Kidney stones through the ages

In 271 or 270 BCE, the Greek Philosopher Epicurus died from a kidney stone blockage lasting a fortnight according to his successor Hermarchus and reported by his biographer Diogenes Laertius.
French Renaissance essayist Montaigne suffered from kidney stones.
British statesman Samuel Pepys also suffered from kidney stones and was operated on, pre-anesthesia, to remove a large stone which he carried with him and used to try to persuade fellow sufferers to endure the painful surgery. His contemporary, John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, could not face the prospect and died as a result.
Author Isaac Asimov suffered from kidney stones, and wrote about how his pain was treated with morphine, saying that he feared becoming addicted to morphine if he ever needed it again.
Astronauts often get kidney stones because of an increase in the amount of calcium in their blood due to a loss of bone density in zero gravity.
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dennis Hastert, has had a number kidney stones. Hastert has had to have kidney stone removal surgery.
On October 19, 2005, while working on the set of Boston Legal, Actor William Shatner was taken to the emergency room for lower back pain. He eventually passed a kidney stone, but recovered and soon returned to work. Shatner sold his kidney stone in 2006 for $75,000 to GoldenPalace.com. The money will go to a housing charity.
Reggaeton artist Tito El Bambino briefly suffered from kidney stones.
In the sixth season episode of Seinfeld, titled "The Gymnast," Kramer suffers from a kidney stone that he descibes as "a stony mineral concretion, formed abnormally in the kidney. And this jagged shard of calcium pushes its way through the ureter into the bladder. It's forced out through the urine!" At the end of the episode, he passes the stone while in the washroom at a circus. Ouch.