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Victims of poisoning - Definition and Overview |
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Viktor Yushchenko as he appeared in July 2004 (left) and as he appeared in November 2004 (right) after dioxin poisoning This is a List of poisonings in alphabetical order of victim. It also includes confirmed attempted and fictional poisonings. Many of the people listed here committed or attempted to commit suicide by poison; others were poisoned by others.
Poison deaths
- Adolf Hitler (d. 1945) cyanide and gunshot simultaneously before capture
- Alan Turing (d. 1954), British mathematician
- Alan III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1040)
- Alphonse I, Count of Toulouse (d. 1148)
- Ali ibn Abi Talib (d. 661), caliph
- Antipater the Idumaean (d. 43 BC), father of Herod the Great
- Baldwin III of Jerusalem (d. 1162)
- Blanche of Bourbon (d. 1361), first wife of Peter the Cruel, King of Castile
- Clare Boothe Luce
- Cleopatra VII of Egypt (d. 30 BC), poisoned herself with an asps snakebite
- Constance of Normandy (d. 1090), daughter of King William I of England
- Demosthenes (d. 322 BC) Athenian polititian
- Emperor Hui of Jin China (d. 304)
- Eric XIV, King of Sweden (d. 1577)
- Erwin Rommel (d. 1944) German general
- Eva Braun (d. 1945) suicide by cyanide capsule at Hitler's side as his wife
- Georgi Markov (d. 1978), Bulgarian dissident
- Germanicus (d. 19), Roman general
- The Goebbels children (d. 1945), poisoned by their parents Magda and Joseph Goebbels (who then poisoned themselves shortly afterwards before capture)
- Heinrich Himmler (d. 1945), leader of the Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS); suicide by cyanide capsule after being captured
- Hermann Goering (d.1946), leader of the Nazi Luftwaffe; suicide by cyanide capsule, long after being captured and only hours before his hanging was to take place
- Juan Ponce de León (d. 1521), Spanish conquistador; alter being wounded by a poisoned arrow
- Julius Caesar Drusus (d. 23), son of Tiberius
- Ladislaus, King of Naples (d. 1414)
- Marshall Applewhite (d. 1997); cult suicide
- Musa al-Kazim (d. 799), Shia Imam
- Odilo Globocnik
- More than 900 members of the Peoples Temple in Jonestown led by Rev. Jim Jones (d. 1978); cult suicide
- Pope Pius VIII (d. 1830)
- Romanus II (d. 963), Byzantine Emperor
- Socrates, Greek philosopher
- Yamada Nagamasa (d. 1630), Japanese adventurer
Attempted poisonings
Possible poisonings
Fictional poisonings
Poisons in crime fiction
Due to the plot strength of poisioning in crime fiction, this is an inexhaustive list.
Notorious poisoners
See also
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