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Basel ranks 165th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Lagos, Malmö, and New Delhi. Memorable people born in Basel include Leonhard Euler, Johann Bernoulli, and Arnold Böcklin. Memorable people who died in Basel include Erasmus, Karl Jaspers, and Daniel Bernoulli. Basel has been the birth place of many soccer players, and mathematicians and the death place of many writers, and mathematicians. Basel is located in Switzerland.

Basel, also known as Basle, is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the River Rhine. Basel is Switzerland's third-most-populous city, with 177,595 inhabitants within the city municipality limits. The official language of Basel is Swiss Standard German and the main spoken language is the local Basel German dialect. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 0 and 1999, Basel was the birth place of 75 globally memorable people, including Leonhard Euler, Johann Bernoulli, and Arnold Böcklin. Additionaly, 56 globally memorable people have passed away in Basel including Erasmus, Karl Jaspers, and Daniel Bernoulli.

People Born in Basel

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Basel were soccer players (15), mathematicians (8), politicians (6), athletes (6), and physicists (4),  while most who died were writers (10), mathematicians (6), politicians (5), painters (4), and philosophers (3).

Over the past 100 years, soccer players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Basel, including Murat Yakin, Hakan Yakin, and Granit Xhaka. Whereas, throughout history, soccer players have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Basel, including Leopold Kielholz, Murat Yakin, and Hakan Yakin.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 25 globally memorable people born in Basel since 1700.