List of people who died of starvation:
- Maud de Braose, who accused king John of England of the murder of the young duke Arthur of Brittany
- Robert Burke and William Wills, explorers, first men to cross Australia from south to north.
- Chandragupta Maurya, emperor of the Mauryan empire (300 BC)
- George Washington DeLong, North pole explorer, and his crew
- Eratosthenes, eminent Greek thinker
- Kurt Gödel, groundbreaking mathematician
- Blessed Thomas Johnson and nine other Carthusian martyrs, who refused the Oath of Supremacy
- Nanook_of_the_North, Inuit, subject of early documentary
- Pausanius, Spartan general
- Pope John XIV, of starvation or poisoning
- A. A. Troitzky, a leading chess composer
- Bobby Sands and nine others, Irish nationalists
- Carl Schlechter, a leading chess master
- Ugolino della Gherardesca, Florentine, figure in The Divine Comedy
- Some settlers during "the starving time" in Jamestown, Virginia.
- Several members of the Roman Imperial family, including Agrippina the elder.
- Members of the Donner Party
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