adventurer Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1740), ate poisonous mushrooms Johann Schobert (d. 1767), German composer; ate poisonous mushrooms believing them to be edible Bradford sweets poisoning (1858); 21 people died and more than 200 others became ill when confections accidentally made with arsenic trioxide were sold from a market stall in Bradford, England Charles Francis Hall (d. 1871), American Arctic explorer poisoned with arsenic by members of the Polaris expedition. Nine children killed on 28 May 1879 in Newark, Vermont after drinking from a polluted stream. Guangxu Emperor (d. 1908), Emperor of the Qing dynasty; poisoned with arsenic by unidentified persons Olive Thomas (d. 1920), American silent film actress; accidentally ingested a large dose of mercury(II) chloride Madge Oberholtzer (d. 1925), rape victim of Ku Klux Klan leader D.C. Stephenson; died after attempting to commit suicide with mercury(II) chloride Nine killed by apple cider contaminated by a pesticide at Elks National Home in Bedford, Virginia in November 1923. Nestor Lakoba (d. 1936), Abkhaz Communist leader; poisoned by NKVD chief Lavrenti Beria Abram Slutsky (d.1938), head of Soviet spy service; poisoned with hydrogen cyanide by NKVD Nikolai Koltsov (d. 1940), Russian biologist; poisoned by NKVD secret police Erwin Rommel (d. 1944), German general; opted to commit suicide with cyanide after facing trial for his involvement in the 20 July plot Eva Hitler (née Braun) (d. 1945), wife of Adolf Hitler; committed suicide by cyanide capsule at Hitler's side The six Goebbels children (d. 1945); poisoned by their parents Magda and Joseph Goebbels, who then killed themselves by poison and gunshots shortly afterwards Heinrich Himmler (d. 1945), leader of the Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS); suicide by cyanide capsule after being captured Odilo Globocnik (d. 1945) Hermann Göring (d. 1946), leader of the Nazi Luftwaffe; suicide by cyanide capsule, long after being captured and only hours before his sentenced hanging was to take place Theodore Romzha (d. 1947), bishop of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church; poisoned by NKVD agents, who injected him with curare on orders from Nikita Khrushchev Alan Turing (d. 1954), British mathematician; apparently committed suicide by injecting an apple with cyanide and taking a bite, though it has also been speculated that the poisoning was accidental Stepan Bandera (d. 1959); poisoned by a cyanide capsule shot from a gun by KGB agents 1971 Iraq poison grain disaster; at least 650 people died after eating methylmercury-treated grain intended for seeding