Deaths by starvation: Kurt Gödel, Howard Hughes, Eratosthenes, Richard II of England, Robert Falcon Scott, Agrippina the Elder, Anaxagoras

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 86. Chapters: Kurt Gödel, Howard Hughes, Eratosthenes, Richard II of England, Robert Falcon Scott, Agrippina the Elder, Anaxagoras, Donner Party, Emperor Wu of Liang, Christopher McCandless, Nikolai Vavilov, Ugolino della Gherardesca, Robert O'Hara Burke, William John Wills, Lycurgus of Sparta, Ludwig Becker, Livilla, Diallo Telli, Eluana Englaro, Duke Huan of Qi, Edith Frank, Allen Francis Gardiner, Gaius Asinius Gallus Saloninus, Pavel Filonov, Friedrich Minoux, King Wuling of Zhao, Alexander Belyayev, List of people who died of starvation, George W. DeLong, Patriarch Hermogenes, Vasily Rozanov, Ivan Bilibin, Pausanias, Alexey Troitsky, Ana Carolina Reston, Alpha Oumar Barry, Alioune Dramé, Emanuel Jose Sanchez, Pope John XIV, Idilia Dubb, John Trehenban, Drusus Caesar, Roman Lysko, Thomas Johnson, Pandolfo da Polenta, Lamberto II da Polenta. Excerpt: The Donner Party (sometimes called the Donner-Reed Party) was a group of American pioneers who set out for California in a wagon train. Delayed by a series of mishaps, they spent the winter of 1846-47 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada. Some of the emigrants resorted to cannibalism to survive, eating those who had succumbed to starvation and sickness. The journey west usually took between four and six months, but the Donner Party was slowed by following a new route called the Hastings Cutoff, which crossed Utah's Wasatch Mountains and Great Salt Lake Desert. The rugged terrain, and difficulties later encountered while traveling along the Humboldt River in present-day Nevada, resulted in the loss of many cattle and wagons, and led to divisions within the group. By the beginning of November 1846 the emigrants had reached the Sierra Nevada, where they became trapped by an early, heavy snowfall near Truckee (now Donner) Lake, high in the mountains. Their food supplies ran low, and in mid-...