RELIGIOUS FIGURE

John of Nepomuk

1350 - 1393

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John of Nepomuk (or John Nepomucene) (Czech: Jan Nepomucký; German: Johannes Nepomuk; Latin: Ioannes Nepomucenus) (c. 1345 – 20 March 1393) was a saint of Bohemia. He was executed by King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia for disobedience. John was thrown into the Vltava river. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John of Nepomuk is the 262nd most popular religious figure (down from 205th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Czechia (down from 18th in 2019) and the most popular Czech Religious Figure.

John of Nepomuk is most famous for being a martyr who was thrown into the Vltava River and drowned.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, John of Nepomuk ranks 262 out of 3,187. Before him are Pope Adrian II, Pope Paschal I, Pope Gelasius II, Isidore of Seville, Pope Honorius II, and Pope Boniface V. After him are Zechariah, Pope Leo IV, Pope Paul II, Pope Innocent IV, Pope Celestine IV, and Mani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1350, John of Nepomuk ranks 2. Before him is Pope Boniface IX. After him are Manuel II Palaiologos, Miloš Obilić, Malhun Hatun, Vincent Ferrer, Dmitry Donskoy, Madhava of Sangamagrama, Margaret III, Countess of Flanders, John I of Aragon, Pierre d'Ailly, and Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria. Among people deceased in 1393, John of Nepomuk ranks 1. After him are Elizabeth of Pomerania, John I, Count of La Marche, Leo V, King of Armenia, Emperor Go-En'yū, Bagrat V of Georgia, Fa Ngum, and Frederick, Duke of Bavaria.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, John of Nepomuk ranks 21 out of 1,200. Before him are Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Edmund Husserl (1859), Jan Žižka (1360), Bertha von Suttner (1843), Kurt Gödel (1906), and Wilhelm Steinitz (1836). After him are Ferdinand Porsche (1875), Karel Čapek (1890), Joseph Radetzky von Radetz (1766), Miloš Forman (1932), Ernst Mach (1838), and Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Czechia

Among religious figures born in Czechia, John of Nepomuk ranks 1. After him are Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (907), Adalbert of Prague (955), Ludmila of Bohemia (860), Agnes of Bohemia (1211), Michael Czerny (1946), Clement Mary Hofbauer (1751), Dominik Duka (1943), Gorazd (1879), Miloslav Vlk (1932), Procopius of Sázava (970), and Zdislava Berka (1215).

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