Historical Birth Places | Pointless

Many historical figures have lived over the years, but where were they born?
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[@ieuanwaters7767]

Mohandas gandhi worked as a journalist in South Africa as a young man

[@ieuanwaters7767]

Lawyer not journalist

[@evasaari838]

How they select those 100?

[@ckfks]

Leonardo da Vinci was not born in Italy, there was no Italy until the 18th century

[@linmanfu913]

There was no state called Italy until the *19th* century, but Italy was a "geographical expression" much earlier.

[@ianrastoski3346]

Egotistical brainiac.
You really expect people to go "Aha! Martin Luther was born in the County of Mansfield?"

[@satiricalhaz-homeofbanter4371]

And martin luther wasn't born in germany since there wasn't yet a germany and haile selassie was born in abyssinia, the old name for ethiopia, but being that pedantic would be a bit pointless for the purposes of the round