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Benjamin Banneker

1731 - 1806

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Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 – October 19, 1806) was an American naturalist, mathematician, astronomer and almanac author. A landowner, he also worked as a surveyor and farmer. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free African-American mother and a father who had formerly been enslaved, Banneker had little or no formal education and was largely self-taught. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benjamin Banneker has received more than 2,028,723 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Benjamin Banneker is the 451st most popular astronomer (up from 454th in 2019), the 6,928th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,457th in 2019) and the 84th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Benjamin Banneker ranks 451 out of 644. Before him are Henry L. Giclas, Willem Jacob Luyten, Kees de Jager, Edward Pigott, Horace W. Babcock, and Fyodor Bredikhin. After him are Charles W. Juels, Frank Schlesinger, Alexandre Schaumasse, Carolyn Porco, Alfred Schmitt, and Michael E. Brown.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1731, Benjamin Banneker ranks 20. Before him are Dirk van der Aa, William Cowper, Princess Charlotte Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Charles Lee, Victor Louis, and Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt. After him are Catharine Macaulay, Johann August Ephraim Goeze, Samuel Huntington, and Robert Treat Paine. Among people deceased in 1806, Benjamin Banneker ranks 46. Before him are George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, Karoline von Günderrode, Henry Knox, Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter, Ignaz Schiffermüller, and Heinrich Christian Boie. After him are Rana Bahadur Shah, Robert Morris, William Paterson, Charlotte Smith, John Graves Simcoe, and George Wythe.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Benjamin Banneker ranks 6,928 out of 20,380. Before him are William Stevenson (1900), Bud Houser (1901), Donald Wills Douglas Sr. (1892), John L. Hennessy (1952), Mary Lou Williams (1910), and Steve Miller (1943). After him are Charles W. Juels (1944), George Moscone (1929), Harriet Bland (1915), John Forsyth (1780), Frank Belknap Long (1901), and William Pinkney (1764).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Benjamin Banneker ranks 84. Before him are Joel Stebbins (1878), George Herbig (1920), Jill Tarter (1944), Brian Schmidt (1967), Henry L. Giclas (1910), and Horace W. Babcock (1912). After him are Charles W. Juels (1944), Frank Schlesinger (1871), Carolyn Porco (1953), Michael E. Brown (1965), David Todd Wilkinson (1935), and Stephen P. Synnott (1946).

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