Famous People Who Died From Drowning

Name these famous people whose deaths involved drowning.

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Portuguese explorer, first to round the southern tip of Africa

Bartolomeu Dias

1822

Romantic poet of "Ozymandias" and Prometheus Unbound

Percy Bysshe Shelley

1916

Mystic who was shot, stabbed, poisoned, and drowned

Grigori Rasputin

1941

Writer of Mrs Dalloway and A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

1967

The 17th prime minister of Australia

Harold Holt

1969

Founder and guitarist of the Rolling Stones

Brian Jones

1979

"Angel of Death" who performed experiments on Auschwitz prisoners

Josef Mengele

1981

Actress in Rebel Without a Cause and West Side Story

Natalie Wood

1983

Co-founder and drummer of the Beach Boys

Dennis Wilson

1997

His notable songs include "Last Goodbye" and a cover of "Hallelujah"

Jeff Buckley

2012

One of the best selling music artists ever, star of The Bodyguard

Whitney Houston

2012

Victim of police brutality on March 3, 1991

Rodney King

2018

Singer of the Cranberries

Dolores O’Riordan

2020

She played Santana Lopez in Glee

Naya Rivera

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