Deaths by strangulation

Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974

The ninth Emperor of Russia (1796–1801)

Commodus (; ; 31 August 161 – 31 December 192) was Roman emperor from 177 to 192, first serving as nominal co-emperor under his father Marcus Aurelius and then ruling alone from 180. Commodus's sole reign is commonly thought to mark the end of the Pax Romana, a golden age of peace and prosperity in the history of the Roman Empire.

pope

Consort of Ahmed, Valide Sultan and regent of Murad IV and Ibrahim I, grandmother and regent of Mehmed IV

Byzantine emperor; (1192-1204)

English Bible translator and reformer

Tsar of Russia (1605)

Boran (also spelled Buran, Middle Persian: 45px) was Sasanian queen (banbishn) of Iran from 630 to 632, with an interruption of some months. She was the daughter of king (or shah) Khosrow II () and the Byzantine princess Maria. She is the second of only three women to rule in Iranian history, the others being Musa of Parthia, and Boran's sister Azarmidokht.

Pakistani model, actress, feminist activist and social media celebrity

Queen Consort of Hungary, Croatia and Poland

(1588-1614) Tsaritsa of Russia, 1606

Galswintha (540–568) was a queen consort of Neustria. She was the daughter of Athanagild, Visigothic king of Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula, comprising modern Spain and Portugal), and Goiswintha. Galswintha was the sister of Brunhilda—queen consort of Austrasia—and the wife of Chilperic I, the Merovingian king of Neustria. Galswintha was probably murdered at the urging of Chilperic's former concubine Fredegund (and then later wife), instigating a 40-year civil war within the Merovingian kingdom.

Italian activist (1975–2011)

Emperor of The Byzantine Empire

Bulgarian writer (1895-1925)

Iron Age bog body found in England who was beaten with a club and had his throat cut before death

Bishop of Constantinople

Marinid sultan

Iron Age bog body found in the Netherlands

King of Armenia

criminal incident in Kolkata

Italian artist (1974–2008)

emperor of the Jin Dynasty (265–420)

illegitimate son of Alfonso II King of Naples and his mistress Trogia Gazzela (1481-1500)

Mexican activist (1974-2011)

Greek king of Cyrenaica from 560 BC to 550 BC

dangerous game of trying to faint

2000 mass murder incident in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

Emperor of the Yan state

thumb|Timeline of the Suebic Kings Maldras (or Masdras) (died February 460) was the Suevic king of Galicia from 456 until his death. After the execution of Rechiar by the victorious Visigoths, the Suevi are said to have established Maldras on the throne. During his reign the Suevic nation became fragmented.

Indian actress (1984-2012)

torture, gang rape, and murder incident in India

Russian noble

German high-class call girl and murder victim

prince of Hongnong (Wu)

Russian businessman (1949-2018)

Canadian journalist, lawyer and politician (1921-1970)

(1899-1980)

Cameroonian anti-colonial activist and author (1931-2009)

Italian noble

Italian politician

Brazilian footballer (1971–1994)

Italian politician (1475-1503)

2015 murder in Blomberg, Sweden

Canadian businessperson

Prince of Moldavia between August 1592 and 25 October 1592

Russian mobster (1960–1997)

Wallachian scholar, poet, and statesman

French political activist and sociologist

Greek writer (1927–1988)

Pakistani artist (1926-2007)

aristocrat of the Empire of Trebizond

gambling related murder in Macau

head of intelligence in Rwanda

12th-century Fatimid princess

murder

SS officer and German lawyer (1907-1945)

Iron Age bog body from Ireland

Romanian singer (1955-1989)