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Notable Drowning Deaths: Famous Drowning Victims

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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. 4

    Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator

    “ Drowned in the Nile in 47 BC „
  2. 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 „
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    Sir William Schwenck Gilbert

    “ British humorist, librettist of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, drowned while going to the rescue of two other swimmers in the lake at his home „
  4. 8
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    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 „
  5. 11

    Magnus II of Norway

    1048
    “ 1316 - 1374 „
  6. 7

    William Adelin

    1103
    “ Son of king Henry I of England, drowned in the Channel on 25 November 1120 in the White Ship wreck, „
  7. 5

    Antinous

    111
    “ 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 „
  8. 9

    Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor

    1122
    “ Duke of Swabia and Holy Roman Emperor, drowned in the Göks River (Cilicia). „
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    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 „
  10. 12

    John of Nepomuk

    1345
    “ Martyred by drowning in 1393. „
  11. 15

    Bartolomeu Dias

    1451
    “ Portuguese explorer who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope. Drowned not far from the Cape of Good Hope in 1500 „
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    Felix Manz

    1498
    “ Co-founder of the Swiss Anabaptists, was drowned in 1527 in the Limmat River in Z�rich by the Z�rich Reformed state church „
  13. 16

    Louis II of Hungary

    1506
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    Francisco Rodrigues Lobo

    1580
    “ A Portuguese poet and writer of Sephardi Jewish origin, drowned on 4 November 1621 „
  15. 19

    Johan Willem Friso, Prince of Orange

    1687
    “ Stadholder of the Low Countries, in 1711 „
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    Peter Artedi

    1705
    “ A disciple of Linnaeus, considered the father of Ichthyology, fell by accident in a channel of Amsterdam in 1735 „
  17. 13

    Henry Holland

    1745
    “ 1430 � 1475 „
  18. 22

    Percy Bysshe Shelley

    1792
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    Charles Clement Johnston

    1795
    “ U.S. Representatives from Virginia, drown in Atlantic near a dock in Alexandria, Virginia in 1832 „
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    Constantine W. Buckley

    1815
    “ Former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, drowned in the Brazos River near Columbia, Texas on 19 December 1865. „
  21. 28

    Bernhard von Gudden

    1824
    “ 1824 � 13 June 1886, Psychiatric Professor who diagnosed and accompanied Ludwig II of Bavaria, found dead drowned in Lake Starnberg (then called Lake W�rm) „
  22. 29

    Julius Krohn

    1835
    “ Founder of the scientific study of folklore, and influential journalist, author and translator. Ethnically German but active in Finland. Drowned in a freak sailing accident in 1888 „
  23. 42

    James Murray

    1837
    “ 1901-1936, actor, found drowned in the Hudson River, possible suicide „
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    Lucas Barrett

    1837
    “ English naturalist and geologist in 1862. „
  25. 34

    Isidor Straus

    1845
    “ Drowned in the Titanic disaster „

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  1. Elinore Appello
    Notable Drowning Deaths: Famous Drowning Victims at 11/08/2012 6:30 AM
    Admirable drowning deaths here
  2. Anonymous
    Hippasus at 5/04/2010 1:08 AM
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