The Marquis DeSade, whose given name was Donatien Alphonse Francois, spent 29 years incarcerated even though he was never convicted of a crime.

Hunter S. Thompson accidentally shot his personal assistant when he was aiming for a bear.

Toulouse-Lautrec had a hollow cane that served as a flask for absinthe. It also held a glass.

Blackbeard, though known as fearsome and bloodthirsty, never killed a man until the final battle that ended his life.

Charles Baudelaire's life was cut short by syphilis and an addiction to opium, which he drank in the form of laudanum.