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Joseph Meister (1940), French caretaker who was the first person to be inoculated against rabies, gas furnace [848] Kitty Melrose (1912), English stage actress and singer, carbon monoxide poisoning [849] Meng Tian (210 BC), Chinese general, administrator and inventor [460] Adolf Merckle (2009), German entrepreneur and billionaire, train [850]
Annie Cohen Kopchovsky (1870 – 11 November 1947), [1] known as Annie Londonderry, was a Jewish Latvian immigrant to the United States who in 1894–95 became the first woman to bicycle around the world. After having completed her travel, albeit mostly by ship, she built a media career around engagement with popular conception of what it was ...
It is possible this idea influenced his suicide. Empedocles died by throwing himself into the Sicilian volcano Mount Etna. [1] The Ludovisi Gaul killing himself and his wife, Roman copy after the Hellenistic original, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme. In general, the pagan world, both Roman and Greek, had a relaxed attitude towards the concept of ...
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in December 2024 ) and then linked below. 2024
Nigel Tetley (c. 1924–1972), British sailor who was the first person to circumnavigate the world solo in a trimaran; his body was found hanging from a tree, clothed in lingerie, considered by the pathologist to have been engaging in masochistic sexual activity.
The following are notable peoples who died by suicide in the year 2001 and after. Suicides under duress are included. Deaths by accident or misadventure are excluded. Individuals who might or might not have died by their own hand, or whose intention to die is in dispute, but who are widely believed to have deliberately died by suicide, may be listed under Possible s
In the first year, no addict in the new model curriculum died from an overdose. Phoenix House, another giant in the treatment world, started out in the 1960s following the Synanon model. The New York City-based operation had previously used buprenorphine only sporadically for detoxing its opioid-addicted residents.
Mary Ward (née King; 27 April 1827 – 31 August 1869) was an Irish naturalist, astronomer, microscopist, author, and artist. [1] She was killed when she fell under the wheels of an experimental steam car built by her cousins.