Short answers, pulled from the story.
Simón Bolívar was born on the 24th of July 1783 in Caracas, which served as the capital of the Captaincy General of Venezuela. He entered a world of immense privilege as the fourth and youngest child of a wealthy family of American-born Spaniards known as criollos.
On the 18th of August 1805 Simón Bolívar climbed the Mons Sacer with two companions including his tutor Simón Rodríguez. Standing there he swore an oath to end Spanish rule in the Americas and declared that he would dedicate his life to liberating his homeland from colonial oppression.
Simón Bolívar died of tuberculosis on the 17th of December 1830 at the age of forty-seven in Santa Marta. His health deteriorated rapidly while traveling from Bogotá to Cartagena seeking exile in England before he moved to the Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino near Santa Marta where he passed away.
In January 2008 President Hugo Chávez established a commission to investigate claims that Simón Bolívar had been poisoned. The commission exhumed his remains on the 16th of July 2010 but results made public on the 26th of July 2011 proved inconclusive as Vice Minister Elías Jaua announced that the investigation could not prove the poisoning claim.
Currencies in Venezuela and Bolivia are named after him as the bolívar and boliviano respectively. He is known colloquially as El Libertador or the Liberator of America and public monuments street names and literature honor his memory across the continent.