Statistics for People Who Died or are Buried in Paris

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Died	Age	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1821	51	He conquered a large chunk of Europe	Napoleon	95%
1793	38	Last king of France's ancien régime	Louis XVI	89%
1934	66	Polish-born scientist who studied radiation	Marie Curie	89%
1923	91	Designed a tower which bears his name	Gustave Eiffel	87%
1997	36	Member of the British royal family	Princess Diana	86%
1852	43	Developed a reading system for the blind	Louis Braille	83%
1895	72	Developed a technique for heating milk to prevent bacterial contamination	Louis Pasteur	78%
1885	83	Author of "Les Misérables"	Victor Hugo	69%
1971	27	Lead singer of the Doors	Jim Morrison	66%
1972	77	King of the United Kingdom for less than a year	Duke of Windsor	63%
1935	57	Founder of a French auto company which bears his name (hint: last name starts with C)	André Citroën	61%
1900	46	Irish-born author of "The Picture of Dorian Gray"	Oscar Wilde	61%
1870	68	Author of "The Three Musketeers"	Alexandre Dumas	56%
1963	47	"Non, je ne regrette rien", she sang	Édith Piaf	55%
1778	83	Notable figure of the Enlightenment who wrote "Candide"	Voltaire	52%
1849	39	Polish composer and piano virtuoso	Frédéric Chopin	50%
2007	84	Possibly history's most famous mime	Marcel Marceau	31%
1989	83	Irish playwright whose most famous play is about waiting for someone who never shows up	Samuel Beckett	31%
1986	78	Feminist who wrote "The Second Sex"	Simone de Beauvoir	30%
1793	50	Assassinated in a bathtub, his death is depicted in a famous painting	Jean-Paul Marat	28%