No. 293 · Tuesday, 20 October 2026

Who was born first?

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Earliest

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452

    He sketched flying machines more than 400 years before the first airplane. Source

  2. Galileo Galilei 1564

    He was born the same year as William Shakespeare. Source

  3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756

    He wrote his first pieces of music at the age of 5. Source

  4. Abraham Lincoln 1809

    He was born on the very same day as Charles Darwin: 12 February 1809. Source

  5. Marie Curie 1867

    The first person ever to win two Nobel Prizes. Source

  6. Albert Einstein 1879

    He was born the same year Edison first showed his light bulb to the public. Source

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