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Anthony van Diemen

1593 - 1645

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Anthony van Diemen (also Antonie, Antonio, Anton, Antonius; 1593 – 19 April 1645) was a Dutch colonial governor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anthony van Diemen is the 229th most popular explorer (down from 176th in 2019), the 377th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 300th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Dutch Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Anthony van Diemen ranks 229 out of 498Before him are Pero Escobar, Mark Sykes, Juan de Garay, Francisco de Bobadilla, Cristoforo Buondelmonti, and Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne. After him are Otto Finsch, Pehr Osbeck, Naddodd, Lourenço Marques, Duarte Pacheco Pereira, and Carl Anton Larsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1593, Anthony van Diemen ranks 11Before him are Toyotomi Hideyori, George I Rákóczi, Nicolaes Tulp, Matthäus Merian, Catherine de' Medici, Governor of Siena, and Balthasar van der Ast. After him are Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg, George Herbert, William, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Sultan Agung of Mataram, Jean de Brébeuf, and Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford. Among people deceased in 1645, Anthony van Diemen ranks 12Before him are Francisco de Quevedo, Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, Nur Jahan, Marie de Gournay, Feng Menglong, and Mary Ward. After him are Gaspar de Borja y Velasco, Eudoxia Streshneva, Sultan Agung of Mataram, Mariana de Jesús de Paredes, William Lawes, and Emilia Lanier.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Anthony van Diemen ranks 377 out of 1,646Before him are Titus van Rijn (1641), Sharon den Adel (1974), Adrianus Johannes Simonis (1931), Hendrick de Keyser (1565), Albert van Ouwater (1415), and Adriaen van der Werff (1659). After him are Danny Blind (1961), Cornelis Tromp (1629), Huub Stevens (1953), Maria van Oosterwijck (1630), Cristina Deutekom (1931), and Paulus Moreelse (1571).

Among EXPLORERS In Netherlands

Among explorers born in Netherlands, Anthony van Diemen ranks 12Before him are Willem Janszoon (1570), Frederick de Houtman (1571), Alexandrine Tinné (1835), Cornelis de Houtman (1565), Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn (1556), and Jacob van Heemskerck (1567). After him are Olivier van Noort (1558), Willem de Vlamingh (1640), and Dirk Hartog (1580).