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Second-most Famous Person by Decade

For every full decade since the 1450s, enter the second-most well-known person (by number of Wikipedia languages) born during that time.
Check out part one first, since this quiz gives away the answers to that
Some less well-known people whose count has obviously been inflated due to article spamming have been excluded.
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Last updated: August 10, 2023
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Decade
Most well-known
Second-most well-known
Known as
Born in (today)
2010s
George
Charlotte of Wales
princess
United Kingdom
2000s
Greta
Billie Eilish
singer
United States
1990s
Bieber
Selena Gomez
singer/actress
United States
1980s
Lady Gaga
Lionel Messi
footballer
Argentina
1970s
Eminem
Emmanuel Macron
leader
France
1960s
Obama
Naruhito
monarch
Japan
1950s
Jackson
Vladimir Putin
leader
Russia
1940s
Trump
George W. Bush
leader
United States
1930s
Elvis
Neil Armstrong
astronaut
United States
1920s
Elizabeth II
Marilyn Monroe
actress
United States
1910s
Reagan
Nelson Mandela
leader
South Africa
1900s
Dalí
Walt Disney
producer
United States
1890s
Mao
Charles de Gaulle
leader
France
1880s
Hitler
Pablo Picasso
painter
Spain
1870s
Einstein
Vladimir Lenin
leader
Russia
1860s
Gandhi
Marie Curie
scientist
Poland
1850s
van Gogh
Sigmund Freud
psychoanalyst
Czechia
1840s
Edison
Friedrich Nietzsche
philosopher
Germany
1830s
Twain
Alfred Nobel
inventor
Sweden
1820s
Tolstoy
Fyodor Dostoevsky
writer
Russia
1810s
Marx
Charles Dickens
writer
United Kingdom
1800s
Darwin
Abraham Lincoln
leader
United States
1790s
Faraday
Alexander Pushkin
writer
Russia
1780s
Lord Byron
Simón Bolívar
leader
Venezuela
1770s
Beethoven
Carl Friedrich Gauß
mathematician
Germany
1760s
Napoleon
Hokusai
artist
Japan
1750s
Mozart
James Monroe
leader
United States
1740s
Goethe
Francisco de Goya
painter
Spain
1730s
Washington
John Adams
leader
United States
1720s
Kant
James Cook
explorer
United Kingdom
1710s
Rousseau
David Hume
philosopher
United Kingdom
1700s
Linnaeus
Leonhard Euler
mathematician
Switzerland
1690s
Voltaire
Anna of Russia
monarch
Russia
1680s
Bach
Georg Friedrich Händel
composer
Germany
1670s
Vivaldi
Peter the Great
monarch
Russia
1660s
Defoe
Jonathan Swift
writer
Ireland
1650s
Halley
William of Orange
monarch
Netherlands
1640s
Newton
Matsuo Bashō
poet
Japan
1630s
Locke
Louis XIV
monarch
France
1620s
Molière
Blaise Pascal
mathematician
France
1610s
Innocent XI
Aurangzeb
monarch
India
1600s
Rembrandt
Abel Tasman
explorer
Netherlands
1590s
Descartes
Diego Velázquez
painter
Spain
1580s
Hobbes
Armand Jean du
Plessis de Richelieu
aristocrat
France
1570s
Kepler
Peter Paul Rubens
painter
Germany
1560s
Shakespeare
Galileo Galilei
polymath
Italy
1550s
Henry IV
Paul V
pope
Italy
1540s
Cervantes
Akbar
monarch
Pakistan
1530s
Elizabeth I
Ivan the Terrible
monarch
Russia
1520s
Palestrina
Philip II
monarch
Spain
1510s
Mary I
Giorgio Vasari
painter/architect
Italy
1500s
Calvin
Charles V
monarch
Belgium
1490s
Cartier
Suleiman the Magnificent
monarch
Turkey
1480s
Luther
Raphael
painter/architect
Italy
1470s
Michelangelo
Nicolaus Copernicus
astronomer
Poland
1460s
da Gama
Niccolò Machiavelli
philosopher
Italy
1450s
Leonardo
Christopher Columbus
explorer
Italy
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