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People Pathway Year 1 Captain Scott Robert Falcon Scott CVO was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery expedition of 1901–1904 and the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition of 1910–1913. Born: 6 June 1868, Plymouth Died: 29 March 1912, Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica Mary Anning Mary Anning was an English fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist who became known around the world for important finds she made in Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the English Channel at Lyme Regis in the county of Dorset in Southwest England. Born: 21 May 1799, Lyme Regis Died: 9 March 1847, Lyme Regis Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC, DStJ was an English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers. Born: 12 May 1820, Florence, Italy Died: 13 August 1910, Mayfair, London Mary Seacole Mary Jane Seacole was a British-Jamaican business woman and nurse who set up the "British Hotel" behind the lines during the Crimean War. She described this as "a mess-table and comfortable quarters for sick and convalescent officers", and provided succour for wounded servicemen on the battlefield. Born: 23 November 1805, Kingston, Jamaica Died: 14 May 1881, Paddington, London Mo Willems Mo Willems is an American writer, animator, voice actor, and creator of children's books. His television work includes creating the animated television series Sheep in the Big City for Cartoon Network as well as working on Sesame Street, The Muppets, and The Off-Beats. Born: 11 February 1968, Des Plaines, Illinois, United States Fiona French Fiona French attended art college in Croydon, concentrating on painting but she also studied photography, theatre design and sculpture. In addition to Snow White in New York, her other books include Cinderella and Maid of the Wood. She lives in Norton, Norfolk, England. Google Books Born: 27 June 1944, Bath Malala Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai, also known mononymously as Malala, is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. Born: 12 July 1997 (age 22 years), Mingora, Pakistan Residence: United Kingdom Education: Edgbaston High School for Girls (2013–2017), Khushal Public School (2012), Lady Margaret Hall People Pathway Year 2 Rosa Parks Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". Born: 4 February 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, United States Died: 24 October 2005, Detroit, Michigan, United States Guy Fawkes Guy Fawkes, also known as Guido Fawkes while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned 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. Born: 13 April 1570, York Died: 31 January 1606, Westminster, London Charles Macintosh Charles Macintosh FRS was a Scottish chemist and the inventor of waterproof fabric. The Mackintosh raincoat is named after him. Born: 29 December 1766, Glasgow Died: 25 July 1843, Glasgow Vincent Van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch post-impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life. Born: 30 March 1853, Zundert, Netherlands Died: 29 July 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise, France The Wright Brothers The Wright brothers – Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912) – were two American aviation pioneers generally credited[1][2][3] with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful motor-operated airplane. They made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer on December 17, 1903, 4 mi (6 km) south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina Amelia Earhart Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. Born: 24 July 1897, Atchison, Kansas, United States Disappeared: July 2, 1937 (aged 39); Pacific Ocean, en route to Howland Island from Lae, Papua New Guinea Neil Armstrong Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer and the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. Born: 5 August 1930, Wapakoneta, Ohio, United States Died: 25 August 2012, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States Tim Peake Major Timothy Nigel Peake CMG is a British Army Air Corps officer, European Space Agency astronaut and a former International Space Station crew member. Born: 7 April 1972, Chichester People Pathway Year 3 Michael Rosen Michael Wayne Rosen is an English children's novelist, poet, and the author of 140 books. He served as Children's Laureate from June 2007 to June 2009. He has been a TV presenter and a political columnist. Born: 7 May 1946, Harrow Anthony Browne Anthony Edward Tudor Browne is a British writer and illustrator of children's books, primarily picture books, with fifty titles to his name. Born: 11 September 1946, Sheffield Michael Morpurgo Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo, OBE, FRSL, FKC is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse. Born: 5 October 1943, St Albans Henri Rousseau Henri Julien Félix Rousseau was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier, a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector. Born: 21 May 1844, Laval, France Died: 2 September 1910, Hôpital Necker, Paris, France Kerry Andrew Kerry Andrew is an English composer, performer and author. She has a PhD in Composition from the University of York and is the winner of four British Composer Awards. Her debut novel, Swansong, was published by Jonathan Cape in January 2018. She was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2018. Born: 5 April 1978, High Wycombe Guru Nanak Guru Nanak, also referred to as Baba Nanak, was the founder of Sikhism and the first of the ten Sikh Gurus. His birth is celebrated worldwide as Guru Nanak Gurpurab on Kartik Pooranmashi, the full-moon day in the month of Katak, October–November. Born: 1469, Nankana Sahib, Pakistan Died: 22 September 1539, Kartarpur, Pakistan Bedrich Smetana Bedřich Smetana was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood. He has been regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music. Born: 2 March 1824, Litomysl, Czechia Died: 12 May 1884, Prague, Czechia People Pathway Year 4 Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1885. Born: 3 March 1847, Edinburgh Died: 2 August 1922, Beinn Bhreagh Thomas Barnardo Thomas John Barnardo was an Irish philanthropist and founder and director of homes for poor children. From the foundation of the first Barnardo's home in 1867 to the date of Barnardo's death, nearly 60,000 children had been taken in. Born: 4 July 1845, Dublin, Ireland Died: 19 September 1905, London Pliny the younger Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo, better known as Pliny the Younger, was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and educate him. Born: 61 AD, Como, Italy Died: Bithynia, Turkey Queen Victoria Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. On 1 May 1876, she adopted the additional title of Empress of India. Known as the Victorian era, her reign of 63 years and seven months was longer than that of any of her predecessors. Born: 24 May 1819, Kensington Palace, London Died: 22 January 1901, Osborne, East Cowes Julius Caesar Gaius Julius Caesar, better known by his nomen gentilicium and cognomen Julius Caesar, was a Roman statesman and military general who played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire. He was also a historian and author of Latin prose. Born: Rome, Italy Assassinated: 15 March 44 BC, Rome Boudicca Boudica or Boudicca, also known as Boadicea or Boudicea, and in Welsh as Buddug, was a queen of the British Celtic Iceni tribe who led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61. She died shortly after its failure and was said to have poisoned herself. Born: 30 AD, Britannia Died: 61 AD, Britannia King Montezuma Moctezuma II, variant spellings include Montezuma, Moteuczoma, Motecuhzoma, Motēuczōmah, Muteczuma, and referred to in full by early Nahuatl texts as Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin, was the ninth tlatoani or ruler of Tenochtitlán, reigning from 1502 to 1520. Born: 1466, Tenochtitlan Died: 29 June 1520, Tenochtitlan Edward Elgar Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire.