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15 Famous dirty people

Two children bathing in a small metal bath tub

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Read about–and see photos of–15 famous dirty people:

  1. Benedict of Aniane: thought bathing was a vanity.

  2. Henry IV of France: his wife fainted from his stench the first time she met him.

  3. Miyamoto Musashi: never bathed unless he was visiting a feudal lord.

  4. Louis XIV of France: took three baths in his lifetime.

  5. Frederick II of Prussia: the shirt on his back was so rotten with sweat that his valet used one of his own to bury the king.

  6. Charles Howard: his valets got him drunk so they could bathe him.

  7. Ludwig van Beethoven: refused to bathe.

  8. Karl Marx: suffered from boil-like lumps.

  9. Henrietta Green

  10. Diego Rivera: avoided bathing because of his obesity.

  11. Chairman Mao Zedong: never brushed his teeth.

  12. Geoffrey Pyke: abhorred wearing socks.

  13. Howard Hughes

  14. Ernesto Guevara

  15. Marilyn Monroe: Clark Gable said she rarely bathed.

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