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Famous Person	Country/Territory of Death	Date & Cause of Death
Idi Amin (Ugandan President & Murderer)		2003 (Kidney Failure)
Lord Horatio Nelson (British Admiral)		1805 - Killed in battle
Frederic Chopin (Polish Composer)		1810 - Tuberculosis
St Peter (Christian Apostle & Pope)		67 - Executed
Maria Callas (US/Greek Opera Singer)		1977 - Heart attack
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese Explorer)		1521 - Killed in battle
Pocahontas (Daughter of Native American Chief)		1617 - Smallpox
Leon Trotsky (Russian Revolutionary)		1940 - Assassinated by ice pick
Charlie Chaplin (British Film Actor & Director)		1977 - Natural causes
Chiang Kai-Shek (Chinese President)		1975 - Kidney failure
Paul Gauguin (French Painter)		1903 - Syphilis/Drug overdose
Percy Shelley (British Poet)		1822 - Drowning
Jimi Hendrix (US Rock Guitarist)		1970 - Drugs overdose
Richard the Lionheart (King of England)		1199 - Killed by crossbow arrow
Giacomo Casanova (Venetian Author & Adventurer)		1798 - Natural causes
Captain James Cook (British Sailor & Explorer)		1779 - Killed by natives
David Livingstone (British Missionary & Explorer)		1873 - Dysentary
Napoleon Bonaparte (Soldier & French Emperor)		1821 - Stomach cancer/Poisoning
Rupert Brooke (British War Poet)		1915 - Septicaemia
Archimedes (Greek Inventor)		212BC - Killed by Roman soldier
Oscar Wilde (Irish Author & Humourist)		1900 - Meningitis
Osama bin Laden (Saudi Terrorist)		2011 - Killed by US Navy SEALs

Famous Person	Country/Territory of Death	Date & Cause of Death
Ayrton Senna (Brazilian Racing Driver)		1994 - Motor racing crash
Thomas Mann (German Author)		1954 - Natural causes
Adolf Eichmann (German Genocidist)		1962 - Executed
Alexander Graham Bell (British/US Inventor)		1922 - Diabetes
Mark Antony (Roman General & Politician)		30BC - Suicide
Alfred Nobel (Swedish Inventor & Philanthropist)		1896 - Stroke
Mata Hari (Dutch Spy)		1917 - Executed
Joan Sutherland (Australian Opera Singer)		2010 - Heart Failure
Leif Ericson (Icelandic Explorer)		c. 1020 - N/K
General Charles Gordon (British Soldier)		1885 - Killed in siege
George Mallory (British Mountaineer)		1924 - Climbing accident/exposure
Che Guevara (Argentinian Revolutionary)		1967 - Executed
Robert Louis Stevenson (British Author)		1894 - Stroke
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch Painter)		1890 - Suicide
Charlemagne (Frankish Emperor)		814 - Pleurisy
Edith Cavell (British Nurse)		1915 - Executed by German troops
Princess Grace (US Film Actress & Princess of Monaco)		1982 - Stroke/Car crash
Lord George Byron (British Poet)		1824 - Septicaemia
Alexander the Great (Macedonian King)		323BC - Fever/Poisoning
Kaiser Wilhelm II (German Emperor)		1941 - Natural causes
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran)		1980 - Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Ludwig van Beethoven (German Composer)		1827 - Liver disease

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