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Guy Fawkes

1570 - 1606

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Guy Fawkes (; 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics involved in the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. He was born and educated in York; his father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a recusant Catholic. Fawkes converted to Catholicism and left for mainland Europe, where he fought for Catholic Spain in the Eighty Years' War against Protestant Dutch reformers in the Low Countries. He travelled to Spain to seek support for a Catholic rebellion in England without success. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Guy Fawkes is the 27th most popular social activist (down from 26th in 2019), the 219th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 173rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular British Social Activist.

Guy Fawkes was a Catholic who wanted to assassinate King James I of England and replace him with a Catholic monarch. He planned to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament on November 5, 1605. He was caught in the act and tortured.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Guy Fawkes ranks 27 out of 840. Before him are Peter Kropotkin, Betty Williams, W. E. B. Du Bois, Élie Ducommun, Sophia of Prussia, and Emily Greene Balch. After him are Robert Owen, Margaret Sanger, Shirin Ebadi, Charlotte Corday, Thích Quảng Đức, and Emiliano Zapata.

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Among people born in 1570, Guy Fawkes ranks 1. After him are Hans Lippershey, Henry Hudson, Johann II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Willem Janszoon, Jan Janszoon, John Smyth, Hendrick van Balen the Elder, Giorgi Saakadze, Péter Pázmány, Kara Davud Pasha, and Alessandro Salvio. Among people deceased in 1606, Guy Fawkes ranks 1. After him are False Dmitry I, Karel van Mander, Justus Lipsius, Guru Arjan, Alessandro Valignano, Stephen Bocskai, Giovanni Andrea Doria, Johann VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, Boşnak Derviş Mehmed Pasha, Turibius of Mogrovejo, and Sokolluzade Lala Mehmed Pasha.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Guy Fawkes ranks 219 out of 8,785. Before him are Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (1846), Anthony Giddens (1938), William Blake (1757), David Livingstone (1813), Saint Boniface (680), and Catherine Howard (1523). After him are Æthelbald, King of Wessex (831), George Stephenson (1781), John Harvard (1607), W. H. Auden (1907), William John Macquorn Rankine (1820), and Humphry Davy (1778).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Guy Fawkes ranks 3. Before him are Nicholas Winton (1909), and Betty Williams (1943). After him are Robert Owen (1771), Lady Godiva (990), Emmeline Pankhurst (1858), Mairead Maguire (1944), Thomas Cranmer (1489), Annie Besant (1847), Max Mosley (1940), Emily Davison (1872), and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence (1867).

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