Deaths by starvation

Andreas Vesalius (31 December 1514 – 15 October 1564) was an anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De humani corporis fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body).

Ana Carolina Reston Macan (June 4, 1985 – November 15, 2006) was a Brazilian fashion model.

Alexey Alexeyevich Troitsky, or Alexei, Troitzky, or Troitzki (Russian: Алексе́й Алексе́евич Тро́ицкий) (March 14, 1866–August 1942) is considered to have been one of the greatest composers of chess endgame studies.

At the Holy Synod of 1589, which established the patriarchy in Moscow, Hermogenes was appointed Metropolitan of the newly conquered city of Kazan.

Leonid Ivanovich Kubbel (Russian: Леонид Иванович Куббель) was a Russian composer of chess endgame studies and problems.

Ilya (Elias) Rabinovich (Rabinowitsch, Rabinovitch, Rabinovitz, Rabinowicz, Rabinovici) (Russian: Илья Рабинович; 11 May 1891, Saint Petersburg – 23 April 1942, Perm) was a Russian chess master.

Pelagia (Greek: Πελαγία), distinguished as Pelagia of Antioch, Pelagia the Penitent, and Pelagia the Harlot, was a legendary Christian saint and hermit in the 4th or 5th century.

Saint Benedict Joseph Labre, T.

William John Wills (5 January 1834 – c.June/July 1861) was a British surveyor who also trained as a surgeon.

Pope John XIV (Latin: Ioannes XIV; died 20 August 984) was Pope from December 983 to his death in 984.

Gavriil Vasilyevich Baranovsky (Russian: Гавриил Васильевич Барановский, also spelled as Baranovskii, 6 April [O.S. 25 March] 1860 - 28 June 1920) was a Russian architect, civil engineer, art historian and publisher, who worked primarily in Saint Petersburg for the Elisseeff family, but also practiced in Moscow and produced the first town plan for Murmansk (then Romanov-na-Murmane).

Isabella Grinevskaya (1864–1944) was the pen name of Beyle (Berta) Friedberg, daughter of the Hebrew-language author Abraham Shalom Friedberg and the first wife of Mordechai Spector.

Albert Kusnets (1902–1942) was a middleweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Estonia.

Richard II (6 January 1367 – c. 14 February 1400), also known as Richard of Bordeaux, was King of England from 1377 until he was deposed on 30 September 1399.

Emperor Wu of Liang (梁武帝) (464–549), personal name Xiao Yan (蕭衍), courtesy name Shuda (叔達), nickname Lian'er (練兒), was the founding emperor of the Liang Dynasty of Chinese history.

In Greek mythology, Erysichthon (Ερυσίχθων ὁ Θεσσαλός 'earth-tearer') (also anglicised as Erisichthon), son of Triopas, was a King of Thessaly.

Emanuel Jose Sanchez (September 21, 1982 – July 23, 2005) was a Puerto Rican jockey competing in American Thoroughbred horse racing.

Idilia Dubb (1834 – June 1851) was a 17-year-old Scottish woman whose demise in the abandoned Lahneck Castle while vacationing in Germany became famous through a diary she allegedly kept as she slowly starved to death.

Lovett Huey Fort-Whiteman (1894–1939) was an American political activist and Communist International functionary.

Mao Zuquan (Chinese: 茅祖權; 1883-1952) was a Kuomintang politician of the Republic of China (1912–49).

Vasily Vasilievich Rozanov (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Рóзанов; 2 May [O.S. 20 April] 1856 – 5 February 1919) was one of the most controversial Russian writers and philosophers of the pre-revolutionary epoch.

The body of Mary Jane Barker (February 28, 1953 – March 3, 1957) a 4-year-old from Bellmawr, New Jersey, just across the river from Philadelphia, was recovered from the 3' x 5' bedroom closet of a nearby vacant ranch house 2 blocks away from her home.

Eluana Englaro (25 November 1970 – 9 February 2009) was an Italian woman from Lecco, who entered a persistent vegetative state on 18 January 1992, following a car accident, and subsequently became the focus of a court battle between supporters and opponents of euthanasia.

King Wuling of Zhao (Traditional Chinese: 趙武靈王, Simplified Chinese: 赵武灵王) (died 295 BCE, reigned 325 BCE – 299 BCE) reigned in the State of Zhao during the Warring States period of Chinese history.

Homer Lusk Collyer (November 6, 1881 – March 21, 1947) and Langley Wakeman Collyer (October 3, 1885 – c. March 9, 1947), known as the Collyer brothers, were two American brothers who became infamous for their bizarre natures and compulsive hoarding.

Friedrich Minoux (March 21, 1877 – October 16, 1945) was a German industrialist and financier who is best known for being one of the owners of the Wannsee House, where the namesake conference that would decide the fate of millions at the hands of the Nazis during World War II was held in early 1942.

Ludwig Becker (5 September 1808 – 29 April 1861) was a German artist, explorer and naturalist.

Allen Francis Gardiner (1794–1851) was a British Royal Navy officer and missionary to Patagonia.