History is filled with weird but true stories of social contagion - from dancing manias in the Middle Ages to nuns pretending to be cats in the 19th century to laughing epidemics of Tanzanian school girls in the 1960s.

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• Isaac Newton

  Physicist

  Sunday, Jan 04, 1643
  Monday, Mar 31, 1727

• Jean De La Bruyere

  Wednesday, Aug 16, 1645
  Thursday, May 10, 1696

• Mae West

  Actress

  Thursday, Aug 17, 1893
  Saturday, Nov 22, 1980

• Ernest Hemingway

  Author

  Friday, Jul 21, 1899
  Sunday, Jul 02, 1961

• Peter Drucker

  Author

  Friday, Nov 19, 1909
  Friday, Nov 11, 2005

• Joe Biden

  Vice President Of The United States

  Friday, Nov 20, 1942
  

• Voltaire

  Writer

  Sunday, Nov 21, 1694
  Saturday, May 30, 1778

• Muhammad Ali

  Professional Boxer

  Saturday, Jan 17, 1942
  Friday, Jun 03, 2016

• Pope John Paul Ii

  Priest

  Tuesday, May 18, 1920
  Saturday, Apr 02, 2005

• Michael Jordan

  Basketball Player

  Sunday, Feb 17, 1963
  

• Thomas Jefferson

  3Rd US President

  Saturday, Apr 13, 1743
  Tuesday, Jul 04, 1826

• Dolly Parton

  Singer-Songwriter

  Saturday, Jan 19, 1946
  

• H. L. Mencken

  Journalist

  Sunday, Sep 12, 1880
  Sunday, Jan 29, 1956

• Kanye West

  Songwriter

  Wednesday, Jun 08, 1977
  Thursday, Jun 04, 2015

• Nelson Mandela

  Former President Of South Africa

  Thursday, Jul 18, 1918
  Thursday, Dec 05, 2013