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Benjamin Hornigold

1680 - 1719

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Benjamin Hornigold (c. 1680–1719) was an English pirate who operated during the tail end of the Golden Age of Piracy. Born in England in the late 17th century, Hornigold began his pirate career in 1713, attacking merchant ships in the Bahamas. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benjamin Hornigold has received more than 2,157,327 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Benjamin Hornigold is the 14th most popular pirate (up from 15th in 2019), the 695th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 723rd in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Pirate.

Benjamin Hornigold was most famous for being a pirate who operated in the Caribbean, off the coast of Central America, and in the Gulf of Mexico. He is also notable for being the mentor of Blackbeard.

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PIRATES

Among pirates, Benjamin Hornigold ranks 14 out of 29. Before him are Bartholomew Roberts, D. B. Cooper, François l'Olonnais, William Kidd, Henry Every, and Sextus Pompey. After him are Charles Vane, Ching Shih, Edward England, Jan Janszoon, Stede Bonnet, and Samuel Bellamy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1680, Benjamin Hornigold ranks 3. Before him are Blackbeard, and Catherine Opalińska. After him are Saliha Sultan, Charles Vane, James Anderson, Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Richard Cantillon, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Bulleh Shah, Princess Luise Dorothea of Prussia, and Johann Baptist Zimmermann. Among people deceased in 1719, Benjamin Hornigold ranks 4. Before him are Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, and John Flamsteed. After him are Michel Rolle, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Johann Friedrich Böttger, Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Boris Sheremetev, Arnold Houbraken, and Joseph Addison.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Benjamin Hornigold ranks 695 out of 8,785. Before him are Peter Shilton (1949), William Oughtred (1574), Stephen Gray (1666), John Frederic Daniell (1790), Brian Josephson (1940), and Harry Kroto (1939). After him are Charles Wheatstone (1802), James May (1963), George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (1592), Peter Greenaway (1942), Francis Hutcheson (1694), and David Brewster (1781).

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Among PIRATES In United Kingdom

Among pirates born in United Kingdom, Benjamin Hornigold ranks 8. Before him are Calico Jack (1682), Henry Morgan (1635), Mary Read (1695), Bartholomew Roberts (1682), William Kidd (1645), and Henry Every (1659). After him are Charles Vane (1680), Samuel Bellamy (1689), Thomas Tew (1649), and Edward Low (1690).

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