Comments on: 6 Famous Bastards Who Made Their Mark

By: Dick Nibbler

Dick Nibbler — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 03:21:13 +0000

From what Vincent Bugliosi wrote in “Helter Skelter”, Hitler himself was not a bastard but his father was.

By: Ernesto Pineyro Pineyro

Ernesto Pineyro Pineyro — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:32:47 +0000

Why so few bastards? Along human history, this is the game of men.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:14:27 +0000

Eva Peron was despicable to most people. To others she was a hero. My mother received the only toy she ever owned in her childhood from Eva Peron. She would drive to the different villages and hand out wine and toys to the poor.

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:11:24 +0000

According to the book “Helter Skelter”, when making comparisons of Manson and Hitler, the book claims Manson was a bastard and that Hitler’s father was but not Hitler himself.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:29:00 +0000

Thomas Paine was NOT an illegitiamte child. He was born on January 29, 1737, to Joseph and and Francis Cocke Pain (the name was later changed to “Paine”), who were married on June 20, 1734 — long before Thomas Paine was born. Get your facts straight.

By: Amber

Amber — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:00:00 +0000

t.e.lawrence was a brilliant and absolutely amazing individual, i’m shocked at the ‘motorcycle tinkering’ and ‘much-exaggerated accomplishments’ slander in this article.

By: james

james — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:21:00 +0000

Wasn’t –or isn’t Bill Clinton a Bastard–And I mean that both ways.

By: Ember

Ember — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:41:00 +0000

What happened to 4? It’s right after 3.

3. Thomas Paine and 4. Alexander Hamilton. Same line, two numbers.

By: Gary Sargent

Gary Sargent — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:43:06 +0000

I was surprised to see no mention of William the Bastard, who managed to get his appellation changed after a military victory on Oct 14, 1066.

By: Monique Radevu

Monique Radevu — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:38:15 +0000

Also ‘born on the wrong side of the blanket’ as the Chinese put it, are Edith Piaf (raised by prostitutes, lived in the streets), Billie Holiday, August Strindberg, Apollinaire, renaissance luminary Leon Alberti, Boccaccio, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Frederick Douglass, Aleksandr Borodin (love that 2nd string quartet!), Sarah Bernhardt, Marilyn Monroe of course, and Aleksandr Herzen, the brilliant Russian writer and revolutionary who helped force the abolition of serfdom in 1861. His autobio is widely considered a literary masterpiece.