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People Who Died Young #2

Can you identify these famous people who died before the age of 45? Take this morbid quiz and find out.
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First submittedMay 14, 2014
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Age
Time and Place
How
Person
36
1997, Paris
Car accident
Princess Diana
19
1431, Rouen
Burned at the stake
Joan of Arc
42
1977, Memphis
Heart attack
Elvis Presley
23
1993, Los Angeles
Cocaine and morphine overdose
River Phoenix
36
1876, Little Bighorn
Shot in battle
George Armstrong Custer
37
1793, Paris
Guillotine
Marie Antoinette
≈ 35
1536, London
Beheaded
Anne Boleyn
35
1606, London
Jumped from scaffold
Guy Fawkes
28
1993, Wilmington
Prop gun malfunction
Brandon Lee
32
1983, near Los Angeles
Complications due to anorexia
Karen Carpenter
38
1999, near Martha's Vineyard
Plane crash
John F. Kennedy, Jr.
28
2008, New York
Painkiller overdose
Heath Ledger
44
2006, Queensland
Stingray attack
Steve Irwin
≈ 18
1323 BC, Egypt
Malaria and possible genetic defects
Tutankhamun
39
1937, Pacific Ocean
Probable plane crash
Amelia Earhart
27
1971, Paris
Possible heroin overdose
Jim Morrison
34
1882, Missouri
Shot in the back by Robert Ford
Jesse James
23
1934, Louisiana
Machine gunned by police while in car
Bonnie Parker
23
Clyde Barrow
32
1485, Bosworth Field
Halberd to the head
Richard III
40 Comments
+10
Level 78
May 14, 2014
That's it...I'm staying away from Paris
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Level 85
May 14, 2014
Could not figure out what a 'prop gun' was. Made sense once I saw the answer.
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Level 66
Dec 19, 2016
Eyes are going... I saw 'pop' gun, I knew it was one of the Lee's, Bruce or Brandon, luckily I only needed the last name. Bruce died early too did he not?
+1
Level 66
Jul 19, 2018
Yes, he was 32 or so when he died of an allergic reaction to medication he was taking.
+1
Level 48
May 20, 2014
That's too bad about Karen Carpenter.
+1
Level 87
May 24, 2014
Why always Marie Antoinette? The execution of Louis XVI (who was 38) a few months before is a much more important historical fact.
+12
Level 73
May 30, 2014
Maybe, but his boobs weren't the inspiration for champagne glasses...
+4
Level 60
Jun 11, 2014
Hopefully that's the champagne coupe and not the champagne flute.
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Level 51
Jun 14, 2014
I thought that was Napoleon's Josephine?
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Level 73
Sep 2, 2016
No, Josephine was the inspiration behind Advil.
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Level 66
Dec 19, 2016
For the record, that's not actually true.
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Level 73
Dec 8, 2015
Important according to who? I doubt she would agree with you.
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Level 87
Nov 11, 2016
Louis XVI was the King of France, of a dynasty that had been reigning since the tenth century. Don't you think it was an extremely strong political act to decide to kill him? Furthermore, his wife would never have been executed if he had not been first. On the other hand, I admit that the execution of Marie Antoinette is indeed important, because it upset the Austrians.
+3
Level ∞
Aug 7, 2016
Louis will work now
+1
Level 87
Nov 11, 2016
Thanks.
+1
Level 76
Jun 11, 2014
So 1% of us got Clyde but not Bonnie!!! I thought they were an inseparable pair.
+1
Level 85
Jun 11, 2014
Surely the 1793, Paris clue could be Louis XVI? It's what I put first.
+1
Level 69
Jun 11, 2014
Some names on here I somewhat expected to see, such as Kurt Cobain or Jimmy Hendrix.
+2
Level 78
Jun 11, 2014
They must be on the People Who Died Young Quiz #1
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Level 53
Aug 31, 2016
they're on the 1st quiz
+1
Level 90
Jul 2, 2018
They'd be on the people who died at 27, with Morrison.
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Level 44
Jun 11, 2014
Guy Fawkes jumped from a scaffold?? I had no idea, I thought he was tried for treason and hung, drawn and quartered.
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Level 64
Jun 11, 2014
He kind of jumped early to avoid a painful death. His body was quartered after he died. Happened in London though, not York (where he was born)
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Level ∞
Jun 11, 2014
Changed York to London. Thanks.
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Level 85
Mar 10, 2017
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Given his options at the time, probably a good move. Imagine a situation where diving head first in hopes of breaking your neck is the choice of preference. That's a bad day.
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Level 70
May 5, 2021
He was last to go so he got a good view of what to expect from the first two who preceded. Fawkes had already been subject to some pretty heavy torture during his "interrogation" which King James I was actually personally involved in. You can check out the difference between his signature on his confession (top) and what was his normal signature (bottom). He hadn't been having a very good time.
+1
Level 43
Jun 11, 2014
Didn't Tut die from a blow to the head/chariot accident?
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Level 66
Jun 11, 2014
Liked this. Not all of the usual answers, yet I was able to guess some, and should have guessed others.
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Level 74
Jun 12, 2014
Agree.
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Level 65
Dec 19, 2016
I don't understand..I thought Elvis wasn't dead (tee he he)
+2
Level 72
Jun 1, 2018
He's not. I saw him just a couple of days ago. He's working at a truck stop in Tupelo, MS.
+1
Level 66
Jul 19, 2018
Poor guy. 83 years old and still not able to retire yet, despite all the money and fame. His fall must have made MC Hammer look not so bad.
+1
Level 12
Aug 2, 2017
Wasn't Jesse James killed by Robert Ford and his brother? If that's true, the only reason I know that is bc of Timeless.
+1
Level 91
Nov 2, 2022
My only memory of this comes from that Brad Pitt movie I only saw once, but I think I remember Robert Ford specifically was the one who pulled the trigger
+1
Level 33
Aug 5, 2020
how funny huh, i only got steve irwin and had to read comments to get only other 5
+1
Level 71
May 5, 2021
Freddie Mercury died at 45... which would make him just barely too old to make the list. RIP :(
+1
Level 23
May 7, 2021
i didnt know that they burned that gurl Joan when she was 19. i thought that she was burned at, like, 30 - 40!
+1
Level 17
Oct 4, 2021
Why does General Custer not work?
+6
Level 81
Nov 2, 2022
Because he's dead?
+1
Level 70
Nov 3, 2022
Rip Takeoff