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David Livingstone

1813 - 1873

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David Livingstone (; 19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, and an explorer in Africa. Livingstone was married to Mary Moffat Livingstone, from the prominent 18th-century Moffat missionary family. Livingstone came to have a mythic status as a Protestant missionary martyr, working-class "rags-to-riches" inspirational story, scientific investigator and explorer, imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader, and advocate of British commercial and colonial expansion. As a result, he became one of the most popular British heroes of the late 19th-century Victorian era. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. David Livingstone is the 27th most popular explorer (down from 21st in 2019), the 216th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 100th in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Explorer.

David Livingstone is most famous for his exploration of the African continent and his discovery of the Victoria Falls.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, David Livingstone ranks 27 out of 498. Before him are Vitus Bering, Erik the Red, Xuanzang, Willem Barentsz, Jacques Cousteau, and Juan Sebastián Elcano. After him are Thor Heyerdahl, Thorfinn Karlsefni, William Adams, Jan van Riebeeck, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, and John Davis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, David Livingstone ranks 4. Before him are Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, and Søren Kierkegaard. After him are John Snow, Claude Bernard, Ivar Aasen, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Franz Miklosich, Georg Büchner, Baron Alexander von Bach, and Charles-Valentin Alkan. Among people deceased in 1873, David Livingstone ranks 3. Before him are Napoleon III, and John Stuart Mill. After him are Justus von Liebig, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Alessandro Manzoni, Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, Caroline Augusta of Bavaria, John of Saxony, Edwin Landseer, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, and Alexandru Ioan Cuza.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Livingstone ranks 216 out of 8,785. Before him are Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (1930), Howard Carter (1874), James Chadwick (1891), Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (1846), Anthony Giddens (1938), and William Blake (1757). After him are Saint Boniface (680), Catherine Howard (1523), Guy Fawkes (1570), Æthelbald, King of Wessex (831), George Stephenson (1781), and John Harvard (1607).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, David Livingstone ranks 4. Before him are James Cook (1728), Francis Drake (1540), and Robert Falcon Scott (1868). After him are William Adams (1564), John Davis (1550), Henry Morton Stanley (1841), William Baffin (1584), Henry Hudson (1570), John Ross (1777), William Dampier (1651), and John Smith (1580).

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