This is a list of notable people who died of starvation:
| Name | Life | Country of origin | Comments | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agrippina the Elder | 14 BC–33 AD | Roman Empire | Roman imperial princess, granddaughter of Augustus and mother of Caligula, starved to death (perhaps on the orders of Tiberius) in her exile on the island of Pandateria. | ||
| Anaxagoras of Clazomenae | 510–428 BC | Ancient Greece | Greek philosopher, sage, mathematician, physicist and astronomer. | ||
| Boyi and Shuqi | 1045 BC | China | Shang dynasty loyalists | [1] [2] | |
| Bimbisara | 558–491 BC | Magadha | King of Magadha from 542 to 492 BC. He was imprisoned by his son Ajatashatru in order to ascend the throne and died before he could be released. | ||
| Maud de Braose | 1155–1210 | English noblewoman accused King John of England of the murder of the young duke Arthur of Brittany | |||
| Robert O'Hara Burke | 1821–1861 | Leader of the Burke and Wills expedition, which was the first expedition to cross Australia from south to north. | |||
| William John Wills | 1834–1861 | Member of the Burke and Wills expedition, which was the first expedition to cross Australia from south to north. | |||
| Frank E. Butler | 1847–1926 | American sharpshooter and husband to Annie Oakley | |||
| Karen Carpenter | 1950–1983 | American singer and drummer | |||
| Chandragupta Maurya | 340–297 BC | Maurya Empire | Emperor of the Mauryan empire (300 BC), who reputedly died of self-starvation as a Jain. | [3] | |
| Floyd Collins | 1887–1925 | American cave explorer and famous, cave accident victim, died in Sand Cave, the near Cave City, Kentucky, part of Mammoth Cave National Park | |||
| George Washington DeLong | 1844–1881 | North pole explorer, and his crew. | [4] | ||
| George Donner | 1784–1847 | American co-leader of the infamous frontier Donner Party, who resorted to cannibalism and murder to stay alive after an early winter snowfall stranded them while crossing the Sierra Nevada Mountains into California. | |||
| Drusus Caesar | 7–33 | Roman Empire | Roman imperial prince, son of Germanicus and brother of Caligula, starved to death in his prison on the orders of Tiberius. | ||
| Eratosthenes | 276–195 | Ancient Greece | Eminent Greek thinker. | [5] [6] | |
| Pavel Filonov | 1883–1941 | Russian avant-garde painter, art theorist, and poet. | [7] | ||
| Kurt Gödel | 1906–1978 |  | Groundbreaking mathematician who starved to death after his wife was hospitalized and could no longer prepare his meals. | [8] [9] [10] | |
| Pope John XIV | d. 984 | Pope from 983 to 984. He was placed in prison by Antipope Boniface VII in the Castel Sant'Angelo, where he died either from starvation or poison. | |||
| Thomas Johnson | d. 1537 | He and nine other Carthusian martyrs, who refused the Oath of Supremacy | |||
| Julia Livilla | 18–41 | Roman Empire | Roman imperial princess, sister of Caligula, starved to death in her banishment on the orders of her uncle, the emperor Claudius. | ||
| Liu Zongzhou | 1578–1645 | Ming Empire | Confucian scholar who starved himself to death following the fall of the Ming dynasty. | ||
| Livilla | 13 BC–31 AD | Roman Empire | Roman imperial princess, niece and daughter-in-law of Tiberius, starved to death by her mother Antonia Minor for her complicity in the murder of her husband Drusus Minor. | ||
| Christopher McCandless | 1968–1992 |  | American wanderer who starved to death in Alaska after a planned solo trip became fatal due to not being properly prepared. | ||
| Terence MacSwiney | 1879–1920 |  | Lord Mayor of Cork who died during a hunger strike while imprisoned in Brixton Prison. | ||
| Feodosia Morozova | 1632–1675 | Russian noblewoman, one of the best-known partisans of the Old Believer movement. | |||
| Scott Nearing | 1883–1983 | | American peace activist, economist and homesteader. | [11] | |
| Pausanias | d. 470 BC | Sparta | Spartan general | ||
| Potti Sri Ramulu | 1901–1952 | Indian revolutionary of Andhra Pradesh, India for a separate state for Telugu speaking people. | |||
| Hector Pitchforth | 1887—1927 | English trader, living as a hermit on Baffin Island. | [12] [13] [14] | ||
| Vasily Rozanov | 1856–1919 | Russian philosopher | |||
| Bobby Sands | 1954–1981 | Northern Ireland | He and nine other Irish republicans died during the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike. | [15] [16] | |
| Carl Schlechter | 1874–1918 | A leading Austrian chess master and theoretician (pneumonia also said to have been a factor). | [17] | ||
| Robert Falcon Scott | 1868–1912 |  | English Antarctic explorer who perished, along with four more, on their return trip from the South Pole | ||
| Alexey Troitsky | 1866–1942 | A leading Russian chess composer who starved to death during the Siege of Leningrad. | |||
| Ugolino della Gherardesca | 1220–1289 | Italian nobleman, politician and naval commander who later became a figure in Dante's Divine Comedy. | |||
| Wu of Liang | 464–549 | Liang Empire | Founding emperor of the Liang Dynasty. | ||
| King Wuling of Zhao | d. 295 BC | Ruler of Zhao during the Warring States period. | |||
| Yang Ye | d. 986 | Song Empire | Chinese general who served both the Northern Han and Song Dynasty. | ||
| Empress Yang Zhi | 259-292 | Jin Dynasty | Second Empress Consort of Emperor Wu of Jin. | ||
| Ye Mingchen | 1807–1859 | Chinese official who was a key figure in resisting British influence during the Opium Wars. | [18] | ||
| Yuan Shu | d. 199 | Han Empire | Chinese warlord who lived in the late Eastern Han dynasty. | ||
| Simone Weil | 1909-1943 |  | French philosopher, mystic and political activist. | ||
| Zhou Yafu | d. 143 BC | Han Empire | Chinese general best remembered for putting down the Rebellion of the Seven States. | [19] |