Deaths: who

Murdered by Kenyan bandits in 1989 (British game warden, husband of a best–selling author)		George Adamson
Tortoise dropped on his head by an eagle (Greek playwright)		Aeschylus
Champion jockey (5 Derby wins), committed suicide in 1886 aged 29		Fred Archer
Died of a brain haemorrhage in 1985, ten days after falling down the stairs at her daughter's house, on or around her 60th birthday (British fashion entrepreneur)		Laura Ashley
Found dead in the street in Amsterdam after apparently having fallen from a hotel window, in 1988, aged 58 (jazz trumpeter)		Chet Baker
Blues Brothers star, accidental drug overdose in 1982		John Belushi
Of cholera, after drinking water to prove it was safe		Arnold Bennett
Operation Neptune Spear was the code name for the US military operation that led to the death of		Osama Bin Laden
Died in 1977 when the Mini that he was a passenger in, crashed into a tree on Barnes Common		Marc Bolan
Died of blood poisoning caused by an insect bite, on the Greek island of Skyros, while sailing to the Dardanelles (1915)		Rupert Brooke
Died of a fever at Missolonghi, in 1824, after a soaking in an open boat, while sailing to fight for Greek independence		Lord Byron
Foreign Secretary, committed suicide in 1822 with a pair of scissors		Lord Castlereagh
Stallion fell on top of her		Catherine the Great
Operation Hope Not, drawn up in 1959, was the plan for the funeral of		Winston Churchill
American country music singer, died in a plane crash in 1963, aged 30		Patsy Cline
In a car crash on the A4 near Chippenham, Wiltshire, 17 April 1960 (Jerry Lee Lewis was injured in the same crash)		Eddie Cochran
Murdered by natives in the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), on St. Valentine's Day 1779		Captain James Cook
On stage, from a massive heart attack, during a live broadcast of Live from Her Majesty's (at Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, in London's West End), in April 1984		Tommy Cooper
Died of a massive heart attack in 1977, aged 74, on the way to the clubhouse after a round of golf in Alcobendas, near Madrid		Bing Crosby
Died on 30 September 1955, when his brand new Porsche 550 Spyder collided with a car that turned left in front of him on Route 466 (now State Route 46) near Cholame, California (between Los Angeles and San Francisco)		James Dean
Disappeared from a Channel ferry in 1913 (body found in the sea ten days later)		Rudolf Diesel
Dancer, who left the USA in 1898, at the age of 21, to seek recognition in Europe: strangled when her scarf became entangled in the wheel of a car (Nice, 1927)		Isadora Duncan
"London Bridge is down" was reportedly the code that would be used (by civil servants) to inform the Prime Minister of the death of		Queen Elizabeth II
Died in the same room, in the Mayfair flat owned by Harry Nilsson – both aged 32	29 July 1974	Mama Cass Elliot
	7 September 1978	Keith Moon
Hated Xmas (sent Xmas cards in July) but died on Xmas Day 1946		W. C. Fields
Bee Gee, died in 2003 while undergoing emergency surgery		Maurice Gibb
Drowned while giving swimming lessons to two schoolgirls (in a pool near Harrow)		W. S. Gilbert
Surfeit of lampreys		Henry I
Plane crash, 3 February 1959 (a few minutes after take–off from Clear Lake, Iowa)		Buddy Holly
		Ritchie Valens
		The Big Bopper
Fell from the roof of his house, in 1999, while attempting to adjust the TV aerial to receive a better picture of a UEFA Champions League quarter final between Manchester United and Internazionale – aged 63		Rod Hull
Run over by Stephenson's Rocket, at the opening of the Liverpool to Manchester railway, 1830 – first person to die in a railway accident		William Huskisson MP
Australian wildlife expert and broadcaster, died in 2006 after being stabbed by a sting ray		Steve Irwin
In hospital, one hour after suffering a heart attack on stage at the Sunderland Empire, in 1976 – aged 62		Sid James
Shot in the back of the head by Bob Ford, on 3 April 1882		Jesse James
Bailed out of an aeroplane (probably having run out of fuel) over the Thames Estuary, in January 1941, after going off course in bad weather, on a flight from Prestwick (Glasgow) to Kidlington, Oxfordshire		Amy Johnson
Died on same day as John F. Kennedy (22 November 1963 – two famous English writers)		C. S. Lewis
		Aldous Huxley
Died of tuberculosis in Rome, 1821 (English poet)		John Keats
English actor: died in 1988, aged 54, following a fall from a horse, during the filming of The Return of the Musketeers in Madrid		Roy Kinnear
Died in 1519, probably from a stroke, at the manor house of Clos Lucé, in the Loire Valley – with the French King Francis I (according to legend) cradling his head in his arms		Leonardo da Vinci
Killed in the Philippines in 1521 (famous explorer)		Ferdinand Magellan
Died on 5 December 2013, the same day as a Royal Performance in London (the UK premier) of a film about his life		Nelson Mandela
Radical French revolutionary: stabbed in his bath by the Girondin sympathiser Charlotte Corday, on 13 July 1793		Jean–Paul Marat
(Allegedly) stabbed to death in a tavern brawl – Deptford, 1593		Christopher Marlowe
American comedian: died on 19 August 1977 – three days after Elvis Presley		Groucho Marx
Went missing in action on December 15, 1944, over the English Channel, while on a flight to Paris from the RAF Training Unit at RAF Twinwood Farm, near Bedford – while serving with the US Army Air Forces		Glenn Miller
Died of a heart attack, in his prison cell in The Hague, in 2006		Slobodan Milosevic
Died in 1955, aged 46, of a heart attack after fiming a sequence for NBC's Jimmy Durante Show; a period of national mourning was declared in Brazil		Carmen Miranda
Taken fatally ill while playing the title role in his drama Le Malade Imaginaire (The Hypochondriac), in 1673		Molière moliere
Died in 1978, aged 32, in his rented Mayfair flat, from a "vast" overdose of a drug prescribed to alleviate symptoms of alcohol withdrawal (after arguing with his partner)		Keith Moon
Died in hospital in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, after suffering a heart attack on leaving the stage following a charity show in Tewkesbury, in May 1984		Eric Morecambe
Reportedly killed by a musket ball fired from the French ship Redoubtable		Horatio, Lord Nelson
Murdered in 1967 by his lover Kenneth Halliwell who then committed suicide by jumping from a window		Joe Orton
Died of a drug overdose on the morning before Hallowe'en, 1993, outside the Viper Room nightclub in Los Angeles (then owned by Johnny Depp)		River Phoenix
Found dead by his manager in his Cardiff hotel room, while on a UK tour in 2006 – having suffered a heart attack, aged 66		Gene Pitney
Eldest son of George II: died in 1751, aged 44; his death was long attributed to a burst lung abscess, caused by a blow from a cricket ball (he was a keen cricketer), or a real tennis ball, but is now thought to have been from a chill, caught supervising his garden workers at Kew Gardens, combined with a pulmonary embolism		Prince Frederick
Soviet composer who died approximately 50 minutes before Joseph Stalin (on 6 March 1953)		Sergei Prokofiev
Second son of Edward IV: believed to have died in 1483, along with his brother Edward V, as one of the Princes in the Tower		Richard of Shrews–bury, Duke of York
Died in New York from head wounds sustained in a skiing accident in Canada, 2009		Natasha Richardson
Drowned while sailing near La Spezia, Italy, in July 1822; buried in Rome		Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nobel Peace laureate: died five days after Princess Diana (5 September 1997)		Mother Teresa (of Calcutta)
Died in 1953 in St. Vincent's Hospital, Manhattan, after a heavy drinking session		Dylan Thomas
Died at a railway station in the small village of Astapovo, in 1910 (aged 82), apparently of cold, while seeking refuge from his family in a convent run by his sister		Leo Tolstoy
English composer: died in 1983, aged 80, on the Italian island of Ischia		William Walton
Choked on a medicine bottle top in 1983 (allegedly – drugs and/or alcohol were also involved)		Tennessee Williams
Died in 1902 of carbon monoxide poisoning, in mysterious circumstances		Emile Zola

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