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Pavia (ita)

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Pavia ranks 623rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Qingdao, Birkenhead, and Ajaccio. Memorable people born in Pavia include Gerolamo Cardano, Pope John XIV, and Philip of Swabia. Memorable people who died in Pavia include Boethius, Camillo Golgi, and Lazzaro Spallanzani. Pavia has been the birth place of many politicians, and mathematicians and the death place of many politicians, and physicians. Pavia is located in Italy.

Pavia is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy, in Northern Italy, 35 kilometres south of Milan on the lower Ticino near its confluence with the Po. It has a population of c. 73,086. The city was the capital of the Ostrogothic Kingdom from 540 to 553, of the Kingdom of the Lombards from 572 to 774, of the Kingdom of Italy from 774 to 1024 and seat of the Visconti court from 1365 to 1413. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 610 and 2001, Pavia was the birth place of 22 globally memorable people, including Gerolamo Cardano, Pope John XIV, and Philip of Swabia. Additionaly, 26 globally memorable people have passed away in Pavia including Boethius, Camillo Golgi, and Lazzaro Spallanzani. Interestingly, more notably known people have passed away in Pavia than were born there.

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Pavia were politicians (11), mathematicians (2), religious figures (2), companions (1), and economists (1),  while most who died were politicians (14), physicians (2), noblemen (2), writers (2), and philosophers (1).

Over the past 100 years, cyclists have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Pavia, including Giovanni Lombardi. Whereas, throughout history, politicians have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Pavia, including Philip of Swabia, Gian Galeazzo Visconti, and Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 7 globally memorable people born in Pavia since 1700.