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Here is a list of famous people who died of poisoning. Death due to poison could not be detected in earlier ages and so was the most popularl method used to kill people. Only in the recent past, has the cause of death by poison been detectable through 'autopsy'. Did you know, in the previous centuries, most poison victims died of arsenic poisoning? Here is a list of all famous people who were poisoned and killed. This list includes all famous poisoning victims and can be sorted by any column.

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Rank   Name Born Profession Birthplace Nationality
  1. 1
    Head of Soviet spy service, poisoned with hydrogen cyanide by NKVD
  2. 2
    1889
    Writer, Politician, Soldier, Social activist, Artist, Dictator, Political prisoner, Head of State More
    Braunau am Inn
    Germany, Austria
    Cyanide and gunshot simultaneously before capture
  3. 3
    0997
    D. 1040
  4. 4
    1912
    Philosopher, Mathematician, Scientist, Computer Scientist
    London
    United Kingdom, England
    British mathematician � Apparently committed suicide by injecting an apple with cyanide and taking a bite.
  5. 5
    1962
    Writer
    Voronezh
    United Kingdom, Russia, Soviet Union
    Russian ex-spy and investigator, died three weeks after being poisoned by radioactive polonium-210
  6. 6

    Ali ibn Abi Talib

    Caliph
  7. 7

    Alphonse I of Toulouse

    1103
    Castle of Mont-Pelerin
    France
    D. 1148
  8. 8

    Antipater the Idumaean

    Father of Herod the Great
  9. 9

    Aratus of Sicyon

    Tyrant of Sicyon
  10. 10
    1130
    D. 1162
  11. 11
    1906
    Actor
    Tokyo
    Japanese kabuki actor, ate four livers of fugu fish
  12. 12

    Blanche of Bourbon

    First wife of King Pedro of Castile
  13. 13
    1685
    Holy Roman Emperor
    Vienna
    Hungary
    Ate poisonous mushrooms
  14. 14
    Alexandria
    Macedon, Ptolemaic Egypt
    Poisoned herself with an asp�s bite
  15. 15

    Constance of Normandy

    Normandy
    Daughter of King William I of England
  16. 16

    Constantine II of Armenia

    D. 1129
  17. 17
    Politician
    Athens
    Greece
    Athenian politician
  18. 18

    Emperor Hui of Jin China

    D. 304
  19. 19
    1891
    Soldier
    Heidenheim
    Germany
    German general
  20. 20

    Eva Hitler

    Suicide by cyanide capsule at Adolf Hitler's side
  21. 21
    1929
    Writer, Journalist
    Vitosha, Sofia
    Bulgaria
    Bulgarian dissident, � Assassinated in London with ricin
  22. 22
    1900
    Politician
    Munich
    Germany
    Leader of the Nazi Schutzstaffel
  23. 23

    Hermann G�ring

    Leader of the Nazi Luftwaffe; suicide by cyanide capsule, long after being captured and only hours before his hanging was to take place
  24. 24
    1969
    Saudi Arabia
    A Sunni Jihadi fighter, died from a poisoned letter sent by Russian FSB agency
  25. 25

    Johann Schobert

    1735
    Silesia
    Germany
    German composer, ate poisonous mushrooms believing them to be edible

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