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Benjamin Banneker

1731 - 1806

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Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 – October 19, 1806) was an African-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 1,958,346 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Benjamin Banneker is the 454th most popular astronomer (down from 449th in 2019), the 7,472nd most popular biography from United States (up from 7,483rd in 2019) and the 94th most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Benjamin Banneker ranks 454 out of 531. Before him are Michel Giacobini, Patrick Moore, Harold D. Babcock, Takeshi Urata, Stephen P. Synnott, and William Frederick Denning. After him are Guillermo Haro, Lipót Schulhof, Margaret Lindsay Huggins, John Dobson, Mary Watson Whitney, and David Todd Wilkinson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1731, Benjamin Banneker ranks 18. Before him are Louis Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, Princess Charlotte Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, William Cowper, Charles Lee, Gabriela Silang, and Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt. After him are Samuel Huntington and Robert Treat Paine. Among people deceased in 1806, Benjamin Banneker ranks 43. Before him are Charles James Fox, Karoline von Günderrode, Henry Knox, Ignaz Schiffermüller, Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter, and Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen. After him are Robert Morris, Heinrich Christian Boie, Rana Bahadur Shah, William Paterson, John Breckinridge, and Charlotte Smith.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Benjamin Banneker ranks 7,472 out of 18,182. Before him are Teri Weigel (1962), Christy Canyon (1966), Brad Fiedel (1951), Art Larsen (1925), Tom Lehrer (1928), and Kesha (1987). After him are Alice Davenport (1864), Harry Myers (1882), Maude Fealy (1883), Bob Bradley (1958), Gilby Clarke (1962), and Marianna Hill (1942).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Benjamin Banneker ranks 94. Before him are Schelte J. Bus (1956), James Gunn (1938), George O. Abell (1927), Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1898), Harold D. Babcock (1882), and Stephen P. Synnott (1946). After him are Mary Watson Whitney (1847), David Todd Wilkinson (1935), Margaret Geller (1947), Carolyn Porco (1953), Royal Harwood Frost (1879), and Edward S. Holden (1846).

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