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Rotterdam (nld)

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Rotterdam ranks 106th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Split, Croatia, Yokohama, and Beijing. Memorable people born in Rotterdam include Erasmus, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, and Leo Beenhakker. Memorable people who died in Rotterdam include Leo Beenhakker, Pierre Bayle, and Ruud Lubbers. Rotterdam has been the birth place of many soccer players, and athletes and the death place of many soccer players, and painters. Rotterdam is located in Netherlands.

Rotterdam is the second-largest city in the Netherlands by population and the largest by area. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the New Meuse inland shipping channel, dug to connect to the Meuse at first and now to the Rhine. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 0 and 2006, Rotterdam was the birth place of 127 globally memorable people, including Erasmus, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, and Leo Beenhakker. Additionaly, 21 globally memorable people have passed away in Rotterdam including Leo Beenhakker, Pierre Bayle, and Ruud Lubbers.

People Born in Rotterdam

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People Deceased in Rotterdam

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Rotterdam were soccer players (51), athletes (18), painters (7), politicians (6), and writers (5),  while most who died were soccer players (7), painters (3), philosophers (2), politicians (2), and swimmers (2).

Over the past 100 years, soccer players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Rotterdam, including Robin van Persie, Wim Jansen, and Giovanni van Bronckhorst. Whereas, throughout history, soccer players have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Rotterdam, including Robin van Persie, Wim Jansen, and Faas Wilkes.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 25 globally memorable people born in Rotterdam since 1700.