Statistics for Famous Deaths

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Cause of death	Date	Person	% Correct
Suicide in underground bunker	1945	Adolf Hitler	90%
Shot three times in open motorcade	1963	John F. Kennedy	88%
Stab wounds	44 BC	Julius Caesar	81%
Shot in the back of the head	1865	Abraham Lincoln	79%
Assassinated on the balcony of a motel	1968	Martin Luther King, Jr.	77%
Asp Bite	31 BC	Cleopatra	73%
Killed returning home from the recording studio	1980	John Lennon	69%
Killed after his driver took a wrong turn	1914	Franz Ferdinand	61%
Killed by Hawaiian natives (and eaten)	1779	James Cook	59%
Executed by hanging	2006	Saddam Hussein	54%
Captured and hung by partisans	1945	Benito Mussolini	49%
Murdered by Muslims while on a daily walk	1948	Mohandas Gandhi	46%
Over-dosing (or not?)	1977	Elvis Presley	45%
Shot 16 times while giving a speech	1965	Malcolm X	45%
Died after three attempts to kill him	1916	Grigori Rasputin	38%
Killed in Bolivia	1967	Che Guevara	36%
West Nile Virus in Babylon	323 BC	Alexander the Great	35%
Wounded by sniper shot from enemy ship	1805	Horatio Nelson	32%
Ice pick to the head	1940	Leon Trotsky	31%
Died in bed after bloodletting failed	1799	George Washington	28%
Shot by disgruntled postal worker	1881	James Garfield	28%
Murdered in a burning barn	1865	John Wilkes Booth	26%
Shot while cleaning a dusty picture	1882	Jesse James	21%
Murdered during a card game	1876	Wild Bill Hickok	9%
Radiation poisoning	2006	Alexander Litvinenko	7%
A bird dropped a tortoise on his head	456 BC	Aeschylus	4%
Smothered by cloaks while attending the theater	c. 600 BC	Draco	2%
Contracted bladder illness at a banquet	1601	Tycho Brahe	2%

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