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Agnes Mary Clerke

1842 - 1907

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Agnes Mary Clerke (10 February 1842 – 20 January 1907) was an Irish astronomer and writer. She was born in Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland, and died in London. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Agnes Mary Clerke is the 519th most popular astronomer (down from 517th in 2019), the 250th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 273rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Irish Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Agnes Mary Clerke ranks 519 out of 644Before her are Warren De la Rue, Alfred Bohrmann, Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist, William Rutter Dawes, Okuro Oikawa, and Hiroshi Kaneda. After her are Charles Augustus Young, John Broughton, Barnaba Oriani, Yuji Hyakutake, Royal Harwood Frost, and Grove Karl Gilbert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Agnes Mary Clerke ranks 94Before her are Christian Lundeberg, Hannibal Sehested, Alphons Czibulka, Calixa Lavallée, Édouard Louis Trouessart, and Nikolai Menshutkin. After her are Pyotr Durnovo, Charles Lapworth, Josef Labor, Mary MacKillop, Alexander Voeikov, and Henry Hyndman. Among people deceased in 1907, Agnes Mary Clerke ranks 92Before her are Dimitar Petkov, George Sheldon, Lena Rice, Christen Dalsgaard, Edmonia Lewis, and Nikolai Menshutkin. After her are Guillermo Tell Villegas, Maxwell T. Masters, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Mariano Baptista, Frederic Moore, and Garrett Serviss.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Agnes Mary Clerke ranks 250 out of 549Before her are Joe Kelly (1913), Oliver Plunkett (1625), Alicia Boole Stott (1860), Charles Haughey (1925), Joshua Pim (1869), and John Joly (1857). After her are W. T. Cosgrave (1880), Finnian of Clonard (470), Brian Kerr (1953), Kevin Doyle (1983), Wolfe Tone (1763), and Sir George Staunton, 1st Baronet (1737).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Ireland

Among astronomers born in Ireland, Agnes Mary Clerke ranks 7Before her are Andrew Graham (1815), Thomas Romney Robinson (1792), Edward Sabine (1788), Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1848), Mary Proctor (1862), and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin (1865). After her are Mary Ward (1827).