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Epilepsy is a condition affecting up to one percent of the world's population. Approximately five percent of people will have at least one seizure in their lifetime. Anyone can get epilepsy, from young babies to old men and women. Epilepsy can begin in old age as well as in childhood.
Many famous people in history have had epilepsy:
World leaders
Julius Caesar, Roman Emperor
Peter the Great, Czar of Russia
Napoleon
James Madison, U.S. President
Alexander the Great
Charles V, King of England
Karl V, Emperor of Austria
Harriet Tubman (slave freedom)
Religious figures
Joan of Arc
Saint Paul the Prophet
Pope Pius IX
Cardinal Richelieu
Writers
Dostoevsky
Dickens
Flaubert
Moliere
Jonathan Swift
Tennyson
Edgar Allen Poe
Poet Lord Byron
Dante
Tolstoy
Lewis Carroll
Truman Capote
Agatha Christie
Composers and Artists
Handel
Tchaikovsky
Leonardo DaVinci
Michaelangelo
Vincent Van Gogh
Scientists and Inventors
Alfred Nobel, inventor of gunpowder and establisher of the Nobel Prize
Pythagoras, inventor of geometry
Socrates, Greek philosopher
Actors
Richard Burton,
Margaux Hemingway
Danny Glover
Athletes
Florence Joyner Griffiths, Olympic sprinter
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