| Decade | Most well-known | Second-most well-known | Known as | Born in (today) | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | Lady Gaga | Lionel Messi | footballer | Argentina | 76%
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| 1910s | Reagan | Nelson Mandela | leader | South Africa | 75%
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| 1950s | Jackson | Vladimir Putin | leader | Russia | 75%
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| 1930s | Elvis | Neil Armstrong | astronaut | United States | 73%
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| 1940s | Trump | George W. Bush | leader | United States | 71%
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| 1850s | van Gogh | Sigmund Freud | psychoanalyst | Czechia | 71%
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| 1970s | Eminem | Emmanuel Macron | leader | France | 69%
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| 1880s | Hitler | Pablo Picasso | painter | Spain | 66%
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| 1870s | Einstein | Vladimir Lenin | leader | Russia | 63%
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| 1630s | Locke | Louis XIV | monarch | France | 61%
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| 1890s | Mao | Charles de Gaulle | leader | France | 59%
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| 1860s | Gandhi | Marie Curie | scientist | Poland | 59%
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| 1800s | Darwin | Abraham Lincoln | leader | United States | 58%
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| 2010s | George | Charlotte of Wales | princess | United Kingdom | 58%
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| 1920s | Elizabeth II | Marilyn Monroe | actress | United States | 58%
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| 1450s | Leonardo | Christopher Columbus | explorer | Italy | 54%
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| 1750s | Mozart | James Monroe | leader | United States | 54%
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| 1780s | Lord Byron | Simón Bolívar | leader | Venezuela | 54%
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| 1830s | Twain | Alfred Nobel | inventor | Sweden | 53%
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| 1530s | Elizabeth I | Ivan the Terrible | monarch | Russia | 53%
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| 1730s | Washington | John Adams | leader | United States | 53%
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| 1820s | Tolstoy | Fyodor Dostoevsky | writer | Russia | 51%
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| 1720s | Kant | James Cook | explorer | United Kingdom | 51%
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| 1840s | Edison | Friedrich Nietzsche | philosopher | Germany | 49%
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| 1470s | Michelangelo | Nicolaus Copernicus | astronomer | Poland | 49%
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| 1670s | Vivaldi | Peter the Great | monarch | Russia | 47%
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| 1480s | Luther | Raphael | painter/architect | Italy | 44%
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| 1900s | Dalí | Walt Disney | producer | United States | 44%
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| 1810s | Marx | Charles Dickens | writer | United Kingdom | 41%
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| 1660s | Defoe | Jonathan Swift | writer | Ireland | 41%
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| 2000s | Greta | Billie Eilish | singer | United States | 34%
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| 1740s | Goethe | Francisco de Goya | painter | Spain | 34%
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| 1520s | Palestrina | Philip II | monarch | Spain | 34%
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| 1650s | Halley | William of Orange | monarch | Netherlands | 34%
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| 1560s | Shakespeare | Galileo Galilei | polymath | Italy | 32%
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| 1500s | Calvin | Charles V | monarch | Belgium | 31%
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| 1700s | Linnaeus | Leonhard Euler | mathematician | Switzerland | 31%
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| 1590s | Descartes | Diego Velázquez | painter | Spain | 29%
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| 1600s | Rembrandt | Abel Tasman | explorer | Netherlands | 25%
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| 1990s | Bieber | Selena Gomez | singer/actress | United States | 25%
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| 1790s | Faraday | Alexander Pushkin | writer | Russia | 22%
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| 1680s | Bach | Georg Friedrich Händel | composer | Germany | 22%
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| 1760s | Napoleon | Hokusai | artist | Japan | 22%
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| 1460s | da Gama | Niccolò Machiavelli | philosopher | Italy | 22%
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| 1490s | Cartier | Suleiman the Magnificent | monarch | Turkey | 22%
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| 1770s | Beethoven | Carl Friedrich Gauß | mathematician | Germany | 20%
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| 1540s | Cervantes | Akbar | monarch | Pakistan | 19%
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| 1710s | Rousseau | David Hume | philosopher | United Kingdom | 19%
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| 1580s | Hobbes | Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu | aristocrat | France | 17%
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| 1960s | Obama | Naruhito | monarch | Japan | 15%
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| 1550s | Henry IV | Paul V | pope | Italy | 14%
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| 1620s | Molière | Blaise Pascal | mathematician | France | 12%
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| 1570s | Kepler | Peter Paul Rubens | painter | Germany | 10%
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| 1690s | Voltaire | Anna of Russia | monarch | Russia | 8%
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| 1610s | Innocent XI | Aurangzeb | monarch | India | 7%
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| 1640s | Newton | Matsuo Bashō | poet | Japan | 3%
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| 1510s | Mary I | Giorgio Vasari | painter/architect | Italy | 2%
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