Statistics for Celebrity Deaths 1800-1899

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Hint	Year	Answer	% Correct
A Founding Father and the second US president	1826	John Adams	97%
Founder of modern communism	1883	Karl Marx	97%
German composer who suffered from deafness	1827	Ludwig van Beethoven	97%
Leader of Confederate armies in the Civil War	1870	Robert E. Lee	94%
The naturalist who came up with the theory of evolution	1882	Charles Darwin	90%
The author of Oliver Twist	1870	Charles Dickens	90%
The French military genius and Emperor	1821	Napoleon Bonaparte	90%
Author of the Declaration of Independence	1826	Thomas Jefferson	90%
US president who issued the Emancipation Proclamation	1867	Abraham Lincoln	87%
The hero of the Battle of Trafalgar	1805	Horation Nelson	87%
The author of Pride and Prejudice	1817	Jane Austen	87%
The author of Frankenstein	1851	Mary Shelley	87%
El Libertador of 19th-century South America	1830	Simón Bolívar	87%
The marvelous painter who cut off his own earlobe	1890	Vincent Van Gogh	87%
The author of the poem The Raven	1849	Edgar Allan Poe	84%
Confederate general nicknamed "Stonewall"	1863	Thomas J. Jackson	84%
Inventor of dynamite	1896	Alfred Nobel	81%
President of the United States from 1829 to 1837	1845	Andrew Jackson	81%
US army commander killed in the Battle of the Little Bighorn	1876	George Armstrong Custer	81%
Inventor of the raised-point writing system for the blind	1852	Louis Braille	81%
Baby-faced outlaw of the American West	1881	Billy the Kid	77%
The author of Les Misérables	1885	Victor Hugo	77%
The author of The Three Musketeers	1870	Alexandre Dumas	74%
Author of Jane Eyre	1855	Charlotte Brontë	71%
The author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	1898	Lewis Carroll	71%
Improver (not inventor) of the steam engine	1819	James Watt	68%
Explorer of Africa who met with Henry Stanley	1873	David Livingstone	65%
Tennessee frontiersman and defender of the Alamo	1836	Davy Crockett	65%
Romantic Polish-French piano composer	1849	Frederic Chopin	65%
Famous desperado of the old American west	1882	Jesse James	65%
English king who lost the American colonies	1820	King George III	65%
The Russian composer who wrote The Nutcracker	1893	Piotr Tchaikovsky	65%
Beloved husband of Queen Victoria	1862	Prince Albert	65%
German composer of Der Ring des Nibelungen	1883	Richard Wagner	65%
The Lakota chief who beat General Custer at Little Bighorn	1890	Sitting Bull	65%
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States	1804	Alexander Hamilton	61%
German philosopher who wrote Critique of Pure Reason	1804	Immanuel Kant	61%
The Italian who built the first battery	1827	Alessandro Volta	58%
Pioneer of smallpox vaccine	1823	Edward Jenner	58%
The author of Crime and Punishment	1881	Fyodor Dostoevsky	58%
The author of Treasure Island	1894	Robert Louis Stevenson	58%
The Indian woman who accompanied Lewis & Clark	1812	Sacagawea	58%
Romantic composer known for his Hungarian Rhapsodies	1886	Franz Liszt	55%
Political activist and the author of Common Sense	1809	Thomas Paine	48%
President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War	1889	Jefferson Davis	45%
The German dramatist known for Faust	1832	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	42%
The author of Little Women	1888	Louisa May Alcott	42%
Spanish painter of Maya Nude	1828	Francisco Goya	39%
The author of Ivanhoe	1832	Sir Walter Scott	35%
The gambler who fought with the Earps at the O.K. Corral	1887	Doc Holliday	32%
Austrian composer who died at the age of 31	1828	Franz Schubert	32%
Composer who was mentor of Mozart, and a tutor of Beethoven	1810	Joseph Haydn	32%
The author of Don Juan	1824	Lord Byron	23%
French author of novel The Red and the Black	1842	Stendhal	23%
Mechanical engineer, developed steam engine	1848	George Stephenson	19%
Inventor of the first dynamo	1867	Michael Faraday	19%
German composer known for A Midsummer Night's Dream	1847	Felix Mendelssohn	16%
The frontiersman shot from behind in Deadwood	1876	Wild Bill Hickok	13%
Field Marshal of the Russian Empire who defeated Napoleon	1813	Mikhail Kutuzov	6%
Brave water-carrying woman of the American Revolutionary War	1832	Molly Pitcher	6%