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150 Historical Figures - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 171 times
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- The average score is 96 of 150
Answer Stats
| Hint | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Central figure of Christianity | 6/4 BC - 30/33 AD | Jesus | 100%
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| Fuehrer of Nazi Germany, dictator in World War II | 1889 - 1945 | Adolf Hitler | 98%
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| First U.S President | 1732 - 1799 | George Washington | 98%
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| Gave the "I Have a Dream" speech | 1929 - 1968 | Martin Luther King Jr | 98%
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| English poet, wrote "Hamlet" | 1564 - 1616 | William Shakespeare | 98%
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| Italian artist and polymath, painted the "Mona Lisa" | 1452 - 1519 | Leonardo da Vinci | 97%
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| French Emperor, 1804-1815 | 1769 - 1821 | Napoleon | 97%
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| U.K. Prime Minister during WWII | 1874 - 1965 | Winston Churchill | 97%
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| English naturalist, wrote "On the Origin of Species" | 1809 - 1882 | Charles Darwin | 96%
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| Italian explorer who "discovered" the New World | 1451 - 1506 | Christopher Columbus | 96%
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| Roman general, killed on the Ides of March | 100 - 44 BC | Julius Caesar | 96%
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| Founder of Islam | 571 - 632 | Muhammad | 96%
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| U.S Civil War President | 1809 - 1865 | Abraham Lincoln | 94%
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| Theoretical physicist, creator (more accurately proposer or discoverer) of the Theory of Relativity | 1879 - 1955 | Albert Einstein | 94%
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| Queen of Egypt, last active ruler | 51 - 30 BC | Cleopatra | 94%
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| Premier of the USSR, involved in World War II | 1878 - 1953 | Joseph Stalin | 94%
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| Philosopher, wrote the "Communist Manifesto" | 1818 - 1883 | Karl Marx | 94%
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| German pianist and composer of "Moonlight Sonata" | 1770 - 1827 | Ludwig Van Beethoven | 94%
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| First female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | 1925 - 2013 | Margaret Thatcher | 94%
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| Started the Protestant Reformation | 1483 - 1546 | Martin Luther | 94%
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| English mathmatician, physicist and astronomer, his laws of motion explain how the planets move | 1643 - 1727 | Isaac Newton | 93%
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| Virgin Queen of England | 1533 - 1603 | Queen Elizabeth I | 93%
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| Queen of Britain, Victorian era | 1819 - 1901 | Queen Victoria | 93%
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| Led the effort to create the first practical light bulb | 1847 - 1931 | Thomas Edison | 93%
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| French woman who led troops in the Hundred Years War | 1412 - 1431 | Joan of Arc | 92%
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| First man on the moon | 1930 - 2012 | Neil Armstrong | 92%
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| First Soviet leader | 1870 - 1924 | Vladimir Lenin | 92%
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| German Jewish girl who kept a diary in which she documented life in hiding under Nazi persecution | 1929 - 1945 | Anne Frank | 91%
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| The "king of rock and roll" | 1935 - 1977 | Elvis Presley | 90%
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| Chinese president, his "Great Leap Forward" killed over 30 million | 1893 - 1976 | Mao Zedong | 90%
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| American jazz trumpeter, regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of jazz | 1901 - 1971 | Louis Armstrong | 89%
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| Father of the nation of India | 1869 - 1948 | Mahatma Gandhi | 88%
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| Greek philosopher and teacher, sentenced to death by hemlock | 470 – 399 BC | Socrates | 88%
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| Italian dictator and journalist, founded the National Fascist Party | 1883 - 1945 | Benito Mussolini | 87%
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| King of England, had six wives | 1491 - 1547 | Henry VIII | 87%
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| Supposedly wrote "The Iliad" | 8th century BC | Homer | 87%
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| 35th U.S president, Cuban Missile Crisis | 1917 - 1963 | John F. Kennedy | 87%
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| Austrian composer, wrote "Don Giovanni" | 1756 - 1791 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 85%
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| Greek philosopher, wrote "The Republic" | 428 - 348 B.C | Plato | 84%
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| Post-impressionist painter, painted "Starry Night" | 1853 - 1890 | Vincent Van Gogh | 84%
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| American entrepeneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company | 1901 - 1966 | Walt Disney | 84%
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| King of ancient Greek who conquered Persia | 356 - 323 BC | Alexander the Great | 83%
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| English singer, member of The Beatles, assassinated by a fan | 1940 - 1980 | John Lennon | 83%
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| First president of South Africa, brought peace to a racially divided country and led the fight for human rights | 1918 - 2013 | Nelson Mandela | 83%
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| Founder of the Mongol Empire | 1162 - 1227 | Genghis Khan | 82%
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| American singer, became known as the "King of Pop" | 1958 - 2009 | Michael Jackson | 82%
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| American professional boxer, nicknamed "The Greatest" | 1942 - 2016 | Muhammad Ali | 82%
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| Antepenultimate pharaoh of ancient Egypt, his tomb was the only royal burial found intact in modern times | 1332 - 1323 BCE | Tutankhamun | 82%
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| 32nd U.S President during the Great Depression and World War II | 1882 - 1945 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 81%
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| Member of the British royal family, died in a car crash | 1961 - 1997 | Princess Diana | 81%
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| Creator of psychoanalysis | 1856 - 1939 | Sigmund Freud | 81%
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| American Founding Father, 3rd U.S. President | 1743 - 1826 | Thomas Jefferson | 81%
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| Greek philosopher and polymath | 384 - 322 BC | Aristotle | 80%
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| First Holy Roman Emperor, considered the "Father of Europe" | 768 - 814 | Charlemagne | 79%
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| British singer and lead vocalist of rock band "Queen" | 1946 - 1991 | Freddie Mercury | 79%
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| Founder of Ford Motor Company | 1863 - 1947 | Henry Ford | 79%
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| Occupied an iconic status in the civil rights movement for refusing to give up her bus seat | 1913 - 2005 | Rosa Parks | 79%
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| English writer, wrote "Great Expectations" | 1812 - 1870 | Charles Dickens | 78%
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| Cuban revolutionary, who served as Cuba's Prime Minister | 1926 - 2016 | Fidel Castro | 76%
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| American actress and model, known for playing comic "blonde bombshell" characters | 1926 - 1962 | Marilyn Monroe | 76%
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| Co-founder and CEO of Apple, chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar | 1955 - 2011 | Steve Jobs | 76%
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| 26th U.S President, Progressive Movement | 1858 - 1919 | Theodore Roosevelt | 76%
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| Italian physicist and astronomer | 1564 - 1642 | Galileo Galilei | 75%
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| Japanese Emperor during World War II | 1926 - 1989 | Hirohito | 74%
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| American Founding Father, scientist, captured lightning | 1706 - 1790 | Benjamin Franklin | 73%
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| Carthaginian general, led his elephants across the Alps | 247 - 181 BC | Hannibal | 73%
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| German inventor, invented the mechanical printing press | 1406 - 1468 | Johannes Gutenberg | 73%
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| Final leader of the Soviet Union, allowed freedom to Eastern Europe countries, awarded Nobel Peace Prize | 1931 - 2022 | Mikhail Gorbachev | 73%
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| Brazilian football player, regarded as the greatest of his time | 1940 - 2022 | Pele | 73%
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| Polish-born physicist and chemist, had groundbreaking research on radioactivity | 1867 - 1934 | Marie Curie | 72%
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| Saudi-Arabian terrorist, caused the attacks of 9/11 | 1957 - 2011 | Osama Bin Laden | 72%
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| Jamaican singer and songwriter, considered one of the pioneers of reggae | 1645 - 1981 | Bob Marley | 71%
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| Spanish painter, painted "Guernica" | 1881 - 1973 | Pablo Picasso | 71%
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| American actor and retired professional wrestler "The Rock" | 1972 - ALIVE | Dwayne Johnson | 70%
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| Founder and CEO of SpaceX, product architect of Tesla | 1971 - ALIVE | Elon Musk | 70%
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| Explorer and discoverer of Hawaii and Australia | 1728 - 1779 | James Cook | 70%
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| English novelist, wrote "Pride and Prejudice" | 1775 - 1817 | Jane Austen | 70%
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| American Founding Father and 2nd U.S President | 1735 - 1826 | John Adams | 70%
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| Russian controversial figure who gained influence in the court of Tsar Nicholas II and his family | 1869 - 1916 | Rasputin | 70%
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| Fastest man of all time | 1986 - ALIVE | Usain Bolt | 70%
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| Founded software giant Microsoft | 1955 - ALIVE | Bill Gates | 69%
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| 33rd U.S. President, ordered the dropping of the Atomic bombs | 1884 - 1972 | Harry S. Truman | 69%
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| American author, wrote "Huckleberry Finn" | 1835 - 1910 | Mark Twain | 69%
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| Called the "Liberator" of Latin America | 1783 - 1830 | Simón Bolívar | 69%
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| American writer, wrote "The Raven" | 1809 - 1849 | Edgar Allan Poe | 67%
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| German composer of the late Baroque period. | 1685 - 1750 | Johann Sebastian Bach | 67%
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| Scottish inventor, invented the telephone | 1847 - 1922 | Alexander Graham Bell | 66%
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| Widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players of all time | 1963 - ALIVE | Michael Jordan | 66%
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| Last Russian Emperor, executed during Russian revolution | 1868 - 1918 | Nicholas II | 66%
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| Argentine professional football player widely regarded as one of the greatest footballers of all time | 1987 - ALIVE | Lionel Messi | 65%
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| Serbian-American inventor, discovered alternating current | 1856 - 1943 | Nikola Tesla | 65%
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| Founder and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest cloud computing company | 1964 - ALIVE | Jeff Bezos | 64%
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| Most successful swimmer in history | 1985 - ALIVE | Michael Phelps | 64%
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| Hong Kong actor, filmmaker and martial artist, known for his slapstick acrobatic fighting style | 1954 - ALIVE | Jackie Chan | 63%
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| Chinese philosopher known as the first teacher in China who wanted to make education broadly available | 551 - 479 BC | Confucius | 62%
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| Spanish military general during the Spanish Civil War and ruled over Spain as a dictator | 1892 - 1975 | Francisco Franco | 62%
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| German philosopher, "God is Dead" | 1844 - 1900 | Friedrich Nietzsche | 62%
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| Lord Protector of England, involved in the English Civil War | 1599 - 1658 | Oliver Cromwell | 62%
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| Cambodian political leader, who caused the "Cambodian genocide" | 1925 - 1998 | Pol Pot | 61%
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| Mexican painter known for her self-portraits, pain and passion, and bold, vibrant colors | 1907 - 1954 | Frida Kahlo | 60%
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| King of France, executed in the French Revolution | 1754 - 1793 | Louis XVI | 60%
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| Astronomer, theorized a heliocentric cosmology | 1473 - 1543 | Nicolaus Copernicus | 58%
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| British officer, battle of Trafalgar admiral | 1758 - 1805 | Horatio Nelson | 57%
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| Colombian drug lord and one of the most notorious criminals in history | 1949 - 1993 | Pablo Escobar | 57%
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| French philosopher, coined the term "I think, therefore I am" (cogito ergo sum) | 1596 - 1650 | René Descartes | 57%
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| Founded the Missionaries of Charity in India in 1950 | 1910 - 1997 | Mother Teresa | 56%
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| Scottish economist, wrote "On the Wealth of Nations" | 1723 - 1790 | Adam Smith | 55%
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| King of England, Norman Conquest | 1028 -1087 | William the Conqueror | 55%
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| American criminal and cult leader whose followers carried out several murders in the late 1960s | 1960 - 1994 | Charles Manson | 54%
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| One of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time | 1966 - ALIVE | Mike Tyson | 54%
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| French Enlightenment philosopher, wrote "Candide" | 1694 - 1778 | Voltaire | 54%
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| English king, lost the American colonies and went mad | 1738 - 1820 | George III | 53%
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| 4th U.S President, involved in War of 1812 | 1751 - 1836 | James Madison | 53%
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| Canadian actor "John Wick" | 1964 - ALIVE | Keanu Reeves | 49%
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| After escaping slavery and using the Underground Railroad, she rescued many enslaved people | 1822 - 1913 | Harriet Tubman | 48%
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| First ruling queen of England and attempted to restore the Catholic faith | 1516 - 1558 | Mary I | 47%
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| First Chancellor and unifier of modern Germany | 1815 - 1898 | Otto von Bismarck | 46%
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| One of the most influential and controversial figures of the French Revolution | 1758 - 1794 | Maximilien Robespierre | 45%
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| Greek mathematician, contributed to the mathematical constant pi (π) | 287 - 212 BC | Archimedes | 40%
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| American singer and actor, nicknamed the "Chairman of the Board" | 1915 - 1998 | Frank Sinatra | 40%
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| German philosopher, one of the central Enlightenment thinkers | 1724 - 1804 | Immanuel Kant | 40%
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| Greatest writer in the Spanish language | 1547 - 1616 | Miguel De Cervantes | 39%
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| King of England, responsible for the KJV Bible | 1566 - 1625 | James I | 38%
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| Last German emperor and king of Prussia | 1859 - 1941 | Wilhelm II | 38%
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| U.S general, served in both World Wars | 1880 - 1964 | Douglas MacArthur | 37%
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| King of England, involved in the English Civil War | 1600 - 1649 | Charles I | 34%
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| King of Spain, organized the Spanish Armada | 1527 - 1598 | Phillip II | 33%
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| American singer, widely regarded as one of the greatest musicians of his generation | 1958 - 2016 | Prince | 29%
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| American actor, known for his distinctive deep voice and various roles in a wide variety of film genres | 1937 - ALIVE | Morgan Freeman | 27%
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| Spanish painter, painted "Las Meninas" | 1599 - 1660 | Diego Velázquez | 24%
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| Early Christian leader | 64 - 68 AD | Saint Peter | 24%
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| Chinese military general who never lost a battle | 771 - 256 BC | Sun Tzu | 22%
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| First emperor of Rome, Pax Romana | 63 BC - 14 AD | Augustus Caesar | 18%
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| American writer and professor of biochemistry, considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers | 1920 - 1992 | Isaac Asimov | 18%
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| Emperor of Rome, allowed toleration of Christianity | 272 - 337 AD | Constantine the Great | 16%
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| English Enlightenment philosopher, theorized "tabla rasa" | 1632 - 1704 | John Locke | 15%
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| American activist, author and chief philosopher of the woman's rights and suffrage movements | 1815 -1902 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | 13%
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| Spanish poet, murdered by Nationalist forces | 1898 - 1936 | Federico García Lorca | 13%
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| Central figure of Buddhism | 564 BC | Guatama Buddha | 12%
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| American singer, songwriter, and actor, played Chef on "South Park" | 1942 - 2008 | Isaac Hayes | 12%
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| Most prolific serial killer in modern day by abusing his powers as a doctor | 1946 - 2004 | Harold Shipman | 11%
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| Philosopher, wrote "On the Social Contract" | 1712 - 1778 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 11%
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| Swedish biologist, father of Taxonomy | 1707 - 1778 | Carl Linnaeus | 10%
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| Christian apostle and missionary | 5 - 65 AD | Paul the Apostle | 9%
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| American religious leader and the founder of Mormonism | 1805 - 1844 | Joseph Smith Jr | 6%
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| Australian operatic soprano and one of the most influential opera singers of the 20th century | 1926 - 2010 | Joan Sutherland | 4%
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| Alsatian polymath, gave lectures in Europe to fundraise for his hospital back in Africa | 1875 - 1965 | Albert Schweitzer | 2%
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| Founded the social media website Facebook | 1984 - ALIVE | Mark Zuckerbeg | 1%
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| Last queen of France before the French revolution, and was executed during it | 1755 - 1793 | María Antonieta | 0%
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| Italian sculptor and Renaissance man, sculpted "David" | 1475 - 1564 | Miguel Ángel | 0%
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