Famous People Who Gained Fame After Death - Statistics

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Life	Fame Since	Hint	Person	% Correct
1809–1849	1850s–1900s	Writer of "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart"	Edgar Allan Poe	88%
1929–1945	1950s	Wrote a diary detailing her time during WWII	Anne Frank	87%
1856–1943	Late 1900s	Futurist Serbian-American inventor of AC electricity	Nikola Tesla	84%
1853–1890	1900s–1910s	Post-Impressionist painter of sunflowers	Vincent Van Gogh	77%
1818–1848	1850s–1870s	Author of Wuthering Heights	Emily Brontë	75%
1883–1924	1930s–1940s	Czech author who wrote "The Metamorphosis"	Franz Kafka	68%
1819–1891	1920s–1940s	Author of Moby Dick	Herman Melville	67%
1932–1963	1970s	American poet and author of The Bell Jar	Sylvia Plath	55%
1822–1884	1900	Geneticist monk with pea plant experiments	Gregor Mendel	45%
1890–1937	1940s–1960s	Cosmic horror writer of the the Cthulhu Mythos	H. P. Lovecraft	43%
1817–1862	Late 1800s	Author of Walden and "Civil Disobedience"	Henry David Thoreau	40%
1795–1821	1840s	Romantic poet known for "Ode to a Nightingale"	John Keats	40%
1954–2004	2005–2010	Author of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo	Stieg Larsson	40%
1813–1855	1880s–1900s	Danish theologian, the first existentialist philosopher	Søren Kierkegaard	32%
1830–1886	1890s	Poet known for "Because I could not stop for Death"	Emily Dickinson	31%
1911–1938	1960s	Blues guitarist of "Cross Road Blues"	Robert Johnson	27%
1948–1974	1990s	Singer-songwriter of Pink Moon	Nick Drake	20%
1937–1969	1980	Wrote A Confederacy of Dunces	John Kennedy Toole	18%
1891–1960	1970s	Harlem Renaissance: Their Eyes Were Watching God	Zora Neale Hurston	16%

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