A list of famous drowning victims. These notable people drowned either by accident or intentionally. May we recommend learning to swim or learn to defend yourself so that you don't have to join this list of famous drowning deaths and victims. Not even celebrities are immune to drowning, and many unfortunately have bitten the big one this way. Many of the names on this list should be familiar, even if the way they died may not be as famous as their larger than life personalities.
Who are famous drowning victims? Take a look at this list and you'll see for yourself.
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Antinous
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
Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
Duke of Swabia and Holy Roman Emperor, drowned in the Göks River (Cilicia).
Hippasus
A student of the mathematician Pythagoras, who, by some accounts, was drowned by his fellow Pythagoreans for the imprudence of discovering irrational numbers
Li Bai
It is, however, suggested that he died of excessive drinking or mercury poisoning.
Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator
Drowned in the Nile in 47 BC
Qu Yuan
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
William Adelin
Son of king Henry I of England, drowned in the Channel on 25 November 1120 in the White Ship wreck,
Henry of Antioch
Henry of Poitiers or Henri de Poitiers, drowned at sea on 18 June/27 June/28 June 1276, son of Bohemund IV of Antioch and first wife Plaisance Embriaco de Giblet
Matilda, Countess of Perches
Countess of Perches. Daughter of king Henry I of England, drowned in the Channel on 25 November 1120 in the White Ship wreck
Tiberinus Silvius, ninth Latin king of Rome
Drowned in the River Tiber, which was named after him