| description | person |
| A mathematician who scribbled important theorems in margins of texts | |
| Someone whom very little is known about, but who fought in a war and died. | |
| A Jew who preached some radical theories and was crucified for his deeds. | |
| A wandering Greek poet with a knack for dactylic hexameter | |
| A Heathen prosecuted by the Church for having some crazy ideas about the earth revolving around the Sun. | |
| He had a couple of children at a very old age, and almost sacrificed one of them on a mountain. | |
| You may have read his most famous work in a Latin classroom, but it wasn't published until after he died. | |
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| Her diary about her life from 1942-1944 was published two years after her death in 1945. | |
| His book on how a Prince should rule his people wasn't published until five years after his death in 1527. | |
| This Dutch Philosopher's Ethics was published shortly after his death | |
| In life he lead a secret society of academics, now he is associated with right triangles. | |
| This Chinese sailor traveled the world, but records of his last voyages were destroyed, leading to speculation continuing to modern day. | |
| Most Americans learned his name on November 22, 1963 after he killed a certain someone, he was murdered just two days later. | |
| This boy from Alba Longa founded a city with his brother, who killed him long before the city was finished. | |
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