Richard III Matthias Corvinus (d. 1490), King of Hungary Catherine of Aragon (d. 1536), Queen Consort of England, thought to have been poisoned by her former husband Henry VIII of England or his wife Anne Boleyn Barbara Radziwiłł (d. 1551), Queen of Poland King Eric XIV of Sweden (d. 1577); according to folklore, he was killed from poisoning by arsenic hidden in pea soup Tycho Brahe (d. 1601), Danish astronomer Jamestown colonists (1607–1610); standard historical accounts suggest many early colonists died of starvation, but the possibility of arsenic poisoning by rat poison (or of death by bubonic plague) has also been reported Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (d. 1612) Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1637) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1791), Austrian composer; with antimony Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1821); some claim he was killed with arsenic by someone on his staff, though the evidence is inconclusive Pope Pius VIII (d. 1830) Zachary Taylor (d. 1850), 12th President of the United States; theorized by author Clara Rising that his milk was poisoned during an Independence Day celebration John Gallagher Montgomery (d. 1857), U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania Charles Darwin (d. 1882), English naturalist; possibly died due to self-medication with Fowler's solution, one-percent potassium arsenite Hanoi Poison Plot (1908), a group of local Vietnamese tried to poison the entire French colonial army's garrison in the Citadel of Hanoi Huo Yuanjia (d. 1910), wushu master and Chinese national hero; arsenic Emperor Gojong of Korea (d. 1919); allegedly poisoned by the Japanese Maxim Gorky (d. 1936), Russian writer; NKVD chief Genrikh Yagoda admitted at the Trial of the Twenty One that he ordered to poison Gorky and his son Robert Johnson (d. 1938), American musician Raoul Wallenberg (d. c. 1947), Swedish humanitarian who saved tens of thousands of Jews during World War II; reportedly poisoned in Lubyanka prison by Grigory Mairanovsky Joseph Stalin (d. 1953); officially cerebral hemorrhage, but according to Vyacheslav Molotov's memoirs and historians Radzinsky and Antonov-Ovseenko, Stalin was poisoned on Lavrenty Beria's orders Vasili Blokhin (d. 1955), former executioner of NKVD Lal Bahadur Shastri (d. 1966), second Prime Minister of India João Goulart (d. 1976), former Brazilian president ousted by 1964 coup d'état Carlos Lacerda (d. 1977), Brazilian journalist and presidential nominee Pope John Paul I (d. 1978) Gulf War syndrome, a chronic multi-symptom disorder afflicting more than 250,000 returning veterans and civilian workers of the Gulf War of 1990–1991;