Name that historical figure!

[Cookiegod]

Uhm, which cultural group?! Northern European?
Is it Biorn?

[General Brewster]

Northwestern European and nope

[General Brewster]

He actually has hair too btw. For some reason that's not on the model.

[Cookiegod]

I have a very rough location (northwestern Europe could mean Britain, but it really depends on your definition of it), the info that he had hair, a beard, and the info that he has a name and that his death was somewhat famous (which would indicate a violent death). Which means the information at hand fits to thousands of people, I've got nothing and am not even going to try.
:/

[General Brewster]

Dutch, executed in his 70's. Before there was a United States (A long time before)

[paleologos]

It seems that this hint was enough, I found this in Wikipedia: Johan van Oldenbarnevelt.

[General Brewster]

Bingo!

Famous in his life and famous for his death, as the punishment looked to be rather severe.

[paleologos]

That's an easy one, I think:

[Cookiegod]

Wernher von Braun?

[paleologos]

No.

[Cookiegod]

Martin Lockheed?

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

And by that I obviously mean Clarence Leonard "Kelly" Johnson

[paleologos]

Clarence "Kelly" Johnson it is, Cookiegod has the ground.

[Cookiegod]

I swear: Not only was this a lucky blind guess, but he's also the only other American fighter plane engineer I know.



Like with most of my riddles, this one has to the last one.


I'm kind of worried that this never ending forum update might brick this competition too. I can't post in guess the battle. Can you guys?

[chesser2538]

Site is back up and running OK for now.

As for the picture it looks like Japanese Admiral Yamamoto

[Cookiegod]

Yep. Shot down by a plane of Johnson, iirc.

[chesser2538]

[paleologos]

Bernard Montgomery

[chesser2538]

Nope, he's older than Monty.

[General Brewster]

General John Monash?

[chesser2538]

Aye, the General has it.