Continued from April 30th.
5. OSCAR WILDER sentenced to hard labor in 1895 for "sodomy and gross indecency," eight months after "Importance of Being Earnest was published. Died two years after getting out of prison, broke and a social outcast.
4. PHINEAS GAGE had a spike driven through his skull in 1848 and survived it. He was back at work ten weeks later, but a changed man. (I would guess.)
3. KING EDWARD II deposed in 1327 by his wife and her lover. Murdered in prison either by smothering or a red-hot poker up his rectum. (I'd have to choose smothering.) His son Edward III avenged his father and had his mother, Isabella and her lover executed.
2. PETER ABELHARD was castrated for his affair with Heloise in 1117.
1. ROSEMARY KENNEDY had a botched frontal lobotomy in 1942.
And You Thought You Had a Bad Day. --DaCoot
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