Historical Figure by Initials, Dates and Clue

Guess the historical figure by their initials and when they lived, as well as an additional clue.

Initials are based on their full names. Since some of these figures are more often known by another name, all of the names each figure is known by are accepted.

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Dates	Clue	Initials	Person
26th July 1875 – 6th June 1961	Collaborated with Sigmund Freud	CGJ	Carl Gustav Jung
c. 518 – August 465 BC	Won the Battle of Thermopylae	X	Xerxes the Great
24th May 1819 – 22nd January 1901	The second-longest reign of any British monarch	AV	Alexandrina Victoria
551–479 BC	Taught a variant of the Golden Rule, sometimes called the "Silver Rule": "What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others"	KQ	Kong Qui (Confucius)
17th January 1706 – 17th April 1790	Proposed (and may have conducted) an experiment involving a kite and electricity	BF	Benjamin Franklin
20th July 1919 – 11th January 2008	One of two climbers to have reached the peak of Mount Everest on 29th May 1953	EPH	Sir Edmund Percival Hillary
Died 985/86	Introduced Christianity to Denmark	HG	Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson
c. 1303 BC – July/August 1213 BC	Led the Egyptian forces at the Battle of Kadesh	R	Ramesses the Great
1418–1471/1472	Transformed the Kingdom of Cusco into the Inca Empire	PIY	Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui
19th May 1890 – 2nd September 1969	The city known as Saigon was renamed in his honour	HCM	Hồ Chí Minh
428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC	Taught Aristotle and founded the Academy	P	Plato
18th July 1918 – 5th December 2013	President of South Africa from 10th May 1994 to 16th June 1999	NRM	Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Born 595 BC	King of Lydia, a kingdom known for its wealth	C	Croesus
13th August 1926 – 25th November 2016	Prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976	FACR	Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
Before 1390 – 9th July 1441	Northern Renaissance artist who painted The Arnolfini Portrait	JVE	Jan van Eyck

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