Statistics for Famous People who Died from Drowning

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Died	Hint	Person	% Correct
2012	One of the bestselling music artists of all time and star of The Bodyguard	Whitney Houston	81%
1916	Mystic who was shot, stabbed, poisoned, and drowned	Grigori Rasputin	79%
1981	Actress in Rebel Without a Cause and West Side Story	Natalie Wood	64%
1983	Co-founder and drummer of the Beach Boys	Dennis Wilson	54%
2012	Victim of police brutality on March 3, 1991	Rodney King	54%
1941	Writer of Mrs Dalloway and A Room of One's Own	Virginia Woolf	53%
1979	"Angel of Death" who performed deadly experiments on Auschwitz prisoners	Josef Mengele	49%
1822	Romantic poet of "Ozymandias" and Prometheus Unbound	Percy Bysshe Shelley	43%
2018	Singer of the Cranberries	Dolores O’Riordan	40%
1969	Founder and guitarist of the Rolling Stones	Brian Jones	33%
1997	His notable songs include "Last Goodbye" and a cover of "Hallelujah"	Jeff Buckley	31%
1967	The 17th prime minister of Australia	Harold Holt	21%
1500	Portuguese explorer, first to round the southern tip of Africa	Bartolomeu Dias	18%
2004	Known for autobiographical monologues like Swimming to Cambodia	Spalding Gray	8%
1970	Avant-garde jazz saxophonist of Spiritual Unity (friend of Coltrane)	Albert Ayler	7%