How they croaked

How They Croaked : the awful ends of the awfully famous by Georgia Bragg ; illustrated by Kevin O'Malley

WARNING: If you don't have the guts for gore, do not read this book.
This fascinating collection of remarkable deaths is not for the faint of heart.
Over the course of historymen and women have lived and died. In fact, getting sick and dying can be a big ugly mess, especially before modern medical care that we all know today. How They Croaked relays all gory details of how nineteen would figure gave  up the ghost. For example:

• It is believed that Henry VIII's remains exploded within his coffin (gross!!!)
• Doctors "treated" George Washington by draining almost 80 ounces of blood before he finally kicked the bucket
• Right before Beethoven wrote his last notes, doctors drilled a hole in his stomach without pain medication

Readers will be interested well past the final curtain, and feel lucky to live in a world with painkillers, X-rays, soap and 911.

I loved this one!!!! Fun, gorey, quirky facts, great illustrations.The chapter sub-titles are hilarious. I don't think there is a thing I would change, in fact I want another volume with more awfully famous deaths. 
Here's a list of the famous deaths that are included in the book: King Tut, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Christopher Columbus, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Pocahontas, Galileo Galilei, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Marie Antionette, George Washington, Napoleon Bonaparte, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, James A. Garfield, Charles Darwin, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein.
Here's the book trailer: