7. Before him are Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor, Feodor I of Russia, Giovanni Gabrieli, Agostino Carracci, Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, and Stephen Bocskai. After him are Irina Godunova, Oda Nobutada, Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg, Lew Sapieha, Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel, and Thomas Morley. Among people deceased in 1584, Balthasar Gérard ranks 7. Before him are Ivan the Terrible, William the Silent, Charles Borromeo, Francis, Duke of Anjou, Yi I, and Bernal Díaz del Castillo. After him are Jan Kochanowski, Marcantonio Colonna, Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł, and Pieter Pourbus.

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In France

Among people born in France, Balthasar Gérard ranks 1,489 out of 6,011. Before him are René Just Haüy (1743), Paul Poiret (1879), Arnaud Amalric (1160), Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713), William of Champeaux (1070), and Julien Duvivier (1896). After him are Émile Gaboriau (1832), Émile Waldteufel (1837), Alexandre de Rhodes (1591), Paul-Jacques Curie (1855), Joan I, Countess of Auvergne (1326), and Pierre Louis Dulong (1785).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In France

Among social activists born in France, Balthasar Gérard ranks 13. Before him are Flora Tristan (1803), Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208), Léon Jouhaux (1879), Jacques Roux (1752), Abbé Pierre (1912), and René Just Haüy (1743). After him are Ravachol (1859), Guillaume Cale (1350), Marina Ginestà (1919), Édouard René de Laboulaye (1811), Osman Kavala (1957), and Germaine Tillion (1907).

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