1659 - 1733
Pieter van der Aa (Leiden, 1659 – Leiden, August 1733) was a Dutch publisher best known for preparing maps and atlases, though he also printed pirated editions of foreign bestsellers and illustrated volumes. He also printed many maps that were often out of print, which he reissued. Some of his most popular maps were of the African continent, detailing locations such as Morocco and Madagascar. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pieter van der Aa has received more than 66,468 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Pieter van der Aa is the 6,262nd most popular politician (up from 9,781st in 2019), the 250th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 436th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Dutch Politician.
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Among politicians, Pieter van der Aa ranks 6,262 out of 15,577. Before him are Ludwig Fischer, Emperor Go-Reizei, Ange-Félix Patassé, Abdon, Charles-François Lebrun, and Kōichirō Matsuura. After him are Guy Mollet, Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus, Ali ibn Yusuf, Bohemond IV of Antioch, Pierre Gemayel, and Roman Dmowski.
1905 - 1947
HPI: 56.78
Rank: 6,256
1025 - 1068
HPI: 56.78
Rank: 6,257
1937 - 2011
HPI: 56.78
Rank: 6,258
1117 BC - Present
HPI: 56.78
Rank: 6,259
1739 - 1824
HPI: 56.78
Rank: 6,260
1937 - Present
HPI: 56.78
Rank: 6,261
1659 - 1733
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 6,262
1905 - 1975
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 6,263
232 BC - 183 BC
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 6,264
1083 - 1143
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 6,265
1172 - 1233
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 6,266
1905 - 1984
HPI: 56.76
Rank: 6,267
1864 - 1939
HPI: 56.76
Rank: 6,268
Among people born in 1659, Pieter van der Aa ranks 8. Before him are Jacob Roggeveen, Georg Ernst Stahl, Henry Every, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Sebastiano Ricci, and Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt. After him are Domenico Gabrielli, Adriaen van der Werff, Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, David Gregory, William Sherard, and Sophia Elisabet Brenner. Among people deceased in 1733, Pieter van der Aa ranks 7. Before him are Augustus II the Strong, François Couperin, Bernard Mandeville, Tsarevna Catherine Ivanovna of Russia, Georg Böhm, and Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri. After him are Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg, Robert de Visée, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Nicolas Coustou, John Christian, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, and Princess Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg.
1659 - 1729
HPI: 65.42
Rank: 2
1659 - 1734
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 3
1659 - 1699
HPI: 62.67
Rank: 4
1659 - 1719
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 5
1659 - 1734
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 6
1659 - 1719
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 7
1659 - 1733
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 8
1659 - 1690
HPI: 53.80
Rank: 9
1659 - 1722
HPI: 53.44
Rank: 10
1659 - 1732
HPI: 53.11
Rank: 11
1659 - 1708
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 12
1659 - 1728
HPI: 46.59
Rank: 13
1659 - 1730
HPI: 46.58
Rank: 14
1670 - 1733
HPI: 73.79
Rank: 1
1668 - 1733
HPI: 70.15
Rank: 2
1670 - 1733
HPI: 64.87
Rank: 3
1691 - 1733
HPI: 60.02
Rank: 4
1661 - 1733
HPI: 59.69
Rank: 5
1667 - 1733
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 6
1659 - 1733
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 7
1676 - 1733
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 8
1650 - 1733
HPI: 53.67
Rank: 9
1672 - 1733
HPI: 53.05
Rank: 10
1658 - 1733
HPI: 52.47
Rank: 11
1700 - 1733
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 12
1675 - 1733
HPI: 51.90
Rank: 13
Among people born in Netherlands, Pieter van der Aa ranks 250 out of 1,427. Before him are Adriaen van de Velde (1636), Ben Feringa (1951), Jacobus Oud (1890), Jan de Bont (1943), Antonie Pannekoek (1873), and Carel Struycken (1948). After him are Willem Blaeu (1571), Geert Groote (1340), Cornelis van Haarlem (1562), Dick Bruna (1927), Countess Louise Juliana of Nassau (1576), and Balthasar van der Ast (1593).
1636 - 1672
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 244
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 245
1890 - 1963
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 246
1943 - Present
HPI: 56.80
Rank: 247
1873 - 1960
HPI: 56.79
Rank: 248
1948 - Present
HPI: 56.78
Rank: 249
1659 - 1733
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 250
1571 - 1638
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 251
1340 - 1384
HPI: 56.75
Rank: 252
1562 - 1638
HPI: 56.75
Rank: 253
1927 - 2017
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 254
1576 - 1644
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 255
1593 - 1657
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 256
Among politicians born in Netherlands, Pieter van der Aa ranks 35. Before him are Princess Sophie of the Netherlands (1824), Abraham Kuyper (1837), Countess Louise Henriette of Nassau (1627), Alexander, Prince of Orange (1851), John II, Count of Holland (1247), and William II, Duke of Bavaria (1365). After him are Countess Louise Juliana of Nassau (1576), William I, Count of Hainaut (1287), Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg (1768), Hendrik Verwoerd (1901), Geert Wilders (1963), and William I, Count of Holland (1167).
1824 - 1897
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 29
1837 - 1920
HPI: 57.70
Rank: 30
1627 - 1667
HPI: 57.60
Rank: 31
1851 - 1884
HPI: 57.34
Rank: 32
1247 - 1304
HPI: 57.21
Rank: 33
1365 - 1417
HPI: 57.17
Rank: 34
1659 - 1733
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 35
1576 - 1644
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 36
1287 - 1337
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 37
1768 - 1816
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 38
1901 - 1966
HPI: 55.99
Rank: 39
1963 - Present
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 40
1167 - 1222
HPI: 55.93
Rank: 41