List of drowning victims
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This is a '''list of [[drowning]] victims''', either real or fictional characters in chronological order. The reasons for drowning are diverse and range from [[suicide]], to accidents or [[murder]]s.
==Non-Fictional==
*[[Tiberinus Silvius]], ninth [[Latin kings of Alba Longa|Latin king]] of Rome, drowned in the [[Tiber River]], which was named after him
*[[Hippasus]] of Metapontum, a student of the mathematician [[Pythagoras]], who, by some accounts, was drowned by his fellow Pythagoreans for the imprudence of discovering [[irrational numbers]]
*[[Qu Yuan]] of China in 278 BC. Committed [[ritual suicide]] as a form of protest against the corruption of the era, a sacrifice still commemorated today during the Duan Wu or [[Dragon Boat]] Festival
*Pharaoh [[Ptolemy XIII of Egypt]], drowned in the [[Nile]] in 47 BC
*[[Antinous]] (born ''circa'' 111), lover of Roman Emperor [[Hadrian]], drowned in the [[Nile]] 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 (element)|mercury]] poisoning.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.poetrymagic.co.uk/poets/libai.html|title=Li Bai and Chinese Poetry|accessdate=2008-01-22}}</ref>
*[[William Adelin]] (born 1103) and his half sister Matilda FitzEdith, countess of Perches (born ''circa'' 1090), sons of king [[Henry I of England]], drowned in the [[English Channel|Channel]] on [[November 25]] [[1120]] in the [[White Ship]] wreck
*[[Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor|Friedrich I Barbarossa]], [[duke of Swabia]] and [[Holy Roman Emperor]], drowned in the Göks River ([[Cilicia]]) on [[June 6]] [[1190]] during the [[Third Crusade]], leaving an unstable alliance between [[Richard I of England]] and [[Philip II of France]]
*[[Henry of Antioch|Henry of Antioch, Henry of Poitiers or Henri de Poitiers]], drowned at [[sea]] on [[June 18]]/[[June 27]]/[[June 28]], [[1276]], son of [[Bohemund IV of Antioch]] and first wife Plaisance Embriaco de Giblet
*King [[Magnus II of Sweden]] and Norway, 1316 – 1374
*[[Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter]], Constable of the [[Tower of London]], 1430 – 1475
*[[George, Duke of Clarence]] (born 1449), executed for treason against his brother king [[Edward IV of England]] on 1478, by drowning in a barrel of [[Malmsey]] wine; or so the legend says, because modern assessments favour the traditional [[decapitation]] instead
* [[Bartolomeu Dias]], Portuguese explorer who sailed around the [[Cape of Good Hope]]. Drowned not far from the Cape of Good Hope in 1500
* [[Felix Manz]], co-founder of the [[Anabaptist|Swiss Anabaptist]]s, was drowned in 1527 in the [[Limmat|Limmat River]] in [[Zürich]] by the Zürich Reformed state church
*[[Francisco Rodrigues Lobo]] (b. 1580), a [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] [[Poet]] and [[Writer]] of [[Sephardi Jews|Sephardi Jewish]] origin, drowned in November, 1621
*[[John William Friso]] of Orange-Nassau, [[stadholder]] of the [[Low Countries]], in 1711
*[[Miguel de Bragança]] (b. 1699), bastard son of King [[Peter II of Portugal]], in the [[Tagus River]] on [[13 January]], [[1724]]
*[[Peter Artedi]], a disciple of [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], considered the father of [[Icthyology]], fell by accident in a channel of [[Amsterdam]] in 1735
*[[Percy Shelley]], in a sudden storm while sailing off Livorno on [[July 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]], former [[Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives]], drowned in the [[Brazos River]] near [[West Columbia, Texas|Columbia, Texas]] on [[19 December]] [[1865]].<ref>* {{Handbook of Texas | id = BB/fbu6 | name = Constantine W. Buckley | reference = yes | accessdate = 2007-01-22 }}</ref>
*[[Ludwig II of Bavaria]], 1845 – [[June 13]] [[1886]], found drowned dead in [[Lake Starnberg]] (then called ''Lake Würm'')
*[[Bernhard von Gudden]], 1824 – [[June 13]] [[1886]], Psychiatric Professor who diagnosed and accompanied [[Ludwig II of Bavaria]], found dead drowned in [[Lake Starnberg]] (then called ''Lake Würm'')
*[[Julius Krohn]] (b. 1835), founder of the scientific study of [[folklore]], and influential journalist, author and translator. Ethnically [[Germans|German]] but active in [[Finland]]. Drowned in a freak sailing accident in 1888
*[[John Jacob Astor IV]] (born 1864), drowned in the [[RMS Titanic|Titanic]] disaster
*[[Benjamin Guggenheim]] (born 1865), drowned in the [[RMS Titanic|Titanic]] disaster
*[[Isidor Straus]] and wife [[Ida Straus]], drowned in the [[RMS Titanic|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 the [[Neva 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.
*[[Sacadura Cabral]], died on [[15 November]], [[1924]] after his airplane disappeared over the [[English Channel]], along with his Co-Pilot Mechanical Corporal José Correia
* [[Johnny Douglas|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 in [[Lake Michigan]] while swimming at [[Chicago|Chicago's]] [[Oak Street Beach (Chicago, IL)|Oak Street Beach]]
*[[James Murray (actor)|James Murray]], 1901-1936, actor, found drowned in the Hudson River, possible [[suicide]]
*[[Virginia Woolf]] (born 1882), [[United Kingdom|British]] writer, committed suicide on [[March 28]] [[1941]]
*[[Edward Johnston (Australian politician)]] - drowned at [[Black Rock, Victoria]]
*[[Arky Vaughan]] (born 1912), baseball Hall of Famer, drowned after falling from his fishing boat on [[August 30]], [[1952]]
*[[Prince Frederick of Prussia]] (born 1911), died in 1966 at [[Reinhartshausen]], [[Germany]] after drowning in the [[Rhine]].
*[[Eric Fleming]], actor best known for his role in the [[CBS]] series Rawhide, drowned on [[September 28]], [[1966]], in a remote river in [[Peru|Peru's]] back country while filming the made-for-TV movie "Selva Alta" ("High Jungle") for [[MGM]].
*[[Harold Holt]], serving [[Prime Minister of Australia]], presumed drowned (or taken by shark) on [[17 December]] [[1967]].
*[[Mary Jo Kopechne]] (born 1940), drowned in [[Ted Kennedy|Edward Kennedy]]'s Oldsmobile Delta '88 in a car accident off of [[Chappaquiddick Island]] in 1969.
*[[Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones]] (born 1942) (known as Brian Jones, original guitarist of The Rolling Stones), drowned in [[Hartfield, Sussex]], [[England]], in his own swimming pool on [[3 July]] [[1969]]. Classified as "death by misadventure"
*[[Albert Ayler]], jazz musician, suspected [[suicide]] November 1970
*[[Istvan Kertesz]], orchestral conductor, accident, [[16 April]] [[1973]]
*[[Josef Mengele]] (born 1911), war criminal and leader of the [[Nazi human experimentation]] program, drowned while swimming off the Brazilian coast in 1979
*[[Hart Crane]], poet; [[suicide]] in the [[Caribbean]].
*[[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 the [[Beach Boys]], in 1983
*[[Jessica Savitch]] (born 1947), [[NBC]] and [[PBS]] 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 in [[16 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 (musician)|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 of [[Tenerife]]
*[[Tom Mees]], longtime sportscaster for [[ESPN]], 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 the [[Wolf River]] in [[Memphis, TN]] in 1997
*[[Spalding Gray]], monologuist and actor (''[[Swimming to Cambodia]]''), born 1941, in a suspected suicide in [[New York City]]'s [[East River]] in 2004.
*[[Édouard Michelin (born 1963)|Édouard Michelin]] (born 1963), French businessman, drowned while fishing near the island of [[Île de Sein|Sein]] in northwest France, in 2006.
*[[Rafael Donato]] (born 1938), distinguished [[Philippines|Filipino]] educator and university president, accidentally drowned off the coast of [[Morong, Bataan]], in the Philippines in 2006
*[[Marquise Hill]] (born 1982), Defensive End for the [[New England Patriots]], accidentally drowned in [[Lake Pontchartrain]] in [[New Orleans]] after a [[jet ski]] accident on [[27 May]] [[2007]]
*[[Kari Blackburn]] (born 1954), [[BBC World Service]] executive, drowned (suicide) at sea at [[Felixstowe]], [[Suffolk]], [[England]] in 2007.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
*[[Katoucha Niane]] (born 1960), French model, drowned in the Seine in 2008.
==Fictional==
*[[Aegeus]], father of the hero [[Theseus]], committed suicide by jumping into the sea for believing his son dead; the sea was named after him and today is known by [[Aegean Sea]]
*[[Paul et Virginie]], from the novel of the same name, died drowned in a [[shipwreck]]
*[[Icarus (mythology)|Icarus]], son of [[Daedalus]]; escaped with his father using artificial wings; flew too near the sun and wings fell off; drowned in what is today called the [[Icarian Sea]]
*[[Jason Voorhees]], the living-dead, masked serial killer of the [[Friday the 13th (film series)|''Friday the 13th'' films]], was originally a boy who drowned in a summer camp
*[[Primula Brandybuck]] and [[Drogo Baggins]], the parents of [[J. R. R. Tolkien|Tolkien]]'s character [[Frodo Baggins]] of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''
*[[Ophelia (character)|Ophelia]] in [[William Shakespeare]]'s play ''[[Hamlet]]''
*Adam and Barbara [[Maitland]], the main characters in the film [[Beetlejuice]], drowned when they crashed their car off a covered bridge.
*Yailee Ming [[Deception Point]], drowned when he fell into a meteorite extraction pit, in the Arctic.
*[[Buffy Summers|Buffy]] drowned by the hand of [[Master (Buffyverse)|the Master]], in the episode [[Prophecy Girl]], the finale of the first season of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''.
*[[Charlie Pace]] drowned in the season 3 finale of ''[[Lost (TV series)|Lost]]''.
*[[Javert]] from [[Victor Hugo]]'s ''[[Les Misérables]]'' commits suicide by throwing himself off a bridge into the [[Seine]].
*Dr. Howard Kramer from ''[[Hollow Man]]'', drowned by Sebastian Caine
==Notes==
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