# The Year of Death Game
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**Created:** [January 9, 2016, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542 "2016-01-09T00:18:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2016, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/601 "2016-11-30T02:22:58Z")
Here’s the complete list:
1700: Charles II of Spain
1701: William Kidd
1702: William III of England
1703: The Man in the Iron Mask
1704: Guillaume de l’Hopital
1705: Johann Lohner
1706: Byerley Turk
1707: Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and over 1500 other sailors
1708: Seki Takakazu
1709: Giuseppe Torelli
1710: Ole Romer
1711: Tewoflos of Ethiopia
1712: Edward Hyde
1713: Frederick I of Prussia
1714: Sophia of Hanover
1715: Louis XIV of France
1716: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
1717: Abraham Darby
1718: Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina
1719: Jean Baptiste de la Salle
1720: Francis Daniel Pastorius
1721: Elihu Yale
1722: Bartholomew Roberts aka Black Bart
1723: Increase Mather
1724: Jack Sheppard
1725: Peter the Great
1726: Nicolaus II Bernoulli
1727: Janet Horne
1728: Cotton Mather
1729: William Burnet
1730: Arabella Churchill
1731: Daniel Defoe
1732: Reigen of Japan
1733: Jacob August Franckenstein
1734: Matthew Cushing
1735: John Arbuthnot
1736: Daniel Fahrenheit
1737: Nakamikado of Japan
1738: John Richardson
1739: Dick Turpin
1790: Samuel Nicholas
1791: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1792: Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab
1793: Marie Antoinette
1794: Edward Gibbon
1795: Alessandro Cagliostro
1796: Robert Burns
1797: Mary Wollstonecraft
1798: James Wilson
1799: Maria Gaetana Agnesi
1800: Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch
1801: Benedict Arnold
1802: Martha Washington
1803: Arthur Guinness
1804: Alexander Hamilton
1805: Spread Eagle
1806: Henry Knox
1807: John Newton
1808: Alois Luigi Tomasini
1809: Meriwether Lewis
1810: Henry Cavendish
1811: Nevil Maskelyne
1812: Sacagawea
1813: Tecumseh
1814: Marquis de Sade
1815: Lady Hamilton
1816: Samuel Hood
1817: Jane Austen
1818: Paul Revere
1819: James Watt
1850: Zachary Taylor, Edward Baker Lincoln
1851: Louis Daguerre, James Fenimore Cooper
1852: Louis Braille, Henry Clay
1853: Christian Doppler, William R. King
1854: Nicolas Bravo, Georg Ohm
1855: Nicholas I of Russia, Charlotte Bronte
1856: William Palmer, Said bin Sultan
1857: Parley P. Pratt, Agustina de Aragon
1858: Dred Scott
1859: Alexis de Tocqueville, George Bush
1860: Charles Goodyear, Thomas Cochrane
1861: Prince Albert, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1862: John Tyler, Uriah Levy
1863: Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
1864: John Sedgwick, Nathaniel Hawthorne
1865: Abraham Lincoln
1866: George Everest
1867: Emperor Maximilian
1868: Leon Foucault, Gioachino Rossini
1869: Franklin Pierce
1870: Charles Dickens
1871: Robert Houdin, Tad Lincoln
1872: Samuel F.B. Morse, Benito Juarez
1873: Napoleon III, Edward Bulwer-Lytton
1874: Chang and Eng Bunker
1875: Charles Wheatstone, Kicking Bird aka Tene-angop’te
1876: Harriet Martineau, George Armstrong Custer
1877: Crazy Horse, Brigham Young
1878: Pope Pius IX, William M. “Boss” Tweed
1879: James Clerk Maxwell, William Barber
1880: Gustave Flaubert
1881: James A. Garfield
1882: Jesse James, Charles Darwin
1883: Karl Marx, Sojourner Truth
1884: Gregor Mendel
1885: Victor Hugo, Jumbo
1886: Emily Dickinson
1887: Jenny Lind, Delphine von Schauroth
1888: Wilhelm I and Friedrich III, Polly Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, & Mary Jane Kelly
1889: Jefferson Davis, Prince Rudolf Franz Karl Joseph and Baroness Marie Vetsera
1890: Vincent Van Gogh, Joseph Merrick
1891: P.T. Barnum, Helena Blavatsky
1892: Walt Whitman, Louis Vuitton
1893: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Rutherford Hayes
1894: Robert Louis Stevenson, Allan Pinkerton
1895: Louis Pasteur, Frederick Douglass
1896: H.H. Holmes, Clara Schumann
1897: Johannes Brahms, Friedrich Franz III
1898: Charles Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll, Sarah Edmonds
1899: Horatio Alger Jr., Martha Place
1900: Oscar Wilde, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Seymour Sullivan (of Gilbert and Sullivan)
1901: William McKinley, Queen Victoria, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Benjamin Harrison
1902: Emile Zola, Cecil John Rhodes, Charles Lewis Tiffany
1903: Judge Roy Bean, Calamity Jane, Topsy the elephant
1904: Anton Chekhov, Raden Adjeng Kartini, Georges Gilles de la Tourette
1905: Jules Verne, Lew Wallace, Virgil Earp
1906: Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Susan B. Anthony
1907: Ida McKinley, Dmitri Mendeleev, Edvard Grieg
1908: Grover Cleveland, Carlos I, Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov
1909: Leopold II, Geronimo, Mary MacKillop
1910: Mark Twain, Leo Tolstoy, O. Henry
1911: Billy O’Brien, Gustav Mahler, Thursday October Christian II
1912: Robert Falcon Scott and party, Emperor Meiji, Clara Barton
1913: Francisco Maduro, J.P Morgan, Harriet Tubman
1914: Ambrose Bierce, Franz Ferdinand, John Muir
1915: Dikran Chokurian, Albert Spalding, W.G. Grace
1916: Jack London, Rasputin, Hetty Green
1917: Mata Hari, Liliʻuokalani, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
1918: John McCrae, Nicholas II and his immediate family, Charles W. Fairbanks
1919: Teddy Roosevelt, Henry John Heinz, L. Frank Baum
1920: Horace Elgin Dodge and Gaston Chevrolet, Charles Stephens, George Gipp
1921: Edward Douglass White and Annie Edson Taylor, Pinckney Pinchback, Charles Camille Saint-Saëns
1922: Lothar von Richthofen, Alexander Graham Bell, Pope Benedict XV
1923: Pancho Villa, Warren Harding, Gustave Eiffel
1924: Vladimir Lenin, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, Bobby Franks
1925: William Jennings Bryan, Sun Yat-sen, Erik Satie, Rudolph Valentino
1926: Harry Houdini, Claude Monet
1927: Isadora Duncan, Lizzie Borden, Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti
1928: Roald Amundsen, Arnold Rothstein, Charles Rennie Mackintosh
1929: Isidor Fink, J. J. Riordan, Mahidol Adulyadej
1930: William Howard Taft, Arthur Conan Doyle, D.H. Lawrence
1931: Thomas Alva Edison, Peter Kurten, Anna Pavlova
1932: Peg Entwistle, Charles Lindbergh, Jr., John Philip Sousa
1933: Calvin Coolidge, Giuseppe Zangara, Roscoe Arbuckle
1934: Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow, Winsor McCay, Marie Skłodowska-Curie
1935: T. E. Lawrence, aka Lawrence of Arabia, Arizona Donnie “Ma” Barker, Will Rogers
1936: Robert E. Howard, Albert Fish, Ivan Pavlov
1937: Jean Harlow, J. Bruce Ismay, Guglielmo Marconi
1938: Thomas Wolfe, Clarence Darrow, “Typhoid” Mary Mallon
1939: Douglas Fairbanks, Amelia Earhart, Sigmund Freud
1940: Leon Trotsky, Neville Chamberlain, F. Scott Fitzgerald
1941: Virginia Woolf, Annie Jump Cannon, Lord Robert Baden-Powell
1942: John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, 184 residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia
1943: Nikola Tesla, Sophie Scholl, Alexander Woollcott
1944: Glenn Miller, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., Florence Foster Jenkins
1945: Adolf Hitler, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Patton
1946: H.G. Wells, Booth Tarkington, Hermann Goering and 10 others convicted at the Nuremburg Trials
1947: Bugsy Siegel, Willa Cather, Al Capone
1948: Mahatma Gandhi, Babe Ruth, D. W. Griffith
1949: Margaret Mitchell, Frank Morgan, Charles Ponzi, Richard Strauss
1950: George Orwell, Edgar Rice Burroughs
1951: Shoeless Joe Jackson, Fanny Brice, Maria Montez, William Randolph Hearst
1952: Curly Howard, King George VI, Eva Perón, Elmo Lincoln
1953: Edwin Hubble, Hank Williams, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, Joseph Stalin
1954: Alan Turing, Enrico Fermi, Collette, Emilie Dionne
1955: James Dean, Emmett Till, Albert Einstein
1956: Bela Lugosi, A.A. Milne, Jackson Pollock, Alfred Kinsey
1957: Diego Rivera, Humphrey Bogart, and Joseph McCarthy, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Oliver Hardy
1958: Julia Lennon, Wolfgang Pauli, W.C. Handy, 23 members of Manchester United’s football team
1959: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens & J.P. “The Big Bopper” Henderson, John Foster Dulles, Lou Costello, Cecil B. DeMille
1960: Albert Camus, Emily Post, Clark Gable, Leonard Warren
1961: Patrice Lubumba, Ernest Hemingway, James Thurber, Carl Jung
1962: William Faulkner, Vita Sackville-West, Lucky Luciano, Marilyn Monroe
1963: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Patsy Cline, Aldous Huxley, C. S. Lewis, Sylvia Plath, Robert Frost
1964: General Douglas MacArthur, Glenn “Fireball” Roberts, Rudy Lewis, Catherine “Kitty” Genovese, Peter Lorre
1965: Nat King Cole, Frederick Fleet, Malcolm X, Adlai Stevenson II
1966: Charles Whitman, Buster Keaton, Lenny Bruce, Margaret Sanger
1967: Edward White, Gus Grissom & Roger Chaffee, Woody Guthrie, Dorothy Parker, John Coltrane
1968: Helen Keller, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, Dorothy Gish
1969: Sharon Tate, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Judy Garland, Allen Dulles
1970: Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Vera Brittain, Charles de Gaulle
1971: Jim Morrison; Georgy Dobrovolsky, Viktor Patsayev & Vladislav Volkov; James Cash “J.C.” Penney, Jr., Nikita Khrushchev
1972: Harry S Truman, J. Edgar Hoover, Igor Sikorsky, King Edward VIII
1973: Pablo Picasso, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jeannette Rankin, Noel Coward
1974: Agnes Moorehead, Bud Abbott, “Mama Cass” Elliot, Tim Horton
1975: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Jimmy Hoffa, Aristotle Onassis, Pete Ham, PG Wodehouse
1976: Mao Tse Tung, Sal Mineo, Howard Hughes, Paul Robeson
1977: Elvis Aaron Presley, Groucho Marx, Joan Crawford, Tom Pryce
1978: Hubert Humphrey, Terry Kath, Nancy Spungen, Pope Paul VI
1979: Robert Williams, John Wayne, Emmett Kelly, Josef Mengele
1980: George Pal, John Lennon, Alfred Hitchcock, Bon Scott
1981: Joe Louis, Richard Boone, Bill Haley, Yitzhak Zuckerman
1982: Grace Kelly, Henry Fonda, John Belushi, 618 people in the US from AIDS, Ayn Rand
1983: Muddy Waters, Meyer Lansky, Karen Carpenter, Karen Carpenter
1984: Ethel Merman, Michel Foucault, Marvin Gaye, Count Basie
1985: Eugene Ormandy, Roger Maris, Margaret Hamilton, Rock Hudson
1986: L. Ron Hubbard, Cliff Burton, the seven passengers of the Space Shuttle Challenger
1987: Andy Warhol, Budd Dwyer, Hugh “Lumpy” Brannum (Mr. Green Jeans), Fred Astaire
1988: Robert A. Heinlein, Raymond Carver, Heather O’Rourke, Harris Milstead, aka “Divine”
1989: the Ayatollah Khomeini, Ferdinand Marcos, Lucille Ball
1990: Jim Henson, Jill Ireland, Sammy Davis Jr., Ryan White
1991: Frank Capra, Dr. Suess, Kevin Peter Hall
1992: Jose Ferrer, Hal Roach, Nancy Walker, Chuck Connors
1993: Audrey Hepburn, Andre the Giant, Lillian Gish, Thurgood Marshall
1994: Kurt Cobain, Nicole Brown Simpson, Richard Nixon, Morty the Moose
1995: Warren Burger, Jerry Garcia, Patricia Highsmith, Yitzhak Rabin
1996: King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho, Tupac Shakur, Jerry Siegel, Timothy Leary
1997: Jimmy Stewart, The Notorious B.I.G., Deng Xiaoping, Millie
1998: Frank Sinatra, Sonny Bono, Pol Pot, Karla Faye Tucker
1999: John F. Kennedy, Jr., DeForest Kelley, Jean Shepherd, Joe DiMaggio
2000: Charles M. Schulz, Tito Puente, Walter Matthau, Julie London
2001: Dale Earnhardt, Isaac Stern, everyone who died on 9/11, Chuck Schuldiner, Joey Ramone
2002: Milton Berle, Dudley Moore, and Billy Wilder, Ann Landers, Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Kim Hunter
2003: Fred Rogers; the seven passengers of the Space Shuttle Columbia; Ty Longley, Mike “The Doctor” Gonsalves and 98 others in The Station nightclub fire; Susan Travers, Johnny Cash
2004: Susan Sontag, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Captain Kangaroo (Bob Keeshan), Ronald Reagan
2005: James Doohan, Rosa Parks, Pope John Paul II, Bob Denver
2006: Gerald Ford, Syd Barrett, Betty Freidan, Steve Irwin
2007: Anna Nicole Smith, Merv Griffin, Lady Bird Johnson, Momofuku Ando
2008: Bobby Fischer, Heath Ledger, Gary Gygax, Edmund Hillary
2009: Ricardo Montalban, Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Bea Arthur
2010: Ronnie James Dio, Don Van Vliet, Rue McClanahan, Patricia Neal
2011: Elizabeth Taylor, Osama bin Laden, Kim Jong-il
2012: Rodney King, Robin Gibb, Neil Armstrong
2013: Roger Ebert, Margaret Thatcher, Nelson Mandela
2014: Shirley Temple, Lauren Bacall, Ariel Sharon, Sid Caesar
2015: Wayne Rogers, Johnny Kemp, Leonard Nimoy, Maya Plisetskaya
2016: David Bowie, Nimr Baqir al-Nimr, Prince Rogers Nelson, Muhammad Ali
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### Author:  [@blue\_infinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_infinity)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2016, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/602 "2016-11-30T04:39:45Z")
1820: King George III
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2016, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/603 "2016-11-30T11:21:12Z")
1821: Napoleon
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### Author:  [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2016, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/604 "2016-11-30T21:11:59Z")
1822: Percy Shelley, English poet
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2016, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/605 "2016-12-01T01:17:28Z")
1823: Edward Jenner, physician, pioneer of smallpox vaccine
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### Author:  [@blue\_infinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_infinity)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2016, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/606 "2016-12-01T03:05:41Z")
1824: Lord Byron, English poet
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2016, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/607 "2016-12-01T03:43:30Z")
1825: Alexander I of Russia
Although some people claim he faked his death and lived as a monk until his real death in 1864.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2016, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/608 "2016-12-01T12:52:23Z")
1826: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, both on July 4th.
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### Author:  [@TexCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexCat)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2016, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/609 "2016-12-01T20:36:52Z")
1827: Ludwig van Beethoven
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2016, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/610 "2016-12-01T21:28:45Z")
1828: Shaka Zulu
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### Author:  [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2016, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/611 "2016-12-01T22:28:03Z")
1829: John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2016, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/612 "2016-12-02T04:45:58Z")
1830: Simón Bolívar, South American revolutionary and president.
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### Author:  [@blue\_infinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_infinity)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2016, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/613 "2016-12-02T08:36:47Z")
1831: Carl von Clausewitz, Prussian general and writer of _On War_
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2016, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/614 "2016-12-02T11:48:36Z")
1832: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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### Author:  [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2016, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/615 "2016-12-03T22:10:18Z")
1833: King Ferdinand VII of Spain
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2016, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/616 "2016-12-03T22:31:07Z")
1834: Pedro I of Brazil/Pedro IV of Portugal
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2016, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/617 "2016-12-04T03:30:59Z")
1835: John Marshall, fourth Chief Justice of the United States
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### Author:  [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2016, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/618 "2016-12-04T05:13:54Z")
1836: Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, and up to 255 other defenders at the Battle of the Alamo.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2016, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/619 "2016-12-04T11:08:30Z")
1837: Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet and writer
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### Author:  [@blue\_infinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_infinity)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2016, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/620 "2016-12-04T15:14:14Z")
1838: Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat
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