If there is a famous or infamous person or people whose notoriety or deeds you could erase from history, who would it be?

Dear Toxic Hairball,

I would like to nominate a disease, not a person; the Black Plague.

I have been studying history for clues as to why we are like we are, and in the 14th century there was no germ theory to help us understand. So in Europe one of three, by some accounts half the population succumbed, horrible deaths, and it seemed like the Wrath of God...the End of the World.

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Did that horrible disease impact our collective psyche into the present era? Would there be less shame, guilt, blame in our culture if our ancestors had not endured the Black Death?

Infamous indeed. The two biggest murderers of the 20th century.

I will pick whoever it was who actually wrote the Pentateuch. There is no measure of how much misery and cruelty resulted because of these writings.

Tomas de Torquemada! He wasn't the sole perpetrator of the Inquisition, of course, but his name lives on in infamy.