Birthplaces of Historical Figures

Can you guess the birth cities of these people who made a significant impact on history?
Modern day country names in parentheses
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Historical Figure
Birth City
Birth Country
Napoleon Bonaparte
Ajaccio, Corsica
French Empire
Ivan IV "the Terrible"
Kolomenskoye
Muscovy (Russia)
George Washington
Pope's Creek, Virginia
British America
Albert Einstein
Ulm
German Empire
Archimedes
Syracuse
Syracuse (Italy)
Susan B. Anthony
Adams, Massachusetts
United States
Queen Victoria
London
British Empire
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Atlanta, Georgia
United States
William Shakespeare
Stratford-upon-Avon
England
Julius Caesar
Rome
Roman Republic (Italy)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Bonn
Holy Roman
Empire (Germany)
Frederick Douglass
Cordova, Maryland
United States
Leonardo da Vinci
Anchiano
Republic of
Florence (Italy)
Alexander the Great
Pelta
Macedon (Greece)
Charles Darwin
Shrewsbury
British Empire
Adolf Hitler
Braunau am Inn
Austria-Hungary
(Austria)
Vincent van Gogh
Zundert
Dutch Empire
Abraham Lincoln
Hodgenville, Kentucky
United States
Isaac Newton
Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth
Kingdom of England
Johann Sebastian Bach
Eisenach
Holy Roman
Empire (Germany)
Joan of Arc
Domrémy
Kingdom of France
Thomas Jefferson
Shadwell, Virginia
British America
Constantine the Great
Naissus
Roman Empire
(Serbia)
King Henry VIII
London
Kingdom of England
Nicolaus Copernicus
Thorn
Kingdom of
Prussia (Poland)
Galileo Galilei
Pisa
Republic of
Florence (Italy)
Aristotle
Stagira
Stagira (Greece)
Mark Twain
Florida, Missouri
United States
Karl Marx
Trier
Kingdom of
Prussia (Germany)
Theodore Roosevelt
New York City
United States
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Salzburg
Holy Roman
Empire (Austria)
Vladimir Lenin
Simbirsk
Russian Empire
Mohandas Gandhi
Portbandar
British India (India)
Alexander Hamilton
Charlestown
British Leeward Islands
(St Kitts and Nevis)
Michelangelo
Caprese
Republic of
Florence (Italy)
Confucius
Zou
Lu (China)
Marie Curie
Warsaw
Russian Empire
(Poland)
Amelia Earhart
Atchison, Kansas
Untied States
Anne Frank
Frankfurt
Weimar Republic
(Germany)
Rosa Parks
Tuskegee, Alabama
United States
Nikola Tesla
Smiljan
Austrian Empire
(Croatia)
Edgar Allan Poe
Boston, Massachusetts
United States
Sigmund Freud
Freiberg
Austrian Empire
(Czech Republic)
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Level 54
Jul 7, 2025
let me know if you guys have any suggestions!
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Level 62
Jul 10, 2025
Good one, enjoyed it; Nis doesn't work though - that's the modern name for Naissus.
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Level 54
Jul 12, 2025
Fixed! Thanks for the feedback :) Glad u enjoyed it !