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I Did it My Way. E.Presley.
Sherwood Anderson - writer
1941 --- after swallowing a toothpick at a cocktail party he died of peritonitis on an ocean liner bound for Brazil.
John Jacob Astor>
1912 --- drowned with the "unsinkable" Titanic.
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Attila the Hunt
453 AD --- bled to death from a nosebleed on his wedding night.
Alexander I of Greece - king of the Hellenes
1917–20 1920 --- died October 25, from blood poisoning after being bitten by his gardener's pet monkey.
Alexander II (Alexander Nikolaevich) - Czar of Russia
1881 --- assassinated by a bomb which tore off his legs, ripped open his belly and mutilated his face.
Jane Austen
1817 --- Addison's disease.
Sir Francis Bacon
1626 --- pneumonia. He was experimenting with freezing a chicken by stuffing it with snow.
Velma (Margie) Barfield
1984 --- 1st woman executed in US since restoration of death penalty in 1967. (For poisoning her fiance)
Thomas a Becket - Archbishop of Canterbury
1170 --- murdered in the Canterbury cathedral by four knights, supposedly on orders by Henry II.
Ludwig van Beethoven
1827 --- cirrhosis of the liver.
Rainey Bethea
1936 --- the last publicly executed criminal in US. Executed by hanging..
Kimberly Bergalis
1991 --- died of AIDS. She had contracted the disease from her dentist.
Bridget Bishop
1692 --- 1st of the witches hung in Salem, Massachusetts. She was executed on June 10.
(Salem witches: Almost 150 "witches" were arrested, but only 31 were tried in 1692. All 31, including 6 males, were sentenced to death. Nineteen were hanged, 2 died in jail, and 1 man was slowly pressed to death under heavy stones. None were burned.)
Anne Boleyn
1536 --- beheaded for adultery by request of Henry VIII.
Neil Bonnett - race car driver
1994 --- car crash, killed during practice at the Daytona International Speedway.
Salvatore "Sonny" Bono
1998 --- crashed into a tree while skiing.
Ray Brennan
1976 --- on July 27th - 1st person to die of "Legionnaire's Disease."
Charles Brooks, Jr.
1982 --- 1st criminal executed in US by lethal injection.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - poet
1861 --- acute bronchitis.
Jeff Buckley - musician
1997 --- drowned in the Mississippi River, near Mud Island Harbor, on May 29. His body wasn't found until June 4.
Lord Byron (George Gordon)
1824 --- died of malaria fever.
Calamity Jane (Martha Jane Canary)
1903 --- pneumonia following a bout of heavy drinking.
Al Capone - Chicago gangster
1947 --- syphilis.
Karen Carpenter - singer
1983 --- heart failure caused by anorexia nervosa, at age 32.
Jack Cassidy - actor
1976 --- died in a fire, while asleep on the couch in his apartment.
Catherine the Great - Empress of Russia
1796 --- a stroke, while going to the bathroom.
Nicolas Ceausescu - Romanian president
1989 --- executed by firing squad, on live television, along with his wife.
Anton Joseph Cermak - mayor of Chicago
1933 --- assassinated by accident when riding with Franklin Roosevelt in motorcade.
Sergei Chalibashvili - diver
1983 --- diving accident. Attempted a three-and-a-half reverse somersault in the tuck position during the World University Games. On the way down, he smashed his head on the board and was knocked unconscious. He died after being in a coma for a week.
Raymond Johnson Chapman - Cleveland Indians baseball player
1920 --- died one day after being struck in head by baseball pitch, becoming the only player ever killed as result of major league baseball game.
Charles I - English king
1649 --- beheaded by order of Parliament under Oliver Cromwell on January 30.
Cleopatra
30 BC --- suicide by poison, supposedly from a venomous snake.
Christopher Columbus
1506 --- rheumatic heart disease.
Jim Croce - singer
1973 ---plane crash. The plane crashed into a tree 200 yards past the end of the runway while taking off from Natchitoches, La. Municipal Airport. PlaneCrashInfo.com
Davy Crockett - US frontiersman
1836 --- killed defending the Alamo.
(Actually, Crockett survived the assault along with a few others, but was bayoneted to death by the Mexicans after they took the fort.)
Marie Curie - chemist, discovered Radium
1934 --- leukemia, caused by exposure to radiation.
Jeffrey Dahmer - mass murderer
1994 --- beaten to death with a broomstick by a fellow inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institute.
Edward Despard
1803 --- last executed criminal drawn & quartered in England.
John Dillinger - (1st number one criminal on FBI's most wanted list.)
1934 --- killed by FBI agent Melvin Purvis.
Jane Dornnacker - helicopter traffic reporter
1986 --- died doing a live traffic report for WNBC-AM NYC when her helicopter crashed.
Tommy Dorsey - Trombonist
1956 --- choked to death in his sleep, due to food that lodged in his windpipe.
Anthony J. Drexel III - philanthropist
1893 --- shot himself accidentally while showing off a new gun in his collection to his friends..
Jessica Dubroff - (age 7)
1996 --- plane crash - attempting to become the youngest pilot to fly cross-country.
Isadora Duncan - actress
1927 --- accidental strangulation when her scarf caught in car wheel. .
Dominique Dunne - actress ("Poltergeist")
1982 --- choked by boyfriend, John Sweeny. She died after being in a coma for 5 days.
Amelia Earhart
1937 --- missing in an attempt to fly around the world.
Adolf Eichmann
1962 --- executed by hanging for "crimes against the Jewish people."
Andres Escobar - Colombian soccer player
1994 --- murdered by unknown thugs, apparently in anger over the accidental goal he had scored for US during World Cup Game.
Francis Ferdinand - Archduke of Austria
1914 --- assassinated; the incident initiated World War I.
W. C. Fields (Claude William Dukenfield)
1946 --- stomach hemorrhage and cirrhosis of the liver.
Michael Findlay - horror film maker
1977 --- decapitated by helicopter blade.
J im Fixx - made jogging popular
1984 --- died of a heart attack . . . while jogging.
Dian Fossey - primatologist
1985 --- found hacked to death, presumably by poachers, in her Rwandan forest camp.
Sigmund Freud
1939 --- cancer of the jaw, palate, throat and tongue.
Bobby Fuller - musician
1966 --- his badly beaten body was discovered in a parked car in Los Angeles. His death was attributed to asphyxia through the forced inhalation of gasoline.
Rajiv Gandhi - prime minister of India from 1984 until 1989
1991 --- killed by a bomb, hidden in a bouquet of flowers, which exploded in his hand. Like his mother, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated.
Judy Garland (Frances Gumm)
1969 --- overdose of sleeping pills.
Marvin Gaye (Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr.) - singer
1984 --- murdered on his birthday by his father.
Andy Gibb - singer
1988 --- heart infection.
Gary Mark Gilmore
1977 --- 1st American executed after restoration of US death penalty in 1976. (Executed by firing squad.)
J ohn Glasscock - musician (Jethro Tull)
1979 --- heart infection caused by an abscessed tooth.
Olivia Goldsmith - author, "First Wives Club"
2004 --- complications resulting from anesthesia during plastic surgery.
Sergei Grinkov - Russian figure skater
1995 --- died of heart attack during skating practice.
Henry Gunther
1918 --- last soldier killed in WWI.
Alexander Hamilton - former US Treasury Secretary
1804 --- shot by US Vice President Aaron Burr in a pistol duel near Weehawken, New Jersey on July eleventh.
Mata Hari (Gertrud Margarete Zelle) - World War I spy
1917 --- executed by firing squad, she refused a blindfold and threw a kiss to the executioners.
William E. Harmon
1981 --- 1st BASE jumping fatality. He died in a jump from a 1000-foot antenna tower on April 11. BASE is an acronym for Building, Antennae, Span, Earth, and thus represents the fixed-objects from which BASE jumps are made.
William Henry Harrison
1841 --- 1st US President to die in office.
Leslie Harvey - musician
1972 --- lead guitarist of the Glasgow band Stone the Crows, died after being electrocuted onstage at Swansea's Top Rank Ballroom, May 3, 1972.
Owen Hart - WWF wrestler
1999 --- died while performing a stunt in the wrestling ring. He was being lowered into the ring by a cable, when he fell 70 ft. to his death, snapping his neck.
Elizabeth Hartman - actress
1987 --- fell to her death from a fifth floor window in a bizarre reflection of a character in her staring 1966 movie "The Group."
Frank Hayes - jockey
1923 --- heart attack during a race. His horse, Sweet Kiss, won the race, making Hayes the only deceased jockey to win a race.
Phil Hartman (Philip Edward Hartmann)
1998 -- shot by his wife, who then committed suicide.
Les Harvey - musician (Stone the Crow)
1972 --- electrocuted on stage at a show in Swansea, Wales. He touched a poorly connected microphone and died a few hours later.
Ernest Miller Hemingway
1961 --- suicide with shotgun.
Margaux Hemingway (Margot Hemingway)
1996 --- suicide, overdose of a sedative. She was the fifth person in her family to commit suicide.
Jon-Erik Hexum - actor
1984 --- playfully shot himself with a blank-loaded pistol on the set of TV spy show "Cover Up." The concussion forced a chunk of his skull into his brain; he died six days later.
Wild Bill Hickok (James Butler Hickok)
1876 --- shot in the back of the head while playing poker.
Jimmy Hoffa (James Riddle Hoffa)
1975 --- disappeared from a Michigan restaurant on July 30th.
William Holden - actor
1981 --- found dead in his apartment. He had been drinking, and apparently fell, struck his head on an end table, and bled to death.
Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley)
1959 --- died in airplane crash with Ritchie Valens & the Big Bopper on February 3, in Albert Juhl´s corn field about fifteen miles northwest of Mason City in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa. link
Harry Houdini (Erich Weiss) - magician
1926 --- ruptured appendix. He died on Halloween.
Leslie Howard (Leslie Stainer) - actor (Ashley Wilkes in Gone With the Wind)
1943 --- his civilian plane was shot down by German fighter planes during WWII.
Rock Hudson (Roy Harold Scherer, Jr.)
1985 --- died of AIDS. He was the 1st major public figure to announce he had AIDS.
William Huskisson
1830 --- 1st person killed by a train. His death occurred when he was attending the opening of the Liverpool-Manchester Railway. As he stepped on the track to meet the Duke of Wellington, Stephenson's 'Rocket' hit him. He died later that day.
Hal Mark Irish
1991 --- was killed in a leap from a hot air balloon in what was believed to be the first US death from the thrill sport of Bungee jumping. Irish fell more than 60 feet to his death on October 29, 1991, after breaking loose from his bungee cord during a demonstration.
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson - Confederate General
1863 --- pneumonia, after accidentally being shot by his own troops. Last words.
Josef Jakobs - German spy
1941 --- last person to be executed in the Tower of London, England. Little known lasts.
Thomas Jefferson
1826 --- dysentery. He died on the 50th anniversary of signing of Declaration of Independence, and the same day as John Adams.
Knut Jensen - Olympic cyclist
1960 --- fractured skull during the 1960 Olympics in Rome. In the 93 degree heat, he collapsed from sunstroke and hit his head. He was one of only 2 athletes to die as a result of Olympic competition. (Francisco Lazaro was the other.)
Joan of Arc (Jeanne Darc)
1431 --- burned at the stake for heresy and witchcraft.
Gee Jon
1924 --- 1st person executed in US in the gas chamber. Nevada State Prison in Carson City on February 8. (Hydrocyanic gas was used; the procedure took 6 minutes.)
Brian Jones - musician, one-time Rolling Stone
1969 --- drowned in his swimming pool while drunk and on drugs.
Joselito (Jose Gomez) - Spanish bullfighter
1920 --- fatally gored fighting his last bull.
Michael LeMoyne Kennedy
1997 --- collided with a tree while playing ski football in Aspen, Colorado.
William Kemmler - convicted axe murderer
1890 --- 1st person executed in US in the electric chair. At Auburn State Prison in New York, on August 6. (The procedure took 8 minutes.)
Vladimir Komarov
1967 --- 1st cosmonaut to die in space. (Russian Soyuz 1)
Mary Jo Kopechne
1969 --- drowned when the car she was a passenger in, driven by Sen. Edward Kennedy, fell off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, MA.
David Koresh (Vernon Wayne Howell)
1993 --- killed by agents of FBI & Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms.
Francisco Lazaro - Olympic runner
1912 --- sunstroke and heart trouble. Collapsed toward the end of the 1912 Olympic marathon in Stockholm. Lazaro was one of only two athletes to die as a result of Olympic competition. (Knut Jensen was the other.)
Brandon Lee - actor
1993 --- shot by a gun firing blanks, while filming the movie "The Crow." His missing scenes were later filled-in by computer animation.
Bruce Lee (Li Yuen Kam) - actor
1973 --- died suddenly from a swollen brain.
John Lennon
1980 --- shot to death by a mentally ill fan.
Liberace (Wladziu Valentino Liberace)
1987 --- AIDS.
Carole Lombard (Jane Alice Peters)
1942 --- plane crash.
Louis XVI - French king
1793 --- beheaded by French revolutionaries.
Malcolm X (Malcolm Little)
1965 --- murdered - shot 16 times by three assassins.
Jayne Mansfield (Vera Jayne Palmer) - actress
1967 --- car accident. Her wig flew off in the impact, starting rumors that she had been decapitated.
Mark Maples
1964 --- 1st person to be killed on a ride in Disneyland. He stood up while riding the Matterhorn Bobsleds and was thrown to his death. (There have been 7 deaths at Disneyland since its opening in 1955.)
Jean-Paul Marat
1793 --- knifed while taking a bath.
Pete Maravich - basketball player
1988 --- heart attack while playing a game of pick-up basketball.
Marie Antoinette
1793 --- beheaded by guillotine.
Bob Marley - musician
1981 --- brain tumor, at the age of 36.
Christopher Marlowe - author
1593 --- stabbed in a tavern brawl in Deptford, England.
Kenneth Allen McDuff
1998 --- thought to be the only person ever freed from death row and then returned after killing again. Executed by injection, November 17, 1998, in Huntsville, Texas.
William McKinley - 25th US President
1901 --- died of gangrene. He was shot by an assassin and his wounds were not properly dressed.
Butterfly McQueen (Thelma Lincoln McQueen)
1995 --- died of burns received when lighting kerosene heater in her apartment.
Glenn Miller - "big band" musician
1944 --- listed as Missing In Action, was serving as a Major in the Army Air Force Band when his plane went down over the English Channel.
Sal Mineo - actor
1976 --- stabbed to death in the street outside of his home.
Margaret Mitchell - author, Gone With the Wind
1949 --- On August 11, she was crossing an Atlanta street on her way to the theater when she was hit by a speeding cab. She died of her injuries five days later.
Luis Monge
1967 --- executed in gas chamber, Colorado State Penitentiary, Cannon City, CO, on June 2. He was the last US execution until 1977, when the death penalty was reinstated. (He had murdered his wife and 3 of his 10 children.)
Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Baker)
1962 --- drug overdose, probably suicide.
Thomas More
1535 --- beheaded for treason upon the order of Henry VIII.
Vic Morrow - actor
1982 --- helicopter accident on the set of "Twilight Zone - The Movie."
Jim Morrison - musician (the Doors)
1971 --- heart attack while in the bathtub.
Mary Ann Nicholls - prostitute
1888 --- fed poisoned grapes and disemboweled by Jack the Ripper.
Florence Nightingale
1910 --- heart failure after 53 years as an invalid.
Janet Parker - medical photographer
1978 --- last person to die of smallpox.
Laura Patterson - professional bungee jumper
1996 --- killed during rehearsal for the Superbowl at the New Orleans Superdome on Jan. 23. She died of massive head injuries.
George S. Patton
1945 --- broke his neck in a car accident. He lived, incapacitated, for one more week.
Nicolas Jacques Pelletier - French highwayman
1792 --- 1st person beheaded with the guillotine.
River Phoenix - actor
1993 --- drug overdose on the sidewalk in front the Viper Club in Hollywood on Halloween.
Martha Place
1899 --- 1st woman executed in the electric chair, Sing Sing Prison, NY, on March 20. She had murdered her stepdaughter.
Edgar Allan Poe
1849 --- cerebral edema following a drinking binge
(The September 1996 Maryland Medical Journal published a study that showed Poe's symptoms suggest rabies instead.)
Pope Johann XII
963 --- beaten to death , at age 18, by the husband of a woman he was having an affair with.
Grigory Rasputin
1916 --- assassinated: poisoned (cyanide), shot (3 times), and thrown into a river.
Keith Relf - musician (The Yardbirds)
1976 --- electrocuted playing guitar in the bathtub.
John Augustus Roebling - designer of the Brooklyn Bridge
1869 --- died of a tetanus infection after having his leg crushed by a ferryboat while working on the Brooklyn Bridge.
Rebecca Rolfe (Pocahontas)
1617 --- smallpox. She died in London.
Oscar Romero - archbishop of San Salvador
1980 --- murdered while saying mass at the Cathedral of San Salvador.
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
1953 --- executed in electric chair on June 19. The 1st husband-and-wife team executed in the US. They had been charged with espionage and spying.
Ronald Ryan
1967 --- executed by hanging in Melbourne. He was the last man to be hanged in Australia.
Rebecca Schaffer - actress
1989 --- shot by a "celebrity stalker" fan.
Hugh Scrutton
1985 --- first confirmed Unabomber victim. On Dec. 11, the computer rental store owner opened a package which had been left outside his door.
Selena (Quintanilla Perez) - singer
1995 --- shot by the president of her fan club.
Thomas A. Selfridge
1908 --- 1st mortality in an airplane crash. He was the passenger when Wilbur Wright crashed a US War Department test plane.
Betty Shabazz, (Betty Sanders; Sister Betty X, Hajj Bahiyah) - widow of Malcom X
1997 --- complications from apartment fire started by her grandson.
Tupac Shakur - musician
1996 --- murdered in drive-by shooting.
Percy Bysshe Shelley - writer
1822 --- accidental drowning.
Eddie Slovik
1945 --- shot by an American firing squad in France for desertion. (The only US soldier since the Civil War to be executed as he was.)
P>Joseph Smith - founder of Mormon religion
1844 --- shot by an angry mob while he was jailed in Carthage, IL.
Diana Spencer - Princess of Wales
1997 --- car crash while eluding paparazzi.
Evelita Juanita Spinnelli
1941 --- 1st she woman to be enter the gas chamber in California and the was the 1st woman ever to be officially executed in that state, on November 21st.
Mary Stuart (Mary, Queen of Scots)
1587 --- beheaded for treason.
Mary Surratt
1865 --- executed for being a conspirator in the Lincoln assassination. 1st woman ever executed by the United States government. Hung on July 7. Biography.
Sharon Tate
1969 --- murdered by Charles Manson and his followers.
Kelton Rena Turner
1975 --- last American soldier killed in the Vietnam War. Little known lasts.
Rudolph Valentino (Rodolfo di Valentina D'Antonguolla) - actor
1926 --- perforated gastric ulcer and ruptured appendix. Last words.
Mike Venezia - jockey
1988 --- died in 5th-race fall at Belmont Race Track, NY.
Gianni Versace - clothing designer
1997 --- murdered by serial killer.
Sir William Wallace - Scottish rebel
1305 --- executed by being hanged for a short time, taken down still breathing and having his bowels torn out and burned. His head was then struck off, and his body divided into quarters, the punishment known as 'hanged, drawn and quartered'. His head was placed on a pole on London Bridge, his right arm above the bridge in Newcastle, his left arm was sent to Berwick, his right foot and limb to Perth and his left quarter to Aberdeen where it was buried in what is now the wall at St. Machars Cathedral.
Oscar Wilde
1900 --- cerebral meningitis. Last words.
Tennessee Williams - writer
1983 --- choked to death on a on a nose spray bottle cap that accidentally dropped into his mouth while he was using the spray. He was 71.
Dennis Wilson - rock musician (The Beach Boys)
1983 --- drowned after diving from his yacht in the harbor at Marina Del Ray, California.
Jackie Wilson - entertainer
1967 --- collapsed of a stroke and a heart attack on stage, while singing his hit "Lonely Teardrops": He never regained consciousness and died eight years later.
Natalie Wood (Natasha Nikolaevna Gurdin)
1981 --- accidental drowning.
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