Deaths from asphyxiation

Russian-French chess player (1892–1946)

George Perry Floyd Jr. was an African American man who was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest made after a store clerk suspected Floyd had used a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill, on May 25, 2020. One of four police officers who arrived on the scene, Derek Chauvin, knelt on Floyd's neck and back for over nine minutes, fatally asphyxiating him. After his murder, a series of protests against police brutality, especially toward Black people, quickly spread nationally and then globally. His dying words became a rallying slogan: "I can't breathe".

King of Portugal (1889–1932)

American track and field athlete (1959-1998)

British man with severe deformities known as the Elephant Man

Sogdianus ( or ; ) was briefly a ruler of the Achaemenid Empire for a period in 424–423 BC. His short rule—lasting not much more than six months—and the little recognition of his kingdom are known primarily from the writings of Ctesias; who is known to be unreliable. He was reportedly an illegitimate son of Artaxerxes I by his concubine Alogyne of Babylon.

Queen of Naples (1326-1382)

Roman empress and second wife of Constantine I

Canadian boxer (1972–2009)

British racing driver (1948–1973)

Russian poet (1936–1971)

Russian prince

American actor (1915–1980)

The death of Jeffrey Epstein, an American financier and child sex offender, occurred on August 10, 2019. Guards claimed to have found Epstein unresponsive in his jail cell at 6:30 a.m. at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, hanging off the side of his cell's bed, where he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. After prison guards reportedly performed CPR, he was transported in cardiac arrest to the New York Downtown Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:39 am. The New York City medical examiner and the Justice Department Inspector General ruled that Epstein's death was a suicide by hanging. Epstein's lawyers challenged the medical examiner's conclusion and opened their own investigation, hiring pathologist Michael Baden.

dangerous game of trying to faint

Papuan catholic saint

American actress (1941-1963)

1986 disaster in Cameroon due to a limnic eruption of Lake Nyos

American rock musician (1942–1966)

English musician (1949–1980)

American victim and beauty pageant contestant

American professional wrestling manager and model (1964-2007)

Scottish singer (1980–2022)

American molecular biologist

Unidentified murder victim in the United Kingdom

Chinese lieutenant general

Alaungsithu or Sithu I ( ; also Caññsū I; 1090–1167) was king of the Pagan Dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) from 1112/13 to 1167. Sithu's reign was a prosperous one in which Pagan was an integral part of inland and maritime trading networks. Sithu engaged in a massive building campaign throughout the kingdom, which included colonies, forts and outposts at strategic locations to strengthen the frontiers, ordination halls and pagodas for the support of religion, as well as reservoirs, dams and other land improvements to assist the farmers. He also introduced standardized weights and measures throughou

American baseball player (1947–1979)

French archeologist (1917–1977)

Thai actress and model

Twenty year old Nigerian woman killed in Belgium.

murder of 12-year-old Chinese-Spanish child in 2013

American politician (1941–2014)

mass shooting of ethnic Albanians

American socialite and actress (1904-1938)

British artist (1846-1896)

1981 series of murders and rapes in Singapore

Pakistani journalist and author

American Christian missionary

American drummer (1951–1972)

British actress (1928-1954)

Pakistani artist (1926-2007)

American politician and civil serveant (1838-1906)

German Anabaptist

notorious murder from March 1879

2022 homicide case in France

2009 murder in the United States

French racing driver (1914-1946)

politician in Pakistan

1992 homicide in New South Wales, Australia

Greek footballer

American alpine skier (1936–1964)

death of an African-American citizen of the United States associated with law enforcement

(1866-1921)

homicide

French war correspondent, writer, and military officer

American educator, author, evangelist, philanthropist, civic activist, suffragist (1835-1896)

Mexican murder victim (1952–2004)

2000 bus hijacking in Brazil

Son of Chadian president (1980-2007)