Batavia, Dutch East Indies
Batavia, Dutch East Indies ranks 6,425th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Perthshire, Llandudno, and Falkirk. Memorable people born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies include George Uhlenbeck, Ilse Werner, and Jeroen Brouwers. Memorable people who died in Batavia, Dutch East Indies include Abel Tasman, Jan van Riebeeck, and Jan Pieterszoon Coen. Batavia, Dutch East Indies has been the birth place of many physicists, and actors and the death place of many explorers, and military personnels. Batavia, Dutch East Indies is located in Indonesia.
Batavia was the capital of the Dutch East Indies. The area corresponds to present-day Jakarta, Indonesia. Batavia can refer to the city proper or its suburbs and hinterland, the Ommelanden, which included the much larger area of the Residency of Batavia in the present-day Indonesian provinces of Jakarta, Banten and West Java. Read more on Wikipedia
People
Between 1900 and 1940, Batavia, Dutch East Indies was the birth place of 3 globally memorable people, including George Uhlenbeck, Ilse Werner, and Jeroen Brouwers. Additionaly, 4 globally memorable people have passed away in Batavia, Dutch East Indies including Abel Tasman, Jan van Riebeeck, and Jan Pieterszoon Coen. Interestingly, more notably known people have passed away in Batavia, Dutch East Indies than were born there.
People Born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies
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George Uhlenbeck
PHYSICIST
1900 - 1988
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 1
Ilse Werner
ACTOR
1921 - 2005
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 2
Jeroen Brouwers
WRITER
1940 - 2022
HPI: 51.64
Rank: 3
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Abel Tasman
EXPLORER
1603 - 1659
HPI: 80.14
Rank: 1
Jan van Riebeeck
EXPLORER
1619 - 1677
HPI: 73.66
Rank: 2
Jan Pieterszoon Coen
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1587 - 1629
HPI: 66.68
Rank: 3
Anthony van Diemen
EXPLORER
1593 - 1645
HPI: 62.60
Rank: 4
Occupations
Most individuals born in present day Batavia, Dutch East Indies were physicists (1), actors (1), and writers (1), while most who died were explorers (3), and military personnels (1).
Occupational Trends
Over the past 100 years, writers have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies, including Jeroen Brouwers. Whereas, throughout history, physicists have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Batavia, Dutch East Indies, including George Uhlenbeck.
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Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 3 globally memorable people born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies since 1700.
