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Capricorn historical figures
Explore historical figures born under Capricorn. Read concise biographies, learn key facts, and play a quiz focused on this collection.
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36 figures
Cleopatra VII
Pharaoh & diplomat
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Isaac Newton
Mathematician & physicist
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father & polymath
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Edmund Barton
First Prime Minister of Australia
Kim Dae-jung
President of South Korea
Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil rights leader & minister
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Al Capone
Gangster
Muhammad Ali
Boxer & activist
Elvis Presley
Singer & actor
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Tiger Woods
Golfer
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Woodrow Wilson
28th U.S. President
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Srinivasa Ramanujan
Mathematician
Stephen Hawking
Theoretical physicist & cosmologist
James Watt
Inventor & engineer
Anwar Sadat
President of Egypt
Gamal Abdel Nasser
President of Egypt
Rigoberta Menchú
Human rights activist
John A. Macdonald
First Prime Minister of Canada
Simone de Beauvoir
Philosopher and writer
Louis Pasteur
Chemist and microbiologist
Umm Kulthum
Singer and actress
David Bowie
Musician and actor
Ibn Saud
Founder and King of Saudi Arabia
Ahmed Sékou Touré
President of Guinea
Garegin Nzhdeh
Military commander and statesman
Levon Ter-Petrosyan
President of Armenia
Ismail Qemali
Founder of modern Albania
John Curtin
Prime Minister of Australia
Ngô Đình Diệm
President of South Vietnam
Simon Wiesenthal
Nazi hunter
Rene Preval
President of Haiti
Lorenzo de' Medici
De facto ruler of Florence & patron of the arts
George Washington Carver
Agricultural scientist & inventor
Charles Babbage
Mathematician & inventor
Lee Teng-hui
President of the Republic of China
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Milan Kucan
First President of independent Slovenia
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