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Rotterdam, Netherlands
LOCATION
Official Website:
http://www.rotterdam.nl/ Population:
598,923 (2004) SCHOOLS
COMPANY HEADQUARTERS
BIRTHS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
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| Dirk Brouwer |
Astronomer |
1-Sep-1902 |
31-Jan-1966 |
Celestial mechanics |
| Antony Burgmans |
Business |
13-Feb-1947 |
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Chairman of Unilever, 1999-2007 |
| Willem de Kooning |
Painter |
24-Apr-1904 |
19-Mar-1997 |
Abstract expressionist |
| Edsger Dijkstra |
Computer Programmer |
11-May-1930 |
6-Aug-2002 |
Enemy of the goto statement |
| Wim Dik |
Business |
1939 |
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PTT Telecom |
| Erasmus |
Scholar |
27-Oct-1469 |
12-Jul-1536 |
In Praise of Folly |
| Grinling Gibbons |
Sculptor |
4-Apr-1648 |
3-Aug-1721 |
English wood carver |
| Jacobus H. van 't Hoff |
Chemist |
30-Aug-1852 |
1-Mar-1911 |
Studied reaction rates, osmotic pressures |
| Pieter de Hooch |
Painter |
1629 |
c. 1684 |
Dutch painter, Delft school |
| Hendrik Kramers |
Physicist |
17-Feb-1894 |
24-Apr-1952 |
Kramers dispersion theory |
| Hendrik Willem van Loon |
Historian |
14-Jan-1882 |
11-Mar-1944 |
Juvenile historian, Story of Mankind |
| Ruud Lubbers |
Head of State |
7-May-1939 |
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Prime Minister of the Netherlands, 1982-94 |
| Morris Tabaksblat |
Business |
1937 |
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Chairman of Reed Elsevier, 1999-2005 |
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