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André-Jacques Garnerin

1769 - 1823

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André-Jacques Garnerin (31 January 1769 – 18 August 1823) was a French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute. He was appointed Official Aeronaut of France. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. André-Jacques Garnerin is the 92nd most popular inventor (up from 93rd in 2019), the 1,148th most popular biography from France (down from 1,093rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular French Inventor.

André-Jacques Garnerin was a French inventor and pioneer in the field of aeronautics. He is most famous for making the first parachute jump from a hot air balloon on October 22, 1797.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, André-Jacques Garnerin ranks 92 out of 426. Before him are Bi Sheng, Raymond Damadian, Joseph Pilates, Alphonse Bertillon, Henri Coandă, and Thomas Savery. After him are Wolfgang von Kempelen, Johann Maria Farina, Sakichi Toyoda, Leo Fender, Daniel Swarovski, and John Harrison.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1769, André-Jacques Garnerin ranks 11. Before him are Michel Ney, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Jean Lannes, Ivan Krylov, and Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany. After him are Ivan Kotliarevsky, Józef Elsner, William Smith, Thomas Lawrence, Mahmud Shah Durrani, and Ernst Moritz Arndt. Among people deceased in 1823, André-Jacques Garnerin ranks 9. Before him are David Ricardo, Louis-Nicolas Davout, Lazare Carnot, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Jacques Charles, and Charles François Dumouriez. After him are Ann Radcliffe, Rafael del Riego, Abraham-Louis Breguet, Edmund Cartwright, Karl Leonhard Reinhold, and Pierre-Paul Prud'hon.

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In France

Among people born in France, André-Jacques Garnerin ranks 1,148 out of 6,770. Before him are Pierre Schaeffer (1910), Édouard Vuillard (1868), Antoine César Becquerel (1788), Jacques Hébert (1757), Jean de Béthencourt (1362), and Jacques Rivette (1928). After him are Paul Landowski (1875), Balthus (1908), Joachim du Bellay (1522), Charles III, Prince of Monaco (1818), Louis Jacques Thénard (1777), and Daniel Cohn-Bendit (1945).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, André-Jacques Garnerin ranks 14. Before him are Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725), Louis Blériot (1872), Louis Renault (1877), Claude Chappe (1763), Jacques de Vaucanson (1709), and Alphonse Bertillon (1853). After him are Charles-Émile Reynaud (1844), Étienne-Jules Marey (1830), Clément Ader (1841), André Michelin (1853), Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817), and Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753).

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