Famous Snorers in History

If you snore you are in good company as George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, Richard Nixon, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill all snored and also in bad company with Benito Mussolino.

Teddy Roosevelt was such an astounding snorer that while in a Washington hospital all the patients on the entire floor had to be relocated to get any sleep

Franklin Delano Roosevelt suffered from hypertension and sleep apnea, both of which it is believed were factors contributing to his death in 1945. He was believed to suffer from a sleep disorder that made him more tired than he should be especially in the mornings. FDR was a smoker and known to be a snorer

Beau Brummel arbiter of men's fashion in Regency England

One of the curious things is that snorers don't wake themselves up in fact they are usually astonished to be told by a friend that they are terrible snorers. The only clue that snorers have is that they wake after eight hours sleep exhausted.