This is an index of lists of people by cause of death, in alphabetical order of cause.
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Deaths due to the Chernobyl disaster (including list of victims)
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List of fatalities from aviation accidents
Many notable human fatalities have resulted from aviation accidents and incidents
An aviation accident is defined by the Convention on International Civil Aviation Annex 13 as an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, whic ...
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List of deaths through alcohol
This is a list of the most notable people in :Alcohol-related deaths, Alcohol-related deaths who died of Long-term effects of alcohol , short- and/or long-term effects of alcohol consumption. Deaths caused indirectly by alcohol (drug) ...
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List of deaths from anorexia nervosa
This is a list of notable people who have died from anorexia nervosa, in chronological order.
*1380: Catherine of Siena – Italian Saint, aged 33
*1387: Pierre de Luxembourg – French Catholic bishop, aged 17
*1882: Sophie Gray – Scottish mo ...
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List of people who were beheaded
The following is a list of people who were beheaded, arranged alphabetically by country or region and with date of decapitation. Special sections on "Religious figures" and "Fictional characters" are also appended.
These individuals lost their ...
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List of choking deaths
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List of deaths due to COVID-19
This is a list of notable people reported as having died from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), as a result of infection by the virus SARS-CoV-2 during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Index
Deaths
See also
* Deaths in 2020
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List of drowning victims
This is a list of drowning victims in chronological order. The reasons for drowning are diverse and range from suicide, to accidents or murders.
Antiquity
*Tiberinus Silvius, ninth Latin kings of Alba Longa, Latin king of Alba Longa, drowned in ...
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List of deaths from drug overdose and intoxication
Drug overdose and intoxication are significant causes of accidental death, and can also be used as a form of suicide. Death can occur from overdosing on a single or multiple drugs, or from combined drug intoxication (CDI) due to poly drug use. ...
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List of people killed in duels
This is a list of people killed in duels by date:
16th century
*Cadeguala, Mapuche toqui, by Alonso García de Ramón at Purén, Chile 1585
* Sir William Drury, English politician and soldier, by Sir John Borough, died from wound received in ...
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List of deaths from legal euthanasia and assisted suicide
Euthanasia is the practice of intentionally ending a life in order to relieve pain and suffering, while assisted suicide, also known as physician-assisted suicide, is suicide committed with the aid of a physician. Assisted suicide is often confused ...
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List of people executed by lethal injection
Lethal injection is the practice of injecting one or more drugs into a person by a government for the express purpose of causing immediate death. While Nazi Germany was known to execute enemies of the state using an injection of lethal drugs, th ...
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List of people who were executed
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List of hazing deaths in the United States
This is a list of hazing deaths in the United States. This is not an exhaustive list. An exact list is not available because there is no central system for tracking hazing deaths, and the role of hazing in some deaths is subject to disagreement. ...
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List of horse accidents
This is a list of people and fictional characters who had severe injuries, or died from accidents related to horses. Some of the listed accidents had important political and historical consequences, which are given when relevant.
Celebrities
*Hol ...
(deaths and serious injuries)
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List of inventors killed by their own inventions
This is a list of inventors whose deaths were in some manner caused by or related to a product, process, procedure, or other innovation that they invented or designed.
Direct casualties
Art
* Luis Jiménez (1940–2006) was killed while crea ...
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List of marathon fatalities
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List of deaths by motorcycle crash
This is a list of people with Wikipedia articles who died in motorcycle crashes.
Road crashes
The following people with biographies in Wikipedia died in road crashes involving motorcycles:
Others said to have died in motorcycle crashes:
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List of deaths on eight-thousanders
The eight-thousanders are the 14 mountains that rise more than above sea level; they are all in the Himalayas, Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges.
This is a list of Mountaineering, mountaineers who have died on these mountains.
Mount Ev ...
(mountains)
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Lists of murders
Following are lists of murders organized in various ways. Entries may appear in more than one section.
By location
* List of assassinations, sorted by continent and country
* List of assassinations in Africa
* List of assassinations in Asia
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List of NASCAR fatalities
This article lists drivers who have been fatally injured while competing in or in preparation for (testing, practice, qualifying) races sanctioned by the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR). A separate list compiles drivers w ...
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List of pneumonia deaths
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List of poisonings
These are lists of poisonings, deliberate and accidental, in chronological order by the date of death of the victim(s). They include mass poisonings, confirmed attempted poisonings, suicides, fictional poisonings and people who are known or suspec ...
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List of prison deaths
This is a list of notable people who have died in prison, whether in prison or in hospital while still serving a prison sentence. This list does not include inmates who were capital punishment, executed as punishment for their crimes.
See also ...
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List of driver deaths in motorsport
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List of people who died in traffic collisions
This list contains notable people who have been killed in traffic collisions. This list does not include those who were killed competing on closed road events whether in motorsport or in competitive cycling events. Passengers of a vehicle are i ...
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List of skiing deaths
This is a list of skiing deaths of notable people, in chronological order, and includes skiers and snowboarders both professional and recreational whose deaths are due to accidents or avalanche
An avalanche is a rapid flow of snow down a sl ...
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List of fatal cougar attacks in North America
This is a list of known or suspected fatal cougar attacks that occurred in North America by decade in chronological order. The cougar is also commonly known as mountain lion, puma, mountain cat, catamount, or panther. The sub-population in Florida ...
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List of fatal snake bites in the United States
This is a list of some people who were fatally bitten by snakes in the United States by decade in reverse chronological order. It is not a comprehensive list.
Snake species
The United States has about 30 species of venomous snakes, which inclu ...
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List of fatal shark attacks in the United States
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List of fatal shark attacks in Australia
This is a list of fatal shark attacks in Australia. The Australian Shark-Incident Database has recorded that between 1791 and April 2018 there were 237 fatal shark attacks in Australia.
In the two years of 2020 and 2021 there were 11 fatal shar ...
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List of fatal shark attacks in South Africa
This is a list of recorded fatal shark attacks in South African territorial waters
The term territorial waters is sometimes used informally to refer to any area of water over which a sovereign state has jurisdiction, including internal water ...
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List of fatal shark attacks in Réunion
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List of fatal alligator attacks in the United States
This is a list of fatal alligator attacks in the United States in reverse chronological order by decade. All occurred in the Southeast, where alligators are endemic to wetlands and tidal marshes. The state of Florida, where most attacks and deaths ...
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List of fatalities due to wingsuit flying
Fatalities from wingsuit flying
Wingsuit flying (or wingsuiting) is the sport of skydiving using a webbing-sleeved jumpsuit called a wingsuit to add webbed area to the diver's body and generate increased lift, which allows extended air time ...
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List of spaceflight-related accidents and incidents
This article lists verifiable spaceflight-related accidents and incidents resulting in human fatality or near-fatality during flight or training for crewed space missions, and testing, assembly, preparation or flight of crewed and robotic space ...
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List of Spanish flu cases
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List of people who died of starvation
This is a list of notable people who died of starvation:
See also
*List of deaths from anorexia nervosa
*Angola
* Famine relief
*Franklin expedition
* Great Leap Forward
*History of Sudan
* Great Irish Famine
* Little Ice Age
*North Korea
* S ...
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List of notable stunt accidents
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List of selfie-related injuries and deaths
This is a list of serious injuries and deaths in which one or more subjects of a selfie were killed or injured before, during, or after taking a photo of themselves, with the accident at least in part attributed to taking the photo.
Overview
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List of suicides
The following people died by suicide. This includes suicides effected under duress and excludes deaths by accident or misadventure. People who might or might not have died by their own hand, or whose intention to die is in dispute, but who a ...
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List of television actors who died during production
The following is a list of television performers who died during production of the television show in which they were appearing. In many cases, a show will handle the death of an actor by killing off their character or otherwise writing them out of ...
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List of tuberculosis cases
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List of volcanic eruption deaths
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List of unusual deaths
This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources.
Antiquity
Middle Ages
Renaissance
Early modern period
19th centur ...
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List of women who died in childbirth
This is a list of notable women, either famous themselves or closely associated with someone well known, who suffered maternal death as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO):
:"the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of te ...
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Deaths by cause
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List of causes of death by rate
The following is a list of the causes of human deaths worldwide for different years arranged by their associated mortality rates. In 2002, there were about 57 million deaths. In 2005, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) using the I ...
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People by cause of death