Famous People Who Died of beheading

• Grey, Lady Jane

  The nine-day Queen of England

• John the Baptist

  The man who "prepared the way" for Jesus of Nazareth

• King Charles I

  The British king beheaded in 1649 after civil war

• King Louis XVI

  France's king at the time of their 1789 revolution

• Lavoisier, Antoine

  French chemist who proved the law of conservation of mass

• Marie Antoinette

  The Queen of France who probably didn't say "Let them eat cake"

• More, Sir Thomas

  The author of Utopia

• Raleigh, Sir Walter

  The man who (maybe) laid his cloak over a mudpuddle for the queen

• Robespierre, Maximilien

  French revolutionary leader during the Reign of Terror

• Valentine, Saint

  The namesake of Valentine's Day

See: All Causes of Death