Talk:List of unsolved deaths

List of unsolved deaths (before 1900) was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 24 September 2020 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into List of unsolved deaths. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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Section sizes

Section size for List of unsolved deaths (19 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	786	786
Unsolved murders	57	57
Unsolved deaths	21	195,638
Ancient	10,567	10,567
Medieval	4,644	4,644
Early modern	6,465	6,465
19th century	9,354	9,354
1900–1924	9,171	9,171
1925–1949	24,866	24,866
1950–1974	23,004	23,004
1975–1989	13,710	13,710
1990–1999	22,985	22,985
2000–2010	24,720	24,720
2010–2019	32,985	32,985
2020s	13,146	13,146
Date of death disputed	2,061	2,061
See also	326	326
References	33	33
External links	215	215
Total	199,116	199,116

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Robert Maxwell

It has never been established if Maxwell's death was an accident, suicide or murder. Shouldn't there be an entry for him? 147.147.24.46 (talk) 20:24, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

King Tut

Tutankhamun should probably be on the list; there have been several different attempts to establish the cause of his early death (he was aged around eighteen to twenty). Illness, a fall from a horse, an epileptic seizure or assassination by someone close to him? 188.150.64.57 (talk) 18:38, 6 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

19th century

The first example of an unsolved death in the 19th century section is Meriwether Lewis along the Natchez Trace. It was called a "nature trail", when in fact it was a major indigenous travel-way for up to 10,000 years. https://www.nps.gov/natr/learn/historyculture/index.htm#:~:text=Congress%20designated%20the%20Natchez%20Trace,use%20dates%20back%2010%2C000%20years. . I have made edits in the past but have not attempted anything like this and I hope and expect someone will make this section better. Krisandtim (talk) 05:52, 26 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Michael Mosley (broadcaster)

The body was found today and no coroner's report has been published yet. Are we going to cheapen the encyclopedic basis of this article by adding every recent death where a cause of death hasn't been declared yet? I propose guidelines that deaths should be a) a narrative verdict or local equivalent, in which a coroner was officially unable to reach a conclusion of the cause of death or b) no cause of death was reported five years after the death (we're not working to a WP:DEADLINE and to use a morbid phrase, nobody's going to die because we didn't add somebody straight away). Unknown Temptation (talk) 23:05, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Prehistoric examples

Anzick-1 is listed as a skeleton whose cause of death could not be ascertained. The second bullet point also lists a single skull where archeologists supposedly (and not very surprisingly) could not determine a cause of death.

Isn't this going to be true of nearly all prehistoric remains? Belbury (talk) 09:54, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Belbury Agreed, this list tends to invite entries where the death is not 100% known, rather than where the death is actually Unsolved. My inclination would be to remove these entries.

Vegantics (talk) 21:24, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed the section, which only listed those two examples I mentioned. Belbury (talk) 14:26, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]