ASTRONOMER

William Frederick Denning

1848 - 1931

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William Frederick Denning (25 November 1848 – 9 June 1931) was a British amateur astronomer who achieved considerable success without formal scientific training. He is known for his catalogues of meteor radiants, observations of Jupiter's red spot, and for the discovery of five comets. Outside astronomy, as a young man, Denning showed prowess at cricket to the extent W G Grace invited him to play for Gloucestershire. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Frederick Denning has received more than 19,277 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). William Frederick Denning is the 436th most popular astronomer (up from 453rd in 2019), the 3,522nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,879th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular British Astronomer.

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Over the past year William Frederick Denning has had the most page views in the with 2,158 views, followed by Chinese (1,310), and Russian (556). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Georgian (32.03%), Egyptian Arabic (13.57%), and Luxembourgish (11.08%)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, William Frederick Denning ranks 436 out of 644. Before him are Fernand Courty, Milorad B. Protić, Benjamin Jekhowsky, Cuno Hoffmeister, George Van Biesbroeck, and George Herbig. After him are Dilhan Eryurt, Odette Bancilhon, Jill Tarter, Gottfried Kirch, Warren De la Rue, and Brian Schmidt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, William Frederick Denning ranks 96. Before him are Princess Frederica of Hanover, Henry Augustus Rowland, Gustav Fischer, Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Oskar Lenz, and Gunnar Knudsen. After him are Adolf Lang, Robert Planquette, Josef Václav Myslbek, George Romanes, Jean Aicard, and Helene Lange. Among people deceased in 1931, William Frederick Denning ranks 123. Before him are Kálmán Kandó, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Eugen Schmidt, Richard Wettstein, Emiliano Figueroa, and John Isaac Briquet. After him are Konrad Stäheli, Art Acord, Emilio Aceval, David Belasco, Cesare Burali-Forti, and Alfred Maudslay.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Frederick Denning ranks 3,522 out of 8,785. Before him are Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835), Norman Smith (1923), Joe Cole (1981), Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (1919), Peter Whitehead (1914), and Marie Spartali Stillman (1844). After him are Mary Stewart (1916), W. J. Coffee (1774), Charles Jarrott (1927), Juliet Mills (1941), Naseem Hamed (1974), and Sophie Okonedo (1968).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, William Frederick Denning ranks 53. Before him are Nathaniel Bliss (1700), Harry Edwin Wood (1881), Harold Spencer Jones (1890), William Rutter Dawes (1799), Philibert Jacques Melotte (1880), and William de Wiveleslie Abney (1843). After him are Edward Pigott (1753), Geoffrey Burbidge (1925), Mary Adela Blagg (1858), William Henry Smyth (1788), Patrick Moore (1923), and David C. Jewitt (1958).

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