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Daniel Boone

1734 - 1820

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Daniel Boone (November 2 [O.S. October 22], 1734 – September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. He became famous for his exploration and settlement of Kentucky, which was then beyond the western borders of the Thirteen Colonies. In 1775, Boone founded the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap and into Kentucky, in the face of resistance from Native Americans. He founded Boonesborough, one of the first English-speaking settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2024). Daniel Boone is the 41st most popular explorer (up from 219th in 2024), the 541st most popular biography from United States (up from 3,104th in 2019) and the most popular American Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Daniel Boone ranks 41 out of 498. Before him are Evliya Çelebi, Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, Pytheas, Francisco de Orellana, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, and Juan Ponce de León. After him are Jacob Roggeveen, Ingólfr Arnarson, Ernest Shackleton, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, and Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1734, Daniel Boone ranks 3. Before him are Maria I of Portugal, and Franz Mesmer. After him are Taksin, François-Joseph Gossec, Anna Göldi, Sophie of France, Wolfgang von Kempelen, Cardinal de Rohan, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, Grigory Orlov, and Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière. Among people deceased in 1820, Daniel Boone ranks 4. Before him are George III of the United Kingdom, Joseph Fouché, and Jiaqing Emperor. After him are Elisa Bonaparte, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, François Christophe de Kellermann, Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, François Joseph Lefebvre, Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, Manuel Belgrano, and Joseph Banks.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Daniel Boone ranks 541 out of 20,380. Before him are Harriet Tubman (1820), Joe Frazier (1944), Willem Dafoe (1955), Jim Belushi (1954), Kim Basinger (1953), and Sarah Vaughan (1924). After him are Joseph Henry (1797), Anne Hathaway (1982), Buffalo Bill (1846), Robert Woodrow Wilson (1936), Danny Trejo (1944), and John Malkovich (1953).

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Among EXPLORERS In United States

Among explorers born in United States, Daniel Boone ranks 1. After him are William Clark (1770), Richard E. Byrd (1888), Davy Crockett (1786), Sacagawea (1780), Calamity Jane (1852), Hugh Glass (1783), Michael Rockefeller (1938), Chris McCandless (1968), Frederick Cook (1865), George W. De Long (1844), and Simon Fraser (1776).

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