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Born March 3, 1628 • Rotterdam • Netherlands
Died January 11, 1684 (aged 55) • Jakarta • Indonesia
Title / Office governor-general (1681-1684), Dutch East Indies
Anthony van Diemen
Dutch colonial administrator
Joan Maetsuyker
Dutch statesman
Jan Pieterszoon Coen, detail of an oil painting by an anonymous artist, first half of the 17th century; in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Jan Pieterszoon Coen
Dutch merchant and statesman
Dirk van Hogendorp
Dutch statesman
Sebastian Cornelius Nederburgh
Dutch statesman
Peter Minuit
Peter Minuit
Dutch colonial governor
John Maurice of Nassau
John Maurice Of Nassau
count of Nassau-Siegen
Peter Stuyvesant
Peter Stuyvesant
Dutch colonial governor
Gustaaf Willem, baron van Imhoff
Dutch statesman
Jan van Riebeeck
Dutch colonial administrator
Isaac Dignus Fransen van de Putte
Dutch statesman
Godert Alexander Gerard Philip, baron van der Capellen
Dutch statesman
Wolter Robert, baron van Hoëvell
Dutch statesman
Johannes, count van den Bosch
Dutch statesman
Pieter Both
Dutch statesman
Simon de Graaff
Dutch statesman
Cornelis de Houtman
Dutch explorer
Frederik de Houtman
Dutch explorer
William I
William I
stadholder of United Provinces of The Netherlands
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
Dutch statesman