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Famous People Who Died in the City They Were Born

These famous people died in the same city they were born. Can you guess their names based on the city and years of birth and death?
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Quiz by Gumbledalf
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Last updated: September 4, 2024
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First submittedSeptember 4, 2024
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Place of birth
and death
Birth
Death
Person
Athens
-427
-347
Plato
Stratford-
upon-Avon
1564
1616
William Shakespeare
Eisleben
1483
1546
Martin Luther
Syracuse
-287
-212
Archimedes
Alexandria
-69
-30
Cleopatra
Venice
1254
1324
Marco Polo
Königsberg
1724
1804
Immanuel Kant
Paris
1694
1778
Voltaire
Mainz
1394
1468
Johannes Gutenberg
Copenhagen
1885
1962
Niels Bohr
Paris
1932
2019
Jacques Chirac
Figueres
1904
1989
Salvador Dalí
Vienna
1887
1961
Erwin Schrödinger
Paris
1622
1673
Molière
Miletus
-623
-546
Thales
Paris
1905
1980
Jean-Paul Sartre
Place of birth
and death
Birth
Death
Person
Mexico City
1907
1954
Frida Kahlo
Nuremberg
1471
1528
Albrecht Dürer
Auckland
1919
2008
Edmund Hillary
London
1561
1626
Francis Bacon
Paris
1871
1922
Marcel Proust
London
1343
1400
Geoffrey Chaucer
Copenhagen
1813
1855
Søren Kierkegaard
Calcutta
1861
1941
Rabindranath Tagore
Paris
1908
1986
Simone de Beauvoir
Mårbacka
1858
1940
Selma Lagerlöf
Kinderhook
1782
1862
Martin Van Buren
Shiraz
1325
1390
Hafez
Calcutta
1921
1992
Satyajit Ray
Tus
1058
1111
Al-Ghazali
Nishapur
1048
1131
Omar Khayyam
Paris
1844
1923
Sarah Bernhardt
1 Comments
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Level 69
Sep 4, 2024
Fun but a lot of these are too esoteric, could use more hints