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Bonn (deu)

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Bonn ranks 377th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Yekaterinburg, Versailles, Yvelines, and Fez, Morocco. Memorable people born in Bonn include Ludwig van Beethoven, Moses Hess, and Johann van Beethoven. Memorable people who died in Bonn include Peter Collins, Georg Leibbrandt, and Robert Elsie. Bonn has been the birth place of many composers, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and physicists. Bonn is located in Germany.

Bonn is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. With a population exceeding 300,000, it lies about 24 km (15 mi) south-southeast of Cologne, in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region. This metropolitan area, Germany's largest, is also the second largest in the European Union by GDP, with over 11 million residents. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 1740 and 1997, Bonn was the birth place of 36 globally memorable people, including Ludwig van Beethoven, Moses Hess, and Johann van Beethoven. Additionaly, 64 globally memorable people have passed away in Bonn including Peter Collins, Georg Leibbrandt, and Robert Elsie. Interestingly, more notably known people have passed away in Bonn than were born there.

People Born in Bonn

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Bonn were composers (4), politicians (3), musicians (3), athletes (3), and businesspeople (2),  while most who died were politicians (20), physicists (6), mathematicians (6), military personnels (5), and writers (4).

Over the past 100 years, politicians have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Bonn, including Thomas de Maizière, Heide Simonis, and Julia Reda. Whereas, throughout history, composers have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Bonn, including Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann van Beethoven, and Ferdinand Ries.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 18 globally memorable people born in Bonn since 1700.