Shot by an American soldier, shot after curfew

Bike accident (brakes failed! no helmet!)

Blood poisoning (shoe polish mixed up with shaving cream, then nicked by a straight razor)

Crushed by a bookshelf, reaching for the Talmud (or an umbrella)

Typhus and/or Syphilis

Throat cancer

Drank unboiled water during a cholera epidemic

Stabbed to death by a Genoese hitman

Drowned after his ship was torpedoed by a U-boat

Suicide over the unrequited love of a noblewoman

Experimental brain surgery and coma (after a head trauma in a taxi cab)

Avalanche on a skiing excursion

Septicemia from an infected boil

Sudden heart attack during Carnival

Beheaded for having taken part in a failed uprising

Complications from a fall off the podium while conducting his own work

Suicide by lethal drug overdose, in Florida

Chronic paralysis caused by syphilis

Complications from exposure to cold after being locked out by his wife

Stabbed to death by a male prostitute

Auschwitz gas chamber

Erotic asphyxiation in a London brothel

Suicide by putting his head in a gas oven, over disillusionment with Nazi Germany

Blood poisoning from removing an insect bite with scissors

Murdered by three Portuguese sailors while on vacation

Stabbed to death in a Parisian apartment

Suicide by drowning in the Seine after discovering his wife's affair

Victim of a hit-and-run car accident

Burned alive in his house by advancing German troops

Shot as a member of the Serbian resistance

After eating poisonous mushrooms (together with his whole family)

Typhoid fever after consuming a contaminated sorbet

Suicide by turning on the gas in his London apartment

Decapitated in a road accident

The plague... in Prague

Complications from a stroke while in rehearsal

Collapsed while playing a violin concerto

In a Gestapo cell at Theresienstadt

Suicide by jumping from a window in the Zagreb Opera House

Electrocuted when his tent pole hit an electric fence

Fell under the wheels of a train (while attempting to jump on as it departed)

Shot by a sniper at the Battle of the Somme

While playing the organ at Notre Dame cathedral, sustaining a low E

Cerebral apoplexy

Childbed fever

In an armchair in a palace

In battle, as part of the Red Army liberating Czechoslovakia

Rectal cancer