Statistics for People in History by Wikipedia Descriptions #4

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A Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.	Marie Curie	94%
Two of his songs, "We Are the Champions" and "Bohemian Rhapsody", have also each been voted as the greatest song of all time in major polls	Freddie Mercury	81%
A Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Tsar Nicholas II.	Rasputin	80%
She made a nonstop solo transatlantic flight, becoming the first woman to achieve such a feat.	Amelia Earhart	76%
Tony Blair erroneously accused him of possessing weapons of mass destruction.	Saddam Hussein	73%
According to one account, he nailed his Ninety-five Theses to the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg on 31 October 1517.	Martin Luther	72%
Considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival, the fellow Florentine and client of the Medici, Leonardo da Vinci.	Michelangelo	69%
Through further military campaigns, he ousted Spanish rulers from Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.	Simon Bolivar	69%
The popular belief is that she was bitten by an asp.	Cleopatra	64%
He built a new imperial residence at Byzantium and renamed the city after himself.	Constantine	62%
At 19 months old she contracted an unknown illness that left her both deaf and blind.	Helen Keller	62%
The new continent was named America after the Latin version of his first name.	Amerigo Vespucci	59%
On 2 January 1492 she entered Granada to receive the keys of the city, and the principal mosque was reconsecrated as a church.	Isabella I	45%
He was the first recognised emperor to rule from western Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire.	Charlemagne	44%
He encouraged black Zimbabweans to violently seize white-owned farms.	Robert Mugabe	44%
He is the reputed author of the Tao Te Ching.	Laozi	35%
He told reporters he had designed a superweapon he claimed would end all war. He would call it "teleforce", but was usually referred to as his death ray.	Nikola Tesla	28%
During his reign, Mali may have been the largest producer of gold in the world.	Mansa Musa	25%

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