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Third-most Famous Person by Decade

For every full decade since the 1450s, enter the third-most well-known person (by number of Wikipedia languages) born during that time.
Check out parts one and two first, since this quiz gives away the answers to those
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 11, 2023
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Decade
#1
#2
Third-most well-known
Known as
Born in (today)
2010s
George
Charlotte
Estelle of Sweden
princess
Sweden
2000s
Greta
Eilish
Erling Haaland
footballer
United Kingdom
1990s
Bieber
Gomez
Malala Yousafzai
activist
Pakistan
1980s
Lady Gaga
Messi
Cristiano Ronaldo
footballer
Portugal
1970s
Eminem
Macron
Elon Musk
businessman
South Africa
1960s
Obama
Naruhito
Diego Maradona
footballer
Argentina
1950s
Jackson
Putin
Angela Merkel
leader
Germany
1940s
Trump
Bush
Joe Biden
leader
United States
1930s
Elvis
Armstrong
Yuri Gagarin
cosmonaut
Russia
1920s
Elizabeth II
M. Monroe
Che Guevara
revolutionary
Argentina
1910s
Reagan
Mandela
John F. Kennedy
leader
United States
1900s
Dalí
Disney
Frida Kahlo
painter
Mexico
1890s
Mao
de Gaulle
J. R. R. Tolkien
writer
United Kingdom
1880s
Hitler
Picasso
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
leader
Turkey
1870s
Einstein
Lenin
Joseph Stalin
leader
Georgia
1860s
Gandhi
Curie
Anton Chekhov
playwright
Russia
1850s
van Gogh
Freud
Nikola Tesla
inventor
Croatia
1840s
Edison
Nietzsche
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
composer
Russia
1830s
Twain
Nobel
Dmitri Mendeleev
chemist
Russia
1820s
Tolstoy
Dostoevsky
Louis Pasteur
chemist
France
1810s
Marx
Dickens
Frédéric Chopin
composer
Poland
1800s
Darwin
Lincoln
Victor Hugo
writer
France
1790s
Faraday
Pushkin
Franz Schubert
composer
Austria
1780s
Lord Byron
Bolívar
Martin Van Buren
leader
United States
1770s
Beethoven
Gauß
Jane Austen
writer
United Kingdom
1760s
Napoleon
Hokusai
Andrew Jackson
leader
United States
1750s
Mozart
J. Monroe
James Madison
leader
United States
1740s
Goethe
Goya
Thomas Jefferson
leader
US
1730s
Washington
J. Adams
James Watt
inventor
United Kingdom
1720s
Kant
Cook
Adam Smith
economist
United Kingdom
1710s
Rousseau
Hume
Denis Diderot
writer
France
1700s
Linnaeus
Euler
Benjamin Franklin
polymath
US
1690s
Voltaire
Anna
Clement XIII
pope
Italy
1680s
Bach
Händel
Montesquieu
philosopher
France
1670s
Vivaldi
Peter I
Benedict XIV
pope
Italy
1660s
Defoe
Swift
Anne of Great Britain
monarch
United Kingdom
1650s
Halley
William III
Clement XII
pope
Italy
1640s
Newton
Bashō
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
mathematician
Germany
1630s
Locke
Louis XIV
Baruch de Spinoza
philosopher
Netherlands
1620s
Molière
Pascal
Robert Boyle
scientist
Ireland
1610s
Innocent XI
Aurangzeb
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
painter
Spain
1600s
Rembrandt
Tasman
John Milton
poet
United Kingdom
1590s
Descartes
Velázquez
Oliver Cromwell
politician
United Kingdom
1580s
Hobbes
Richelieu
Hugo Grotius
philosopher
Netherlands
1570s
Kepler
Rubens
Caravaggio
painter
Italy
1560s
Shakespeare
Galileo
Francis Bacon
philosopher
United Kingdom
1550s
Henry IV
Paul V
John Napier
mathematician
United Kingdom
1540s
Cervantes
Akbar
Giordano Bruno
philosopher
Italy
1530s
Elizabeth I
Ivan IV
Michel de Montaigne
philosopher
France
1520s
Palestrina
Philip II
Luís de Camões
writer
Portugal
1510s
Mary I
Vasari
Catherine de' Medici
queen
Italy
1500s
Calvin
Charles V
Nostradamus
astrologer
France
1490s
Cartier
Suleiman I
Henry VIII
monarch
United Kingdom
1480s
Luther
Raphael
Ferdinand Magellan
explorer
Portugal
1470s
Michelangelo
Copernicus
Albrecht Dürer
painter
Germany
1460s
da Gama
Machiavelli
Erasmus
theologian
Netherlands
1450s
Leonardo
Columbus
Amerigo Vespucci
explorer
Italy
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