Ultimate How They Died Quiz

Given the year they died and how they died, answer who it pertains to.

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Profession	Year of Death	Cause of Death	Person
Dictator (Rome)	B.C. 44	Betrayed by senators and stabbed over 20 times	Julius Caesar
Religious Figure	c. AD 30/33	Crucifixion	Jesus Christ
President (USA)	1865	Shot in the back of the head by John Wilkes Booth	Abraham Lincoln
President (USA)	1881	Infection as a result of assassination by Charles Guiteau	James A. Garfield
President (USA)	1901	Assassinated by Leon Czolgosz in Buffalo, New York	William McKinley
Magician/Escape Artist	1926	Peritonitis due to ruptured appendix	Harry Houdini
Pilot	1937	Disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean	Amelia Earhart
Politician (USSR)	1940	Blunt force trauma due to blow from ice pick to the head	Leon Trotsky
Athlete	1941	ALS Disease	Lou Gehrig
Dictator (Germany)	1945	Suicide by gunshot wound to the head	Adolf Hitler
Computer Scientist/Mathematician	1954	Cyanide poisoning (unknown if suicide or not)	Alan Turing
Actor	1955	Car Crash	James Dean
President (USA)	1963	Assassinated by supposedly Lee Harvey Oswald	John F. Kennedy
Assassin	1963	Assassinated by nightclub owner Jack Ruby	Lee Harvey Oswald
Civil Rights Activist	1965	Assassinated by three members of the Nation of Islam	Malcolm X
Singer	1967	Plane crash	Otis Redding
Civil Rights Activist	1968	Assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee	Martin Luther King Jr.
Politician (USA)	1968	Assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan in Los Angeles, California	Robert F. Kennedy
Guitarist/Singer	1970	Asphyxiated on own vomit from drugs	Jimi Hendrix
Athlete	1972	Plane crash	Roberto Clemente
Martial Arts Actor	1973	Unknown, possibly could be brain swelling	Bruce Lee
Politician (USA)	1978	Assassinated by Dan White	Harvey Milk
Singer	1980	Assassinated by Mark David Chapman in New York City, New York	John Lennon
Singer	1981	Melanoma (skin cancer)	Bob Marley
Actor	1982	Combined drug intoxication of speedball	John Belushi
Singer	1984	Shot by his own father	Marvin Gaye
Singer	1991	AIDS	Freddie Mercury
Singer	1994	Suicide by gunshot wound to the head	Kurt Cobain
Rapper	1996	Assassinated by an unknown assailant	Tupac Shakur
Rapper	1997	Assassinated by an unknown assailant	Notorious B.I.G
Princess	1997	Car crash	Princess Diana
Actor	2008	Accidental overdose on prescription drugs	Heath Ledger
Singer	2009	Cardiac arrest from overdose on prescription drugs	Michael Jackson
Singer	2011	Alcohol Poisoning	Amy Winehouse
Actor	2013	Car Crash	Paul Walker
Actor	2014	Suicide by hanging with a belt	Robin Williams
DJ	2018	Suicide by broken wine bottle	Avicii