Famous Deaths

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