Drowning victims:

• Hippasus of Metapontum, reputedly drowned by Pythagoras for discovering irrational numbers
• Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII, in the Nile
• George, Duke of Clarence, in a barrel of Malmsey wine, according to legend
• Peter Artedi, ironically now considered the father of ichthyology, Amsterdam, 1735
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, possibly a suicide or political murder
• John Jacob Astor IV and Benjamin Guggenheim, on the Titanic
• Grigori Rasputin, eventually
• Enrique Granados, jumping from a lifeboat to rescue his wife, World War I
• Virginia Woolf, suicide
• Josef Mengele, swimming off the Brazilian coast, 1979
• Hart Crane, suicide in the Caribbean
• Natalie Wood, drowned in a yacht accident, possibly a murder
• Dennis Wilson, ironically a Beach Boy
• Jeff Buckley, in Tennessee’s Wolf River, 1997
• Spalding Gray, in the East River, suicide

Canadians John and Jackie Knill were vacationing in Thailand when the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami struck, killing both. A missionary later found their camera, which showed the wave approaching until it was nearly upon them.