Historical Figures 2

Years active

Clue

Answer

1274-1329

King of Scots who led Scotland during the first war of Scottish independence against England

1783-1830

The "George Washington of South America", who led the cause of freedom for Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia

428/427 or 424/423 - 348/347BC

Greek Philosopher and mathematician, founder of The Academy in Athens

1707-78

Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist, known as the father of modern taxonomy

1755 or 57 - 1804

American Founding Father, chief aide to George Washington and founder of the US financial system

1694-1778

French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher, real name Francois-Marie Arouet

1473-1543

Polish Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who wrote 'On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres'

106-43BC

Roman philosopher, politician, consul and orator

1856-1943

German-American inventor and electrical engineer

1632-1704

English philosopher, physician and enlightenment thinker, the father of Classical Liberalism

1916-2003

American film actor who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Atticus Finch in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'

1809-92

British poet laureate throughout the majority of Queen Victoria's reign

1808-89

Mississippi Senator who became President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War

1872-1928

Norwegian explorer who led the 1910-12 Antarctic expedition that was the first to reach the South Pole

1908-73

Chilean Marxist physician and politician who was deposed as his country's President by Augusto Pinochet's military junta

Years active

Clue

Answer

1901-63

First President of the former Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), assassinated as part of a coup d'etat

1881-1938

Founder and first President of modern Turkey

1571-1610

Italian Baroque painter whose works include 'Death of the Virgin' and 'The Calling of Saint Matthew'

1485-1547

Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that saw the fall of the Aztec Empire

1632-1723

English architect, famous for building London's St Paul's Cathedral

9-79

First Emperor of the Flavian Dynasty, who built the Roman Colosseum

1805-81

Jamaican-born nurse who set up a refuge for British soldiers to aid battlefield wounded during the Crimean War

1880-1958

British author and campaigner for eugenics and women's rights who wrote a sex manual called 'Married Love'

1749-1823

English physician and scientist, pioneer of the Smallpox vaccine, often credited as the 'Father of Immunology'

1745-97

Freed slave who supported the British movement to end the slave trade and wrote the first-known slave narrative. Also known as Gustavus Vassa

1840-1926

Artist who was a founder of the French Impressionist movement and lived at Giverny, where he created lily ponds that became the subject ofhis best-known works

1899-1943

High-profile and symbolic member of the French Resistance during World War Two

1808-77

English feminist and social reformer, involved in a famous 19th century court case between her husband and Prime Minister Lord Melbourne

570-495BC

Ionian Greek philosopher and mathematician who had a theorem named after him

1572-1633

Dutch builder of the first navigable submarine in 1620