List of people who died of starvation
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List of famous people who died of starvation:
- Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (Lampascus c.-428), Greek philosopher, sage, mathematician, physicist and astronomer.
- Agrippina the Elder (33AD), Roman imperial princess, granddaughter of Augustus and mother of Caligula, starved to death (perhaps on the orders of Tiberius) in her exile on the island of Pandateria.
- Allakariallak, Inuit who played Nanook of the North in an early documentary.[1]
- Maud de Braose, who accused King John of England of the murder of the young duke Arthur of Brittany
- Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills, explorers, first men to cross Australia from south to north.
- Chandragupta Maurya, emperor of the Mauryan empire (300 BC), who reputedly died of self-starvation as a Jain.[2]
- Drusus Caesar (33AD), Roman imperial prince, son of Germanicus and brother of Caligula, starved to death in his prison on the orders of Tiberius.
- George Washington DeLong, North pole explorer, and his crew.[3]
- Eratosthenes, eminent Greek thinker.[4][5]
- Pavel Filonov, Russian painter[6]
- Kurt Gödel, groundbreaking mathematician who starved to death after his wife died.[7][8][9]
- Pope John XIV, of starvation or poisoning
- Blessed Thomas Johnson and nine other Carthusian martyrs, who refused the Oath of Supremacy
- Julia Livilla (late 41AD or early 42AD), Roman imperial princess, sister of Caligula, starved to death in her banishment on the orders of her uncle, the emperor Claudius.
- Livilla (31AD), Roman imperial princess, niece and daughter-in-law of Tiberius, starved to death by her mother Antonia Minor for her complicity in the murder of her husband Drusus Minor.
- Scott Nearing, peace activist, economist and homesteader.[10]
- Pausanius, Spartan general
- Vasily Rozanov, Russian philosopher
- A. A. Troitzky, a leading chess composer
- Bobby Sands and nine others, Irish republicans. See 1981 Irish Hunger Strike[11][12]
- Carl Schlechter, a leading chess master.[13](pneumonia also said to have been a factor)
- Ugolino della Gherardesca, Florentine, figure in The Divine Comedy
- Some settlers during "the starving time" in Jamestown, Virginia.
- Members of the Donner Party, ill-fated American emigrant group.
- Potti Sri Ramulu of Andhra Pradesh, India for a separate state for telugu speaking people.
- St. Maximilian Kolbe (was starved for two weeks, then euthanized with poison)
- Christopher McCandless spiritual explorer.
[edit] See also
- Lists of people by cause of death
- List of deaths from anorexia nervosa
- Angola
- Famine relief
- Franklin expedition
- Great Leap Forward
- History of Sudan
- Great Irish Famine
- Little Ice Age
- North Korea
- Siege of Leningrad
- 2005 Malawi food crisis
- 2008 Central Asia energy crisis
- Theresienstadt concentration camp
