List of Famous people born in Kingdom of the Netherlands

Adrianus Godschalk

First Name Adrianus
Born on August 1, 1819
Died on January 3, 1892 (aged 72)
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Claus de Werve

First Name Claus
Last Name Werve
Born on March 6, 1380
Died on October 8, 1439 (aged 59)

Claus or Claux de Werve was a sculptor active at the Burgundian court under Philip the Bold between 1395 and 1439. He was probably born in the Dutch city of Haarlem around 1380.

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Jacob de Kempenaer

First Name Jacob
Last Name Kempenaer
Born on July 6, 1793
Died on February 12, 1870 (aged 76)

Jacobus Mattheüs de Kempenaer was a Dutch politician and lawyer who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from November 1848 to November 1849. He served as a member of the House of Representatives, chairman of the board of Commerce for Arnhem, a member of the city board, and a member of the Provincial States of Gelderland.

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Henri Teixeira de Mattos

First Name Henri
Last Name Mattos
Died on December 19, 1908

Henri Teixeira de Mattos (1856–1908), was a 19th-century Dutch sculptor.

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Willem Hendrik van den Bos

First Name Willem
Last Name Bos
Born on September 25, 1896
Died on March 30, 1974 (aged 77)

Willem Hendrik van den Bos was a Dutch astronomer who worked at the Union Observatory in South Africa and became its director in 1941. He discovered nearly 3000 new double stars, made more than 71000 astronomical measurements and compiled a catalogue of Southern hemisphere double stars. He computed the orbits of more than 100 double stars using a method he invented and which later became the accepted standard.

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Johannes van der Bent

First Name Johannes
Last Name Bent
Born on January 1, 1650
Died on January 1, 1690 (aged 40)

Johannes van der Bent, was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

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Solko van den Bergh

First Name Solko
Born on June 4, 1854
Died on December 25, 1916 (aged 62)

Solko or Solke Johannes van den Bergh was a Dutch sports shooter.

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Jan Gillisz van Vliet

First Name Jan
Last Name Vliet
Died on August 4, 1668

Jan Gillisz van Vliet, was a Dutch Golden Age painter and Rembrandt pupil, whose paintings are no longer attributed to him with any certainty. Today he is known only for his drawings and prints.

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Ludger

Born on November 30, 0741
Died on March 26, 0809 (aged 67)

Saint Ludger was a missionary among the Frisians and Saxons, founder of Werden Abbey and first Bishop of Münster in Westphalia. He has been called the "Apostle of Saxony".

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Karel Dujardin

First Name Karel
Last Name Dujardin
Born on September 27, 1622
Died on November 20, 1678 (aged 56)

Karel Dujardin was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Although he did a few portraits and a few history paintings of religious subjects, most of his work is small Italianate landscape scenes with animals and peasants, and other genre scenes. Dujardin spent two extended periods, at the beginning and end of his career, in Italy, and most of his paintings and landscape etchings have an Italian or Italianate setting.

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