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Notable Drowning Deaths: Famous Drowning Victims
Notable Famous Deaths 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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Tiberinus Silvius, ninth Latin king of Rome
“ Drowned in the River Tiber, which was named after him „ - 2 500“ A student of the mathematician Pythagoras, who, by some accounts, was drowned by his fellow Pythagoreans for the imprudence of discovering irrational numbers „
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340“ 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
Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator
“ Drowned in the Nile in 47 BC „ - 5
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 „ - 6
701“ It is, however, suggested that he died of excessive drinking or mercury poisoning. „ - 7
William Adelin
1103“ Son of king Henry I of England, drowned in the Channel on 25 November 1120 in the White Ship wreck, „ - 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 „ - 9
Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
1122“ Duke of Swabia and Holy Roman Emperor, drowned in the Göks River (Cilicia). „ - 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 „ - 11
Magnus II of Norway
1048“ 1316 - 1374 „ - 12
John of Nepomuk
1345“ Martyred by drowning in 1393. „ - 13
Henry Holland
1745“ 1430 � 1475 „ - 14 “ 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 „
- 15 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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Louis II of Hungary
1506 - 17
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 „ - 18
Francisco Rodrigues Lobo
1580“ A Portuguese poet and writer of Sephardi Jewish origin, drowned on 4 November 1621 „ - 19
Johan Willem Friso, Prince of Orange
1687“ Stadholder of the Low Countries, in 1711 „ - 20
Miguel Of Braganza
“ bitched son of King Peter II of Portugal, in the Tagus River on 13 January 1724 „ - 21
Peter Artedi
1705“ A disciple of Linnaeus, considered the father of Ichthyology, fell by accident in a channel of Amsterdam in 1735 „ - 22 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 „ - 24
Lucas Barrett
1837“ English naturalist and geologist in 1862. „ - 25
Constantine W. Buckley
1815“ Former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, drowned in the Brazos River near Columbia, Texas on 19 December 1865. „
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Notable Drowning Deaths: Famous Drowning Victims at 11/08/2012 6:30 AM
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