Authors - Ways to die - Statistics

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Year Place Death Author % Correct
1961 Idaho, U.S. Suicide. Shot himself with his shotgun. Ernest Hemingway
80%
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
74%
1945 Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Germany Possibly from typhus fever. Anne Frank
56%
1824 Ottoman Empire (present-day Greece) Fever. Became a hero in Greece. Lord Byron
53%
1941 Lewes, England Put stones in the pockets of her overcoat to help drown herself in the river. Virginia Woolf
50%
1817 England Died at the age of 41. Possible lymphoma or Addison's disease. Jane Austen
40%
1900 Paris, France Officially from meningitis. His physicians claimed that it resulted from a prison injury. Some say it was from syphilis Oscar Wilde
37%
1960 France Died at the age of 46 in a car accident. Albert Camus
27%
1973 England Bleeding ulcer and chest infection. Buried in the same grave as "Luthien" J. R. R. Tolkien
24%
1894 Samoa Stroke. Buried in Mount Vaea. Robert Louis Stevenson
16%
1852 Moscow, Russia Officially he died as a result of starvation. Some say he had been buried alive. Nikolai Gogol
14%
1944 Mediterranean sea Disappeared; did not return from a reconnaissance mission Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
13%
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
12%
1970 Tokyo, Japan After an attempt of a coup d’état, he committed suicide by seppuku (a ritual samurai suicide) Yukio Mishima
10%
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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