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Henry Every

1659 - 1699

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Henry Every, also known as Henry Avery (20 August 1659 – Disappeared: June 1696), sometimes erroneously given as Jack Avery or John Avery, was an English pirate who operated in the Atlantic and Indian oceans in the mid-1690s. He probably used several aliases throughout his career, including Benjamin Bridgeman, and was known as Long Ben to his crewmen and associates. Dubbed "The Arch Pirate" and "The King of Pirates" by contemporaries, Every was infamous for being one of very few major pirate captains to escape with his loot without being arrested or killed in battle, and for being the perpetrator of what has been called the most profitable act of piracy in history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Every has received more than 3,483,211 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Henry Every is the 12th most popular pirate (up from 13th in 2019), the 534th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 647th in 2019) and the 7th most popular British Pirate.

Henry Every is most famous for being a pirate. He was born in 1659 and died in 1725. His nickname was "Long Ben."

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PIRATES

Among pirates, Henry Every ranks 12 out of 29. Before him are Henry Morgan, Mary Read, Bartholomew Roberts, D. B. Cooper, François l'Olonnais, and William Kidd. After him are Sextus Pompey, Benjamin Hornigold, Charles Vane, Ching Shih, Edward England, and Jan Janszoon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1659, Henry Every ranks 4. Before him are Henry Purcell, Hyacinthe Rigaud, and Jacob Roggeveen. After him are Royal Noble Consort Huibin Jang, Georg Ernst Stahl, Pieter van der Aa, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Sebastiano Ricci, Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, Adriaen van der Werff, and Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach. Among people deceased in 1699, Henry Every ranks 3. Before him are Jean Racine, and Christian V of Denmark. After him are Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria, Maria Sophia of Neuburg, Mattia Preti, Hortense Mancini, Marco d'Aviano, Lucrezia Barberini, Albert V, Duke of Saxe-Coburg, François Le Fort, and Patrick Gordon.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Every ranks 534 out of 8,785. Before him are Ronnie Wood (1947), Stanley Baldwin (1867), William Lassell (1799), Eadweard Muybridge (1830), Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844), and Tom Wilkinson (1948). After him are James Hutton (1726), Henry, Duke of Cornwall (1511), Donald Pleasence (1919), Graham Hill (1929), Oliver Sacks (1933), and Gregory Bateson (1904).

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Among PIRATES In United Kingdom

Among pirates born in United Kingdom, Henry Every ranks 7. Before him are Blackbeard (1680), Calico Jack (1682), Henry Morgan (1635), Mary Read (1695), Bartholomew Roberts (1682), and William Kidd (1645). After him are Benjamin Hornigold (1680), Charles Vane (1680), Samuel Bellamy (1689), Thomas Tew (1649), and Edward Low (1690).

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