Notorious for the wrong reasons
Lenin called him ruthless, and his purges proved he was
Stalin
He probably played a lyre, not a fiddle, while Rome burnt
Nero
His book, translated as "My Struggle", outlined plans to conquer Europe
Adolf Hitler
Commonly attributed with starving between 14 to 45 million of his own people, his quotations are located in "The Little Red Book" probably the 2nd most printed book ever
Mao Zedong
Saloth Sar was the birth name of this despot whose brutal 1975-1979 regime killed millions in his "Killing Fields" with agricultural tools such as spades, hoes and clubs
Pol Pot