MILITARY PERSONNEL

Benjamin Briggs

1835 - 1872

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Benjamin Spooner Briggs (April 24, 1835 – likely November 1872) was an experienced American seaman and master mariner. He was the captain of the merchant ship Mary Celeste, which was discovered unmanned and drifting in the Atlantic Ocean midway between the Azores and the coast of Portugal on December 4, 1872. The lifeboat was missing, yet the Mary Celeste was still under sail. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benjamin Briggs has received more than 148,983 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Benjamin Briggs is the 1,555th most popular military personnel (down from 1,348th in 2019), the 4,796th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,800th in 2019) and the 80th most popular American Military Personnel.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.96

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  • 1.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Benjamin Briggs ranks 1,555 out of 2,058. Before him are Erich Marcks, Michel-Joseph Maunoury, Trafford Leigh-Mallory, Josip Filipović, James Somerville, and Friedrich Schulz. After him are Melvin Purvis, Infante João, Duke of Beja, Xue Yue, Mikhail Yegorov, Oleg Salyukov, and Ludwig Andreas von Khevenhüller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Benjamin Briggs ranks 55. Before him are Auguste Kerckhoffs, Krišjānis Barons, Daniel Giraud Elliot, Adlai Stevenson I, Duchess Agnes of Württemberg, and Felix Draeseke. After him are Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke, Rain-in-the-Face, Manuel Quintana, Bertalan Székely, Désirée Artôt, and Antanas Baranauskas. Among people deceased in 1872, Benjamin Briggs ranks 45. Before him are Carl Jaenisch, Princess Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Horace Greeley, Princess Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Martin Ohm, and Michele Carafa. After him are George Catlin, Friedrich Welwitsch, Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Andrew Smith, Michel Carré, and Henry Halleck.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Benjamin Briggs ranks 4,796 out of 20,380. Before him are Dom DeLuise (1933), Jim Varney (1949), Albert Brooks (1947), Henry Selick (1952), Vanessa del Rio (1952), and Tommy Thayer (1960). After him are Carmen McRae (1922), Christine Lahti (1950), Anita O'Day (1919), Cammie King (1934), Melvin Purvis (1903), and Sargent Shriver (1915).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Benjamin Briggs ranks 80. Before him are Nathanael Greene (1742), Alvin York (1887), Courtney Hodges (1887), Braxton Bragg (1817), Herman Kahn (1922), and Walter Bedell Smith (1895). After him are Melvin Purvis (1903), Joseph Hooker (1814), William D. Leahy (1875), Eugene Sledge (1923), Mark Milley (1958), and Carl Spaatz (1891).

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