A Death For Every Year

Got syphilis from a prostitute, died of pneumonia and strokes.

Was assassinated.

Heart failure.

Heart failure too.

Diabetes complications.

Pneumonia.

More heart failure.

Unspecified illness.

Pneumonia.

Pneumonia too.

Infection.

Tertiary syphilis.

Assassinated. The man and the mustache that caused WWI.

The Mad Monk's amazing murder:

"On December 16, 1916, having decided that Rasputin’s influence over the Tsaritsa had made him a threat to the empire, a group of nobles led by Prince Felix Yusupov and the Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich and the right-wing politician Vladimir Purishkevich apparently lured Rasputin to the Yusupovs’ Moika Palace by intimating that Yusupov’s wife, Princess Irina, would be present and receiving friends. (In point of fact, she was away in the Crimea.)The group led him down to the cellar, where they served him cakes and red wine laced with a massive amount of cyanide. According to legend, Rasputin was unaffected, although Vasily Maklakov had supplied enough poison to kill five men.

Determined to finish the job, Prince Yusupov became anxious about the possibility that Rasputin might live until the morning, leaving the conspirators no time to conceal his body. Yusupov ran upstairs to consult the others and then came back down to shoot Rasputin through the back with a revolver. Rasputin fell, and the company left the palace for a while. Yusupov, who had left without a coat, decided to return to get one, and while at the palace, he went to check on the body. Suddenly, Rasputin opened his eyes and lunged at Yusupov. He grabbed Yusupov, ominously whispered in his ear, “you bad boy,” and attempted to strangle him. At that moment, however, the other conspirators arrived and fired at Rasputin. After being hit three times in the back, he fell once more. As they neared his body, the party found that, remarkably, he was still alive, struggling to get up. They clubbed him into submission. Some accounts say that his killers also sexually mutilated him, severing his penis. After binding his body and wrapping him in a carpet, they threw him into the icy Neva River. He broke out of his bonds and the carpet wrapping him, but drowned in the river.

Three days later, Rasputin’s body, poisoned, shot four times, badly beaten, and drowned, was recovered from the river. An autopsy established that the cause of death was drowning. His arms were found in an upright position, as if he had tried to claw his way out from under the ice. It was found that he had indeed been poisoned, and that the poison alone should have been enough to kill him. There is a report that after his body was recovered, water was found in the lungs, supporting the idea that he was still alive before submersion into the partially frozen river."

Colorectal cancer.

Coronary embolism.

Tuberculosis.

Kidney failure.

Stroke.

Sergei alive


And Sergei dead.

Suicide by hanging.

Peritonitis.

Car accident.

Old age.

Lung cancer.

Friedrich Wilhelm alive


Friedrich Wilhem dead

Car accident.

Heart failure.

Tuberculosis.

Dutch alive.


Dutch dead.

Peritonitis after being shot in the abdomen.

Heart attack.

Renal failure.

Murdered.

Euthanized with morphine.

Murdered by Stalinist agents in Mexico. Had an ice pick slammed into his skull.

Peritonitis and perforated duodenal ulcer

Plane crash.

Heart attack.

The desert fox, the only good Nazi, was forced to commit suicide by Hitler or else his family would be killed.

Committed suicide in his bunker.

Unknown (probably a heart attack).

Syphilis, stroke and heart attack.

Heart failure.

Lou Gehrig's disease.

Tuberculosis.

Drowned.

Heart failure.

Died of a severe heart attack. It's kind of a funny story:

"Although his guards thought that it was odd for him not to rise at his usual time, they were under strict orders not to disturb him and left him alone the entire day. At around 10 p.m. he was discovered by Peter Lozgachev, the Deputy Commandant of Kuntsevo, who entered his bedroom to check up on him and recalled a horrifying scene of Stalin lying on the floor of his room wearing pyjama bottoms and an undershirt with his clothes soaked in stale urine. A frightened Lozgachev asked Stalin what happened to him, but all he could get out of the Generalissimo was unintelligible responses that sounded like "Dzhh." Lozgachev frantically called a few party officials asking them to send good doctors. Lavrentiy Beria was informed and arrived a few hours afterwards, and the doctors only arrived in the early morning of 2 March in which they changed his bedclothes and tended to him. The bedridden Stalin died four days later, on 5 March 1953, at the age of 74, and was embalmed on 9 March."

Heart failure.

Car accident in his infamous Porsche 550 Spyder.

Heart failure. In other words, I love the Bauhaus song 'Bela Lugosi's Dead.'

Poor Bogey died of throat cancer.