Famous People Who Died of killed in battle

• Bucephalus

  Steed of Alexander the Great

• Custer, George Armstrong

  The man in command at Custer's Last Stand

• Gaddafi, Muammar

  Dictator of Libya, 1969-2011

• Goliath

  The giant slain by David's slingshot

• Judas Maccabeus

  The Jewish warrior who instituted Hanukkah

• King Richard I (Lionheart)

  The 'Lion-Hearted' king of England

• Magellan, Ferdinand

  The first guy to circumnavigate the Earth

• Nelson, Horatio

  The hero of the Battle of Trafalgar

• Shaw, Robert Gould

  Civil War leader of the African-American 54th Massachusetts Infantry

• Spartacus

  The gladiator who led a slave army against the legions of Rome

• Tecumseh

  The native who "cursed" the presidency

• Zwingli, Ulrich

  Swiss Protestant leader killed in battle for Zurich

See: All Causes of Death