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Deaths by strangulation

  • CommodusOn the 31st of August AD 161, Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus drew his first breath in Lanuvium, a town nestled near Rome.
  • Paul I of RussiaIn 1762, eight-year-old Paul Petrovich lay unnoticed on the floor of his nursery after falling from a crib. Empress Elizabeth had taken him immediately after…
  • William TyndaleWilliam Tyndale stood before a dinner party in the early 1520s and declared that if God spared his life, he would ensure the boy who drove the plow knew more…