Willem Janszoon

1570–1630

Dutch navigator and colonial governor (c.1570–c.1630)

navigator · seafarer · explorer

Born in Amsterdam

Contemporaries

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• Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)
• René Descartes (1596–1650)
• Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616)
• Rembrandt (1606–1669)
• Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603)
• Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
• Johannes Kepler (1572–1630)

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