Curated playlist
Deaths from edema
- Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre asked to be dropped as a Nobel nominee, then won anyway. His 1964 letter went unread.
- Andrew JacksonAndrew Jackson was slashed with a sword as a boy for refusing to polish a British officer's boots.
- Jack L. WarnerJack Warner once rushed onstage at the Oscars and took a trophy that was not his. The prize was for Casablanca.
- Asaf-ud-DaulaAsaf-ud-Daula paid penniless nobles to tear down laborers' work at night. It hid their need during the 1784 famine.
- Anthony of PaduaAnthony of Padua, born Fernando Martins de Bulhões in Lisbon, died on the 13th of June 1231 at the age of 35. He was a Portuguese priest of the Order of Friars Minor, and he left behind a book of sermons, a basilica and a reputation that…
- TrajanTrajan, born in a small Spanish town without baths or a theater, became Rome's emperor.
- HonoriusTen-year-old Honorius inherited the western Roman Empire and lived to see Rome sacked.
- Giovanni BoccaccioGiovanni Boccaccio hated banking and disliked law just as much. He became a poet who wrote The Decameron.
- Mary of GuiseMary of Guise's attendants carried her body out of Edinburgh Castle at midnight, in secret.
- MF DoomMF Doom died on October 31, 2020, but no one outside his family knew for two months. His wife then announced it.
- Benedict ArnoldBenedict Arnold is the one general missing from the victory monument at Saratoga. The monument has four niches. Three hold statues of Generals Gates, Schuyler and Morgan. The fourth niche is pointedly empty. The battle that monument…