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William Kidd

1645 - 1701

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William Kidd (c. 1654 – 23 May 1701) also known as Captain William Kidd or simply Captain Kidd, was a Scottish privateer. Conflicting accounts exist regarding his early life, but he was likely born in Dundee and later settled in New York City. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Kidd has received more than 2,930,376 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia. William Kidd is the 10th most popular pirate (up from 11th in 2019), the 458th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 410th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Pirate.

William Kidd is most famous for being accused of piracy and murder.

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PIRATES

Among pirates, William Kidd ranks 10 out of 25. Before him are Eric of Pomerania, Anne Bonny, Bartholomew Roberts, Calico Jack, Mary Read, and D. B. Cooper. After him are François l'Olonnais, Sextus Pompey, Henry Every, Ching Shih, Benjamin Hornigold, and Charles Vane.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1645, William Kidd ranks 2. Before him is Marc-Antoine Charpentier. After him are Johann Ambrosius Bach, Jean de La Bruyère, William Penn, Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, Aert de Gelder, Andreas Werckmeister, Francis I Rákóczi, Eusebio Kino, Nicolas Lemery, and Anne Dacier. Among people deceased in 1701, William Kidd ranks 3. Before him are Philippe I, Duke of Orléans and James II of England. After him are Madeleine de Scudéry, Louis I, Prince of Monaco, Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, Anne Hilarion de Tourville, and Stanislaus Papczyński.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Kidd ranks 458 out of 7,765. Before him are Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (1863), Robert Plant (1948), William Shockley (1910), Mike Oldfield (1953), Tony Scott (1944), and James Callaghan (1912). After him are Mary Anning (1799), Caroline Matilda of Great Britain (1751), John Knox (1514), Philip Larkin (1922), Joshua Reynolds (1723), and Richard Francis Burton (1821).

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Among PIRATES In United Kingdom

Among pirates born in United Kingdom, William Kidd ranks 6. Before him are Blackbeard (1680), Henry Morgan (1635), Bartholomew Roberts (1682), Calico Jack (1682), and Mary Read (1695). After him are Henry Every (1659), Benjamin Hornigold (1680), Charles Vane (1680), Samuel Bellamy (1689), and Edward Low (1690).

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