- Julius Caesar
- Peter the Great
- Mohammed, the prophet of Islam
- Lord Byron
- Gustave Flaubert
- Niccolò Paganini
- Blaise Pascal
- Hector Berlioz
- Guy de Maupassant
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
No way are you folks ever going to get this unless some of my readers are total geniuses (which is possible). Nevertheless, if you all can’t even get movie stars of the last century, I don’t see how you can answer this question without a hint.
Here is the hint, and it’s a huge one:
All of these men suffered from a serious, lifelong, generally heritable illness.
