1764 - 1786
John Goodricke FRS (17 September 1764 – 20 April 1786) was an English amateur astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Goodricke has received more than 56,866 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). John Goodricke is the 173rd most popular astronomer (down from 157th in 2019), the 317th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 265th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Astronomer.
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Among astronomers, John Goodricke ranks 173 out of 531. Before him are Andrea M. Ghez, Michael H. Hart, Auguste Charlois, Abu-Mahmud Khojandi, Gan De, and Erasmus Reinhold. After him are Dominique, comte de Cassini, August Kopff, William Henry Pickering, Jean Philippe Loys de Cheseaux, Otto Wilhelm von Struve, and Margherita Hack.
1965 - Present
HPI: 55.13
Rank: 167
1932 - Present
HPI: 55.13
Rank: 168
1864 - 1910
HPI: 55.09
Rank: 169
940 - 1000
HPI: 55.03
Rank: 170
400 BC - 400 BC
HPI: 54.95
Rank: 171
1511 - 1553
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 172
1764 - 1786
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 173
1748 - 1845
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 174
1882 - 1960
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 175
1858 - 1938
HPI: 54.66
Rank: 176
1718 - 1751
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 177
1819 - 1905
HPI: 54.60
Rank: 178
1922 - 2013
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 179
Among people born in 1764, John Goodricke ranks 14. Before him are Fletcher Christian, Sophie de Condorcet, Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Princess Maria Carolina of Savoy, Johann Gottfried Schadow, and Nikolai Rezanov. After him are Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo, Charles Percier, Barbara von Krüdener, Dorothea von Schlegel, Jens Baggesen, and Sidney Smith. Among people deceased in 1786, John Goodricke ranks 11. Before him are Peter III of Portugal, Franz Benda, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, Antonio Sacchini, Eva Ekeblad, and Tokugawa Ieharu. After him are Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, John Byron, Thomas Wright, Princess Amelia of Great Britain, Pierre Poivre, and Jean-Étienne Guettard.
1764 - 1793
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 8
1764 - 1822
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 9
1764 - 1788
HPI: 56.01
Rank: 10
1764 - 1782
HPI: 55.73
Rank: 11
1764 - 1850
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 12
1764 - 1807
HPI: 55.45
Rank: 13
1764 - 1786
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 14
1764 - 1842
HPI: 54.24
Rank: 15
1764 - 1838
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 16
1764 - Present
HPI: 53.51
Rank: 17
1764 - 1839
HPI: 52.25
Rank: 18
1764 - 1826
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 19
1764 - 1840
HPI: 51.79
Rank: 20
1717 - 1786
HPI: 63.12
Rank: 5
1709 - 1786
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 6
1705 - 1786
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 7
1730 - 1786
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 8
1724 - 1786
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 9
1737 - 1786
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 10
1764 - 1786
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 11
1711 - 1786
HPI: 53.92
Rank: 12
1723 - 1786
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 13
1711 - 1786
HPI: 52.24
Rank: 14
1711 - 1786
HPI: 50.92
Rank: 15
1719 - 1786
HPI: 50.49
Rank: 16
1715 - 1786
HPI: 49.65
Rank: 17
Among people born in Netherlands, John Goodricke ranks 317 out of 1,427. Before him are Ludger (742), Sjaak Swart (1938), Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau (1743), Mart Stam (1899), Ton Koopman (1944), and Jean Malouel (1370). After him are Johanna van Gogh-Bonger (1862), Karel Doorman (1889), Isaac Beeckman (1588), Hendrik Casimir (1909), Mark van Bommel (1977), and Jan Gies (1905).
742 - 809
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 311
1938 - Present
HPI: 54.98
Rank: 312
1743 - 1787
HPI: 54.98
Rank: 313
1899 - 1986
HPI: 54.97
Rank: 314
1944 - Present
HPI: 54.93
Rank: 315
1370 - 1415
HPI: 54.90
Rank: 316
1764 - 1786
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 317
1862 - 1925
HPI: 54.82
Rank: 318
1889 - 1942
HPI: 54.79
Rank: 319
1588 - 1637
HPI: 54.78
Rank: 320
1909 - 2000
HPI: 54.74
Rank: 321
1977 - Present
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 322
1905 - 1993
HPI: 54.68
Rank: 323
Among astronomers born in Netherlands, John Goodricke ranks 8. Before him are Pieter van Musschenbroek (1692), Gerard Kuiper (1905), Tom Gehrels (1925), Cornelis Johannes van Houten (1920), Antonie Pannekoek (1873), and Jacobus Kapteyn (1851). After him are Walter Lewin (1936), Adriaan Blaauw (1914), Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin (1845), Michael van Langren (1598), Maarten Schmidt (1929), and Dirk Brouwer (1902).
1692 - 1761
HPI: 63.25
Rank: 2
1905 - 1973
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 3
1925 - 2011
HPI: 58.02
Rank: 4
1920 - 2002
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 5
1873 - 1960
HPI: 56.79
Rank: 6
1851 - 1922
HPI: 55.85
Rank: 7
1764 - 1786
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 8
1936 - Present
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 9
1914 - 2010
HPI: 52.52
Rank: 10
1845 - 1904
HPI: 51.75
Rank: 11
1598 - 1675
HPI: 49.60
Rank: 12
1929 - Present
HPI: 49.17
Rank: 13
1902 - 1966
HPI: 48.99
Rank: 14