Year | Place | Death | Author | % Correct |
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1961 | Idaho, U.S. | Suicide. Shot himself with his shotgun. | Ernest Hemingway | 78%
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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. | Leo Tolstoy | 77%
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1824 | Ottoman Empire (present-day Greece) | Fever. Became a hero in Greece. | Lord Byron | 54%
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1945 | Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Germany | Possibly from typhus fever. | Anne Frank | 52%
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1941 | Lewes, England | Put stones in the pockets of her overcoat to help drown herself in the river. | Virginia Woolf | 52%
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1817 | England | Died at the age of 41. Possible lymphoma or Addison's disease. | Jane Austen | 41%
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1900 | Paris, France | Officially from meningitis. His physicians claimed that it resulted from a prison injury. Some say it was from syphilis | Oscar Wilde | 40%
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1960 | France | Died at the age of 46 in a car accident. | Albert Camus | 28%
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1973 | England | Bleeding ulcer and chest infection. Buried in the same grave as "Luthien" | J. R. R. Tolkien | 25%
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1894 | Samoa | Stroke. Buried in Mount Vaea. | Robert Louis Stevenson | 18%
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1944 | Mediterranean sea | Disappeared; did not return from a reconnaissance mission | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | 15%
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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. | Francis Bacon | 14%
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1852 | Moscow, Russia | Officially he died as a result of starvation. Some say he had been buried alive. | Nikolai Gogol | 14%
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1970 | Tokyo, Japan | After an attempt of a coup d’état, he committed suicide by seppuku (a ritual samurai suicide) | Yukio Mishima | 12%
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1983 | New York, U.S. | Found dead in a hotel suite, choked on the lid of a bottle. | Tennessee Williams | 9%
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