Guy Fawkes

Guy Fawkes, 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.

13 April 1570

Born on the same birth day (13 April): Catherine de' Medici • Frederick North, Lord North • Gianni Marzotto • J. M. G. Le Clézio • Jean-Jacques Laffont • Josh Reynolds (rugby league) • Julius Nyerere • Kermit Tyler • Liam Cosgrave • Mahmoud Kahraba • Rosemary Haughton • Sorcha Boru • Steve Camp • Thomas Jefferson • Thomas Percy (bishop of Dromore) • William Sadler (actor)