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Q: Where did ... die? A

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Charlemagne (was also born there) Click to show or hide the answer
Osama Bin Laden (city in northern Pakistan, where he had lived since 2005) Click to show or hide the answer
Anne Frank (concentration camp) Click to show or hide the answer
Edward II Click to show or hide the answer
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (supposedly); Che Guevara Click to show or hide the answer
Thomas à Becket Click to show or hide the answer
Gracie Fields (1979) Click to show or hide the answer
Glenn Miller (disappeared in December 1944, while en route to Paris) Click to show or hide the answer
Paul Gauguin (1903) Click to show or hide the answer
Mary Queen of Scots executed (1587) Click to show or hide the answer
Christopher Shale (Chairman of West Oxfordshire Conservative Association, and a close associate of David Cameron; died of a heart attack in 2011, aged 56; his body was undiscovered for 18 hours) Click to show or hide the answer
Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper Click to show or hide the answer
Idi Amin Click to show or hide the answer
Oliver Reed (during filming of Gladiator) Click to show or hide the answer
John Stonehouse (faked his death in 1974 at) Click to show or hide the answer
Bob Marley (after being taken ill during a flight that made a stopover there)
Dylan Thomas Click to show or hide the answer
Captain Matthew Webb Click to show or hide the answer
Queen Victoria Click to show or hide the answer
Margot Fonteyn Click to show or hide the answer
Jim Morrison (discovered by his girlfriend in the bath at his apartment) Click to show or hide the answer
After experiencing difficulty negotiating the stairs at her flat in Chester Square, Belgravia, Margaret Thatcher spent the last four months of her life, and died after suffering a stroke, at (London building) Click to show or hide the answer
Joan of Arc (burned at the stake) Click to show or hide the answer
Napoleon Bonaparte (a possession of the British East India Company) Click to show or hide the answer
Robert Louis Stevenson Click to show or hide the answer
King George VI Click to show or hide the answer
Captain Cook (killed by natives 1779 at Kealakekua Bay) Click to show or hide the answer
Erich Honecker (controversial leader of East Germany, 1971–89) Click to show or hide the answer
Ernest Shackleton Click to show or hide the answer
Sid James (in hospital, one hour after suffering a heart attack while on stage) Click to show or hide the answer
The Duke of Wellington Click to show or hide the answer
Richard (Dick) Turpin was hanged, in 1739, in Click to show or hide the answer
James Joyce Click to show or hide the answer

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