Do you know this....

[Grey_Wolf]

Originally Posted by The last sane person

Tiberius Claudius Caesar!

Thats who adopted Nero and brought that mad fiddler to the throne! Hurrah, for my brain still works!

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......I will be severly embarrased if that's not who it was....

It is indeed Claudius, the stammering emperor.

You may proceed.

...historic celebrity:

predecessor of Sophocles and Euripides. "Agamemnon" being one of his plays. Introduced Second Actor. =Aeschylus

...contemporary celebrity:

Journalistic curiousity caused his downfall. Ended long and painful war. = Richard Nixon

...contemporary celebrity:

Iron maiden who lead the "angles". Won a southern mini-war. = Margaret Thatcher