These are lists of poisonings, deliberate and accidental, in chronological order by the date of death of the victim(s). They include mass poisonings, confirmed attempted poisonings, suicides, fictional poisonings and people who are known or suspected to have killed multiple people. Non-fiction Fatal Socrates (d. 399 BC), Greek philosopher; according to Plato, he was sentenced to kill himself by drinking poison hemlock Artaxerxes III (d. 338 BC), Persian king; possibly poisoned by his vizier Bagoas Artaxerxes IV (d. 336 BC), Persian king; poisoned by his vizier Bagoas Bagoas (d. 336 BC), Persian vizier and king-maker; poisoned by Darius III Demosthenes (d. 322 BC), Athenian politician Xu Pingjun (d. 71 BC), first empress of Emperor Xuan of Han. Antipater the Idumaean (d. 43 BC), father of Herod the Great Drusus Julius Caesar (d. 23), son of Tiberius Emperor Claudius (d. 54), allegedly poisoned by his wife Agrippina with mushrooms or with the poisoned feather used to provoke vomiting Emperor Zhi of Han (d.146) Emperor Hui of Jin China (d. 304) Ali ibn Abi Talib (d. 661), fourth caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate and first of the Twelve Imams of Shia Islam Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz (d. 720), eighth caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate Muhammad al-Baqir (d. 733), fifth Imam of Twelver Shia Islam; supposedly died after being given a poisoned saddle Mūsá al-Kāẓim (d. 799), seventh Imam of Twelver Shia Islam Beorhtric of Wessex (d. 802), unintentionally poisoned by his wife, Eadburh Muhammad al-Jawad (d. 835), ninth Imam of Twelver Shia Islam; supposedly poisoned by his wife on orders from the new caliph Romanus II (d. 963), Byzantine emperor of the Macedonian dynasty Alan III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1040) Constantine II of Armenia (d. 1129) Alphonse I, Count of Toulouse (d. 1148) Baldwin III of Jerusalem (d. 1162) Blanche of Bourbon (d. 1361), first wife of King Pedro of Castile Louis, Count of Gravina (d. 1362) Robert, Count of Eu (d. 1387) Ladislaus, King of Naples (d. 1414) Dmitry Shemyaka (d. 1453), Grand Duke of Moscow; poisoned with arsenic by Vasily Tyomniy's agents in Great Novgorod Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (d. 1494) Margaret Drummond (d. 1502), mistress of King James IV of Scotland Timoji (d. 1512), Hindu privateer and Portuguese ally Juan Ponce de León (d. 1521), Spanish conquistador; died after being wounded by a poisoned arrow Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky (d. 1610), Russian general and statesman Yamada Nagamasa (d. 1630), Japanese