- List of drowning victims
This is a list of
drowning victims, either real or fictional characters in chronological order. The reasons for drowning are diverse and range fromsuicide , to accidents ormurder s.Non-Fictional
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Tiberinus Silvius , ninth Latin king of Rome, drowned in theTiber River , which was named after him
*Hippasus of Metapontum, a student of the mathematicianPythagoras , who, by some accounts, was drowned by his fellow Pythagoreans for the imprudence of discoveringirrational numbers
*Qu Yuan of China in 278 BC. Committedritual suicide as a form of protest against the corruption of the era, a sacrifice still commemorated today during the Duan Wu orDragon Boat Festival
*PharaohPtolemy XIII of Egypt , drowned in theNile in 47 BC
*Antinous (born "circa" 111), lover of Roman EmperorHadrian , drowned in theNile in 130; the grieving emperor commissioned hundreds of statues of the youth and spread them around the Empire
*Li Bai , Chinese poet, in 762. It is, however, suggested that he died of excessive drinking or mercury poisoning. [cite web |url=http://www.poetrymagic.co.uk/poets/libai.html|title=Li Bai and Chinese Poetry|accessdate=2008-01-22]
*William Adelin (born 1103) and his half sister Matilda FitzEdith, countess of Perches (born "circa" 1090), sons of kingHenry I of England , drowned in the Channel onNovember 25 1120 in theWhite Ship wreck
*Friedrich I Barbarossa,duke of Swabia andHoly Roman Emperor , drowned in the Göks River (Cilicia ) onJune 6 1190 during theThird Crusade , leaving an unstable alliance betweenRichard I of England andPhilip II of France
*Henry of Antioch, Henry of Poitiers or Henri de Poitiers, drowned atsea onJune 18 /June 27 /June 28 ,1276 , son ofBohemund IV of Antioch and first wife Plaisance Embriaco de Giblet
*KingMagnus II of Sweden and Norway, 1316 – 1374
*Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter , Constable of theTower of London , 1430 – 1475
*George, Duke of Clarence (born 1449), executed for treason against his brother kingEdward IV of England on 1478, by drowning in a barrel ofMalmsey wine; or so the legend says, because modern assessments favour the traditionaldecapitation instead
*Bartolomeu Dias , Portuguese explorer who sailed around theCape of Good Hope . Drowned not far from the Cape of Good Hope in 1500
*Felix Manz , co-founder of the Swiss Anabaptists, was drowned in 1527 in the Limmat River inZürich by the Zürich Reformed state church
*Francisco Rodrigues Lobo (b. 1580), a PortuguesePoet andWriter of Sephardi Jewish origin, drowned on4 November ,1621
*John William Friso of Orange-Nassau,stadholder of theLow Countries , in 1711
*Miguel de Bragança (b. 1699), bastard son of KingPeter II of Portugal , in theTagus River on13 January ,1724
*Peter Artedi , a disciple of Linnaeus, considered the father ofIcthyology , fell by accident in a channel ofAmsterdam in 1735
*Percy Shelley , in a sudden storm while sailing off Livorno onJuly 8 ,1822 .
*Charles Clement Johnston , U.S. Representatives from Virginia, drown in Atlantic near a dock in Alexandria, Virginia in 1832
*Lucas Barrett , English naturalist and geologist in 1862.
*Constantine W. Buckley , formerSpeaker of the Texas House of Representatives , drowned in theBrazos River near Columbia, Texas on19 December 1865 . [* Handbook of Texas | id = BB/fbu6 | name = Constantine W. Buckley | reference = yes | accessdate = 2007-01-22 ]
*Ludwig II of Bavaria , 1845 –June 13 1886 , found drowned dead inLake Starnberg (then called "Lake Würm")
*Bernhard von Gudden , 1824 –June 13 1886 , Psychiatric Professor who diagnosed and accompaniedLudwig II of Bavaria , found dead drowned inLake Starnberg (then called "Lake Würm")
*Julius Krohn (b. 1835), founder of the scientific study offolklore , and influential journalist, author and translator. Ethnically German but active inFinland . Drowned in a freak sailing accident in 1888
*John Jacob Astor IV (born 1864), drowned in the Titanic disaster
*Benjamin Guggenheim (born 1865), drowned in the Titanic disaster
*Isidor Straus and wifeIda Straus , drowned in the Titanic disaster
*Grigori Rasputin (died 1916),Russia n mystic and Imperial adviser; the aristocratic faction tried to kill him using several methods, eventually drowning on theNeva River proved to be the most efficient
*Enrique Granados , drowned after jumping out of a lifeboat to rescue his wife, following the torpedoing of their ship by the German navy during World War I, in 1916.
*William Wilton (born 1865), Scottish football manager (Rangers F.C. ), drowned in a boating accident atGourock , Scotland in 1920.
*Sacadura Cabral , died on15 November ,1924 after his airplane disappeared over theEnglish Channel , along with his Co-Pilot Mechanical Corporal José Correia
* J. W. H. T. Douglas, 1882-1930, cricketer, died unsuccessfully trying to rescue his father after a collision at sea.
*Eugene James (1913-1933),Kentucky Derby -winning American jockey drowned inLake Michigan while swimming at Chicago's Oak Street Beach
*James Murray, 1901-1936, actor, found drowned in the Hudson River, possiblesuicide
*Virginia Woolf (born 1882), British writer, committed suicide onMarch 28 1941
*Edward Johnston (politician) - drowned atBlack Rock, Victoria
*Arky Vaughan (born 1912), baseball Hall of Famer, drowned after falling from his fishing boat onAugust 30 ,1952
*Prince Frederick of Prussia (born 1911), died in 1966 atReinhartshausen ,Germany after drowning in theRhine .
*Eric Fleming , actor best known for his role in theCBS series Rawhide, drowned onSeptember 28 ,1966 , in a remote river in Peru's back country while filming the made-for-TV movie "Selva Alta" ("High Jungle") forMGM .
*Harold Holt , servingPrime Minister of Australia , presumed drowned (or taken by shark) on17 December 1967 .
*Mary Jo Kopechne (born 1940), drowned in Edward Kennedy's Oldsmobile Delta '88 in a car accident off ofChappaquiddick Island in 1969.
*Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones (born 1942) (known as Brian Jones, original guitarist of The Rolling Stones), drowned inHartfield, Sussex ,England , in his own swimming pool on3 July 1969 . Classified as "death by misadventure"
*Albert Ayler , jazz musician, suspectedsuicide November 1970
*Istvan Kertesz , orchestral conductor, accident,16 April 1973
*Josef Mengele (born 1911), war criminal and leader of theNazi human experimentation program, drowned while swimming off the Brazilian coast in 1979
*Hart Crane , poet;suicide in theCaribbean .
*Natalie Wood (born 1938), actress, drowned in a yacht accident in 1981; the accident raised several suspicions and murder was considered
*Dennis Wilson , one of the members of theBeach Boys , in 1983
*Jessica Savitch (born 1947),NBC andPBS broadcaster and reporter, drowned when her car went off the road during a heavy rainstorm into a canal. Her car sank upside down in the mud and filled with water in16 October 1983 .
*Carol Wayne , American actress who drowned under mysterious circumstances in Manzanillo, Mexico in 1985.
*Jerry Anderson, former NFL football player who drowned while saving a boy who had fallen into a flooded creek in 1989.
*Jim Hodder, (born 1947), American drummer who drowned in his pool in 1990.
*Robert Maxwell , newspaper magnate, disappeared from his yacht under mysterious circumstances in 1991, body later recovered off the coast ofTenerife
*Tom Mees , longtime sportscaster forESPN , drowned while trying to rescue his 4 year old daughter in a neighbor's swimming pool, in 1996. The daughter survived.
*Jeff Buckley (born 1966), singer-songwriter, drowned in theWolf River inMemphis, TN in 1997
*Spalding Gray , monologuist and actor ("Swimming to Cambodia "), born 1941, in a suspected suicide inNew York City 'sEast River in 2004.
*Édouard Michelin (born 1963), French businessman, drowned while fishing near the island of Sein in northwest France, in 2006.
*Rafael Donato (born 1938), distinguished Filipino educator and university president, accidentally drowned off the coast ofMorong, Bataan , in the Philippines in 2006
*Gilbert Aldana (born 1977), American Mixed martial artist, drowned in a boating accident atLake Pleasant inArizona in March 2007.
*Marquise Hill (born 1982), Defensive End for theNew England Patriots , accidentally drowned inLake Pontchartrain inNew Orleans after ajet ski accident on27 May 2007
*Kari Blackburn (born 1954),BBC World Service executive, drowned (suicide) at sea atFelixstowe ,Suffolk ,England in 2007. [cite news |title=BBC editor's death 'was suicide' |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7405651.stm |work=BBC News |date=2008-05-16 |accessdate=2008-05-26]
*Katoucha Niane (born 1960), French model, drowned in the Seine in 2008.Fictional
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Aegeus , father of the heroTheseus , committed suicide by jumping into the sea for believing his son dead; the sea was named after him and today is known byAegean Sea
*Paul et Virginie , from the novel of the same name, died drowned in ashipwreck
*Icarus, son ofDaedalus ; escaped with his father using artificial wings; flew too near the sun and wings fell off; drowned in what is today called theIcarian Sea
*Leander, lover of Hero; drowned swimming across theHellespont
*Jason Voorhees , the living-dead, masked serial killer of the "Friday the 13th" films, was originally a boy who drowned in a summer camp
*Primula Brandybuck andDrogo Baggins , the parents of Tolkien's characterFrodo Baggins of "The Lord of the Rings "
*Ophelia inWilliam Shakespeare 's play "Hamlet "
*Adam and BarbaraMaitland , the main characters in the filmBeetlejuice , drowned when they crashed their car off a covered bridge.
*Yailee Ming inDeception Point , drowned when he fell into a meteorite extraction pit, in the Arctic.
*Buffy drowned by the hand of the Master, in the episodeProphecy Girl , the finale of the first season of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".
*Charlie Pace drowned in the season 3 finale of "Lost".
*Javert fromVictor Hugo 's "Les Misérables " commits suicide by throwing himself off a bridge into theSeine .
*Dr. Howard Kramer from "Hollow Man ", drowned by Sebastian CaineNotes
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