Deaths by Date and Cause #3

Difficulty level: hard. Based on the time, place and cause, name the famous person who died.

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Year	Where	How	Person
323 BC	Babylon	Unknown	Alexander the Great
1066	Sussex	Arrow to the eye?	Harold Godwinson
1483	Bosworth Field	Halberd to the head	Richard III
1649	Palace of Whitehall	Beheaded	Charles I
1824	Missolonghi, Greece	Fever	Lord Byron
1890	Auvers-sur-Oise, France	Self-inflicted gunshot wound	Vincent van Gogh
1940	Mexico City	Assassinated with ice axe	Leon Trotsky
1945	Warm Springs, Georgia	Stroke	Franklin D. Roosevelt
1961	Ketchum, Idaho	Self-inflicted gunshot wound	Ernest Hemingway
1962	Ramla, Israel	Execution by hanging	Adolf Eichmann
1963	London	Suicide via gas oven	Sylvia Plath
1968	Memphis	Assassination	Martin Luther King, Jr.
1969	Los Angeles	Murdered by the Manson Family	Sharon Tate
1970	London	Asphyxiation, sleeping pills	Jimi Hendrix
1982	Monaco	Car accident	Grace Kelly
2011	Libya	Summary execution	Muammar Gaddafi
2012	Beverly Hills	Drugs, drowning	Whitney Houston
2013	Caracas	Cancer	Hugo Chávez
2013	California	Car crash	Paul Walker
2018	Cambridge	ALS Disease	Stephen Hawking

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17 Comments

Level 64

Jul 20, 2025

Eichmann died in 1962, not 1956.

Level ∞

Jul 20, 2025

Fixed

Level 63

Jul 20, 2025

four brits in a row!

Level 83

Jul 20, 2025

Yep, a lot tougher than the first two. Still fun, though.

Level 70

Jul 20, 2025

MLK is out of order

Level 74

Jul 20, 2025

That one is a LOT harder.

Level 77

Jul 20, 2025

Richard III died in 1485. I live in Bosworth.

Level 76

Jul 21, 2025

Could you accept Bronstein for Trotsky? I knew his birth name, but completely forgot the name he was known by..

Level 75

Mar 25, 2026

I don't believe you.

Level 74

Jul 22, 2025

I think you need to give some leeway regarding the spelling of Gadaffi. There are various ways of translating the original arabic characters.

Level 81

Jul 22, 2025

Richard III still needs correcting - he died in 1485

Level 69

Dec 22, 2025

I thought Alexander the Great was poisoned?

Level 69

Dec 22, 2025

Thats only a suspicion, hard to tell as it was 2400 years ago :D

Level 69

Dec 22, 2025

Self-inflicted gunshot wound sounds like they just fired in the air and accidentally hit themself in the arm or something :D

How about adding suicide? Not that I would have known either of them anyway :D

Level 94

Dec 22, 2025

Self inflicted gunshot as a cause of death is at least in an American English a term that means suicide by gun. If someone died in a manner you described it would be called death by accidental shooting no matter who pulled the trigger. They would add who the shooter was later in the report. Maybe our British or Australian friends can comment if these terms are used outside of North America regarding death from firearm.

Level 61

Dec 23, 2025

Well I do probate work, but I don't recognise the term. Of course, the lack of a ready supply of guns in every other house rather helps.

Level 65

Dec 24, 2025

As a Brit I can confirm that it did not seem an unusual term to me.

Personally I interpreted it as a more generic term that can cover both intentional suicides and accidents - but I would not claim to be certain that I'm representative of my compatriots in this.

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