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| Category | Nationality | Sort | Selected 12 |
 | Cornelis Brackman Danialsen | unknown | 1619 | 1619 | unknown | |
 | Brother Gualterotti Bardi | unknown | 1616 | 1620 | 1620 ca | ||
| Probably of Italian origin. Member of the Knights of Malta. Sailed in the Mediterranean, plunderi... | |||||||
 | Joost van Dyk | unknown | 1615 | 1625 | 1631 ca | ||
| a Dutch privateer (and, reportedly, sometime pirate) who was one of the earliest European settler... | |||||||
| Jan Janszoon | 1570 | 1600 | 1629 | 1641 ca | ||
| one of the most succesful corsairs of the Mediterranean sea. Like so many Dutch pirates Jan, of t... | |||||||
 | Li Dan | unknown | 1600 | 1629 | 1625 | ||
| a prominent early 17th century Chinese merchant originally from Quanzhou in Fujian province. Li o... | |||||||
| Piet Hein | 1577, Nov 25 | 1607 | 1629 | 1629, Jun 18 | ||
| a Dutch admiral and privateer for the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years' War between the Uni... | |||||||
 | Henry Chandler | unknown | 1610 | 1629 | unknown | ||
| Born in Devonshire, his father kept a chandler's shop in Southwark. An English renegado at Algier... | |||||||
| Jan Jacobsen | 1588/89 | 1610 | 1629 | 1622 | ||
| a Flemish naval commander and Dunkirker during the Eighty Years' War. He became a posthumous hero... | |||||||
| Dierick Ruyters | unknown | 1618 | 1630 | unknown | ||
| Jacob Willekens | 1564/71 | 1590 | 1639 | 1633/1649 | ||
| a Dutch admiral on a fleet to the Dutch Indies, and a herring seller, who went to sea again at th... | |||||||
| Daniel Elfrith | unknown | 1607 | 1641 | 1641 | ||
| a 17th-century English privateer, colonist and slave trader. In the service of the Earl of Warwic... | |||||||
| Hendrik Brouwer | 1581 | 1606 | 1643 | 1643, Aug 7 | ||
| a Dutch explorer, admiral, and colonial administrator both in Japan and the Dutch East Indies. He... | |||||||
 | Catalina de Erauso | unknown | 1585 | 1650 | unknown | ||
| a one-time nun who subsequently travelled around Spain and Spanish America, mostly under male ide... | |||||||
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