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Charles Messier

1730 - 1817

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Charles Messier (French: [ʃaʁl me.sje]; 26 June 1730 – 12 April 1817) was a French astronomer. He published an astronomical catalogue consisting of 110 nebulae and star clusters, which came to be known as the Messier objects, referred to with the letter M and their number between 1 and 110. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Messier has received more than 430,715 page views. His biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Charles Messier is the 23rd most popular astronomer (down from 18th in 2019), the 468th most popular biography from France (down from 321st in 2019) and the most popular French Astronomer.

Charles Messier was a French astronomer who is most famous for his catalogue of deep sky objects.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Charles Messier ranks 23 out of 531Before him are Aryabhata, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Edmond Halley, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Robert Woodrow Wilson, and Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi. After him are Giuseppe Piazzi, Johannes Hevelius, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, Jamshīd al-Kāshī, Roger Joseph Boscovich, and Avempace.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1730, Charles Messier ranks 2Before him is Alexander Suvorov. After him are Johann Georg Hamann, Étienne Bézout, Jan Ingenhousz, Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova, Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony, Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Antonio Sacchini, Pieter Boddaert, and Josiah Wedgwood. Among people deceased in 1817, Charles Messier ranks 5Before him are Jane Austen, Germaine de Staël, Tadeusz Kościuszko, and André Masséna. After him are Karađorđe, Marie Walewska, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Princess Charlotte of Wales, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, and Theroigne de Mericourt.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Messier ranks 468 out of 6,011Before him are Roger Vadim (1928), François-Noël Babeuf (1760), Jean Dubuffet (1901), Paul Bocuse (1926), Camille Desmoulins (1760), and Gabriel Marcel (1889). After him are Jacques Le Goff (1924), Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928), Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727), Jean-François Lyotard (1924), Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1747), and Karl Brandt (1904).

Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Charles Messier ranks 1After him are Jérôme Lalande (1732), Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (1713), Pierre Méchain (1744), Jacques Cassini (1677), Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580), Édouard Stephan (1837), Alphonse Borrelly (1842), Pierre Janssen (1824), Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688), Guillaume Bigourdan (1851), and Bernard Lyot (1897).