List of people who died of starvation

This is a list of notable people who died of starvation:

• Agrippina the Elder (33 AD), 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.
• Allakariallak, Inuit who played Nanook of the North in an early documentary.^[1]
• Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (Lampascus c. 428 BC), Greek philosopher, sage, mathematician, physicist and astronomer.
• Baiyi (or Boyi) (伯夷) and Shuqi (叔齊), a brother of him (~1045 BC), Shang dynasty loyalists^[2][3]
• King Bimbisara
• Maud de Braose, who accused King John of England of the murder of the young duke Arthur of Brittany
• Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills, explorers, first men to cross Australia from south to north.
• Frank E. Butler (1926), sharpshooter and husband to Annie Oakley
• Chandragupta Maurya, emperor of the Mauryan empire (300 BC), who reputedly died of self-starvation as a Jain.^[4]
• Homer Collyer (1947), starved to death after his brother, Langley, who was bringing food for him, died when 3 tonnes of newspapers fell on him. Homer was blind and paralyzed.
• Deng Tong (鄧通), a male lover of Han Wendi^[5]
• George Washington DeLong, North pole explorer, and his crew.^[6]
• Drusus Caesar (33AD), Roman imperial prince, son of Germanicus and brother of Caligula, starved to death in his prison on the orders of Tiberius.
• Eratosthenes, eminent Greek thinker.^[7][8]
• Pavel Filonov, Russian painter^[9]
• Kurt Gödel, groundbreaking mathematician who starved to death after his wife was hospitalized and could no longer prepare his meals.^[10][11][12]
• Guan Panpan (關盼盼), a famous Tang woman^[13]
• Duke Huan of Qi
• Pope John XIV, of starvation or poisoning
• Blessed Thomas Johnson and nine other Carthusian martyrs, who refused the Oath of Supremacy
• Julia Livilla (late 41 AD or early 42 AD), Roman imperial princess, sister of Caligula, starved to death in her banishment on the orders of her uncle, the emperor Claudius.
• St. Maximilian Kolbe (was starved for two weeks, then euthanized with poison)
• Liu Zongzhou (劉宗周), Ming dynasty Confucian thinker
• Livilla (31 AD), 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.
• Christopher McCandless (February 12, 1968 – c. August 18, 1992) - American wanderer who starved to death in Alaska after a planned solo trip became fatal due to not being properly prepared.
• Terence MacSwiney, mayor of Cork, Ireland.
• Feodosia Morozova, Russian noblewoman, one of the best-known partisans of the Old Believer movement.
• Scott Nearing, peace activist, economist and homesteader.^[14]
• Pausanias, Spartan general
• Potti Sri Ramulu of Andhra Pradesh, India for a separate state for Telugu speaking people.
• Vasily Rozanov, Russian philosopher
• Bobby Sands and nine others, Irish republicans: see 1981 Irish Hunger Strike^[15][16]
• Carl Schlechter, a leading chess master.^[17] (pneumonia also said to have been a factor)
• Robert Falcon Scott, English Antarctic explorer who perished, along with four more, on their return trip from the South Pole
• A. A. Troitsky, a leading chess composer
• Ugolino della Gherardesca, Florentine, figure in The Divine Comedy
• Emperor Wu of Liang
• King Wuling of Zhao
• Yang Ye
• Ye Mingchen^[18]
• Yuan Shu
• Zhou Yafu^[5]

Notes

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
• Siege of Leningrad
• Sokushinbutsu
• 2005 Malawi food crisis
• 2008 Central Asia energy crisis
• Theresienstadt concentration camp
• Lists of people by cause of death

External links

• UN: Millions of Africans Are Starving
• Hunger and Deaths in Brazil