19. Rosemary Kennedy
However, John wasn’t the only successful one; Robert and Ted became senators. Unfortunately, for Rosemary the eldest Kennedy daughter, the story wasn’t such a happy one. Many women throughout history have been deemed intellectually incompetent or manic for having emotions, and Rosemary was one of them. She was said to have extreme mood swings, which led to her being placed in a mental health facility. Instead of working with doctors and keeping an open mind about her emotional and mental situation, her father thought it would be easier to institutionalize her for his fear of messing up the family’s reputation. While institutionalized she was given a lobotomy. The procedure violently separates the right side of the brain from the left, and it left her unable to walk or talk. The forgotten Rosemary Kennedy died in 2005, spending most of her life in a mental institution.