Historical Figures
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Historical Figures

by Spotify Studios

Big lives, little-known facts. Dig up what you don’t know about the icons you do know! Unexpected anecdotes, real personalities, lasting impacts… Historical Figures is a Spotify Original from Parcast.

71 episodes
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1
Best of 2019: Nefertiti
44:03 Dec 25, 2019
2
Father Miguel Hidalgo
48:08 Dec 11, 2019
3
Pope Gregory XIII
49:45 Nov 27, 2019
4
Mansa Musa
48:04 Nov 13, 2019
5
Professor Margaret Murray
47:14 Oct 30, 2019
6
Toussaint L'Ouverture
57:47 Oct 16, 2019
7
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
52:34 Oct 2, 2019
8
Rosa Parks
41:53 Sep 18, 2019
9
Louis Pasteur
45:57 Sep 4, 2019
10
Margaret Thatcher
53:14 Aug 21, 2019
11
Diana, Princess of Wales
48:28 Aug 7, 2019
12
Muhammad Ali
59:44 Jul 24, 2019
13
James "Jesse" Owens
51:37 Jul 10, 2019
14
Johann Sebastian Bach
45:26 Jun 26, 2019
15
Wangar? Muta Maathai
48:56 Jun 12, 2019
16
Max Planck
55:36 May 29, 2019
17
Alfred Bernhard Nobel
44:48 May 15, 2019
18
Walter Elias Disney
44:30 May 1, 2019
19
Ludwig van Beethoven
51:02 Apr 17, 2019
20
Issac Newton
43:55 Apr 3, 2019
21
Harriet Tubman
48:27 Mar 20, 2019
22
Christopher Columbus
44:51 Mar 6, 2019
23
Nefertiti
44:03 Feb 20, 2019
24
Johannes Kepler
42:54 Feb 6, 2019
25
Simón Bolívar
44:17 Jan 23, 2019
26
Oskar Schindler
45:12 Jan 9, 2019
27
Robin Williams
46:04 Dec 12, 2018
28
King Arthur
45:32 Nov 28, 2018
29
Sacagawea
45:09 Nov 14, 2018
30
Frederick Douglass
48:19 Oct 31, 2018
31
Joseph Stalin
49:06 Oct 17, 2018
32
Gregor Mendel
38:59 Oct 3, 2018
33
Yangdi
54:52 Sep 19, 2018
34
Andrew Carnegie
50:13 Sep 5, 2018
35
Lydia Pinkham
1:03:35 Aug 29, 2018
36
Galileo
53:26 Aug 22, 2018
37
John Locke
59:09 Aug 8, 2018
38
Genghis Khan
47:15 Jul 25, 2018
39
Sir Francis Bacon
56:37 Jul 11, 2018
40
Anwar El-Sadat
1:09:54 Jun 27, 2018
41
Mark Twain
1:05:03 Jun 13, 2018
42
Jackie Robinson
1:06:18 May 30, 2018
43
Jesse James
1:04:16 May 16, 2018
44
Thomas Edison
57:52 May 2, 2018
45
Frida Kahlo
55:02 Apr 18, 2018
46
Nelson Mandela
54:53 Apr 4, 2018
47
Oscar Wilde
56:43 Mar 28, 2018
48
Hernan Cortes
53:33 Mar 21, 2018
49
Helen Keller
47:42 Mar 14, 2018
50
John D. Rockefeller
54:42 Mar 7, 2018
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