death by fire
40 bc? marc antony's troops at actium burned in their ships
459 ad sengqing chens, 23, suicide in china
487 faguang oi, 40, in longxi, china, suicide
629 2 chinese sisters, also nuns, suicide
1099 crusaders under godfrey of bouillon burned all jerusalem jews in synagogue
1243 all jews in belitz (near berlin)
1244 1200 of the 'perfect' cathars, including 200 at montsegur
1285 180 jews in munich
1298 all jews in rottingen, for desecrating "a wafer"
(in the late 13th century, 140 jewish communities in northern europe were eradicated.
survivors emigrated to palestine to live amid islam.)
1415 july 6, jan hus, burned at stake
1416 may 30, jerome of prague, burned at stake
1431 jeanne d'arc
1536 october 6, wm. tyndale, first translator of bible to english, burned at stake
1553 in geneva, michel servetus burned on orders from john calvin
1555 hugh latimer & nicholas ridley, first 2 'oxford martyrs' reformist english bishops, at the stake
1556 thomas cranmer, archbishop of canterbury, author of the book of common prayer, 3rd - yet central - 'oxford martyr'
1861 fanny longfellow, candle accident
1864 unknown number (10+?) of african american prisoners of war burned alive by confederate troops at fort pillow
1897 frazier baker, burned alive by mob of 300 in lake city, south carolina, for being african-american and accepting the position of postmaster
1899 april, outside atlanta, sam hose tortured, mutilated and burned by a mob of 2,000 for killing a white man in self-defense
1904 june, hundreds die on paddlewheel steamboat general slocum in east river
1911 triangle shirtwaist fire, nyc, 140 killed
1919 may, woody guthrie's sister clara dies in a fire she set, arguing with her mother
1941 june, bialystok, polish jews burned by nazis
1941 july 7, radzilow, 800 polish jews burned by poles
1941 july 10, jedwabne 1600 polish jews burned by poles
1941 polish towns of wasosz and stawiski
1942 september 23, kortelisy in ukraine, 2892 burned by nazis
1944 june 6, hartford, ringling brothers circus fire, 167 killed
june 10, oradour-sur-glane - town population (642) burned in church as nazi reprisal
november, hazel ying lee, pioneering aviator, dies of burns after mid-air collision
december, 150 u.s. p.o.w.'s executed by their japanese captors
1945 february, dresden firebombing, 250,000 killed
march, tokyo firebombing, 100,000 killed
may, tokyo firebombing, 83,000 killed
august, hiroshima and nagasaki nuclear bombings, 340,000 killed
1947 woody guthrie's 4-year-old daughter cathy
1948 zelda fitzgerald, awaiting electroshock, and 8 other women inmates of hospital in asheville n.c.
1953 hillaire belloc, author of 'matilda who told lies and was burned to death', sometime anti-semite, by accident
1963 june 11, thich quang duc, age 73, in saigon, to protest persecution of buddhists
(same week as medgar evers assassination)
1966 may 29th, two woman, buddhist nun thich nu thanh quang, in hue, and ho thi thieu, in Saigon, and monk thich quang thien, in dalat, to protest u.s. policy. over the following week, five other women, mostly nuns, and three men, one a novice monk, immolated themselves in public: thich nu vinh ngoc, 19, nguyen thi van, 17, thich no dien dinh, thich nu bao, 24, thich dieu nu tri.
1966-74 vietnam: napalm
1974 may, 6 S.L.A. members
1975 bertrand russell's granddaughter lucy, suicide
1978 M.O.V.E. activists in philadelphia
1992 crystal bullitt
1993 100 muslim civilians at ahmici in croatia, burned in their homes by croatian soldiers
1994 betty shabazz, by her young grandson's arson
1990's several sri lankan tamils protesting imposition of hinduism
1993 april. 95 branch davidians
1994 500 rwandans, gasoline supplied by benedictine nun maria kisito
also, 70 tutsi women and girls, ordered by health minister pauline nyiramasuhuko
1995 august 15, sabine kratze, in viet nam, german buddhist suicide, 5th to protest buddhist persecutions
1998 april 27, thupten ngodup, tibetan in india, protest suicide
1999 november 11, zhang zhichen, 32, falun gong woman, suicide/murder with her infant daughter
(according to german scientologists, her father was li hongzhi, falun gong leader)
12/29/99 prasanna mohanty, 26, of balasore, india, unemployed teacher, suicide in front of residence of orissa provincial education minister
?/00 15 turkish inmates, protesting prison conditions
1/10/00 mandeep pal singh sodhi, 26, lucknow, india, suicide to protest police harassment
8/18/00 bharat rao, 35, social worker in nadiad, india, suicide on indian independence day
6/00-9/00 43 women, 14 men, suicides in coimbatore district, india, depressed industrial area, over money, health, love
5/01 29 chilean prisoners
8/6/01 25 indian mental patients shackled to poles
9/11/01 100+ wtc victims
12/01 eduardo mino, suicide in chile to protest government asbestos coverup
12/29/01 276 peruvians in a lima fireworks accident
2/27- 3/2/02 182 moslems and hindus, mostly women and children, in n.w. india, in serial revenge attacks
3/11/02 15 saudi schoolgirls - rescue workers blocked by religious police because students were "unveiled"
5/02 8 north carolina jail inmates
10/02 angela dawson, husband carnell, and 5 children, house torched by dealers she was trying to run off
2/03 99 "great white" concert-goers in west warwick, rhode island
3/03-4/03 zdenek adamec burned himself to protest iraq war and general degradation of czech society, and was followed by 3 more
6/03 sedighieh mohageri of london and neda hassani, 25, of ottawa, of 7 iranian activists protesting arrests by france
9/03 kyung hae lee and park dong ho (korean farmers, suicides, to protest wto farm policies)
12/03 qadri gul, 20, afghan woman, suicide to protest/escape domestic violence
03 100 women of herat, afghanistan, suicides, over the year, to protest marital slavery
7/04 88 indian schoolchildren