You cannot be furious!
★ ARE you fuming mad? Boffins say writing down how you feel and then binning the piece of paper can zap anger, as we reported yesterday. ★ But the trick might not have worked for some of history’s most furious folk. Here JAMES MOORE looks back at some not
Alexander the grate: Greek king Alexander the Great killed his top general Cleitus – who had once saved him in battle – with a spear, while in a drunken rage back in 328BC.
Vexed Rex: England’s King John murdered his nephew Arthur in a fit of pique in 1203 and threw his body into the River Seine in France.
Wrath a brute: Ruthless Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible murdered his own son and heir, also Ivan, in 1581, by hitting him over the head with a staff after losing the plot.
Henry the hate: Known for executing 57,000 people and two of his wives, historians think Henry VIII’s infamous mood swings may have been caused by a jousting injury.
Atti-Tudor: His children seem to have inherited his peevish ways though. Edward VI once plucked the feathers off a falcon in a huff, while a livid Elizabeth I broke one of her maid’s fingers.
Hell raiser: Frequently getting into fights, Italian Renaissance artist Caravaggio was forced to go on the run in 1606 after killing a man in a tavern brawl.
Oval a-fuss: Before becoming US President Abraham Lincoln often flew into fits of rage. Scientists now think mercury poisoning caused his outbursts.
Irk issue: Jack Daniel, founder of the famous American whiskey brand, died in 1911 from an infected toe, said to have been caused by kicking his safe because he forgot the combination.
Nazi side: Dictator Adolf Hitler was known for rants at his generals In one strop he branded them “indecent” and “complete failures”.
Blowing a gasket: North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il died from a heart attack in 2011 after raging about a power station’s leaking dam.
Ire do: Casablanca star Humphrey Bogart was once stabbed in the shoulder by his famously fiery wife Mayo Methot.
Hot-headed: French Emperor Napoleon, left, was known for having blow-ups. In 1813 in a meeting with Austrian Prince Metternich, he got so angry he took off his hat and stamped up and down on it.
Old boo eyes: Short-fused singer Frank Sinatra often lost it. He once drove a golf buggy through a shop window and on another occasion threw a bottle of ketchup on a waiter.
Getting the boot: Ex Man Utd boss Sir Alex Ferguson kicked a boot in the dressing room which accidentally hit David Beckham in the face.
What a racket: Sport’s most famous tantrum came in 1981 when “Superbrat” US tennis player John McEnroe, far left, had a spat with the umpire about a line call, shouting: “You cannot be serious!”