List of people killed in duels
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This is a list of people killed in duels by date:
- Jacques le Gris, by Jean de Carrouges in a wooden arena outside the Abbey of Saint-Martin-des-Champs in Paris – 1386[1]
16th century
- Cadeguala, Mapuche toqui, by Alonso García de Ramón at Purén, Chile – 1585[2]
- Sir William Drury, English politician and soldier, by Sir John Borough, died from wound received in duel in France – 1590[3]
- Gabriel Spenser, Elizabethan actor, by Ben Jonson on Hoxton Fields, London – 1598[4]
17th century
- Ranuccio Tomassoni by Caravaggio, 1606.
- Sir John Townshend, English politician, by Sir Matthew Browne on Hounslow Heath, London – 1603.[5] Browne himself was killed on the spot by Townshend, who in turn died of his wounds the following day.
- Peter Legh, English politician, by Valentine Browne – 1640[6]
- Armand d'Athos, inspiration for the Alexandre Dumas character of the same name – 1643[7]
- Charles Price, English politician, by Capt. Robert Sandys at Presteigne – 1645[8]
- Sir Henry Bellasis (heir of John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse), by Thomas Porter (dramatist) at Covent Garden, London – 1667[9]
- Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury, by the Duke of Buckingham – 1668[10]
- Walter Norborne, English politician, by an Irishman at the fountain at Middle Temple, London – 1684[11]
- Major Sharington Talbot, Member of Parliament for Chippenham, at the White Hart Inn, Glastonbury, by Captain Love, a fellow-officer of the Wiltshire Militia – 8 July 1685[12]
- John Talbot, brother of the Earl of Shrewsbury, by Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Grafton – 1686[13]
- Sir Henry Hobart, English politician, by Oliver Le Neve on Cawston Heath, Norfolk – 1698[14]
18th century
- Sir John Hanmer, 3rd Baronet, English politician – 1701[15]
- Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, perennial duellist, and James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, in Hyde Park, London. The Hamilton–Mohun duel – 1712[16]
- Peder Tordenskjold, Norwegian naval officer, by Jakob Axel Staël von Holstein – 1720[17]
- George Lockhart, Scottish politician and writer, Jacobite spy – 1731[18]
- Richard Nugent, Lord Delvin, by Capt. George Reilly at Marlborough Bowling Green, Dublin – 1761[19]
- Button Gwinnett, signer of the Declaration of Independence by Lachlan McIntosh near Savannah, Georgia. The Gwinnett–McIntosh duel – 1777[20]
- Sir Barry Denny, 2nd Baronet – 1794[21]