Authors - Ways to die

1817

England

Died at the age of 41. Possible lymphoma or Addison's disease.

1894

Samoa

Stroke. Buried in Mount Vaea.

1961

Idaho, U.S.

Suicide. Shot himself with his shotgun.

1824

Ottoman Empire (present-day Greece)

Fever. Became a hero in Greece.

1945

Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Germany

Possibly from typhus fever.

1944

Mediterranean sea

Disappeared; did not return from a reconnaissance mission

1973

England

Bleeding ulcer and chest infection. Buried in the same grave as "Luthien"

1983

New York, U.S.

Found dead in a hotel suite, choked on the lid of a bottle.

1960

France

Died at the age of 46 in a car accident.

1852

Moscow, Russia

Officially he died as a result of starvation. Some say he had been buried alive.

1900

Paris, France

Officially from meningitis. His physicians claimed that it resulted from a prison injury. Some say it was from syphilis

1970

Tokyo, Japan

After an attempt of a coup d’état, he committed suicide by seppuku (a ritual samurai suicide)

1626

England

Pneumonia. The disease was contracted as a result of time spent on stuffing a fowl full of snow to see if keeping it cold would help to preserve the meat.

1910

Astapovo, Russia

He left home one winter night and took a train south. Illness forced to him stop in railway station. He died in the stationmaster's house.

1941

Lewes, England

Put stones in the pockets of her overcoat to help drown herself in the river.