List of People Who Died of Starvation

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

  • Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (Lampascus c.-428), Greek philosopher, sage, mathematician, physicist and astronomer.
  • Agrippina the Elder (33AD), 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.
  • Baiyi (or Boyi) (伯夷) and Shuqi (叔齊), a brother of him (~1045 BC), Shang dynasty loyalists
  • 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.
  • Chandragupta Maurya, emperor of the Mauryan empire (300 BC), who reputedly died of self-starvation as a Jain.
  • Deng Tong (鄧通), a male lover of Han Wendi
  • Drusus Caesar (33AD), Roman imperial prince, son of Germanicus and brother of Caligula, starved to death in his prison on the orders of Tiberius.

Homer Collyer(1947) starved to death after his brother, Langley, died after 3 tonnes of newspapers fell over him. Homer was blind and paralysed.

  • Guan Panpan (關盼盼), a famous Tang woman
  • George Washington DeLong, North pole explorer, and his crew.
  • Eratosthenes, eminent Greek thinker.
  • Pavel Filonov, Russian painter
  • Kurt Gödel, groundbreaking mathematician who starved to death after his wife was hospitalized and could no longer prepare his meals.
  • St. Maximilian Kolbe (was starved for two weeks, then euthanized with poison)
  • Liu Zongzhou (劉宗周), Ming dynasty confucianism thinker
  • Pope John XIV, of starvation or poisoning
  • Blessed Thomas Johnson and nine other Carthusian martyrs, who refused the Oath of Supremacy
  • Duke Huan of Qi
  • King Wuling of Zhao
  • Emperor Wu of Liang
  • Julia Livilla (late 41AD or early 42AD), Roman imperial princess, sister of Caligula, starved to death in her banishment on the orders of her uncle, the emperor Claudius.
  • Livilla (31AD), 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 - 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.
  • Pausanias, Spartan general
  • Vasily Rozanov, Russian philosopher
  • Potti Sri Ramulu of Andhra Pradesh, India for a separate state for Telugu speaking people.
  • A. A. Troitzky, a leading chess composer
  • Bobby Sands and nine others, Irish republicans. See 1981 Irish Hunger Strike
  • Carl Schlechter, a leading chess master. (pneumonia also said to have been a factor)
  • Robert Falcon Scott, English Antarctic explorer who perished, along with 4 more, on their return trip from the South Pole
  • Ugolino della Gherardesca, Florentine, figure in The Divine Comedy
  • Yang Ye
  • Ye Mingchen
  • Yuan Shu
  • Zhou Yafu

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