List of drowning victims

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Template:Short description Template:More citations needed This is a list of drowning victims in chronological order. The reasons for drowning are diverse and range from suicide, to accidents or murders.

Antiquity

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  • 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 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.<ref>

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  • 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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Cao E, a Han dynasty girl venerated for her filial piety. In 143, Cao Xu accidentally fell into the Shun River. in an act of filial piety, she decided to find her father in the river. After five days, she and her father were both found dead in the river from drowning. Eight years later, a temple was built in Shangyu dedicated to the memory of Cao E and her sacrifice for filial piety. The Shun River was renamed Cao'e River in her honor.
  • Maxentius, Roman Emperor, drowned in the Tiber during the chaos of the Battle of the Milvian Bridge on October 28, 312.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Yuan Zhao, briefly an emperor of the Northern Wei, thrown together with Empress Dowager Hu into the Yellow River to drown
  • Shabib ibn Yazid al-Shaybani, (697/98), a rebel in Umayyad Caliphate, was defeated by Umayyad Army. As he attempted to escape his Syrian pursuers (the Umayyad army), he drowned in the Dujayl Canal while trying to cross it. This occurred either in early 697 or in 697/98.
  • Li Bai, Chinese poet, in 762. It is, however, suggested that he died of excessive drinking or mercury poisoning.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Middle Ages

Renaissance

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18th century

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19th century

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  • Richard Kirwan, English cricketer and Anglican clergyman, drowned while bathing in the sea off Sidmouth on 2 September 1872.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Julius Krohn (b. 1835), founder of the scientific study of folklore, and influential journalist, author and translator. Ethnically German but active in Finland. Drowned in a freak sailing accident in 1888.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, an unknown woman allegedly found dead in the river Seine in the late 1880s. Her death mask was reproduced and displayed in artists' studios.<ref name="Inconnue">Template:Cite news</ref>

Twentieth century

1900s

1910s

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  • Isidor Straus and wife Ida Straus, drowned in the Titanic disaster.<ref name=ET>Encyclopedia Titanica article on Isidor Straus.</ref>
  • Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (born 1850), British field marshal, presumed to have drowned after HMS Hampshire hit a mine and sank off the Orkney Islands in 1916.
  • Grigori Rasputin (died 1916), Russian mystic and Imperial adviser. The aristocratic faction tried to kill him using several methods, including, after poison, several gunshots; this is believed to be the main cause of his death, but after his body was thrown in the Neva River (and later recovered), many tend to believe that drowning was the final cause of his death. For others, attributing death to drowning means adding to a legend.<ref>Joseph L. Gardner (ed.), "The Unholy Monk," Reader's Digest Great Mysteries of the Past, 1991, p. 161.</ref>
  • 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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1920s

  • William Wilton (born 1865), Scottish football manager (Rangers F.C.), drowned in a boating accident at Gourock, Scotland in 1920.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Little Lord Fauntleroy (murder victim), an unidentified child found in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on March 8, 1921. He had been hit in the head with a blunt instrument and was thrown into a quarry, which resulted in his death.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Michael Llewelyn Davies (born 1900) and his friend Rupert Buxton drowned together in a pool of water downstream of a weir near Sandford Lock on the River Thames, a few miles from Oxford on May 21, 1921. The location has been the site of many drownings.
  • Pavel Urysohn (born 1898), Russian mathematician and topologist, drowned on 17 August 1924 while on holiday in France.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Sacadura Cabral died on 15 November 1924 after his airplane disappeared over the English Channel, along with his co-pilot Mechanical Corporal José Correia. As no bodies were found, it is not known whether they actually drowned.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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1930s

  • J. W. H. T. Douglas, (1882–1930), cricketer, died unsuccessfully trying to rescue his father after a collision at sea.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Starr Faithfull (1906–1931), American socialite, drowned near Long Beach, New York in June 1931; whether her death was homicide, suicide or accident was never determined.<ref name=nehs>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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1940s

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1950s

  • Arky Vaughan (born 1912), baseball Hall of Famer, drowned after falling from his fishing boat on 30 August 1952.<ref name=latimes>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Susan Martin (1945–1958) and Virginia Martin (1947–1958) died by drowning in the Columbia River in unexplained circumstances when they, along with their mother, father, and older sister, disappeared in December 1958.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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1960s

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1970s

  • Albert Ayler, jazz musician, suspected suicide November 1970.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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1980s

  • John Crabbe Cunningham (born 1927), Scottish climber, mountain instructor and member of the Creag Dhu mountaineering club, drowned at South Stack, Anglesey, Wales in January 1980, when attempting to rescue a female pupil who fell into the sea while Coasteering<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Natalie Wood (born 1938), actress, drowned in a yachting accident in 1981 off of Santa Catalina Island; the accident raised several suspicions and murder was considered and the case was reopened in 2011 and is now categorized as suspicious with husband Robert Wagner named as a person of interest.<ref name=winton-2012>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Joe Delaney (born 1958), Running back for the Kansas City Chiefs, accidentally drowned in 1983 while trying to save three children who were screaming for help.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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1990s

  • Jim Hodder, (born 1947), American drummer who drowned in his pool in 1990.<ref name=DRS>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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21st century

2000s

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2010s

  • Dawn Brancheau, SeaWorld trainer, killed during a killer whale show and suffered a blunt trauma on February 24, 2010.
  • Toshiharu Ikeda, Japanese film director and screenwriter, committed suicide in December 2010.<ref name="tokyograph">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Marie-France Pisier, French actress, found dead in her swimming pool April 2011.<ref name=NYTobit>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Nandana, the 8-year-old daughter of Indian singer K. S. Chithra, drowned after falling into a swimming pool in Dubai, April 2011.
  • Whitney Houston, American singer, found dead in her bathtub following a barbiturate overdose, February 2012.
  • Rodney King, American construction worker, victim of police brutality, found dead in his swimming pool with alcohol, marijuana and cocaine in his system, June 2012.
  • Elisa Lam (born 1991), Canadian tourist in Los Angeles, found in the water tank atop the hotel where she was staying on February 19, 2013.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • David Bird, American journalist, found in a river near his home 14 months after he was last seen alive in early 2014.
  • Alan Kurdi (born 2012), Syrian child, drowned in the Mediterranean off the Turkish coast on September 2, 2015, while his family was trying to enter Greece and seek refugee status from their country's civil war. A photograph of Kurdi's body lying lifeless on the shore sparked global outrage over the plight of Syrian refugees.
  • Santiago Maldonado, drowned while trying to cross río Chubut while escaping from the federal law enforcement.
  • Sally Brampton, English journalist, writer and magazine editor, committed suicide by walking into the sea at St Leonards on 10 May 2016.
  • Maria Ladenburger, died of drowning in the German river Dreisam on October, 16th 2016 after being sexually assaulted.
  • Vladimir Cvijan, died of drowning in the Danube in Belgrade, Serbia on 5 January 2018. His death was kept hidden from the public for 3 years, until it was revealed in March 2021.
  • Dolores O’Riordan, Irish musician and vocalist for the Cranberries died of drowning caused by alcohol poisoning in her bathtub at the London Hilton on Park Lane hotel on 15 January 2018.
  • Sridevi, veteran Indian actress, died aged 54 on 24 February 2018 after drowning in the bathtub of her room in a hotel in Dubai, where she had gone to attend a marriage. Initially, the cause of her death was known as a heart attack, but it was later confirmed to be drowning. It is believed that she was under the influence of alcohol when she died.
  • Eric Geboers, age 55, a 5-time Belgian world champion motocross racer, died on 6 May 2018, while trying to save his drowning dog.<ref>La Libre Belgique Template:In lang</ref>
  • Ray Emery, Canadian ice hockey goaltender, drowned in Hamilton Harbour on July 15, 2018.
  • Florijana Ismaili, Swiss Footballer, drowned in Lake Como in July 2019.
  • Chan Yin-lam (born 2004), drowned in the ocean off Hong Kong September 19, 2019. Her death was ruled a suicide; conspiracy theories circulated that she had actually been killed by the police over her participation in the ongoing protests.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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2020s

See also

References

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