Death By Poison: List Of Famous Poison Victims People

Death By Poison: List Of Famous Poison Victims

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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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    1898
    Head of Soviet spy service, poisoned with hydrogen cyanide by NKVD
  2. 2
    1889
    Cyanide and gunshot simultaneously before capture
  3. 3
    997
    D. 1040
  4. 4
    1912
    British mathematician � Apparently committed suicide by injecting an apple with cyanide and taking a bite.
  5. 5
    1962
    Russian ex-spy and investigator, died three weeks after being poisoned by radioactive polonium-210
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    Ali ibn Abi Talib

    Caliph
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    Alphonse I of Toulouse

    1103
    D. 1148
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    Antipater the Idumaean

    Father of Herod the Great
  9. 9

    Aratus of Sicyon

    271
    Tyrant of Sicyon
  10. 10
    1130
    D. 1162
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    1906
    Japanese kabuki actor, ate four livers of fugu fish
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    Blanche of Bourbon

    First wife of King Pedro of Castile
  13. 13
    1685
    Ate poisonous mushrooms
  14. 14
    69
    Poisoned herself with an asp�s bite
  15. 15

    Constance of Normandy

    Daughter of King William I of England
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    Constantine II of Armenia

    D. 1129
  17. 17
    384
    Athenian politician
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    Emperor Hui of Jin China

    D. 304
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    1891
    German general
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    Eva Hitler

    Suicide by cyanide capsule at Adolf Hitler's side
  21. 21
    1929
    Bulgarian dissident, � Assassinated in London with ricin
  22. 22
    1900
    Leader of the Nazi Schutzstaffel
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    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
    A Sunni Jihadi fighter, died from a poisoned letter sent by Russian FSB agency
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    Johann Schobert

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

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  1. Ji Mckibbon
    Death By Poison: List Of Famous Poison Victims at 1/19/2013 1:30 AM
    i'm not a fan of famous poison victims , but this isn't bad.

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