Top 10 Famous Deaths in History: Truly Cherished People

There are many people who die everyday but only a few are remembered. Those people might have done something that marked in the hearts of people. Below is the list of famous dead people that are often if not most of time remembered:

1. Vladimir Lenin

   

   Vladimir Ilyich Lenin or also known as Nikolai Lenis was born on the 22nd of April 1870, in Simbirsk, Volga. He is a communist politician of Russia, and one of the greatest contributors of the Marxist theory. He first studied law before formally joining the revolutionary propaganda by affiliating himself with local Marxist. He was assassinated by an unknown gunman that made his health decline because the bullet that was stuck in his neck was yet harmful to remove that time. He had three strokes and died at 18:50 Moscow time on January 21, 1924, aged 53, at his estate in Gorki Leninskiye. Over 900,000 people passed through the Hall of Columns during the four days and nights that Lenin lay in state, making him one of the most famous death of all times.

2. Queen Victoria

   

   Victoria was the daughter of Edward, the Duke of Kent and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg. She was born in Kensington Palace in London on May 24th, 1819. In the year 1873, she took the crown after her uncle’s death, but because of her secluded childhood she has this stubbornness. She is known to be the longest ruling monarch of the British History (64 years to be exact). Victoria died at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, on 22 January 1901 because of cerebral hemorrhage.

3. Mao Tse Tung

   

   He was born on 26 December 1893 in the village of Shaoshan in Hunan Province, in China’s south. His family is prosperous peasant farmers. He has two younger brothers and one sister. The death made which reached up to 14 to 20 million during the “Great Leap Forward” is very notable and it is being connected to him. He died in the year 1976 after long years of enduring the decline of his health for several years.

4. Marilyn Monroe

   

   Norma Jeane Mortenson also known as Marilyn Monroe was born on June 1, 1926. She is an actress, singer and film director. In the year 1962, she was found dead at her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California. In the investigations made by the police, it was found out that she was overdosed by the drugs she took, but there are some conspiracy theories which states that she was murdered.

5. Elvis Presley

   

   Elvis Aaron Presley or just simply known as Elvis was born on January 8, 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi. He is a singer, composer and actor and, he is known to be the “King of Rock and Roll” or just King. He has 17 No. 1 singles in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Elvis died at his Memphis home, Graceland, on August 16, 1977. Obviously the cause of his death was over dosage of drugs since more than 10,000 doses of sedatives, amphetamines, and narcotics have been prescribed to him by his doctor.

6. John Lennon

   

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   He was born on the 9th of October, 1940. He became famous because he was the cofounder of the famous band called “The Beatles”. In 2002, respondents to a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted Lennon into eighth place. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Lennon number 38 on its list of “The Immortals: The Fifty Greatest Artists of All Time” and ranked The Beatles at number one. He was assassinated by Mark David Chapman in the entrance hallway of the Dakota. Thirty thousand gathered in Liverpool, and the largest group – over 100,000 – converged on New York’s Central Park, close to the scene of the shooting.

7. Saddam Hussein

   

   He was born on 28th of April, 1937 in Tikrit District, Iraq. He was best known as the political leader of Iraq from 1979 until the year 2003 until his dictatorship was overthrown by the U.S. invasion. It has been many long years until he was captured. Despite his request that he would rather by shot, the court did not favor him. On the 30th day of December, 2006, he was put to execution by hanging.

8. Mother Teresa

   

   Mother Teresa was born on January 26, 1910. She was the one who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata (Calcutta), India in 1950. She was considered to be a living saint since she has helped a lot of people already. Although there are many allegations that all the money in the funding of the charity of Mother Teresa did not really reach the needy people, she continued to be strong. Although she is known to be a servant of God, she said once in her life that she did not really feel the presence of God, for if God did really exist then why is it that there are people who suffer from poverty. She died at the age of 87 on September 5, 1997.

9. John Paul II

   

   Pope John Paul II was born on May 18, 1920 and was the 263rd Pope. He was considered to be the 2nd longest pontificate after Pope Pius IX’s service. He died in his private apartment, 46 days short of his 85th birthday. Those countries with Catholicism as their major religion or even those countries with only few Christians declared mourning for the death of the Pope.

10. Princess Diana

    

    Princess Diana was born on July 1, 1961. She was the first wife of Prince Charles and the mother of Princes William and Henry. She died from a car accident in the Pont de l’Alma road tunnel in Paris. After her death, there are some rumors that Princess Diana knows that her life is in danger because there is a possible assassination of her. She died at the age of 36 on August 31, 1997.