Fourth-most Famous Person by Decade

For every full decade since the 1450s, enter the fourth-most well-known person (by number of Wikipedia languages) born during that time.

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Decade	#1	#2	#3	Fourth-most well-known person	Known as	Born in (today)
2010s	George	Charlotte	Estelle	Louis of Wales	prince	United Kingdom
2000s	Greta	Eilish	Haaland	Millie Bobby Brown	actress	Spain
1990s	Bieber	Gomez	Malala	Emma Watson	actress	United Kingdom
1980s	Lady Gaga	Messi	Ronaldo	Roger Federer	tennis player	Switzerland
1970s	Eminem	Macron	Musk	Angelina Jolie	actress	United States
1960s	Obama	Naruhito	Maradona	Dmitry Medvedev	leader	Russia
1950s	Jackson	Putin	Merkel	Bill Gates	businessperson	United States
1940s	Trump	Bush	Biden	Bill Clinton	leader	United States
1930s	Elvis	Armstrong	Gagarin	Francis	pope	Argentina
1920s	Elizabeth II	M. Monroe	Guevara	Martin Luther King	activist	United States
1910s	Reagan	Mandela	Kennedy	Alan Turing	computer scientist	United Kingdom
1900s	Dalí	Disney	Kahlo	Jean-Paul Sartre	philosopher	France
1890s	Mao	de Gaulle	Tolkien	Ernest Hemingway	writer	United States
1880s	Hitler	Picasso	Atatürk	Charlie Chaplin	actor/director	United Kingdom
1870s	Einstein	Lenin	Stalin	Winston Churchill	leader	United Kingdom
1860s	Gandhi	Curie	Chekhov	Rabindranath Tagore	writer/poet	India
1850s	van Gogh	Freud	Tesla	Woodrow Wilson	leader	United States
1840s	Edison	Nietzsche	Tchaikovsky	Wilhelm Röntgen	physicist	Germany
1830s	Twain	Nobel	Mendeleyev	Johannes Brahms	composer	Germany
1820s	Tolstoy	Dostoyevsky	Pasteur	Ulysses S. Grant	leader	United States
1810s	Marx	Dickens	Chopin	Richard Wagner	composer	Germany
1800s	Darwin	Lincoln	Hugo	Hans Christian Andersen	writer	Denmark
1790s	Faraday	Pushkin	Schubert	John Tyler	leader	United States
1780s	Lord Byron	Bolívar	Van Buren	Zachary Taylor	leader	United States
1770s	Beethoven	Gauß	Austen	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	philosopher	Germany
1760s	Napoleon	Hokusai	A. Jackson	John Quincy Adams	leader	United States
1750s	Mozart	J. Monroe	Madison	Friedrich Schiller	writer	Germany
1740s	Goethe	Goya	Jefferson	Antoine Lavoisier	chemist	France
1730s	Washington	J. Adams	Watt	Joseph Haydn	composer	Austria
1720s	Kant	Cook	Smith	Catherine the Great	monarch	Poland
1710s	Rousseau	Hume	Diderot	Frederick the Great	monarch	Germany
1700s	Linnaeus	Euler	Franklin	Anders Celsius	astronomer	Sweden
1690s	Voltaire	Anna	Clement XIII	William Hogarth	painter	United Kingdom
1680s	Bach	Händel	Montesquieu	George Berkeley	philisopher	Ireland
1670s	Vivaldi	Peter I	Benedict XIV	Robert Walpole	leader	United Kingdom
1660s	Defoe	Swift	Anne	George I	monarch	Germany
1650s	Halley	William III	Clement XII	Innocent XIII	pope	Italy
1640s	Newton	Bashō	Leibniz	Benedict XIII	pope	Italy
1630s	Locke	Louis XIV	Spinoza	Johannes Vermeer	painter	Netherlands
1620s	Molière	Pascal	Boyle	Christiaan Huygens	astronomer	Netherlands
1610s	Innocent XI	Aurangzeb	Murillo	Innocent XI	pope	Italy
1600s	Rembrandt	Tasman	Milton	Pierre de Fermat	mathematician	France
1590s	Descartes	Velázquez	Cromwell	Shah Jahan	monarch	Pakistan
1580s	Hobbes	Richelieu	Grotius	Miyamoto Musashi	swordsman	Japan
1570s	Kepler	Rubens	Caravaggio	William Harvey	physician	United Kingdom
1560s	Shakespeare	Galileo	Bacon	Lope de Vega	writer	Spain
1550s	Henry IV	Paul V	Napier	Gregory XV	pope	Italy
1540s	Cervantes	Akbar	Bruno	Francis Drake	explorer	United Kingdom
1530s	Elizabeth I	Ivan IV	Montaigne	Edward VI	monarch	United Kingdom
1520s	Palestrina	Philip II	Camões	Pieter Bruegel the Elder	painter	Netherlands
1510s	Mary I	Vasari	Catherine	Tintoretto	painter	Italy
1500s	Calvin	Charles V	Nostradamus	Gregory XIII	pope	Italy
1490s	Cartier	Suleiman I	Henry VIII	Mimar Sinan	architect	Turkey
1480s	Luther	Raphael	Magellan	Hernán Cortés	conquistador	Spain
1470s	Michelangelo	Copernicus	Dürer	Thomas More	philosopher	United Kingdom
1460s	da Gama	Machiavelli	Erasmus	Nanak	guru	Pakistan
1450s	Leonardo	Columbus	Vespucci	Isabella I	queen	Spain

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