Famous Deaths - Statistics

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Cause of death	Date	Person	% Correct
Suicide in underground bunker	1945	Adolf Hitler	91%
Shot three times in open motorcade	1963	John F. Kennedy	87%
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.	78%
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	62%
Killed by Hawaiian natives (and eaten)	1779	James Cook	60%
Executed by hanging	2006	Saddam Hussein	55%
Captured and hung by partisans	1945	Benito Mussolini	50%
Over-dosing (or not?)	1977	Elvis Presley	46%
Murdered by Muslims while on a daily walk	1948	Mohandas Gandhi	46%
Shot 16 times while giving a speech	1965	Malcolm X	45%
Died after three attempts to kill him	1916	Grigori Rasputin	38%
West Nile Virus in Babylon	323 BC	Alexander the Great	37%
Killed in Bolivia	1967	Che Guevara	37%
Wounded by sniper shot from enemy ship	1805	Horatio Nelson	33%
Ice pick to the head	1940	Leon Trotsky	33%
Shot by disgruntled postal worker	1881	James Garfield	31%
Died in bed after bloodletting failed	1799	George Washington	29%
Murdered in a burning barn	1865	John Wilkes Booth	27%
Shot while cleaning a dusty picture	1882	Jesse James	22%
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	5%
Contracted bladder illness at a banquet	1601	Tycho Brahe	3%
Smothered by cloaks while attending the theater	c. 600 BC	Draco	2%

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