Day #22 - Famous People with Epilepsy

Hello, readers! Unfortunately nothing crazy happened today that I can tell you about, but I wanted to write a bit about all the famous people who have had Epilepsy. I'm sure most people don't even know about this! These are a few of my favorites (facts are borrowed from various sites):

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Edgar Allan Poe - Classic Writer


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Pope Pius IX

4.
Neil Young - Singer/ Songwriter

5.
Prince - Singer

6.
Alan Faneca (center) - American Football Guard

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Harriet Tubman (suffered with what was thought to be Epilepsy after having severe trauma to the head) - African-American abolitionist, Humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War.

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Sir Isaac Newton - English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian who is considered by many scholars and members of the general public to be one of the most influential people in human history
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To see more (MANY more) famous people with Epilepsy, visit the links below:

http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/epilepsy-famous.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_epilepsy

http://www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/famous