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* 1904 – Willem de Kooning, Dutch painter ( d. 1997 )

The town's association with the House of Orange started when William of Orange ( Willem van Oranje ), nicknamed William the Silent ( Willem de Zwijger ), took up residence in 1572

Frederik Willem de Klerk ( born 18 March 1936 ), often known as F. W. de Klerk, was the seventh and last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994. de Klerk was also leader of the National Party ( which later became the New National Party ) from February 1989 to September 1997.

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Black Swans were first seen by Europeans in 1697, when Willem de Vlamingh's expedition explored the Swan River, Western Australia.

Willem de Vlamingh's ships, with black swans, at the entrance to the Swan River, Western Australia, coloured engraving ( 1726 ), derived from an earlier drawing ( now lost ) from the de Vlamingh expeditions of 1696 – 97.

Willem de Vlamingh's ships at the entrance to the Swan River, 1697

Willem de Vlamingh's ships, with black swans, at the entrance to the Swan River, Western Australia, coloured engraving ( 1796 ), derived from an earlier drawing ( now lost ) from the de Vlamingh expeditions of 1696 – 97.

In 1594, Willem Barents left Amsterdam with two ships to search for the Northeast passage north of Siberia, on to eastern Asia.

There were three ships under his command: the frigate De Geelvink, captained by de Vlamingh himself ; the hooker De Nijptang, under Captain Gerrit Collaert ; and the galiot Weseltje, under Captain Joshua de Vlamingh, son of Willem de Vlamingh.

As early as 1626 the Dutchman Willem Usselincx received royal privileges from the Swedish king for a trading company, but wars and hard times had however stopped the company before it launched any ships to the Far East.

Setting sail from Amboyna in the Dutch East Indies with two ships, the Pera and Arnhem ( captained by Willem Joosten Van Colster ).

A fleet of 75 ships, 20, 738 men and 4, 484 cannon of the United Provinces, commanded by Lieutenant-Admirals Michiel de Ruyter, Adriaen Banckert and Willem Joseph van Ghent, surprised a joint Anglo-French fleet of 93 ships, 34, 496 men and 6, 018 cannon at anchor in Solebay ( nowadays Sole Bay ), near Southwold in Suffolk, on the east coast of England.

* 1816 Map of the battlefield with initial dispositions by Willem Benjamin Craan

Prakrit text with English translation, annotations and exhaustive Index by Willem Bollée.

( co-editor with Ruth Chadwick, Helga Kuhse, Willem Landman and Udo Schüklenk ).

It was in this context that the first Europeans arrived, beginning with Dutch explorers Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire.

In the 1920s several best-sellers dealt with the history of the world, including surveys The Story of Mankind ( 1921 ) by Hendrik Willem van Loon and The Outline of History ( 1918 ) by H. G.

The football club Willem II is located within the district, as well as the ice-skating rink with a speed skating rink, the Ireen Wüst IJsbaan, is located here.

Leiden's reputation as the " city of books " continued through the 19th century with the establishment of publishing dynasties by Evert Jan Brill and Albertus Willem Sijthoff.

This war also proceeded disastrously for the Stadtholder's forces, and in the severe winter of 1794 / 95 a French army under general Charles Pichegru, with a Dutch contingent under general Herman Willem Daendels, crossed the great frozen rivers that traditionally protected the Netherlands from invasion.

Nevertheless, the radicals, led by Wybo Fijnje and Anthonie Willem Ockerse, in cohorts with Pierre Auguste Brahain Ducange, the secretary of the French ambassador, now started to plot the coup d ' état of January 21 – 22, 1798, which, with the assistance of general Daendels, put the radicals in power.

van der Vlugt, Willem Marinus Dudok and Johannes Duiker had good ties with the international modernist group CIAM.

* 1917 — Willem de Sitter derives an isotropic static cosmology with a cosmological constant, as well as an empty expanding cosmology with a cosmological constant, termed a de Sitter universe

While a role for carbohydrates had been suspected, the link with wheat was not made until the 1940s by the Dutch paediatrician Dr. Willem Karel Dicke.

He was friends of, and played with, the most distinguished conductors of the day, including Wilhelm Furtwängler, Bruno Walter, Otto Klemperer, George Szell, Willem Mengelberg, and Sir Adrian Boult.

Some other scientists, notably Willem de Sitter, while not endorsing Dingle's more extreme rhetoric, nevertheless agreed with Dingle that the cosmological models of Milne, Eddington, and others were overly speculative.

Willem V of Orange and Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange | Wilhelmina of Prussia with their children from left to right: the future King William I of the Netherlands, Frederick, and Frederica Louise Wilhelmina, later Princess of Brunswick-Luneburg.

Along with Willem Frederik Hermans and Gerard Reve, Mulisch is considered one of the " Great Three " of Dutch postwar literature.

Willem de Ridder's Mail Order FluxShop, Amsterdam, with Dorothea Meijer, winter 1964-65.

Together with his cousin Willem Lodewijk he studied in Heidelberg and later with his eldest half brother Philip William, Prince of Orange in Leiden where he met Simon Stevin.