This list came about because recently I learned (I've been out of the music loop since the mid 1990s) that my warbling hero of my adolescence, Morrissey, has revealed that he is no longer celibate. I regard this as just another sign of how the fabric of space-time has increasingly frayed, and I'm pretty certain that someone has grabbed on to one of these frayed edges and is pulling.

It got me to thinking of noted people who died virgins. Isaac Newton is understandable—after all, he invented calculus—the least sexiest subject there is. As for Adolf Hitler being on the list...it figures. As the saying goes, "Celibacy is not hereditary."

1. Isaac Newton, gravity and calculus are his gifts to humanity
2. Nikola Tesla, electrical genius and caregiver to pigeons
3. John Harvey Kellogg, he gave the world corn flakes
4. Leonardo da Vinci, numerous contributions to humanity including possibly a code
5. Adolf Hitler, bona fide evil
6. Anne and Emily Brontë, wrote books so high school and college students learn how to write term papers
7. Lewis Carroll, took a lot of laudanum and wrote a story and gave us the words of brillig, snark and jabberwocky
8. Anna Freud, psychoanalyst and daughter of Sigmund
9. George Bernard Shaw, noted vegetarian and playwright
10. Emily Dickinson, recluse and poet
11. Immanuel Kant, philosopher extraordinaire
12. Florence Nightingale, nursing pioneer
13. Jane Austen, novelist

Questions are arising in my comments about how is it known that these people died as virgins. It's a combination of them saying that they were, or by their known biographical history. Such as, Emily Dickinson may not have directly said she was a virgin but it is known that she lived a very reclusive life and no one has been linked to her romantically or sexually.

As for Hitler and his late-life mistress Eva Braun, there is debate as to whether or not they consumated their relationship. What we do know is Hitler's sexual history as conveyed through a near-incestuous relationship he had with his niece, which may be indicative of his sexual habits/preferences in general. I had watched the tail-end of a show on the History Channel about Hitler's personal physician who claimed that Hitler had syphilis. Yet, nothing is conclusive because the test that the physician used can produce false positives and wasn't reliable or accurate.