Simón Bolívar

1783 – 1830

Politics & Leadership

Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco was a Venezuelan military officer and statesman who led what are currently the countries of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela to independence from the Spanish Empire. He is known colloquially as El Libertador, or the Liberator of America.

Contemporaries

Hokusai

47 yr overlap

Niccolò Paganini

47 yr overlap

Francisco Goya

45 yr overlap

Jacob Grimm

45 yr overlap

Ludwig van Beethoven

44 yr overlap

Thomas Jefferson

43 yr overlap

Shaka Zulu

41 yr overlap

Edward Jenner

40 yr overlap

Michael Faraday

39 yr overlap

Charles Babbage

39 yr overlap

Napoleon Bonaparte

38 yr overlap

James Watt

36 yr overlap

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