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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guy Fawkes has received more than 16,361,753 page views. His biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Guy Fawkes is the 16th most popular social activist (down from 12th in 2019), the 92nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 70th in 2019) and the 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 16 out of 538Before him are Martin Luther King Jr., Helen Keller, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Jean-Paul Marat, Aung San Suu Kyi, and Claus von Stauffenberg. After him are Robert Owen, Rosa Parks, Lady Godiva, Gustav I of Sweden, Peter Kropotkin, and Charlotte Corday.

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Contemporaries

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

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Guy Fawkes ranks 92 out of 7,765Before him are Edward I of England (1239), Edward V of England (1470), Alan Rickman (1946), Roger Bacon (1220), Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), and Walter Scott (1771). After him are Robert Owen (1771), Edward VIII (1894), Jane Seymour (1508), George V (1865), William Harvey (1578), and Paul McCartney (1942).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United Kingdom

Among social activists born in United Kingdom, Guy Fawkes ranks 1After him are Robert Owen (1771), Lady Godiva (990), Nicholas Winton (1909), Emmeline Pankhurst (1858), Betty Williams (1943), Annie Besant (1847), Thomas Cranmer (1489), Mairead Maguire (1944), Max Mosley (1940), Unity Mitford (1914), and Emily Davison (1872).