Statistics for Poets by Death Details

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Date of Death	Place of Death	Cause of Death	Poet	% Correct
February 23, 1821	Rome	Tuberculosis	John Keats	65%
April 23, 1616	Stratford-upon-Avon	Influenza (U)	William Shakespeare	65%
February 11, 1963	London	Suicide	Sylvia Plath	60%
October 7, 1849	Baltimore	Brain Tumor	Edgar Allan Poe	55%
May 15, 1886	Amherst	Bright's Disease	Emily Dickinson	50%
March 26, 1892	Camden	Pleurisy	Walt Whitman	45%
January 29, 1963	Boston	Heart Attack	Robert Frost	40%
January 4, 1965	Kensington	Emphysema	T.S Eliot	40%
November 4, 1918	Sambre–Oise Canal	Killed in Action	Wilfred Owen	35%
August 12, 1827	Westminister	Natural Passing	William Blake	25%
May 22, 1967	New York City	Prostate Cancer	Langston Hughes	20%
December 12, 1889	Venice	Natural Passing (U)	Robert Browning	20%
November 30, 1900	French Third Republic	Meningitis	Oscar Wilde	15%
May 28, 2014	Winston-Salem	Natural Passing	Maya Angelou	15%
January 28, 1939	Menton	Natural Passing	W.B Yeats	10%
May 19, 1971	Baltimore	Crohn's Disease	Ogden Nash	5%
October 6, 1979	Boston	Brain Aneurysm	Elizabeth Bishop	0%
March 9, 1994	San Pedro	Leukemia	Charles Bukowski	0%
May 22, 1948	Chicago	Heart Attack	Claude McKay	0%
January 18, 1936	London	Duodenal ulcer	Rudyard Kipling	0%