# Last Person Killed by a Wild Beast in Europe?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-person-killed-by-a-wild-beast-in-europe/329763>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 6, 2005, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-person-killed-by-a-wild-beast-in-europe/329763 "2005-11-06T06:24:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-person-killed-by-a-wild-beast-in-europe/329763/21 "2005-11-06T19:50:38Z")

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Do wasps and bees count as ‘wild beasts’? - death resulting from attack by these venomous wild animals is quite frequent.

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**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-person-killed-by-a-wild-beast-in-europe/329763/22 "2005-11-06T22:01:20Z")

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From the OP:

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> pleae exclude little beasts ala spiders, viruses, etc.

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**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-person-killed-by-a-wild-beast-in-europe/329763/23 "2005-11-06T22:24:12Z")

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A Swede was killed by a bear just last year, and a brief search also turn up an incident in 1992 where a Russian was killed up near the Russian border with Norway.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-person-killed-by-a-wild-beast-in-europe/329763/24 "2005-11-06T23:33:09Z")

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Oops; missed that subscript qualifier. Damn.

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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2005, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-person-killed-by-a-wild-beast-in-europe/329763/25 "2005-11-06T23:48:36Z")

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[Parisienne Kangaroo Article (short).](http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/12/1068329596677.html?oneclick=true)

Count me among the astonished.

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**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2005, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-person-killed-by-a-wild-beast-in-europe/329763/26 "2005-11-07T06:28:41Z")

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If you let me submit a person that survived -

Yesterday.

A hunter in the north of Sweden was severely injured by a bear and taken to hospital.

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