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OverviewAI-generated
John Davis was a male explorer and discoverer from the Kingdom of England. Born in Sandridge on October 1, 1550, he spoke English. He died on December 27, 1605, on Bintan Island, with his manner of death recorded as homicide. His life and works have been described in sources including Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, and Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography.
Other individuals named John Davis include a United States-based artist associated with genres such as bebop, classical, cool jazz, funk, and hard bop. A separate John Davis, born in 1776 and died in 1854, was an author of 110 works, including *PE*, *Famous events*, *The Craft of Theatre*, *Biography and Autobiography*, *The History Of The Kingdom Of Naples From The Accession Of Charles Of Bourbon To The Death Of Ferdinand I*, and *Sacco Y Vanzetti*. Another John Davis is identified as a singer-songwriter with tags including rock, pop, indie, and Lo-Fi.
Synthesized by Vinony from 32 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Crossref, Last.fm, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1776?
- Died
- 1854
- Works
- 110
Top works
- PE
- Famous events
- The Craft of Theatre Biography and Autobiography
- The History Of The Kingdom Of Naples From The Accession Of Charles Of Bourbon To The Death Of Ferdinand I
- Sacco Y Vanzetti
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1926-05-26
- Active to
- 1991-09-28
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 17,703
- Total plays
- 131,349
Tags
There are at least five people called John Davis who are/were recording and putting out music. 1. John Davis, born in Tennessee, is a founding member of the rock band, Superdrag. Davis' primary roles in the band are that of songwriter, singer and lead guitarist. By the time Superdrag was beginning work on their fourth full-length record, Davis was an alcoholic. One night as Davis was driving, he felt the presence of God. Davis gave up alcohol at that moment, and turned his life to Christianity
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,644x
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,115x
- Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and User Acceptance of Information Technology
· 1989 · cited 45,551x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,680x
- <tt>edgeR</tt>
: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data
· 2009 · cited 39,714x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Unknown date, c. 1550 , Sandridge, Stoke Gabriel , England
- Died
- 29 December 1605 (1605-12-29) (aged 54–55), off Bintan Island , East Indies
- Occupations
- Explorer navigator
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
John Davis (c. 1550 – 29 December 1605) was an explorer, navigator and privateer. He led several voyages in search of the Northwest Passage and served as pilot and captain on both Dutch and English voyages to the East Indies. He discovered the Falkland Islands in August 1592.
Early life
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