Name
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Life
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Country of origin
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Comments
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Ref.
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Agrippina the Elder
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14 BC–33 AD
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Roman Empire
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Roman imperial princess, granddaughter of Augustus and mother of Caligula, starved to death (perhaps on the orders of Tiberius) in her exile on the island of Pandateria.
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Name
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Life
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Country of origin
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Comments
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Ref.
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Natalya Yunnikova
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1980 - 2017
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Russia
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She died on September 25, 2017 Russias a starved to death.
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Anaxagoras of Clazomenae
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510–428 BC
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Ancient Greece
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Greek philosopher, sage, mathematician, physicist and astronomer.
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Boyi and Shuqi
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1045 BC
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China
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Shang dynasty loyalists
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[1][2]
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Bimbisara
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558–491 BC
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Magadha
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King of Magadha from 542 to 492 BC. He was imprisoned by his son Ajatashatru in order to ascend the throne and died before he could be released.
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Maud de Braose
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1155–1210
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England
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English noblewoman accused King John of England of the murder of the young duke Arthur of Brittany
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Robert O'Hara Burke
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1821–1861
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United Kingdom
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Leader of the Burke and Wills expedition, which was the first expedition to cross Australia from south to north.
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William John Wills
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1834–1861
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United Kingdom
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Member of the Burke and Wills expedition, which was the first expedition to cross Australia from south to north.
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Frank E. Butler
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1847–1926
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United States
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American sharpshooter and husband to Annie Oakley
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Karen Carpenter
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1950–1983
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United States
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American singer and drummer
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Chandragupta Maurya
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340–297 BC
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Maurya Empire
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Emperor of the Mauryan empire (300 BC), who reputedly died of self-starvation as a Jain.
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[3]
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Floyd Collins
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1887–1925
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United States
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American cave explorer and famous, cave accident victim, died in Sand Cave, the near Cave City, Kentucky, part of Mammoth Cave National Park
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George Washington DeLong
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1844–1881
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United States
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North pole explorer, and his crew.
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[4]
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George Donner
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1784–1847
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United States
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American co-leader, of the infamous, frontier, Donner Party, who resorted to cannibalism and murder, to stay alive, after an early, winter snowfall, stranded them, while crossing the Sierra Nevada Mountains, into California.
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Drusus Caesar
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7–33
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SPQR
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Roman imperial prince, son of Germanicus and brother of Caligula, starved to death in his prison on the orders of Tiberius.
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Eratosthenes
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276–195
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Ancient Greece
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Eminent Greek thinker.
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[5][6]
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Pavel Filonov
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1883–1941
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Soviet Union
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Russian avant-garde painter, art theorist, and poet.
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[7]
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Kurt Gödel
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1906–1978
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Austria
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Groundbreaking mathematician who starved to death after his wife was hospitalized and could no longer prepare his meals.
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[8][9][10]
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Guan Panpan
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Tang Empire
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A famous Tang woman
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[11]
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Huan of Qi
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d. 643 BC
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Pope John XIV
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d. 984
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Papal States
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Pope from 983 to 984. He was placed in prison by Antipope Boniface VII in the Castel Sant'Angelo, where he died either from starvation or poison.
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Thomas Johnson
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d. 1537
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England
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He and nine other Carthusian martyrs, who refused the Oath of Supremacy
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Julia Livilla
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18–41
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SPQR
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Roman imperial princess, sister of Caligula, starved to death in her banishment on the orders of her uncle, the emperor Claudius.
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Liu Zongzhou
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1578–1645
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Ming Empire
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Confucian scholar who starved himself to death following the fall of the Ming dynasty.
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Livilla
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13 BC–31 AD
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SPQR
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Roman imperial princess, niece and daughter-in-law of Tiberius, starved to death by her mother Antonia Minor for her complicity in the murder of her husband Drusus Minor.
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Christopher McCandless
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1968–1992
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United States
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American wanderer who starved to death in Alaska after a planned solo trip became fatal due to not being properly prepared.
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Terence MacSwiney
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1879–1920
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Ireland
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Lord Mayor of Cork who died during a hunger strike while imprisoned in Brixton Prison.
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Feodosia Morozova
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1632–1675
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Russia
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Russian noblewoman, one of the best-known partisans of the Old Believer movement.
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Scott Nearing
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1883–1983
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United States
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American peace activist, economist and homesteader.
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[12]
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Pausanias
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d. 470 BC
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Sparta
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Spartan general
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Potti Sri Ramulu
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1901–1952
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India
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Indian revolutionary of Andhra Pradesh, India for a separate state for Telugu speaking people.
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Vasily Rozanov
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1856–1919
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Russia
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Russian philosopher
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Bobby Sands
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1954–1981
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Northern Ireland
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He and nine other Irish republicans died during the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.
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[13][14]
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Carl Schlechter
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1874–1918
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Austria-Hungary
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A leading Austrian chess master and theoretician (pneumonia also said to have been a factor).
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[15]
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Robert Falcon Scott
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1868–1912
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United Kingdom
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English Antarctic explorer who perished, along with four more, on their return trip from the South Pole
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Alexey Troitsky
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1866–1942
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Soviet Union
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A leading Russian chess composer who starved to death during the Siege of Leningrad.
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Ugolino della Gherardesca
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1220–1289
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Florence
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Italian nobleman, politician and naval commander who later became a figure in Dante's Divine Comedy.
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Wu of Liang
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464–549
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Liang Empire
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Founding emperor of the Liang Dynasty.
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King Wuling of Zhao
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d. 295 BC
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Ruler of Zhao during the Warring States period.
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Yang Ye
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d. 986
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Song Empire
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Chinese general who served both the Northern Han and Song Dynasty.
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Ye Mingchen
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1807–1859
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China
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Chinese official who was a key figure in resisting British influence during the Opium Wars.
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[16]
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Yuan Shu
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d. 199
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Han Empire
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Chinese warlord who lived in the late Eastern Han dynasty.
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Simone Weil
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1909-1943
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France
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French philosopher, mystic and political activist.
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Zhou Yafu
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d. 143 BC
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Han Empire
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Chinese general best remembered for putting down the Rebellion of the Seven States.
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[17]
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