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

Name Life Country of origin Comments Ref.
Agrippina the Elder 14 BC–33 AD Roman Empire 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.
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae 510–428 BC Ancient Greece Greek philosopher, sage, mathematician, physicist and astronomer.
Boyi and Shuqi 1045 BC China Shang dynasty loyalists [1][2]
Bimbisara 558–491 BC Magadha King of Magadha from  542 to 492 BC. He was imprisoned by his son Ajatashatru in order to ascend the throne and died before he could be released.
Maud de Braose 1155–1210  England English noblewoman accused King John of England of the murder of the young duke Arthur of Brittany
Robert O'Hara Burke 1821–1861  United Kingdom Leader of the Burke and Wills expedition, which was the first expedition to cross Australia from south to north.
William John Wills 1834–1861  United Kingdom Member of the Burke and Wills expedition, which was the first expedition to cross Australia from south to north.
Frank E. Butler 1847–1926  United States American sharpshooter and husband to Annie Oakley
Karen Carpenter 1950–1983  United States American singer and drummer
Chandragupta Maurya 340–297 BC Maurya Empire Emperor of the Mauryan empire (300 BC), who reputedly died of self-starvation as a Jain. [3]
Floyd Collins 1887–1925  United States American cave explorer and famous, cave accident victim, died in Sand Cave, the near Cave City, Kentucky, part of Mammoth Cave National Park
George Washington DeLong 1844–1881  United States North pole explorer, and his crew. [4]
George Donner 1784–1847  United States American co-leader of the infamous frontier Donner Party, who resorted to cannibalism and murder to stay alive after an early winter snowfall stranded them while crossing the Sierra Nevada Mountains into California.
Drusus Caesar 7–33 Roman Empire Roman imperial prince, son of Germanicus and brother of Caligula, starved to death in his prison on the orders of Tiberius.
Eratosthenes 276–195 Ancient Greece Eminent Greek thinker. [5][6]
Pavel Filonov 1883–1941  Soviet Union Russian avant-garde painter, art theorist, and poet. [7]
Kurt Gödel 1906–1978  Austria Groundbreaking mathematician who starved to death after his wife was hospitalized and could no longer prepare his meals. [8][9][10]
Pope John XIV d. 984  Papal States Pope from 983 to 984. He was placed in prison by Antipope Boniface VII in the Castel Sant'Angelo, where he died either from starvation or poison.
Thomas Johnson d. 1537  England He and nine other Carthusian martyrs, who refused the Oath of Supremacy
Julia Livilla 18–41 Roman Empire Roman imperial princess, sister of Caligula, starved to death in her banishment on the orders of her uncle, the emperor Claudius.
Liu Zongzhou 1578–1645 Ming Empire Confucian scholar who starved himself to death following the fall of the Ming dynasty.
Livilla 13 BC–31 AD Roman Empire 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 1968–1992  United States American wanderer who starved to death in Alaska after a planned solo trip became fatal due to not being properly prepared.
Terence MacSwiney 1879–1920  Ireland Lord Mayor of Cork who died during a hunger strike while imprisoned in Brixton Prison.
Feodosia Morozova 1632–1675  Russia Russian noblewoman, one of the best-known partisans of the Old Believer movement.
Scott Nearing 1883–1983  United States American peace activist, economist and homesteader. [11]
Pausanias d. 470 BC Sparta Spartan general
Potti Sri Ramulu 1901–1952  India Indian revolutionary of Andhra Pradesh, India for a separate state for Telugu speaking people.
Hector Pitchforth 1887—1927  England English trader, living as a hermit on Baffin Island. [12][13][14]
Vasily Rozanov 1856–1919  Russia Russian philosopher
Bobby Sands 1954–1981 Northern Ireland He and nine other Irish republicans died during the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike. [15][16]
Carl Schlechter 1874–1918  Austria-Hungary A leading Austrian chess master and theoretician (pneumonia also said to have been a factor). [17]
Robert Falcon Scott 1868–1912  United Kingdom English Antarctic explorer who perished, along with four more, on their return trip from the South Pole
Alexey Troitsky 1866–1942  Soviet Union A leading Russian chess composer who starved to death during the Siege of Leningrad.
Ugolino della Gherardesca 1220–1289  Florence Italian nobleman, politician and naval commander who later became a figure in Dante's Divine Comedy.
Wu of Liang 464–549 Liang Empire Founding emperor of the Liang Dynasty.
King Wuling of Zhao d. 295 BC Ruler of Zhao during the Warring States period.
Yang Ye d. 986 Song Empire Chinese general who served both the Northern Han and Song Dynasty.
Empress Yang Zhi 259-292 Jin Dynasty Second Empress Consort of Emperor Wu of Jin.
Ye Mingchen 1807–1859  China Chinese official who was a key figure in resisting British influence during the Opium Wars. [18]
Yuan Shu d. 199 Han Empire Chinese warlord who lived in the late Eastern Han dynasty.
Simone Weil 1909-1943  France French philosopher, mystic and political activist.
Zhou Yafu d. 143 BC Han Empire Chinese general best remembered for putting down the Rebellion of the Seven States. [19]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 餓鄉記
  2. ↑ 千载孤竹与伯夷、叔齐
  3. ↑ "Global Jain Events". jainworld.com. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
  4. ↑ "Jeannette Arctic Expedition, 1879-1881". history.navy.mil. Archived from the original on 2014-12-16. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
  5. ↑ "Eratosthenes summary". www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
  6. ↑ "Eratosthenes". abyss.uoregon.edu. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
  7. ↑ Archived November 3, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
  8. ↑ "KURT GODEL". usna.edu. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
  9. ↑ "paper.pdf" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on May 14, 2008. Retrieved 2014-04-13.
  10. ↑ "Godel summary". www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
  11. ↑ "Our Town | Ellsworth American.com". ellsworthamerican.com. Archived from the original on 2012-07-29. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
  12. ↑ Davis, Richard Clarke (1996). Lobsticks and Stone Cairns: Human Landmarks in the Arctic. Calgary: University of Calgary Press. pp. 267–368. ISBN 0-585-11861-2. OCLC 45731124.
  13. ↑ Harper, Kenn (7 June 2013). "Taissumani: June 7: Hector Pitchforth - The Loneliest Man in the World". Nunatsiaq News. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
  14. ↑ Grant, Shelagh D. (2002). Arctic Justice: On Trial for Murder, Pond Inlet, 1923. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. pp. 219–222. ISBN 978-0-7735-7003-0. OCLC 244764155.
  15. ↑ "1981 Hunger Strikes". Archived from the original on 2002-02-15. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
  16. ↑ "How the IRA manufactured a new martyr | 1980-1989 | Guardian Century". century.guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
  17. ↑ "Deaths of Chess Players". Archived from the original on 2003-10-10. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
  18. ↑ 两广总督叶名琛：不战不和不守 不降不死不走 Archived 2007-08-08 at the Wayback Machine
  19. ↑ 琴台客聚：藤蛇入口宜居安思危
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