Random People Who Were Killed by Bugs (17 items)

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  (#7) Charity Champion Alison Lane

  In 2015, OBE award-winning charity director Alison Lane was working with orphanage kids in Mexico when she was bitten by a spider. She immediately went into septic shock and suffered a heart attack. Lane passed away three weeks later from a severe reaction to the bite.
  
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  (#11) Kingsmill Key

  • Dec. at 68 (1864-1932)

  Kingsmill Key was one of the great English cricket legends. His world record store of 281 is unmatched to this day. In 1932, Key passed away when he contracted blood poisoning from an insect bite at the age of 67.
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  (#10) Eustáquio van Lieshout

  • Dec. at 53 (1890-1943)

  Missionary Eustáquio van Lieshout was considered a medicine man. Those who heard of his magical healing powers would make pilgrimages of great distances just to seek his help. While curing and performing miracles on sick children in Brazil, van Lieshout was bitten by a spider. He contracted spotted fever shortly after, which he managed to fight off for quite some time until he succumbed on August 30, 1949.
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  (#14) Robert Wedderburn

  • Dec. at 28 (1947-1975)

  Robert Wedderburn was another great thinker taken far too soon. As father of the quasi-likelihood, Wedderburn spent most of his time working with John Nelder on the generalized linear model (GLM). In 1975 Wedderburn decided he needed a vacation. During the trip he was bitten by an insect. He went into anaphylactic shock and died in 1975 at the young age of 28.
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  (#8) Alfonso Fontanelli

  • Dec. at 65 (1557-1622)

  Alfonso Fontanelli - a man of many talents - worked as a courtier, a salesman, a diplomat, and a composer in the late 1500s. However, he was also a murderer, who killed his wife's secret lover. Overwhelmed with guilt, he asked God for forgiveness and became a priest, but not even the man upstairs could save him from a deadly insect sting. He died in 1622, just a few days shy of his 65th birthday.
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  (#16) Nevile Gardiner

  • Dec. at 52 (1902-1954)

  Nevile Gardiner lived in the early to mid-1900s, and was an exceptional diplomat. As a patriotic Englishman, he traveled the world with every intention to fulfill the civic duties he owed to his country. Unfortunately, Gardiner's worldly adventures sealed his fate.While visiting the Philippines in 1954, he was bitten by an unknown venomous insect, and died 48 hours later.

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