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A list of famous drowning victims. These notable people drowned either by accident or intentionally. May we recommend learning to swim or learn to defend yourself so that you don't have to join this list of famous drowning deaths and victims.

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  1. 1

    Tiberinus Silvius, ninth Latin king of Rome

    “ Drowned in the River Tiber, which was named after him „
  2. 2

    Hippasus

    Physicist, Mathematician
    “ A student of the mathematician Pythagoras, who, by some accounts, was drowned by his fellow Pythagoreans for the imprudence of discovering irrational numbers „
  3. 3
    Qu Yuan Notable Drowning Deaths: Famous Drowning Victims People picture

    Qu Yuan

    Politician, Poet
    Chu
    “ Committed ritual suicide as a form of protest against the corruption of the era, a sacrifice still commemorated today during the Duan Wu or Dragon Boat Festival „
  4. 4
    Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator Notable Drowning Deaths: Famous Drowning Victims People picture

    Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator

    “ Drowned in the Nile in 47 BC „
  5. 5
    Antinous Notable Drowning Deaths: Famous Drowning Victims People picture

    Antinous

    111
    Bithynia
    Greece
    “ Lover of Roman Emperor Hadrian, drowned in the Nile in 130; the grieving emperor commissioned hundreds of statues of the youth and spread them around the Empire „
  7. 6
    Li Bai Notable Drowning Deaths: Famous Drowning Victims People picture

    Li Bai

    0701
    Poet
    Suyab
    China
    “ It is, however, suggested that he died of excessive drinking or mercury poisoning. „
  8. 7
    William Adelin Notable Drowning Deaths: Famous Drowning Victims People picture

    William Adelin

    1103
    Winchester
    “ Son of king Henry I of England, drowned in the Channel on 25 November 1120 in the White Ship wreck, „
  9. 8

    Matilda, Countess of Perches

    “ Countess of Perches. Daughter of king Henry I of England, drowned in the Channel on 25 November 1120 in the White Ship wreck „
  10. 9
    Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor Notable Drowning Deaths: Famous Drowning Victims People picture

    Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor

    1122
    Holy Roman Emperor
    Weingarten
    “ Duke of Swabia and Holy Roman Emperor, drowned in the Göks River (Cilicia). „
  11. 10

    Henry of Antioch

    1198
    “ Henry of Poitiers or Henri de Poitiers, drowned at sea on 18 June/27 June/28 June 1276, son of Bohemund IV of Antioch and first wife Plaisance Embriaco de Giblet „
  12. 11
    Magnus II of Norway Notable Drowning Deaths: Famous Drowning Victims People picture

    Magnus II of Norway

    1048
    “ 1316 - 1374 „
  13. 12
    John of Nepomuk Notable Drowning Deaths: Famous Drowning Victims People picture

    John of Nepomuk

    1345
    Nepomuk
    “ Martyred by drowning in 1393. „
  14. 13
    Henry Holland Notable Drowning Deaths: Famous Drowning Victims People picture

    Henry Holland

    1745
    Architect
    Fulham
    England
    “ 1430 � 1475 „
  15. 14

    George

    “ Executed for treason against his brother king Edward IV of England on 1478, by drowning in a barrel of Malmsey wine; or so the legend says, because modern assessments favour the traditional decapitation instead „
  16. 15
    Bartolomeu Dias Notable Drowning Deaths: Famous Drowning Victims People picture

    Bartolomeu Dias

    1451
    Sailor
    Algarve
    Portugal, Kingdom of Portugal
    “ Portuguese explorer who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope. Drowned not far from the Cape of Good Hope in 1500 „
  18. 16
    Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia Notable Drowning Deaths: Famous Drowning Victims People picture

    Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia

    1506
    Buda
    Hungary
    “ On escape from the catastrophic Battle of Moh?cs (1526). Heavy cavalry armor impeded his ability to swim „
  19. 17
    Felix Manz Notable Drowning Deaths: Famous Drowning Victims People picture

    Felix Manz

    1498
    Zürich
    Switzerland
    “ Co-founder of the Swiss Anabaptists, was drowned in 1527 in the Limmat River in Z�rich by the Z�rich Reformed state church „
  20. 18

    Francisco Rodrigues Lobo

    1580
    Leiria
    Portugal
    “ A Portuguese poet and writer of Sephardi Jewish origin, drowned on 4 November 1621 „
  21. 19
    Johan Willem Friso, Prince of Orange Notable Drowning Deaths: Famous Drowning Victims People picture

    Johan Willem Friso, Prince of Orange

    1687
    Dessau
    “ Stadholder of the Low Countries, in 1711 „
  22. 20

    Miguel Of Braganza

    “ bitched son of King Peter II of Portugal, in the Tagus River on 13 January 1724 „
  23. 21

    Peter Artedi

    1705
    Örnsköldsvik Municipality
    “ A disciple of Linnaeus, considered the father of Ichthyology, fell by accident in a channel of Amsterdam in 1735 „
  24. 22

    Percy Shelley

    “ Influential English Romantic poet, in a sudden storm while sailing off Livorno on 8 July 1822. „
  25. 23

    Charles Clement Johnston

    1795
    “ U.S. Representatives from Virginia, drown in Atlantic near a dock in Alexandria, Virginia in 1832 „
  26. 24

    Lucas Barrett

    1837
    Geologist
    “ English naturalist and geologist in 1862. „
  27. 25

    Constantine W. Buckley

    1815
    Lawyer, Judge
    United States of America
    “ Former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, drowned in the Brazos River near Columbia, Texas on 19 December 1865. „

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