List of people who died of starvation
This is a list of notable people who died of starvation:
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Agrippina the Elder | 14 BC–33 AD | Roman Empire | Roman imperial princess, granddaughter of Augustus and mother of Caligula, starved to death (perhaps on the orders of Tiberius) in her exile on the island of Pandateria. | ||
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae | 510–428 BC | Ancient Greece | Greek philosopher, sage, mathematician, physicist and astronomer. | ||
Boyi and Shuqi | 1045 BC | China | Shang dynasty loyalists | [1][2] | |
Bimbisara | 558–491 BC | Magadha | King of Magadha from 542 to 492 BC. He was imprisoned by his son Ajatashatru in order to ascend the throne and died before he could be released. | ||
Maud de Braose | 1155–1210 | England | English noblewoman accused King John of England of the murder of the young duke Arthur of Brittany
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Robert O'Hara Burke | 1821–1861 | United Kingdom | Leader of the Burke and Wills expedition, which was the first expedition to cross Australia from south to north. | ||
William John Wills | 1834–1861 | United Kingdom | Member of the Burke and Wills expedition, which was the first expedition to cross Australia from south to north. | ||
Frank E. Butler | 1847–1926 | United States | American sharpshooter and husband to Annie Oakley | ||
Karen Carpenter | 1950–1983 | United States | American singer and drummer | ||
Chandragupta Maurya | 340–297 BC | Maurya Empire | Emperor of the Jain .
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Floyd Collins | 1887–1925 | United States | American cave explorer and famous, cave accident victim, died in Sand Cave, the near Cave City, Kentucky, part of Mammoth Cave National Park | ||
George Washington DeLong | 1844–1881 | United States | North pole explorer, and his crew.
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George Donner
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1784–1847 | United States | American co-leader of the infamous frontier Sierra Nevada Mountains into California .
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Drusus Caesar | 7–33 | Roman Empire | Roman imperial prince, son of Germanicus and brother of Caligula, starved to death in his prison on the orders of Tiberius. | ||
Eratosthenes | 276–195 | Ancient Greece | Eminent Greek thinker. | [5][6] | |
Pavel Filonov | 1883–1941 | Soviet Union | Russian avant-garde painter, art theorist, and poet. | [7] | |
Kurt Gödel | 1906–1978 | Austria | Groundbreaking mathematician who starved to death after his wife was hospitalized and could no longer prepare his meals. | [8][9][10] | |
Pope John XIV | d. 984 | Papal States | Pope from 983 to 984. He was placed in prison by Antipope Boniface VII in the Castel Sant'Angelo, where he died either from starvation or poison. | ||
Thomas Johnson | d. 1537 | England | He and nine other Carthusian martyrs, who refused the Oath of Supremacy
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Julia Livilla | 18–41 | Roman Empire | Roman imperial princess, sister of Caligula, starved to death in her banishment on the orders of her uncle, the emperor Claudius. | ||
Liu Zongzhou | 1578–1645 | Ming Empire | Confucian scholar who starved himself to death following the fall of the Ming dynasty. | ||
Livilla | 13 BC–31 AD | Roman Empire | Roman imperial princess, niece and daughter-in-law of Tiberius, starved to death by her mother Antonia Minor for her complicity in the murder of her husband Drusus Minor. | ||
Christopher McCandless
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1968–1992 | United States | American wanderer who starved to death in Alaska after a planned solo trip became fatal due to not being properly prepared. | ||
Terence MacSwiney | 1879–1920 | Ireland | Lord Mayor of Cork who died during a hunger strike while imprisoned in Brixton Prison. | ||
Feodosia Morozova | 1632–1675 | Russia | Russian noblewoman, one of the best-known partisans of the Old Believer movement.
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Scott Nearing | 1883–1983 | United States | American peace activist, economist and homesteader. | [11] | |
Pausanias
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d. 470 BC | Sparta | Spartan general | ||
Potti Sri Ramulu | 1901–1952 | India | Indian revolutionary of Andhra Pradesh, India for a separate state for Telugu speaking people. | ||
Hector Pitchforth | 1887—1927 | England | English trader, living as a hermit on Baffin Island. | [12][13][14] | |
Vasily Rozanov | 1856–1919 | Russia | Russian philosopher | ||
Bobby Sands | 1954–1981 | Northern Ireland | He and nine other 1981 Irish Hunger Strike .
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Carl Schlechter | 1874–1918 | Austria-Hungary | A leading Austrian chess master and theoretician (pneumonia also said to have been a factor). | [17] | |
Robert Falcon Scott | 1868–1912 | United Kingdom | English Antarctic explorer who perished, along with four more, on their return trip from the South Pole | ||
Alexey Troitsky | 1866–1942 | Soviet Union | A leading Russian chess composer who starved to death during the Siege of Leningrad. | ||
Ugolino della Gherardesca | 1220–1289 | Florence | Italian nobleman, politician and naval commander who later became a figure in Dante's Divine Comedy .
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Wu of Liang | 464–549 | Liang Empire | Founding emperor of the Liang Dynasty .
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King Wuling of Zhao | d. 295 BC | Ruler of Zhao during the Warring States period. | |||
Yang Ye | d. 986 | Song Empire | Chinese general who served both the Song Dynasty .
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Empress Yang Zhi
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259-292 | Jin Dynasty
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Second Empress Consort of Emperor Wu of Jin. | ||
Ye Mingchen | 1807–1859 | China | Chinese official who was a key figure in resisting British influence during the Opium Wars. | [18] | |
Yuan Shu | d. 199 | Han Empire | Chinese warlord who lived in the late Eastern Han dynasty .
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Simone Weil | 1909-1943 | France | French philosopher, mystic and political activist. | ||
Zhou Yafu | d. 143 BC | Han Empire | Chinese general best remembered for putting down the Rebellion of the Seven States. | [19] |
See also
- List of deaths from anorexia nervosa
- Franklin expedition
- Great Irish Famine
- Little Ice Age
- Siege of Leningrad
- Sokushinbutsu
- 2005 Malawi food crisis
- 2008 Central Asia energy crisis
- Theresienstadt concentration camp
- Lists of people by cause of death
Notes
- ^ 餓鄉記
- ^ 千载孤竹与伯夷、叔齐
- ^ "Global Jain Events". jainworld.com. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
- ^ "Eratosthenes summary". www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
- ^ "Eratosthenes". abyss.uoregon.edu. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
- ^ [1] Archived November 3, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "KURT GODEL". usna.edu. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
- ^ "paper.pdf" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on May 14, 2008. Retrieved 2014-04-13.
- ^ "Godel summary". www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
- ^ "Our Town | Ellsworth American.com". ellsworthamerican.com. Archived from the original on 2012-07-29. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
- OCLC 45731124.
- ^ Harper, Kenn (7 June 2013). "Taissumani: June 7: Hector Pitchforth - The Loneliest Man in the World". Nunatsiaq News. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
- OCLC 244764155.
- ^ "1981 Hunger Strikes". Archived from the original on 2002-02-15. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
- ^ "How the IRA manufactured a new martyr | 1980-1989 | Guardian Century". century.guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
- ^ "Deaths of Chess Players". Archived from the original on 2003-10-10. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
- ^ 两广总督叶名琛:不战不和不守 不降不死不走 Archived 2007-08-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 琴台客聚:藤蛇入口宜居安思危