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Signatures of famous leaders
Reformers, revolutionaries, explorers and statesmen, and the signatures and marks they left on the documents of their time.
7 signatures
- 1451–1506 · LeadersChristopher Columbus“Xpo FERENS” under a pyramid of letters no one has fully decoded
- 1769–1821 · RulersNapoleon BonaparteFrom “Buonaparte” to a scrawled “Np”: a signature that kept changing
- 1783–1830 · LeadersSimón Bolívar“Bolívar” and a sweeping rúbrica: the Liberator’s signature
- 1818–1895 · LeadersFrederick DouglassA signature learned in secret, under a name he chose himself
- 1820–1906 · LeadersSusan B. AnthonyA campaigner whose own signature sat on petition after petition
- 1822–1913 · LeadersHarriet TubmanShe could not write, so her documents carry her mark
- 1866–1925 · LeadersSun Yat-sen孫文 in Chinese, “Sun Yat Sen” in English: one man, two signatures