Belgian mathematician, lawyer, and jurist (born 1841)

Victor D'Hondt

Victor Joseph Auguste D'Hondt was a Belgian lawyer and jurist of civil law at Ghent University. He devised a procedure, the D'Hondt method, which he first described in 1878, for allocating seats to candidates in party-list proportional representation elections. The method has been adopted by a number of countries, including Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Fiji, Finland, Israel, Japan, North Macedonia, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Slovenia, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Iceland, Uruguay and Wales. A modified D'Hondt system is used for elections to the London Assembly and the Scottish Parliament.

Born

1841

November 20

Died

1901

Era

1840s

Country

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Victor, in brief

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1841 Born
1901 Died

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284 Diocletian is chosen as Roman emperor.
762 During the An Shi Rebellion, the Tang dynasty, with the help of Huihe tribe, recaptures Luoyang from the rebels.
1194 Palermo is conquered by Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor.
1407 John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, and Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, agree to a truce, but Burgundy would kill Orléans three days later.

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The world in 1901

When Victor departed

april 25 New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
august 10 The U.S. Steel recognition strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
august 14 The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
august 21 Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.

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Alistair Cooke 1908–2004 English-American journalist and author (born 1908) Edvard Westermarck 1862– Finnish philosopher and sociologist (died 1939) Jerry Colangelo 1939– American businessman Jim Garrison 1921–1992 American lawyer and judge (died 1992) Kenesaw Mountain Landis 1866–1944 American lawyer and judge (died 1944) Kimberley Walsh 1981– English singer-songwriter and actress Kōhei Horikoshi 1986– Japanese manga artist Lee Yun-yeol 1984– South Korean gamer Oskar Potiorek 1853– Austro-Hungarian Army officer (died 1933)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1841

Antonín Dvořák 1841–1904 Czech composer and academic (born 1841) Ernst Schröder 1841–1902 German mathematician and academic (born 1841) Itō Hirobumi 1841–1909 Japanese lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Japan (died 1909) Prudente de Morais 1841–1912 Brazilian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Brazil (born 1841)

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