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  1. Valentino: Valentino Garavani at the Cannes Film Festival.2026Valentino left his estate to a foundation in Liechtenstein that the public had never heard ofRome, Italy
  2. Aldrich Ames Drop Site Mailbox: USPS mail collection box used to communicate meeting requests between Soviet intelligence handlers and U.S. Government employee Aldrich Ames. This F2026CIA officer Aldrich Ames paid cash for a $540,000 house on a salary under $70,000; he and his wife forfeited the proceeds, and she went to prison while their son lived in BogotáArlington, Virginia, USA; federal prison, Maryland, USA
  3. Dolly Parton: Publicity shot of American singer Dolly Parton, 19772026Dolly Parton's estate company sued her nephew and former security chief one month after her death, alleging threats to ruin her brandNashville, Tennessee
  4. AI illustration: JK House, the Singhania family tower in Mumbai2026Raymond's founder gave his son his 37 percent stake and says he was then pushed out of the family towerMumbai
  5. COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Susuhunan van Surakarta Pakoe Boewono X met echtgenote TMnr 60003511: Foto. Susuhunan van Surakarta, Pakoe Boewono X met echtgenote2025Two half-brothers were each crowned Pakubuwono XIII in 2004, and in 2025 two of the next king's sons each took the title Pakubuwono XIVKasunanan Palace, Surakarta (Solo), Central Java, Indonesia
  6. Giorgio Armani: Giorgio Armani 19972025Giorgio Armani's will orders his heirs to sell 15 percent of his company to a rival group within 18 monthsMilan, Italy
  7. Citgo Aruba Oil refinery San Nicolas Aruba: Citgo Aruba Oil Refinery San Nicolas Aruba2025Venezuela seized foreign oil projects in 2007, and a Delaware judge ordered its US refiner Citgo sold for $5.9 billion to pay the claimsWilmington, Delaware, USA, and Caracas, Venezuela
  8. Sheikh Hasina: Prime Minister and Leader of the House Sheikh Hasina attended the first meeting of the "Business Advisory Committee" of the 12th Jatiya Sangsad in the permanent comm2025A mob demolished the house where Sheikh Hasina's father was killed, and a tribunal sentenced her to death in absentia and ordered her assets confiscatedDhaka, Bangladesh
  9. Najib Razak: Malaysian Prime Minister, Najib Tun Razak2025Najib Razak's stepson made The Wolf of Wall Street with money from Malaysia's state fund, and Najib was given 15 more years in prisonKuala Lumpur and Putrajaya, Malaysia
  10. Brian Wilson: Legendary musician and songwriter, Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, in Santa Monica, California in 1990. Photograph by Ithaka Darin Pappas2025Brian Wilson was placed in a conservatorship after his wife died, while his first wife sued for half of a $50 million rights saleCalifornia
  11. Ozzy Osbourne: Ozzy Osbourne, Prince of Darkness, at the I Am Ozzy book signing at Changing Hands, Tempe Arizona, Feb 20th, 20102025A year after Ozzy Osbourne died, Sharon Osbourne asked the High Court to remove his accountant of more than 40 years as executorEngland
  12. Brocket Hall, where the story took place2025Lord Brocket was jailed for five years for insurance fraud in 1996, and his trustees leased out Brocket HallBrocket Hall, Hertfordshire
  13. AI illustration: The 1670 Hudson's Bay Company charter on parchment with its wax seal2025The Hudson's Bay Company sold Rupert's Land for £300,000 in 1869, went insolvent in 2025, and sold its 1670 charter for $18 millionToronto (Ontario Superior Court of Justice)
  14. Gene Hackman: Gene Hackman in the White House, 19872025Gene Hackman and his wife were found dead a week apart, and his children are fighting wills that leave them nothingSanta Fe, New Mexico, USA
  15. Sunjay Kapur2025Sunjay Kapur died at a polo match, and his children say the will leaving his Rs 30,000 crore estate to his widow is forgedEngland, UK
  16. Michael Schumacher: Michael Schumacher, September 20052025Michael Schumacher's family has kept his condition secret since 2013, and a former guard tried to sell his medical records for €15 millionWuppertal, Germany (court); Gland, Switzerland (home)
  17. Sly Stone: Sly Stone performing on Midnight Special on NBC, 19732025Sly Stone was living in a van when a jury awarded him $5 million in stolen royalties, and the award against his manager was reversedLos Angeles, California
  18. Bill Gates: Bill Gates at the European Commission - P067383-987995 (cropped) 52025Bill Gates said in May 2025 the Gates Foundation will spend its endowment and close on 31 December 2045Seattle, Washington
  19. Map of California, marked on the globe2025Nick Reiner, charged with killing Rob and Michele Reiner, sues for his $1.5 million trust fundBrentwood, Los Angeles, California
  20. Mango store in Barcelona: Mango Chutney2024Mango's founder fell to his death on a hike with his son, and a judge has named the son the only suspectCollbató, near Montserrat, Catalonia, Spain
  21. Roberto Cavalli: Roberto Cavalli Photographed by Ed Kavishe2024Roberto Cavalli split his estate equally among his partner and six children, and the heirs accepted it only up to the value of his debtsFlorence, Italy
  22. O.J. Simpson 1990 · DN-ST-91-03444: NBC Sports commentator and former professional football player O. J. Simpson sits with a group of servicemen to watch a Thanksgiving Day footbal2024O.J. Simpson paid little of the $33.5 million judgment while alive, and in 2025 his executor accepted a $58 million claim from Ron Goldman's fatherLas Vegas, Nevada, USA
  23. Alexei Navalny: Alexey Navalny 2018 (cropped)2024Navalny died in an Arctic prison colony, and the state held his body for eight days while investigators pressed his mother to agree to a secret burialPenal Colony No. 3, Kharp, Russia; Salekhard, Russia; Moscow, Russia
  24. Warren Buffett: Warren Buffett at the 2015 SelectUSA Investment Summit (cropped)2024Warren Buffett's will once named the Gates Foundation; he removed it in 2024 and stopped his lifetime gifts to it in 2026Omaha, Nebraska, USA
  25. Norman Jewison: A portrait of Norman Jewison taken by Gail Harvey. (48198901241) (cropped)2024Norman Jewison's three children sued after he changed his will two months before his death in 2024; the claims were settled by mediation and never tested in courtLos Angeles, California
  26. Alain Delon: Alain Delon 19612024Alain Delon never acknowledged the son his mother raised, and French courts ruled the claim too late after both men diedDouchy-Montcorbon, Loiret, France
  27. AI illustration: A motorcycle assembly line in Hamamatsu, Japan2024Suzuki Motor was run by four adopted sons in a row, including Osamu Suzuki, who married into the family and ran it for 43 yearsHamamatsu, Japan
  28. Alain Delon: Alain Delon 19612024Alain Delon's three children fought over his care and his two wills, and in 2026 two of them were fined for secretly recording the thirdDouchy-Montcorbon, Loiret, France
  29. Zong Qinghou2024Wahaha founder Zong Qinghou's three other children froze $1.8 billion in Hong Kong to claim trusts he wrote by handHangzhou, China
  30. Liam Payne: One Direction NRJ 2013 22024Liam Payne fell from a Buenos Aires hotel balcony with no will, and his £24 million went to his seven-year-old sonBuenos Aires, Argentina
  31. Shannen Doherty: Shannen Doherty (cropped)2024Shannen Doherty signed her divorce settlement the day before she died of cancerLos Angeles County, California, USA
  32. Ratan Tata: Shri Ratan Naval Tata2024Ratan Tata's will gave a third of the residue to a little-known Jamshedpur businessmanMumbai, India
  33. Elon Musk: Elon Musk - 54820081119 (3x4 cropped, Rule of thirds)2024Elon Musk gave his foundation $7.9 billion in Tesla stock in two years, and its filings show it paid out less than requiredAustin, Texas
  34. Map of New Zealand, marked on the globe2024The Māori King's council passed over the son who had stood in for him and named his youngest child queen at his funeralTūrangawaewae Marae, Ngāruawāhia, New Zealand
  35. Cash from LEWIS drop site-Hanssen case: Pieniądze zostawione przez agenta SVR dla R. Hanssena2023FBI spy Robert Hanssen forfeited $1.4 million from Moscow and his pension, and his plea deal left his wife the house, three cars and a survivor annuityVienna, Virginia, USA; ADX Florence, Colorado, USA
  36. Castelvetrano, Chiesa Madre: Castelvetrano, Chiesa Madre2023Matteo Messina Denaro owned nothing on paper when he was caught after 30 years on the run, and gave his surname to his daughter weeks before he diedPalermo, Castelvetrano and L'Aquila, Italy
  37. Duchy of Lancaster offices 2020: The Duchy of Lancaster offices, at 1 Lancaster Place, Strand, London WC2, viewed from the Victoria Embankment. It flies the Duchy flag. The taller 2023People in the old county of Lancashire who die with no will and no kin leave their estates to the King, and the Guardian found the money refurbishing his rental propertyCounty Palatine of Lancaster, England
  38. Map of California, marked on the globe2023Chuck Feeney secretly handed his Duty Free Shoppers stake to a foundation in 1984, gave away more than $8 billion, and kept about $2 millionSan Francisco, California, USA
  39. Tony Bennett: Tony Bennett 20022023Tony Bennett's daughters sued their brother, his manager and trustee, saying a man who earned $100 million left under $7 millionNew York
  40. Lisa Marie Presley: Lisa Marie Presley (cropped)2023Lisa Marie Presley's mother contested her trust, then resigned as trustee in exchange for $1 million and a grave near Elvis at GracelandWest Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
  41. Lisa Marie Presley: Lisa Marie Presley (cropped)2023Lisa Marie Presley's trust was told it owed $3.8 million on Graceland, and the Missouri woman who forged the loan got 57 months in prisonGraceland, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
  42. Jimmy Buffett navy (cropped): Jimmy Buffett navy (cropped)2023Jimmy Buffett left his widow a $275 million trust with his accountant as co-trustee, and each has asked a court to remove the otherSag Harbor, New York, USA
  43. Rupert Murdoch: Rupert Murdoch - Flickr - Eva Rinaldi Celebrity and Live Music Photographer2023Rupert Murdoch tried to rewrite his family trust so Lachlan would control his companies, and a Nevada commissioner found they acted in bad faithReno, Nevada, USA
  44. Harry Belafonte: Harry Belafonte at the Vanity Fair party celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Tribeca Film Festival.2023Harry Belafonte tried to sell Martin Luther King Jr.'s papers, King's children said they were wrongfully taken, and Belafonte sued them and kept the papersNew York, New York
  45. Jane Birkin: 66ème Festival de Venise (Mostra) Jane Birkin2023The original Hermes bag made for Jane Birkin sold at Sotheby's Paris in July 2025 for 8.58 million euros, the highest price paid for a handbag at auctionParis, France
  46. AI illustration: Carlton House Terrace, London2023A 2014 letter said the four Hinduja brothers owned everything jointly, and the eldest brother's daughters fought it through his dementia and deathLondon
  47. Robert Blake (actor): Robert Blake Baretta 19772023Robert Blake was acquitted of murdering his wife, then ordered to pay her children $30 millionLos Angeles, California
  48. Gina Lollobrigida: Gina Lollobrigida - Publicity still (1956)2023Gina Lollobrigida left half her estate to an assistant who was convicted of exploiting her, and her son says €10 million is goneRome, Italy
  49. Mohamed Al-Fayed2023After Mohamed Al Fayed died, more than 180 women came forward, and Harrods went to court over his estateLondon, UK
  50. Matthew Perry: Matthew Perry in support of Awareness on Drug Courts and Reduced Substance Abuse2023Matthew Perry died of ketamine, and his doctor, his assistant and a dealer called the "Ketamine Queen" were prosecutedLos Angeles, California, USA
  51. Michael Oher: Michael Oher 2016 (cropped)2023Michael Oher of "The Blind Side" learned he was never adopted, and a judge ended the Tuohy conservatorshipMemphis, Tennessee, USA
  52. Silvio Berlusconi: Silvio Berlusconi (2010) cropped2023Silvio Berlusconi left €100 million to his 33-year-old partner and €30 million to a friend convicted of mafia tiesMilan, Italy
  53. AI illustration: The overgrown Tatoi Palace in the forest north of Athens2023Greece took its exiled king's palaces without payment, and the European Court ordered €13.7 million in compensationAthens, Greece
  54. AI illustration: Office towers in Salt Lake City below the Wasatch mountains2023The SEC fined the LDS Church and Ensign Peak $5 million for hiding its stock portfolio behind 13 shell companiesSalt Lake City, Utah
  55. LG Twin Towers in Beijing: LG Twin Towers in Beijing2023LG's chairman adopted his nephew as heir; his widow and daughters sued to undo the share split and the adoption, and lost both in 2026Seoul, South Korea
  56. Map of Nigeria, marked on the globe2023Mohbad's father has kept the singer unburied for nearly three years until a court-ordered DNA test shows whether his grandson is his son's childLagos, Nigeria
  57. TaiMeiTuk LungMeiVillage Sign: 龍尾村路牌2023Abby Choi's former husband and his father and brother are on trial for her murder over a flat she had put in her father-in-law's nameLung Mei village, Tai Po, Hong Kong, China
  58. NizamViiMukarram: Nizam VII of Hyderabad with his grandson Mukarram Jah c.19342023The last Nizam of Hyderabad inherited one of the world's largest fortunes and died in Turkey after losing most of itIstanbul, Turkey
  59. Kfar Aza, January 2024 (SG4): קיבוץ כפר עזה, ינואר 20242023Israeli troops shot hostage Yotam Haim as he fled his captors, and in 2026 a court let his mother use his sperm for a grandchildBeersheba, Israel
  60. Sonangol building - Luanda: Sonangol headquarters building in Luanda, Angola2022Angola's president made his daughter head of the state oil company; his successor fired her, and courts froze her assets in four countriesLuanda, Angola; London, UK; Dubai, UAE
  61. Chaim Kanievsky: הגר"ח קנייבסקי בשמחת פורים2022Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky's youngest son agreed to sell his manuscripts for $7 million; his brothers said Torah law split the estate among three sons and none of the five daughtersBnei Brak, Israel
  62. Naomi Judd: Naomi Judd AHA (cropped)2022Naomi Judd's will named her husband executor, and her family sued to keep the police file on her death sealedher home in Tennessee
  63. Sidhu Moose Wala: Sidhu Moose Wala during the shooting of his film Moosa Jatt (cropped)2022Sidhu Moose Wala's parents won his song copyright in court, had a son by IVF at 58, and were questioned by the state over the babyMansa district, Punjab, India
  64. Jerry Lee Lewis: Jerry Lee Lewis publicity photo, 1950s2022Jerry Lee Lewis put his ranch in his manager's name to hide it from the IRS; after he died, a judge ordered his son out and the manager's heirs listed it for $1.6 millionNesbit, Mississippi
  65. Takeoff: Rapper Takeoff performing on stage in in Toronto in 2017. Photo by Charito Yap.2022Takeoff of Migos was shot dead with no will; his mother and father are fighting over the money the bowling alley paid for his death810 Billiards & Bowling, Houston, Texas
  66. Bernie Worrell: Bernie Worrell - SociaLibrium, Vienna2009 a2022Bernie Worrell's widow sued George Clinton for half of 264 Parliament-Funkadelic recordings, and an appeals court sent the case to trialDetroit, Michigan (Eastern District of Michigan); Tallahassee, Florida (Northern
  67. Nichelle Nichols: Nichelle Nichols (4505899674) (cropped)2022Nichelle Nichols's son became her conservator in 2019 and fought her manager in court; after her 2022 death a jury awarded her family $13 million, capped at $400,000Silver City, New Mexico
  68. Leonardo Del Vecchio: Leonardo Del Vecchio giovane2022Leonardo Del Vecchio split his holding company into eight equal shares, and his heirs are suing in Milan and LuxembourgSan Raffaele Hospital, Milan
  69. Anne Heche: Anne Heche July 14, 2014 (3x4 cropped)2022Anne Heche's ex said a 2011 email was her will, and the court gave her estate to her 20-year-old sonLos Angeles, California, USA
  70. Wendy Williams: Wendy Williams WBLS 2022 (cropped)2022Wendy Williams has been under a guardianship since 2022 and is still asking a New York court to end itNew York, USA
  71. Pelé: Pele con brasil (cropped)2022Pelé fought a paternity case he lost, and after his death a woman claimed his estate until two DNA tests failedSão Paulo, Brazil
  72. AI illustration: Bombay House, the Tata headquarters in Mumbai2022The Tata board removed Cyrus Mistry in 2016, and India's Supreme Court upheld it over the minority family's appealAhmedabad-Mumbai highway, Maharashtra, India
  73. AI illustration: A power strip assembly line in a Chicago factory2022Barre Seid gave his company to a new 501(c)(4) run by Leonard Leo, a $1.6 billion political gift that avoided up to $400 million in taxChicago, Illinois
  74. José Eduardo dos Santos-16062014-edit: Dilma recebe o presidente de Angola, José Eduardo dos Santos2022Angola's former president died in Barcelona, a daughter fought to bury him in Spain, and a Spanish court sent the body to his widow in LuandaBarcelona, Spain, and Luanda, Angola
  75. Iolani Palace in 1885: Iolani Palace in 1885.2022Hawaii's "last princess" was ruled unable to manage her $215 million trust, married her partner during the court fight, and the settlement gave her wife $40 millionHonolulu, Hawaii, USA
  76. Gal Costa: Gal Costa e André Midani (Década de 1970) (cropped 2)2022Gal Costa's adopted son asked to exhume her and challenged her widow's claim to half the estate, then settled for an equal splitSão Paulo, Brazil
  77. Kim Jung-ju: Kim Jung-ju presenting in 2016 (cropped)2022Nexon founder Kim Jung-ju's family paid inheritance tax with 29.3 percent of his holding company, and the government could not find a buyerSeoul, South Korea (died in the United States)
  78. Frida Kahlo: Frida Kahlo (gelatin silver print, 15.2 by 10.8 cm)2022A Miami businessman burned a drawing he said was Frida Kahlo's to sell 10,000 NFTs, and Mexico investigated because her work is a national monumentMiami, Florida, USA; Mexico City, Mexico
  79. 42 avenue Foch Paris: 42, avenue Foch, Paris 16e.2021Equatorial Guinea's vice president bought a Paris mansion on a minister's salary, France confiscated it, and the UN court refused to stop the saleParis, France, and Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
  80. Walterboro - Colleton County Court House 01: Photomechanical print (postcard) : halftone, colored Divided back2021Alex Murdaugh renounced his murdered wife's estate, the family estate sold for $3.9 million, and in 2026 South Carolina's top court threw out his murder convictionMoselle, Colleton County, South Carolina, USA
  81. Bernie Madoff: Bernard Madoff 2009 mug shot (3x4 cropped)2021Bernie Madoff died in prison, his sons' estates gave up their fortunes, and the trustee recovered $15.5 billionButner, North Carolina, USA; New York, USA
  82. Map of Italy, marked on the globe2021In HBO's Succession, the children's veto over the family company sat in their parents' divorce deal, and their father and mother renegotiated it awayNew York, USA, and Tuscany, Italy (setting)
  83. The Flag of Malta and the Flag of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta - Fort St. Angelo: The flag on the left is the Maltese National Flag, the flag on the right is the Flag of t2021The Order of Malta's Grand Master fired his chancellor in 2016, the Pope forced the Grand Master out, and a 30-million-franc gift from a Geneva trust sat behind the fightRome, Italy; Geneva, Switzerland
  84. Larry King: Larry King in 2006 (cropped)2021Larry King's handwritten 2019 will left his estate to five children, two of whom died before him, and his estranged wife Shawn contested itLos Angeles, California, USA
  85. Phil Spector: From Rock and Roll hall of Fame after party... March 6, 2000 N.Y.C. Copyright John Mathew Smith2021Phil Spector died in prison serving a murder sentence; his daughter sued his ex-wife, alleging she posed as the daughter to sell his memorabiliaCalifornia prison hospital
  86. Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan - Nowlan Park, Kilkenny - Sunday 14th July 20192021The widow of Bob Dylan's "Hurricane" co-writer sued for a share of his $300 million song sale and lost twiceNew York
  87. Bunny Wailer: BunnyWailer-Istandpredominate2021Bunny Wailer's wife was missing when he died, his 13 children were told to take DNA tests, and his son sued to remove his brother as executorKingston, Jamaica
  88. Vicente Fernández: Vicente Fernández - Pepsi Center - 06.11.112021Vicente Fernández's widow went to court to stop Televisa using his name for a biopic, and the series aired anywayGuadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
  89. Piet Mondrian: Piet Mondriaan2021Trustees for the family of Mondrian's heir Harry Holtzman sued the Philadelphia Museum of Art in December 2021 for a painting the Nazis took from a Hanover museum in 1937, valued at over $100 millionNew York (Mondrian died 1944)
  90. AI illustration: The conservatory of a London hotel, a recorder hidden in a plant pot2021The Barclay twins' nephews bugged the Ritz conservatory and recorded their uncle's business talksLondon
  91. Melinda Gates: DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 28JAN11 - William H. Gates III (FLTR), Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA, and Melinda French Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda 2021Melinda French Gates left the Gates Foundation with $12.5 billion from Bill Gates under their divorce agreementSeattle
  92. AI illustration: The Klein Matterhorn glacier and cable car above Zermatt2021Tengelmann chief Karl-Erivan Haub vanished near the Matterhorn, and his brother bought out his widow and childrenKlein Matterhorn, Zermatt, Switzerland
  93. Carlos Menem: Menem con banda presidencial2021Argentine president Carlos Menem's son from his prison-era affair was recognised by a court only in 2006, after his mother's deathBuenos Aires, Argentina
  94. AI illustration: A Wilshire Boulevard law office tower in Los Angeles at night2021Tom Girardi was put under his brother's conservatorship with Alzheimer's disease, then convicted of stealing client money and sent to prison at 86Los Angeles, California, USA
  95. Chun Doo-hwan: Chun Doo-hwan (전두환) Presidential Portrait2021South Korea could not collect 86.7 billion won of Chun Doo-hwan's forfeiture after he diedYeonhui-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul
  96. AI illustration: A probate court file on a desk in White Plains, New York, 20212021DMX died without a will, leaving 15 children, a fiancée the court would not recognize, and an estate valued under $1 millionWhite Plains, New York
  97. AI illustration: The Constitutional Court of South Africa in Johannesburg2021The Zulu king's widow challenged his will as forged, and his successor's recognition went to South Africa's highest courtDurban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  98. Mako Komuro: Mako Komuro, formely Princess Mako of Akishino (cropped)2021Japan's Princess Mako refused a ¥140 million payout to marry a commoner and lost her royal statusTokyo, Japan; New York, USA
  99. Bernard Tapie: Tapie en 2011 en tournée en Belgique pour "OSCAR".2021Bernard Tapie was beaten in his home six months before he died owing the state more than 400 million euros, and his widow lost her flatCombs-la-Ville and Paris, France
  100. Map of China, marked on the globe2021An 88-year-old Shanghai man signed his 3 million yuan home over to the fruit seller who cared for him, a court later declared him incapable, and the gift still stoodBaoshan district, Shanghai, China
  101. Playa Hermosa. Puntarenas. Costa Rica (3): Playa Hermosa. Puntarenas. Costa Rica.2021Bitcoin pioneer Mircea Popescu drowned off Costa Rica, and no heir or keyholder has come forward for coins said to number up to a millionPlaya Hermosa, Garabito, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
  102. Majid Al Futtaim: Majid Al Futtaim with Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed.2021Majid Al Futtaim died with ten heirs and a $16 billion mall group, and a court set up by Dubai's ruler gave government appointees five of nine board seatsDubai, UAE
  103. Cambodge-1223: Les vestiges du Prasat Krachap, un des temples du site de Koh Ker - Cambodge2020A Bangkok dealer died under US indictment for selling looted Khmer statues, and his daughter gave the 125 pieces she inherited back to CambodiaBangkok, Thailand; Koh Ker, Cambodia; New York, USA
  104. Pierre Cardin: Pierre Cardin 1978 (cropped)2020Pierre Cardin's great-nephew found a will naming him sole heir to an €800 million estate, and a Paris court ruled it was not a willParis, France
  105. Map of South Korea, marked on the globe2020Hanmi Pharm's founder died owing a family tax bill of 500 billion won, his widow and daughter agreed to merge with OCI, and his sons stopped it at a shareholder voteSeoul, South Korea
  106. Main front of Lednice Castle 4800 Planar 3: Main front of Lednice Castle2020Czechoslovakia seized the Prince of Liechtenstein's estates as German property in 1945, and when one of his paintings was lent to Cologne, every court turned him awayLednice and Valtice, Czech Republic; Cologne, Germany; Strasbourg, France; The H
  107. Bank of England Building, London, UK - Diliff: The Bank of England building viewed Lombard Street.2020Venezuela's 31 tonnes of gold have sat in the Bank of England through two rival governments, a captured president and an earthquakeCaracas, Venezuela; London, England
  108. Hosni Mubarak: Hosni Mubarak - Official Photo (cropped)2020Switzerland froze 700 million francs tied to Mubarak's circle in 2011, and after 11 years released the last 400 million to its ownersCairo, Egypt; Bern, Switzerland
  109. MF Doom: MF Doom - Hultsfred 2011 (cropped)2020MF DOOM's widow sued a former label manager for 31 notebooks of lyrics and got them back in 2025United Kingdom
  110. Stanley Ho: Stanleyho20062020Stanley Ho sued 11 defendants, including 2 of his wives and 5 of his children, hours after saying on television he would not sue his familyHong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, China
  111. Little Richard: Little Richard performing at the University of Texas Forty Acres Festival in 2007.2020Little Richard's brother emailed the buyer about elder abuse and racism, the buyer withdrew its offer for the estate's rights, and the court took away his shareTullahoma, Tennessee
  112. Charley Pride: Charley-Pride 19812020Charley Pride's son by a flight attendant was left out of the will, barred from the funeral, and sued the widow of 60 yearsDallas, Texas
  113. Caroline Flack: Caroline Flack2020Caroline Flack died in February 2020 before an assault trial; the coroner found the prosecution was among the causes, and her family said police and prosecutors singled her outLondon, England
  114. Kirk Douglas: Studio publicity Kirk Douglas2020Kirk Douglas left most of a $61 million estate to charity and nothing to his son MichaelBeverly Hills, California
  115. Chadwick Boseman: Chadwick Boseman by Gage Skidmore July 2017 (cropped)2020Chadwick Boseman died in 2020 without a will, and his widow filed in Los Angeles to run an estate first listed at $938,500Los Angeles, California
  116. Lee Kun-hee: Lee Kun-Hee2020Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee's heirs paid 12 trillion won in inheritance tax, the largest in Korean historySeoul
  117. Diego Maradona: Argentina celebrando copa (cropped)2020Diego Maradona left five recognised heirs, more paternity claims, and two trials over his death and his nameDique Luján, Tigre, Buenos Aires province
  118. Sumner Redstone: Sumner Redstone (cropped)(b)2020Sumner Redstone's ex-girlfriend said he was incompetent, the judge disagreed, and his daughter took control of CBS and ViacomLos Angeles and Boston
  119. AI illustration: Lotte World Tower above the Seoul skyline2020Lotte's 93-year-old founder fired his younger son, the shareholders kept the son, and a court put the father under guardianshipTokyo and Seoul
  120. AI illustration: Longleat House, Wiltshire2020The Marquess of Bath's trustees asked the High Court in 2026 to let his surrogate-born son into the Longleat trustsLongleat, Wiltshire; Bristol Business and Property Courts
  121. Marienburg Castle (Hanover), where the story took place2020The heir of the House of Hanover offered Marienburg Castle to the state for one euro, and his father sued him for gross ingratitudeSchloss Marienburg, Pattensen, Lower Saxony
  122. AI illustration: Tsarska Bistritsa, the royal hunting lodge in the Rila mountains, Bulgaria2020Bulgaria sued its former tsar to take back his palaces, and the Supreme Court gave him Tsarska Bistritsa but the state got Vrana parkSamokov and Sofia, Bulgaria
  123. AI illustration: A bank head office on the Avenida da Liberdade, Lisbon, 20142020Banco Espírito Santo collapsed in 2014 and its chief Ricardo Salgado was sentenced to eight yearsLisbon
  124. AI illustration: The towers of Century City, Los Angeles, 20202020Steve Bing's father asked a court to rule that Bing's two children born outside marriage were not his grandchildren, and lostCentury City, Los Angeles
  125. AI illustration: A will in an envelope in a mail tray, 20252020Zappos founder Tony Hsieh died with no will, and five years later a will appeared in the mail naming a witness who may not existNew London, Connecticut, USA (house fire)
  126. Kobe Bryant: Kobe Bryant Dec 20142020Deputies and firefighters shared photos of Kobe Bryant's remains, and his widow won $28.85 million from Los Angeles CountyCalabasas, California
  127. AI illustration: A sealed envelope on a table in a palace hall in Muscat, 20202020Oman's sultan died childless, and his successor's name was read from a sealed envelopeMuscat, Oman
  128. Map of Brazil, marked on the globe2020Joseph Safra's son sued his mother and brothers over the family bank, alleging his father had been influenced to change his will, and settled in 2024São Paulo, Brazil
  129. Sursock Palace main hall after explosion: Second hall of the Sursock Palace, emptied of most furnishings after the 2020 Beirut port explosion. Statue depicts the Allegory of the Ni2020One Sursock left his Beirut villa to the city as a museum; another Sursock palace passed to a single heiress; the 2020 port blast hit both, and she died of her injuriesAchrafieh, Beirut, Lebanon
  130. Sushant Singh Rajput: Manish Malhotra’s 50th birthday bash2020A Delhi court ruled that Sushant Singh Rajput's publicity rights died with him, so his father could not stop a film about his deathMumbai, India
  131. Hurricane West Virginia: Main Street in w:Hurricane, West Virginia.2020Jack Whittaker won a $314.9 million Powerball jackpot, and his granddaughter and daughter were found dead within seven yearsHurricane, Putnam County, West Virginia, USA (where the ticket was sold)
  132. Sir Ganga Ram Hospital: Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi2020An unmarried Delhi man froze his sperm before chemotherapy, a court ruled it was property his parents inherit, and the government appealedNew Delhi, India
  133. Muhammad V of Kelantan: Sultan Muhammad V dari Kelantan pada tahun 20132019Kelantan's council made the sultan's son sultan while the father lay ill, and the father asked the Federal Court to give his throne backKota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia
  134. Karl Lagerfeld: Fendi store opening - Karl Lagerfeld (14091153382) crop2019Karl Lagerfeld left about €200 million to his assistant, models, his godson and his cat, and seven years later a French tax claim and a will challenge hold itParis, France
  135. El Chapo: Booking photo of Joaquin “El Chapo“ Guzman (front)2019El Chapo was ordered to forfeit $12.6 billion, and two of the sons who inherited his cartel faction pleaded guilty in ChicagoBrooklyn, New York, USA; Chicago, Illinois, USA; Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico
  136. Beji Caid Essebsi: Beji Caid Es Sebsi, Interim Tunisian Prime Minister2019Tunisia's president proposed equal inheritance for daughters and sons, died before parliament voted, and his successor called the debate falseTunis, Tunisia
  137. Ames Mansion Borderland: Ames Mansion, Borderland State Park, Easton, Massachusetts2019In Knives Out, a novelist leaves everything to his nurse, his grandson frames her so the slayer rule will cut her out, and the plan failsMassachusetts, USA (setting)
  138. Doris Day: DorisDay-midnightlace-full2019Doris Day's husband died in 1968 and she learned her lawyer and her husband had lost her earnings; a court awarded the couple $26,396,511Carmel Valley, California
  139. MacKenzie Scott: WASHINGTON - Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services León Rodríguez naturalize 20 new U.2019MacKenzie Scott left her marriage with 4 percent of Amazon and gave Jeff Bezos the votesSeattle
  140. AI illustration: Airliners at Incheon International Airport, 20192019Korean Air's "nut rage" heiress joined an activist fund to oust her brother, and lost the shareholder voteSeoul
  141. AI illustration: The Volkswagen factory at Wolfsburg with its four brick chimneys2019Porsche tried to buy Volkswagen and ended up owned by it, and Ferdinand Piëch was later forced out of VWRosenheim, Germany, after collapsing at a restaurant in Aschau im Chiemgau
  142. Nipsey Hussle: Soundtrack Beat Battle Judging Panel March2011 (cropped)2019Nipsey Hussle was shot dead outside his store, and his family took guardianship of his daughter from her motherLos Angeles, California, USA
  143. Goo Hara: 170807 구하라 (cropped)2019Goo Hara's mother left when she was a child and claimed half her estate; Korea changed its inheritance lawSeoul, South Korea
  144. Pat Bowlen2019Pat Bowlen's trust was meant to keep the Broncos in his family; two daughters and his brother sued, and the team was soldDenver, Colorado
  145. AI illustration: The Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand, London2019A London judge ordered Dubai's ruler to provide £554 million to the ex-wife whose phone he had hackedHigh Court, Family Division, London
  146. Press conference on litigations against Purdue Pharma (E5zaHzGXEAEaucB)2019The Sacklers drew $11 billion out of Purdue Pharma, museums removed their name, and the Supreme Court voided their release in 2024White Plains, New York
  147. Jeffrey Epstein: Mug shot of Jeffrey Epstein, July 25 20132019Jeffrey Epstein signed his will two days before he died in jail; victims' claims cut the $577 million estate to about $107 millionMetropolitan Correctional Center, New York
  148. Map of Singapore, marked on the globe2019K.K. Modi's trust deed split his family into court cases, and his son accused his mother's side of having him assaulted at a board meetingNew Delhi, India, and Singapore
  149. Sinar Mas Center 20240113: Sinar Mas Center on the North Bund, Shanghai.2019A Sinar Mas son was left 1 billion rupiah, sued his half-brothers over an estate he put at 649 trillion rupiah, and lost his status as a legitimate childJakarta, Indonesia
  150. João Gilberto: Brazilian singer João Gilberto2019João Gilberto's daughter had him declared incapable while he faced eviction, and his heirs won R$150 million from his record label after he diedRio de Janeiro, Brazil
  151. Lower Kabete road: Lower Kabete road from lower kabete to UON in kapenguria rd junction2019Tob Cohen's body was found in the septic tank of his Nairobi home, and his widow is on trial for his murder while his will leaves the estate to his sisterLower Kabete (Kitisuru), Nairobi, Kenya
  152. Robert Mugabe: Robert Mugabe Official Portrait (4x5 cropped)2019Robert Mugabe left about $10 million and no will, and a village chief fined his widow five cows and ordered his body dug upKutama, Zvimba district, Zimbabwe
  153. José Carreras: 27.02.1972. Don Carlos avec José Carreras. (1972) - 53Fi4217 (cropped)2019José José's older children searched Miami hospitals and funeral homes for his body, and two wills name different heirsMiami, Florida, USA; buried in Mexico City, Mexico
  154. Gugu Liberato: Vagner Santana & GUGU2 (cropped)2019Gugu Liberato's will left nothing to the mother of his three children, and a chef who said he was Gugu's partner of eight years sued as wellWindermere (Orlando), Florida, USA; estate in São Paulo, Brazil
  155. Map of Tanzania, marked on the globe2019Tanzanian tycoon Reginald Mengi's will left his estate to his second wife and their twins, and the High Court threw it outDubai, UAE; estate in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
  156. Tokyo Detention House 01: 東京拘置所2018Japan hanged Aum's founder in 2018, his daughters fought over his ashes, and the state refused to hand them over until a 2026 court orderTokyo Detention House, Tokyo, Japan
  157. Whitey Bulger: Whitey Bulger US Marshals Service Mug12018Whitey Bulger hid $822,000 in the walls of his Santa Monica flat, and the Marshals sold his belongings for his victims' familiesSanta Monica, California, USA; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Hazelton, West Virgin
  158. Avicii: Avicii 2014 003cr2018Avicii died at 28 without a will; his parents inherited about $25 million and sold 75 percent of his catalogMuscat, Oman
  159. Aretha Franklin 1968: Publicity photo of Aretha Franklin from Billboard, 17 February 1968. The uploaded photo is a better quality copy of the image shown in the ad. There are no co2018Aretha Franklin's 2014 will was found in a notebook under her couch cushions, a jury upheld it in 2023, and her estate was still open in 2026Detroit, Michigan, USA
  160. Burt Reynolds: Publicity photo of Burt Reynolds from the television program Dan August.2018Burt Reynolds's 2018 will named his son Quinton as intentionally omitted and routed his assets through a trust run by his nieceJupiter, Florida
  161. XXXTentacion: Xxxtentacion (cropped)2018XXXTentacion was shot dead at 20, and his son was born seven months later outside his willDeerfield Beach, Florida
  162. AI illustration: A laptop and a hardware wallet on a hotel desk in Jaipur, 20182018Crypto CEO Gerald Cotten died in India holding the only keys to C$215 million, and regulators found the money was already goneJaipur, India
  163. AI illustration: The International Commerce Centre tower above Hong Kong harbour at night2018Sun Hung Kai's chairman was removed by his mother and brothers, who said he was mentally ill, and cut from the family trustHong Kong
  164. AI illustration: Thoroughbred racehorses on an Ontario training track2018Magna founder Frank Stronach sued his daughter and grandchildren over the family's racing empireOntario, Canada
  165. Édouard Empain: Edouard Empain2018Baron Empain was kidnapped in Paris in 1978, lost part of a finger, was held 63 days, and sold his stake in Empain-Schneider three years laterPontoise, France
  166. Caravaggio: Italian: Ritratto di bitto Portrait of Caravaggiotitle QS:P1476,it:"Ritratto di bitto "label QS:Lit,"Ritratto di bitto "2018A Texas-born princess was evicted from the Roman villa with Caravaggio's only mural after six auctions drew no bidsRome
  167. AI illustration: A blood sample vial beside a tied bundle of plain court files in a New Delhi courtroom, 2012, unlabelled2018A Delhi court forced a former chief minister to give blood for a paternity test; his son won, and was killed a year after the father diedNew Delhi, India
  168. Robert Indiana2018Robert Indiana was sued the day before he died alone on a Maine island, and his LOVE estate spent years in courtVinalhaven, Maine
  169. AI illustration: The coast at Tanabe, Wakayama, Japan2018Japan's "Don Juan of Kishu" left his fortune to his town; his widow was acquitted of killing him and may still inherit halfTanabe, Wakayama, Japan
  170. Stan Lee: Stan Lee 2007 (cropped)2018Stan Lee's last manager was charged with elder abuse after the Marvel creator diedLos Angeles, California, USA
  171. Paul Allen: Paul G. Allen (cropped)2018Paul Allen's will ordered his teams sold, and his sister sold the Trail Blazers for about $4 billionSeattle, Washington, USA
  172. Tom Benson: Tom Benson 20092018Tom Benson's daughter and grandchildren sued to have him declared incompetent after he gave the Saints to his third wifeOchsner Medical Center, Jefferson, Louisiana
  173. Ingvar Kamprad: Ingvar Kamprad Haparanda June 20102018Ingvar Kamprad put IKEA into a Dutch foundation in 1982 that The Economist called the world's richest charity and one of its least generousSmåland, Sweden
  174. AI illustration: The New York State Supreme Court building on Centre Street, 20182018New York shut down the Donald J. Trump Foundation in 2018 and Trump paid $2 million to eight charitiesNew York, New York
  175. Four generations of the Mellon family: Four generations of the Mellon family. From left to right: Judge Thomas Mellon, holding his great grandson Matthew Mellon; William Larimer Me2018Banking heir Matthew Mellon died with $193 million in XRP, the keys hidden under other people's names, and a deal that let his estate sell only a little each dayCancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico
  176. Sultan of Sulu with others LCCN2014685226 (cropped): Title: Sultan of Sulu with others Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.2017Malaysia stopped paying the Sulu sultan's heirs in 2013, and a Spanish arbitrator awarded them US$14.92 billionSabah, Malaysia; Madrid, Spain; Paris, France
  177. H. L. Hunt: H. L. Hunt (American oil magnate, 1965)2017An H. L. Hunt great-grandson took a nine-figure settlement and promised not to contest his father's will, then contested itDallas, Texas, USA
  178. 20260722 Former residence of Kim Jong-Nam: Former residence of Kim Jong-Nam2017North Korea's leader's half-brother was killed with VX at Kuala Lumpur airport, and Malaysia traded his body for nine of its citizens held in PyongyangKuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia; Pyongyang, North Korea
  179. Lil Peep: Lil-Peep PrettyPuke Photoshoot2017Lil Peep's mother sued his management company for wrongful death and settled with control of his musicTucson, Arizona (tour bus)
  180. Chris Cornell: ChrisCornellTIFFSept20112017Chris Cornell's widow sued Soundgarden over his last seven recordings and called their $278,000 buyout offer "villainously low"Detroit, Michigan
  181. Chester Bennington: ARGO-Konzerte,Centerstage,Chester Bennington,Konzert,Linkin Park,Livekonzert,Livemusik,Musik,RiP,Rock im Park 20142017Chester Bennington left everything to his widow and six children, and his first wife's claim took half of his Linkin Park royaltiesPalos Verdes Estates, California
  182. Johnny Hallyday: Johnny-Hallyday-12017Johnny Hallyday disinherited two of his children under California law, and a French court ruled French law appliedMarnes-la-Coquette, France
  183. Adnan Khashoggi: AdnanKhashoggi06 (cropped)2017Arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi's ex-wife won a divorce payment reported near $874 million, then the largest on recordLos Angeles and London
  184. Tombe d'Eugène Schueller, de Liliane Bettencourt et d'André Bettencourt 52017Liliane Bettencourt gave a photographer about €1 billion, and her daughter's complaint ended in his convictionNeuilly-sur-Seine, France
  185. Jerry Lewis: Jerry Lewis (Paramount photo by Bud Fraker)2017Jerry Lewis's will excluded all six sons from his first marriage and their childrenLas Vegas, Nevada
  186. Bill Paxton: Bill Paxton by Gage Skidmore2017Bill Paxton's family sued his surgeon and Cedars-Sinai after he died following heart surgeryLos Angeles, California
  187. AI illustration: A house on Old Colony Road, Toronto, in winter, 20172017Billionaire Barry Sherman and his wife were found strangled at their pool; police first called it murder-suicide, and the case is unsolvedToronto, Canada
  188. Aaron Hernandez2017Aaron Hernandez's suicide wiped out his murder conviction, and two years later the state's top court put it backSouza-Baranowski Correctional Center, Lancaster, Massachusetts
  189. Glen Campbell: Glen Campbell 19672017Glen Campbell's wills cut out three of his eight children, and they challenged his capacity after Alzheimer'sNashville, Tennessee
  190. Tom Petty: Tom Petty Live in Horsens (cropped2)2017Tom Petty's daughters sued his widow for $5 million over control of his musicSanta Monica, California
  191. Michael I of Romania: Mihai2017Romania's King Michael was forced to sign a pre-typed abdication, and his grandson was later struck from the successionAubonne, Switzerland
  192. Curt Engelhorn: Bust of Curt Engelhorn in Deutsches Museum2016Curt Engelhorn sold Boehringer Mannheim to Roche with no German tax paid, two of his daughters were arrested, and the family settled for €135 million to €145 millionAugsburg, Germany, and Gstaad, Bern, Switzerland
  193. Aubrey McClendon headshot: Headshot of Aubrey McClendon, CEO of American Energy Partners2016Chesapeake founder Aubrey McClendon was indicted for rigging oil lease bids and died in a crash the next day, and the claims moved to his estateOklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
  194. Henry Street Settlement 263-267 Henry Street: 263-267 Henry Street between Montgomery and Grand Streets in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City are part of the Henry Str2016A legal secretary bought the same stocks as her bosses for decades and left more than $8 million to scholarships, and her husband may not have knownBrooklyn, New York, USA
  195. David Bowie: Singer-songwriter David Bowie in Chicago during the Heathen Tour, 2002.2016David Bowie was cremated two days after he died with no one present, and his will asked for his ashes to go to BaliNew York City
  196. George Michael: George Michael performing on The Summit stage in Houston (Texas, USA) during the Faith World Tour in 19882016George Michael left his £97 million estate to his sisters and nothing to his partner, who would not leave the Regent's Park houseGoring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England
  197. Leonard Cohen: Leonard Cohen, 1988 012016Leonard Cohen's manager emptied his retirement fund, and after his death his children found a forged page in his trustLos Angeles, California
  198. Prince at Coachella 001: Prince performing at Coachella 2008.2016Prince died without a will, more than 45 people claimed to be his relatives, and his estate took 6 years and a tax court case to dividePaisley Park, Chanhassen, Minnesota, USA
  199. Muhammad Ali: Muhammad Ali NYWTS2016Muhammad Ali's company sued Fox for more than $30 million over a 3-minute Super Bowl LI promotional video using his image, and Fox settledScottsdale, Arizona, USA
  200. Glenn Frey: Glenn Frey circa 19752016Glenn Frey's widow sued Mount Sinai for his death and was ordered to hand over the Eagles' contractsNew York, New York
  201. Lou Pearlman: Lou-pearlman-mugshot2016Lou Pearlman built the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC on a $300 million Ponzi scheme, fled to Bali, and died in prison as investors got 6 cents on the dollarFederal Correctional Institution, Miami, Florida
  202. Zaha Hadid: Zaha Hadid in Heydar Aliyev Cultural center in Baku nov 20132016Zaha Hadid's business partner sued her three co-executors in London over a roughly £70 million estate and lost a key ruling in November 2020Miami, Florida
  203. Debbie Reynolds: Debbie Reynolds by Beerman Parry, 19542016Debbie Reynolds never raised the money for her Hollywood museum, sold her 3,500-item collection in 2011, and her estate auctioned more after she died a day after Carrie FisherLos Angeles, California
  204. AI illustration: A pharmaceutical factory in Punjab, India, 20162016The Ranbaxy brothers sold their drug company for billions, owed the buyer Rs 3,500 crore, and were arrested over their lenderNew Delhi and Singapore
  205. AI illustration: A Milan supermarket at closing time, 20162016Esselunga founder Bernardo Caprotti took back the shares he had given his children and left control to his second wife and daughterMilan
  206. Gerald Grosvenor: The 6th Duke of Westminster2016The 6th Duke of Westminster's £9 billion estate passed in trust to his 25-year-old son over three daughtersRoyal Preston Hospital, Lancashire
  207. AI illustration: A closed drugstore with empty shelves in a German town, 20122016Anton Schlecker's drugstore chain collapsed in 2012, and his son and daughter went to prison for taking 7 million euros out firstEhingen (Donau), Germany
  208. Zsa Zsa Gabor: Zsa Zsa Gabor - 19592016A former baker bought a prince's title by adult adoption, sold it on to adopted sons, and became Zsa Zsa Gabor's heirLos Angeles, California
  209. Zsa Zsa Gabor: Zsa Zsa Gabor - 19592016Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband ran her estate as conservator and moved most of her ashes to BudapestLos Angeles, California
  210. Harper Lee: Photo portrait of Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird dust jacket, 1960)2016Harper Lee's second novel was published when she was frail and her lawyer controlled her affairs; her will stayed sealed until The New York Times suedMonroeville, Alabama
  211. Juan Gabriel: Juan Gabriel in 1985 (cropped)2016Juan Gabriel left everything to one son, and a man claiming to be another son asked a court for part of his remainsSanta Monica, California
  212. AI illustration: The Grand Palace in Bangkok2016Thailand's new king changed the law to put the Crown Property Bureau's billions in his own nameBangkok, Thailand
  213. Map of Taiwan, marked on the globe2016Evergreen's founder left his whole personal fortune to his youngest son, the three older half-brothers removed him from the airline, and the courts upheld the willTaipei, Taiwan
  214. Adam Karol Czartoryski: Adam karol czartoryski2016Prince Adam Karol Czartoryski sold his family's collection to Poland for €100 million, the money went to Liechtenstein, and he sued his daughterKraków, Poland
  215. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Thani: Qatar Football Association President Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Thani during the season opening ceremony of the Qatar Stars 2016Qatar's emir took power from his cousin in 1972; in 1995 his son took it from him and froze his bank accounts abroadDoha, Qatar
  216. Map of India, marked on the globe2016Jayalalithaa left no will; a court gave her house to her niece and nephew, and the state took 21 kilos of her goldChennai, Tamil Nadu, India
  217. International Maritime Organization London: Headquarters of the International Maritime Organization in London, United Kingdom.2016A Saudi billionaire took a diplomatic post to defeat his ex-wife's claim, lost, and died nine days before he had to pay £53 millionZurich, Switzerland
  218. Map of China, marked on the globe2016Douyin creators sold AI videos of dead actor Qiao Renliang saying he had not really left, and his father asked who gave them the rightShanghai, China
  219. Jogja - Kraton Yogyakarta - Donopratono gate (2025) - img 02: Donopratono Gate, Kraton Yogyakarta2015Yogyakarta's sultan has five daughters and no son, and all 11 of his younger brothers opposed him when he raised the eldest toward the throneKraton Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
  220. Hamdard Dawakhana (Lal Kunwan, Delhi): Building Hamdard Dawakhana (Lal Kunwan, Delhi)2015Hamdard split at Partition, its Pakistani founder was shot dead in Karachi, and the Delhi heirs' fight over the waqf took Rooh Afza off Indian shelvesDelhi, India, and Karachi, Pakistan
  221. Licio Gelli: Licio Gelli in paramenti2015Police found the P2 lodge's 962 names in Licio Gelli's factory in 1981, and after he died prosecutors asked a court to confiscate his villa from a dead manVilla Wanda, Arezzo, Italy; Castiglion Fibocchi, Italy
  222. B. B. King: Bbking2015B.B. King's daughters accused his manager and his assistant of poisoning him; the coroner found no poison and the manager kept control of the estateLas Vegas, Nevada
  223. Scott Weiland: Scott Weiland onstage with a mic--2009-072015Scott Weiland's 2007 will made his ex-wife executor over his widow, and she spent years settling his tax liens and lawsuitsBloomington, Minnesota
  224. Joni Mitchell: Joni Mitchell 2021 Kennedy Center Honors (cropped)2015Joni Mitchell's friend told a court the singer was unconscious while her website said she was alert, and won control of her medical careLos Angeles, California
  225. AI illustration: The Supreme Court of Korea in Seoul2015A Korean court ordered SK Group's chairman to pay his ex-wife 1.38 trillion won, and the Supreme Court threw it outSeoul
  226. AI illustration: The Seoul Central District Court, 20132015Samsung's founder's eldest son sued his brother Lee Kun-hee for 4.1 trillion won in shares and lostSeoul
  227. AI illustration: A furniture showroom in Tokyo, 20152015A Japanese furniture founder fired his daughter, she beat him in a proxy fight, and the company was soldTokyo
  228. José María Ruiz-Mateos: Jose María Ruiz-Mateos2015Spain seized José María Ruiz-Mateos's Rumasa group by decree in 1983, and his second group collapsed in 2011El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz
  229. AI illustration: Dental floss in a kitchen bin in Beverly Hills, 20022015Kirk Kerkorian's investigator took Steve Bing's dental floss from the trash and proved Kerkorian's "daughter" was Bing's childBeverly Hills, California
  230. Lee Kuan Yew: Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore Making a Toast at a State Dinner Held in His Honor, 19752015Lee Kuan Yew's will asked that his house be demolished, and Singapore made it a national monument over his son's objectionSingapore
  231. AI illustration: The gates of a Beverly Hills estate, 20152015Kirk Kerkorian left $2 billion to charity, and his 57-day wife was paid to go awayBeverly Hills, California, USA
  232. Grabstein Mayer Amschel Rothschild: Tombstone for Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812) at the old Jewish cemetery (Battonnstraße Cemetery) in Frankfurt am Main The text is translat2015Two Rothschild banks went to law over who could use the family name alone, and settled in 2018 that neither mayGeneva, Switzerland, and Paris, France
  233. Map of New York, marked on the globe2014L'Wren Scott left her $9 million estate to Mick Jagger and wrote that she had left out her family on purposeManhattan, New York, USA
  234. Construction signs Brooks Memorial Library 224 Main Street downtown Brattleboro VT September 2026: Construction signs on sidewalk at Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street in dow2014A Vermont gas station attendant and janitor left more than $8 million in stocks, and his stepson had no ideaBrattleboro, Vermont, USA
  235. Jean-Claude Duvalier: Photo re-centrée de Jean-Claude Duvalier à partir du fichier Baby Doc.jpg2014Switzerland's top court ruled that Baby Doc's family could have his frozen millions hours before the Haiti earthquake, and parliament passed a law to stop itPort-au-Prince, Haiti; Switzerland
  236. Ferry Sewol 1: ferry Sewol at the Port of Incheon2014After the Sewol sank with 304 dead, the man prosecutors called its real owner fled, was found dead in a plum field, and the state went after his family's assetsoff Jindo, South Korea, and Suncheon, South Korea
  237. Robin Williams 2011a (2): Happy Feet Two Australian premiere with Robin Williams and George Miller at Entertainment Quarter in Sydney, Australia2014Robin Williams's widow and three children fought in a San Francisco court over his belongings, and the children got more than 85 watchesParadise Cay, Tiburon, California, USA
  238. Joan Rivers: Joan Rivers 1966 Press photo2014Joan Rivers's executors sued the Manhattan clinic where she stopped breathing during a throat procedure and settled in 2016 for an undisclosed sumMount Sinai Hospital, Manhattan, New York, USA
  239. Philip Seymour Hoffman: Philip Seymour Hoffman at the Paris premiere of "The Ides of March"2014Philip Seymour Hoffman left an estimated $35 million to Mimi O'Donnell, whom he never married, and refused a trust for his three childrenNew York City
  240. Casey Kasem2014Casey Kasem's wife and children fought over his care until he died, then she took his body to NorwaySt. Anthony's Hospital, Gig Harbor, Washington
  241. AI illustration: A superyacht moored in Dubai, 20162014A London judge awarded a Russian oligarch's ex-wife £453 million, then found their son had helped hide itLondon, Dubai, Liechtenstein
  242. Vladimir Putin: Vladimir Putin (2026 02 23) (cropped)2014"Putin's banker" put $100 million into New Zealand trusts for his family, and a London judge ruled the trusts were shamsLondon, New Zealand, France
  243. Vladimir Potanin: 2021 Vladimir Potanin2014Vladimir Potanin's ex-wife sought billions in Moscow, then moved to London to try again, and the UK Supreme Court stopped her 3 to 2Moscow and London
  244. AI illustration: A Mayfair office building at night, London, 20142014Hedge fund manager Chris Hohn was ordered to pay his ex-wife about $530 million, and the judge called him a financial geniusLondon
  245. Blenheim Palace, where the story took place2014The 11th Duke of Marlborough went to court in 1994 so his drug-addicted heir would never control Blenheim PalaceWoodstock, Oxfordshire
  246. AI illustration: The courtyard of the Palacio de las Dueñas, Seville2014The Duchess of Alba gave her estate to her six children before marrying a civil servant 24 years youngerPalacio de las Dueñas, Seville
  247. AI illustration: The Supreme Court of Spain in Madrid2014Spain's Supreme Court admitted a paternity suit against Juan Carlos I, then threw it out 7 votes to 3Madrid
  248. Mickey Rooney: Mickey Rooney still2014Mickey Rooney worked 90 years and left an $18,000 estate to one stepsonLos Angeles, California
  249. Ken Takakura: 国際情報社『映画情報』第31巻1月号(1966)より高倉健2014Ken Takakura's adopted daughter cremated him before his family knew he had died, and inherited his estate and film rightsKeio University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
  250. AI illustration: Framed and unframed artworks stacked in a Munich flat, 20122014A recluse found with 1,406 artworks in his Munich flat left them all to a Swiss museum, and his cousin said he was not of sound mindMunich
  251. Gabriel García Márquez: Gabriel Garcia Marquez2014Gabriel García Márquez said his last novel must be destroyed; his sons published it on his 97th birthdayMexico City
  252. AI illustration: An empty basketball arena in Los Angeles, 20142014Doctors declared Donald Sterling incapacitated, and his wife sold the Clippers out from under him for $2 billionLos Angeles, California
  253. Felipe VI: Daiga Mieriņa tiekas ar Spānijas karali - 53814974005 (cropped)-22014Spain's King Felipe renounced his father's inheritance after a $100 million Saudi payment came to light, and Juan Carlos left for Abu DhabiMadrid, Spain; Abu Dhabi, UAE
  254. Map of United Kingdom, marked on the globe2014A Qatari collector died in 2014 owing auction houses millions; his heirs split over his blue diamond, and a cousin's company sued to buy itLondon, England
  255. Ottavio Missoni (foto di Giuseppe Pino, 1990) (cropped): Lo stilista Ottavio Missoni ritratto nel suo studio di Sumirago, presso la sede della Missoni S.p.A.2013Missoni's chief executive vanished in a plane off Venezuela, his father died before the wreck was found, and the family gave up the companyLos Roques, Venezuela; Sumirago, Italy
  256. Map of China, marked on the globe2013China's courts jail grave robbers who sell women's corpses as "ghost brides" for sons who died unmarriedShaanxi, China; also Shandong, Hebei and Gansu
  257. Map of Missouri, marked on the globe2013Two brothers bought life insurance to keep their company in the family, and the Supreme Court counted the payout in the dead brother's estateSt. Louis, Missouri, USA
  258. Tom Clancy: Tom Clancy at Burns Library cropped2013Tom Clancy signed a codicil 68 days before he died, and the top court of Maryland ruled 4 to 3 that it freed his widow's family trust from estate taxJohns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  259. James Gandolfini: James Gandolfini @ Toronto International Film Festival 20112013James Gandolfini's will left 80 percent of an estimated $70 million estate to his sisters and infant daughter, and a tax lawyer said about $30 million would go to taxesRome, Italy
  260. AI illustration: A row of London townhouses held by companies, 20132013An oil trader hid London houses inside his companies, and the UK Supreme Court ordered them handed to his ex-wifeLondon
  261. AI illustration: A baronet's family tree and a DNA test kit on a library table, 20132013A DNA test showed a baronet's grandfather was not his father's son, and the Privy Council gave the title to a cousinUnited Kingdom
  262. Paul Walker: PaulWalkerEdit-12013Paul Walker left $25 million to his 15-year-old daughter, who then sued PorscheSanta Clarita, California
  263. Amanda Bynes: Amanda Bynes on the Red Carpet (cropped2)2013Amanda Bynes lived under her mother's conservatorship for nine yearsVentura County, California
  264. Jerry Buss: Jerry Buss playing the WSOP2013Jerry Buss's sons tried to vote their sister off the Lakers board; she went to court and removed one of them as trusteeLos Angeles, California
  265. AI illustration: The Royal Palace of Brussels2013A Belgian court ordered King Albert II to take a DNA test, and his secret daughter became a princess with inheritance rightsBrussels, Belgium
  266. Jan Crouch: Jan Crouch TBN2013A granddaughter accused TV evangelists Paul and Jan Crouch in 2012 of spending their network's donations on themselvesOrange County, California
  267. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef: Rabbi Ovaid Yosef2013Rabbi Ovadia Yosef left nearly everything to his youngest son; his other children fought over the Jerusalem flat until 2016Jerusalem
  268. Nelson Mandela: From Wash D.C. Longworth building October 4, 1994. Mandela's first trip to the United States.2013Nelson Mandela's grandson moved three of Mandela's children's graves to his own village, and 16 relatives won a court order to return them to Qunu in 2013Qunu and Mvezo, Eastern Cape, South Africa
  269. Map of United Kingdom, marked on the globe2013Boris Berezovsky lost his case against Abramovich, died seven months later, and a judge called his estate hopelessly insolventAscot, Berkshire, UK
  270. Gulou Hospital 21 2012-11: ​鼓楼医院三期建筑，即其南扩工程，此为北侧庭院。2013A Chinese couple died in a car crash five days before their embryos were to be implanted, and four years later a surrogate from Laos gave birth to their sonYixing and Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
  271. Nelson Mandela: Nelson Mandela 19942013Mandela's eldest daughter put his ID card, shirts and a Robben Island key up for auction in New York, and the state fought the sale to the Constitutional CourtPretoria and Qunu, South Africa
  272. René Lacoste 1927 Militaire a: Lacoste [en tenue militaire] : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]2012Lacoste's chairman sued to annul his daughter's appointment, then both sides of the family sold to the Swiss partnerParis, France
  273. Wegelin Hauptgebäude St Gallen Front: Bankhaus Wegelin & Co. in St. Gallen, Schweiz2012Switzerland's oldest bank took the American clients UBS dropped, pleaded guilty in New York, and closed after 272 yearsSt. Gallen, Switzerland; New York, USA
  274. Surrogate's Office, Richmond, Staten Island, N.Y (NYPL b15279351-104593): * Postcard categories and title comments in brackets [ ] provided by collector, Catherine Robinson.2012Roman Blum left about $40 million and no will in 2012, a Surrogate's Court threw out a will naming a disbarred lawyer, and a Moscow man says he is the great-grandsonStaten Island, New York, USA
  275. Etta James: Etta James042012Etta James's husband and her son fought in court over her $1 million while she was dying of leukemiaRiverside Community Hospital, Riverside, California
  276. Davy Jones: Photo of The Monkees.2012Davy Jones's 2004 will left out the wife he married in 2009; she petitioned for half as a pretermitted spouse and the family sealed the fileStuart, Florida
  277. Donna Summer: Donna Summer in 19822012Donna Summer's estate refused Kanye West permission to use "I Feel Love," sued when he used it anyway, and made him agree never to distribute the songNaples, Florida
  278. Robin Gibb: Robin Gibb (Bee Gees) - TopPop 1973 1 (cropped)2012Robin Gibb left a £93 million fortune to his wife and three children; his daughter with the housekeeper got a closing line in the willLondon, England
  279. Gore Vidal: GoreVidalVanVechten1 (cropped)2012Gore Vidal changed his trust in 2011 to leave everything to Harvard, and his half-sister and nephew suedHollywood Hills, Los Angeles
  280. AI illustration: A white clapboard farmhouse among trees in Ridgefield, Connecticut, 20122012Maurice Sendak's foundation and the Rosenbach Museum fought for two years in a Connecticut probate court over his rare-book collectionDanbury, Connecticut
  281. Celeste Holm: Studio publicity Celeste Holm2012Celeste Holm's sons sued her fifth husband over a 2002 trust, the fight ran about six years, and she died in 2012 with a $13 million estate and a settlement forcing him out of her apartmentNew York City
  282. Whitney Houston: Whitney Houston (cropped3)2012Whitney Houston left everything to her daughter; three years later the daughter died and the money went to Whitney's mother and brothersBeverly Hilton, Beverly Hills; hospice, Georgia
  283. Harold Hamm: Harold Hamm 2012 Shankbone2012Harold Hamm's ex-wife refused his $974.8 million check, then cashed it and lost her appeal for moreOklahoma City
  284. AI illustration: A white stucco townhouse on Cadogan Place, Belgravia, London, 20122012A Tetra Pak heir kept his wife's body in their London house for two monthsCadogan Place, Belgravia, London
  285. AI illustration: Shoppers outside a grocery shop on an Essen street, early 1970s2012Aldi's Theo Albrecht was ransomed for 7 million marks, and his son's widow fought the family foundation for a decadeEssen, Germany
  286. Sherman Hemsley: Sherman Hemsley The Jeffersons 19782012Sherman Hemsley's body stayed in a funeral home refrigerator for months while a half-brother contested his willEl Paso, Texas
  287. Rajesh Khanna: Rajesh Khanna at Prithvi Soni's exhibition2012Rajesh Khanna's live-in partner sued his widow and daughters for 14 years, and his bungalow was sold for Rs 90 crore and torn downAashirwad, Carter Road, Bandra, Mumbai, India
  288. Thomas Kinkade: ThomasKinkade2012Thomas Kinkade's girlfriend produced handwritten notes leaving her his mansion and $10 million, and his estranged wife said he was drunk when he wrote themMonte Sereno, California
  289. Jenni Rivera: Jenni Rivera performing in 2009 2 (cropped)2012Jenni Rivera's children sued their grandfather's label for exploiting her music, and the family split in courtnear Iturbide, Nuevo León, Mexico
  290. Map of Tonga, marked on the globe2012Tonga's constitution lets only children born in marriage inherit the throne or a noble estate, so King George Tupou V's daughter could not succeed himHong Kong (Kingdom of Tonga)
  291. Map of Illinois, marked on the globe2012A Chicago man died of cyanide the day after his $1 million lottery check was issued, and his widow and siblings fought over the estateChicago, Illinois, USA
  292. Karlsruhe BGH 2: Karlsruhe, Bundesgerichtshof, Westgebäude und Nordgebäude von Süden gesehen (von der Kriegsstraße)2012A 15-year-old died under a subway train, and her parents fought Facebook for eight years to read her messagesBerlin and Karlsruhe, Germany
  293. Yuli Ofer: A423 16.10.2001 - יולי עופר נואם בטקס חנוכת תחנת חוצות המפרץ2011Yuli Ofer's last will gave most of his empire to his daughter; his son said he was no longer clear of mind, and the daughter wonHerzliya, Israel
  294. Map of Zimbabwe, marked on the globe2011Mike Campbell won his farm case against Zimbabwe in 2008; he was beaten, his house burned, the tribunal was shut down, and South African courts let the farmers sell Zimbabwe's Cape Town property for costsMount Carmel farm, Chegutu, Zimbabwe
  295. Huguette Clark: Huguette Clark (crop)2011Huguette Clark's second will cut out her relatives and left her nurse about $30 million, and the relatives settled for $34.5 millionManhattan, New York City, New York, USA
  296. Gil Scott-Heron: Gil Scott-Heron2011Gil Scott-Heron died with no will; his daughter said a DNA test showed his son was not his, and a Manhattan court ruled the son was an heirNew York City
  297. Lucian Freud: LucienFreud2011Lucian Freud left a 96 million pound estate to his solicitor and one daughter, and a High Court judge refused to open the will to a son who was one of at least 14 childrenLondon
  298. Elizabeth Taylor: Taylor, Elizabeth posed2011Elizabeth Taylor's jewelry sold for $137,235,575 at Christie's in December 2011, the most ever paid for a jewelry collection, with the proceeds going to her foundationLos Angeles, California
  299. Steve Jobs: Steve Jobs Headshot 2010 (cropped 4)2011Steve Jobs swore he was sterile to avoid paying for his daughter, lost on a blood test, and later left her millionsPalo Alto, California
  300. AI illustration: The Constitutional Court of Indonesia in Jakarta2011A singer's son by a Suharto minister changed Indonesian law: children born outside marriage can now claim their fathersGleneagles Hospital, Singapore
  301. Jimmy Savile: Jimmy Savile 20062011Jimmy Savile left £4.3 million to friends and his charity; abuse claims froze the estate and the courts approved paying it to his victimsLeeds, England
  302. Peter Falk: Peter Falk NBC 1967 You Don't Say! (cropped)2011Peter Falk's daughter lost a conservatorship fight to his widow and then pushed for a lawBeverly Hills, California
  303. Amy Winehouse: Amy Winehouse f4962007 crop2011Amy Winehouse's father sued her friends over $1.2 million from her dresses and lostCamden, London
  304. Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, Bestanddeelnr 901-1810: Collectie / Archief : Fotocollectie Anefo Reportage / Serie : [ onbekend ] Beschrijving : Sir Ernest Oppenheimer Datum : 3 december 2011The Oppenheimers sold their 40 percent of De Beers for $5.1 billion in 2011, and in 2026 Anglo American offered its 85 percent for about $1 billionJohannesburg, South Africa, and Gaborone, Botswana
  305. Map of United Kingdom, marked on the globe2011A dying woman told her mother "I want you to carry my babies," and the Court of Appeal overruled the regulator that refused to release her frozen eggsLondon, England, UK
  306. Alexander McQueen: Alexander McQueen by FashionWirePress (cropped 2)2010Alexander McQueen died the day before his mother's funeral and left £50,000 to his dogs and most of £16 million to a charity for artistsMayfair, London, UK
  307. Hunminjeongeum Haerye 03: Hunminjeongeum Haerye reprint2010A man says he found the only other copy of the Korean alphabet's founding book while cleaning his house, and the state that owns it cannot find itSangju, North Gyeongsang, South Korea
  308. Crosby Garrett Helmet (BM): Crosby Garrett Helmet on display in the British Museum2010A metal detectorist found a Roman cavalry helmet in a Cumbrian field, a private buyer paid £2.3 million after the local museum dropped out at £1.7 million, and Parliament changed the lawCrosby Garrett, Cumbria, England
  309. Lake Forest College autumn: Photo of Lake Forest College. By Henry Salas.2010A secretary bought three Abbott shares for $180 in 1935, never sold them, and left $7 million to Lake Forest CollegeLake Forest, Illinois, USA
  310. Wolfgang Wagner: Conférence de Wolfgang Wagner dans la fosse du Festspielhaus lors du festival 20042010Wagner's grandson held a lifetime contract at Bayreuth, refused to leave when the board named his daughter's rival, and handed the festival to his daughters at 89Bayreuth, Germany
  311. AI illustration: A Paris saddler's shop front on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 20102010LVMH secretly built a 17 percent stake in Hermès, and 52 family members locked half their shares together to stop itParis
  312. Elaine Wynn: CIS National Board Chair Elaine Wynn (cropped)2010Elaine Wynn's divorce left her shares voting with her ex-husband's, and she sued Wynn Resorts to break the pactLas Vegas
  313. AI illustration: A signed prenuptial agreement on a table in the UK Supreme Court, 20102010A German paper heiress's prenup held in London, and her French ex-husband's £5.85 million award was cut to £1 millionLondon
  314. AI illustration: Polo ponies on the field at Wellington, Florida2010A polo club founder adopted his 42-year-old girlfriend after a fatal drunk-driving crash, giving her a share of his children's trustWellington, Florida
  315. Gary Coleman: GaryColemanE3May052010A Utah judge ruled Gary Coleman's ex-wife was not his common-law wife; his ashes were locked in a vaultProvo, Utah
  316. Tony Curtis: Tony Curtis 19582010Tony Curtis left everything to his wife and named his five living children to exclude themHenderson, Nevada
  317. Dennis Hopper: Dennis Hopper Cannes 2008 (cropped)2010Dennis Hopper filed for divorce while dying of cancer and fought his wife over money until his deathVenice, Los Angeles, California
  318. J. D. Salinger: J. D. Salinger (Catcher in the Rye portrait)2010J.D. Salinger blocked an unauthorised Catcher in the Rye sequel, and his estate settled to keep it out of North America until the copyright endsCornish, New Hampshire
  319. Dhayah Fort, Ras Al Khaimah: A conical shaped hill at the edge of the palm gardens and at the foot of the mountains, served as a natural defense post for the oasis. People have use2010Ras al-Khaimah's ruler removed his eldest son as heir after four decades; when the ruler died in 2010 the son came home to claim the throne and his guards were arrestedRas al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates
  320. Omar Bongo - 1973: Visit of Omar Bongo, President of Gabon, to the CEC on 17 May 1973.2009Omar Bongo left about 300 billion CFA francs and 54 children; one daughter took his heir's birth certificate to a French court, and France charged at least nine of the childrenLibreville, Gabon, and Paris and Nantes, France
  321. Sergei Magnitsky (grave): Могила юриста Сергея Магнитского на Преображенском кладбище в Москве2009Russia put a dead lawyer on trial and convicted him in 2013, and the European court ordered Russia to pay his widow and motherMoscow, Russia
  322. Chain (Staffordshire Hoard): A chain from the Staffordshire Hoard.2009The Staffordshire Hoard paid a jobless detectorist and a farmer £3.285 million between them, and the farmer banned him from his landnear Brownhills, Staffordshire, England
  323. Edith Windsor: Edie Windsor DC Pride 20172009Edith Windsor paid $363,053 in estate tax because the United States did not recognise her marriage to Thea Spyer, and the Supreme Court struck the law downNew York City, New York, USA
  324. Maurice Jarre star (Hollywood Walk of Fame stars): Maurice Jarre star (Hollywood Walk of Fame stars).2009Maurice Jarre left his estate to his widow through a California trust, and France's highest court said his children's reserved share did not follow him abroadLos Angeles, California, USA; property in Paris, France
  325. Michael Jackson: Michael Jackson 1983 (3x4 cropped) (contrast)2009Michael Jackson's estate put its value at $5.1 million, the Tax Court set $111.5 million, and a judge later ordered $625,000 in bonuses returnedLos Angeles, California, USA
  326. Michael Jackson: Michael Jackson 1983 (3x4 cropped) (contrast)2009Michael Jackson's companies face abuse suits from Wade Robson and James Safechuck, revived on appeal in 2023 and set for trial in 2028Los Angeles, California, USA
  327. Brittany Murphy: Brittany Murphy2009Brittany Murphy's father sued the coroner for her hair samples, then said a lab found heavy metals; her mother called it a smearHollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
  328. Allen Klein: Allen Klein 1950 yearbook photo2009Allen Klein managed three Beatles, sued them for $19 million after they fired him, and took $5 million to settleNew York, New York
  329. David Carradine: David Carradine at the premiere of Polanski Unauthorized2009David Carradine was found dead in a Bangkok closet in 2009; Thai police said suicide, the family's pathologist said accident, and his widow sued the film companySwissotel Nai Lert Park, Bangkok
  330. AI illustration: A Seoul boardroom with an empty chairman's chair, 20092009A Doosan heir exposed his brothers' slush fund to win the chairmanship, was cast out of the family, and died by suicideSeoul, South Korea
  331. AI illustration: The courthouse in George Town, Grand Cayman2009A Saudi trading family accused its son-in-law of a $9 billion fraud, and a Cayman judge found the family had authorized himAl Khobar, Saudi Arabia; Cayman Islands
  332. Steve Cohen (businessman): Steve baseball 4 (1) (cropped)2009Steve Cohen's first wife sued him 19 years after their divorce, alleging he hid $5.5 million, and an appeals court revived the caseNew York
  333. Bernie Ecclestone: Bernie Ecclestone, São Paulo 2022 (52498924277) (cropped)2009Bernie Ecclestone put his Formula One shares in his wife's Liechtenstein trust, and the divorce and tax cases followed the trustLondon, Liechtenstein
  334. AI illustration: An airliner and a stack of tyres split by a line down the middle, Seoul, 20092009Kumho's board fired one founding brother, the group split in two, and the brothers sued each other for yearsSeoul
  335. Indira Gandhi: Indira Gandhi, Former Prime Minister of the Republic of India2009Indira Gandhi's government jailed Jaipur's Rajmata and searched Jaigarh Fort for treasure for five months, and found noneJaipur, Rajasthan, India
  336. Constance Markievicz: Countess Constance Markiewicz-1.1.2 (cropped)2009Two barristers bought Countess Markievicz's childhood home and spent seven years in court with Sligo County Council over its avenuesLissadell, County Sligo, Ireland
  337. Franz Ulrich Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau2009Franz Ulrich Kinsky sued the Czech state more than 100 times for land taken in 1945, and Strasbourg ruled his trials unfairBuenos Aires
  338. Farrah Fawcett: Farrah Fawcett 19772009Ryan O'Neal took a Warhol portrait from Farrah Fawcett's home; her university sued and lostSanta Monica, California
  339. Vivian Maier: www.mediodescocido.com.ar2009Vivian Maier was a nanny who died unknown; after her photographs sold, Cook County took over her estate to find out who owned themChicago
  340. Fairuz: Fairuz 19712009Fairuz's nephews blocked her from staging her late husband's musical without their approval, and a Beirut court stopped her performing his brother's workBeirut, Lebanon
  341. Frostproof-welcome: Frostproof Florida welcome sign2009A woman took over a $30 million lottery winner's money, and police found him buried under a concrete slabPlant City, Florida, USA
  342. Yves Saint Laurent: Graphite and Egg Tempera on Canvas2008Yves Saint Laurent signed a civil union days before he died, and his collection sale included two bronze heads looted from Beijing in 1860Paris, France
  343. Yves Saint Laurent: Graphite and Egg Tempera on Canvas2008British and French troops looted the Summer Palace in 1860; Yves Saint Laurent's estate auctioned two of its bronze heads, and the winning bidder refused to payBeijing, China; Paris, France
  344. Map of California, marked on the globe2008A son used his dying mother's power of attorney to move $10 million into a partnership and a charity trust a week before she died, and the Tax Court undid itCalifornia, USA
  345. UBS Headquarters, Zurich (Ank Kumar, Infosys Limited) 03: UBS Headquarters, Zurich (Ank Kumar, Infosys Limited)2008A UBS banker told the US how the bank hid Americans' money, went to prison for 31 months, and the IRS paid him $104 millionGeneva, Switzerland; Washington, D.C., USA
  346. 1910-1920 Gumurdjina Komotini Thrace: Historical photo (post-card + greek text) of Komotini2008A Greek Muslim left everything to his wife by notarial will, his sisters invoked sharia, and Greek courts cut her to a quarterKomotini, Western Thrace, Greece
  347. Isaac Hayes: Issac Hayes 19982008Isaac Hayes lost his song royalties to a bank in bankruptcy; his heirs took one song back and sued Donald Trump over itMemphis, Tennessee
  348. Robert Rauschenberg: Robert Rauschenberg 19992008Robert Rauschenberg's art trust grew from $605.6 million to $2.2 billion, and a Florida judge gave his three trustees $24.6 million in feesCaptiva Island, Florida, USA
  349. Michael Crichton: MichaelCrichton 22008Michael Crichton's son was born after his death and left out of his will; in 2024 his estate sued Warner Bros., calling The Pitt an ER rebootLos Angeles, California, USA
  350. Britney Spears: Britney Spears live in Toronto in August 14, 2011.2008Britney Spears's father ran her money for 13 years on $16,000 a month, a judge removed him, and she paid to end the fightLos Angeles, California
  351. Bo Diddley: Bo Diddley (1957 publicity portrait)2008Bo Diddley's will gave his managers 30 percent of his songs forever, a judge let them sell the catalog to pay the IRS, and 22 heirs objectedArcher, Florida
  352. Miriam Makeba: Miriam makeba 012008Miriam Makeba's grandchildren fought her own trustees for her music, and the state paid their lawyers until the Public Protector ruled it unlawfulCastel Volturno, Italy
  353. Heath Ledger: Heath Ledger (2)2008Heath Ledger's will was written before his daughter was born and left her nothing421 Broome Street, Manhattan
  354. AI illustration: The lakefront and the Jet d'Eau in Geneva, 20082008A Geneva court ordered a Russian fertilizer billionaire to pay his ex-wife 4 billion francs, then an appeal court cut it by 86 percentGeneva, Cyprus, Monaco
  355. AI illustration: A New York divorce courtroom, empty, late 1990s2008Jocelyn Wildenstein's divorce was reported at $2.5 billion, and the judge barred her from spending alimony on surgeryNew York and Paris
  356. AI illustration: A petrochemical complex on the Taiwan coast2008Formosa Plastics' founder died without a will, and his son sued to unwind $15 billion placed in Bermuda trustsTaipei and Bermuda
  357. Robert Mondavi: Robert Mondavi (1971) (cropped)2008Robert Mondavi was pushed out of his family's winery after a fight with his brother, sued, and wonNapa Valley, California
  358. AI illustration: The palace of the Dukes of Medina Sidonia at Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain2008The Red Duchess of Medina Sidonia married her secretary on the day she died, and her children sued over the palace foundationSanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz, Spain
  359. AI illustration: A small churchyard at Laugardælir, Iceland, in winter light, 20102008Iceland exhumed Bobby Fischer to test a girl's paternity claim, and the DNA said noReykjavík, Iceland
  360. Suharto: President Suharto, 19932008Indonesia's Supreme Court ordered General Suharto's Supersemar foundation to pay about 4.4 trillion rupiahJakarta
  361. George Carlin: George Carlin 1975 (Little David Records) Publicity (cropped)2008George Carlin's estate sued a podcast over an AI-made comedy special and won its removalLos Angeles, California, USA
  362. Paul Newman: Paul Newman - 19582008Paul Newman left his food company to a foundation run by his adviser, his daughter said the family was pushed out, and Congress changed the law for itWestport, Connecticut
  363. AI illustration: A small private bank building with an unmarked facade in Vaduz below Liechtenstein's castle2008Deutsche Post's chief hid money in a Liechtenstein foundation, a bank clerk sold the data, and he was convicted in 2009Bochum, Germany
  364. Badri Patarkatsishvili: Badri Patarkatsishvili IMEDI2008Badri Patarkatsishvili died in Surrey worth over $1 billion, a relative produced a copy of a will naming himself executor, and the widow called it a forgery in courts in five jurisdictionsDownside Manor, Leatherhead, Surrey, UK; Tbilisi, Georgia
  365. Map of South Korea, marked on the globe2008Choi Jin-sil's ex-husband regained rights over her children the day she died, and a fan stole her ashes from her graveSeoul; grave at Yangpyeong, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea
  366. Claus von Bülow: Claus von Bülow on After Dark on 13 September 19972008Claus von Bülow was acquitted of trying to kill his wife, then gave up her fortune to settle her children's $56 million suitNewport, Rhode Island, and New York, New York, USA
  367. Huntington Hartford: Huntington Hartford2008Huntington Hartford had $90 million at 12, lost about $30 million on Paradise Island, and was found in a Brooklyn rental at 90Lyford Cay, Bahamas
  368. Isabella Blow: 2005 Stuckist Turner demo (1) Ausschnitt Isabella Blow2007Isabella Blow's father left her £5,000, and after her death her estate put her McQueen wardrobe up for auctionGloucestershire, UK
  369. Luciano Pavarotti: Luciano Pavarotti 20042007Pavarotti left three wills, and his daughters challenged the share of his second wife until a 2008 settlementModena, Italy
  370. Ike Turner: Ike Turner 19712007Ike Turner wrote two handwritten wills and revoked one; a judge found he died with no valid willSan Marcos, California
  371. Anna Nicole Smith: Anna Nicole Smith2007Anna Nicole Smith's body went to her 5-month-old daughter's guardian after a Florida judge wept through the ruling, and DNA named the girl's fatherSeminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Hollywood, Florida, USA
  372. Leona Helmsley: Leona Helmsley cropped mug2007Leona Helmsley left $12 million in trust for her dog Trouble and nothing to 2 grandchildren, and a judge cut the dog's trust to $2 millionDunnellen Hall, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
  373. HK Nina Tower 200803: Nina Tower，Hong Kong2007Nina Wang won her kidnapped husband's estate in Hong Kong's top court in 2005, then her feng shui adviser was jailed for forging her willHong Kong, China
  374. Evel Knievel: Evel Knievel c1974cr2007Evel Knievel's family company sued Disney over Toy Story 4's Duke Caboom, and two federal courts held the toy daredevil transformed his likenessClearwater, Florida, USA
  375. Brooke Astor: Brooke Astor (1980)2007Brooke Astor's son was convicted of looting her estate while she had Alzheimer'sHolly Hill, Briarcliff Manor, New York
  376. Vincent Gallo: Vincent Gallo-1-22007The Gallo brothers raised their younger brother after their parents' murder-suicide, then sued him for using the family nameModesto, California
  377. AI illustration: A long boardroom table with ballot papers, New York, 20072007Dow Jones's family owners split over Murdoch's $5 billion offer, and adviser fees helped decide the voteNew York and Boston
  378. Drumlanrig Castle, where the story took place2007Two men took a Leonardo off the wall at Drumlanrig Castle, and the lawyers who arranged its return were tried for extortionDrumlanrig Castle, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
  379. Rudolf August Oetker: Rudolf August Oetker (cropped)2007Rudolf-August Oetker's eight children from three marriages split the Dr. Oetker group in two in 2021Hamburg
  380. AI illustration: Ashdown Forest, East Sussex, the wood behind the Winnie-the-Pooh stories2007The Winnie-the-Pooh rights holder sued Disney for 13 years, and lost because its investigator took Disney's trashLos Angeles; Hartfield, England
  381. Saddam Hussein: Saddam Hussein in 19982006Saddam Hussein was buried in his own mausoleum, the mausoleum was destroyed, and no one will say where his body isBaghdad; al-Awja, near Tikrit, Salahuddin, Iraq
  382. AI illustration: A stone farmhouse in the Val di Chiana, Tuscany, with a writing desk at an open window, 20062006Muriel Spark left her entire estate to her companion Penelope Jardine and took steps to leave her only son nothingOliveto, Tuscany, Italy
  383. James Brown: James Brown 1996 (HQ)2006James Brown left his fortune to educate poor children, and 15 years of lawsuits came before the estate sold for about $90 millionAtlanta, Georgia
  384. AI illustration: An empty, broken-open mausoleum by the Wörthersee in Carinthia, 20082006Thieves stole the coffin of Friedrich Karl Flick, heir to a Nazi-era fortune, from his Austrian mausoleumAuen, Wörthersee, Carinthia, Austria
  385. Augusto Pinochet: Augusto Pinochet foto oficial(b)2006Chile's Supreme Court forfeited Pinochet's assets in 2018 after the US Senate exposed his Riggs Bank accountsSantiago, Chile
  386. Alfredo Stroessner: Alfredo Stroessner at desk (1cropped)2006Stroessner's family wealth was never prosecuted, and human bones were found in his former house in 2019Brasília, Brazil
  387. Joel Teitelbaum: JTeitelbaum2006The Satmar Rebbe's will named his younger son successor; New York's highest court refused to decide which son controls the congregationWilliamsburg, Brooklyn, and Kiryas Joel, New York
  388. Map of Maryland, marked on the globe2005Robert Kearns showed Ford his intermittent wiper, sued for decades, won about $30 million and lost his marriageBaltimore, Maryland, USA
  389. Pissarro - rue-saint-honore-afternoon-rain-effect-1897: Work by Camille Pissarro2005Lilly Cassirer gave up her Pissarro to the Nazis for an exit visa in 1939, and her heirs' suit against Spain's Thyssen museum went to decision in October 2026Berlin, Germany; Madrid, Spain; Los Angeles, California, USA
  390. Rosa Parks: Rosa Parks, November 1956 (cropped)2005Rosa Parks left almost all her estate to her institute, her 13 nieces and nephews contested the will, and a 2007 settlement gave them 20 percentDetroit, Michigan, USA
  391. Zdzisław Beksiński: Zdzisław Beksiński i Piotr Dmochowski (28.06.2003) (cropped)2005Zdzisław Beksiński was stabbed to death in his Warsaw flat in February 2005 by the 19-year-old son of his aide, after refusing a loanWarsaw, Poland
  392. Arthur Miller: Arthur Miller 19662005Arthur Miller kept his son Daniel with Down syndrome out of public view and left him an equal share of the estate six weeks before he diedRoxbury, Connecticut
  393. Hunter S. Thompson: Hunter S. Thompson, Las Vegas 19712005Hunter S. Thompson's ashes were launched from a 15-story tower at his ranch in August 2005, and a lawsuit later put the cost at $3 million paid by Johnny DeppWoody Creek, Colorado
  394. Johnny Carson: Johnny Carson Tonight Show 19652005Johnny Carson's trust gave his foundation $156 million after his death, and no public accounting of his estate has appearedLos Angeles, California
  395. AI illustration: Cologne Cathedral above the old town and the Rhine2005Sal. Oppenheim survived the Nazis under another name, then lost its independence over loans to the Karstadt heiressCologne
  396. Yi Gu: Yi Gu ( 1931~2005) as a young boy in Japan.2005The last Korean imperial heir divorced his American wife after relatives pressed for a son, died in the Tokyo building where he was born, and was given an adopted son after his deathAkasaka Prince Hotel, Tokyo, Japan; Seoul and Namyangju, South Korea
  397. Rafiq Hariri: Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld (left) escorts Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri into the Pentagon on April 25, 2001. Rumsfeld and Hariri will meet to disc2005Rafik Hariri was killed in 2005; his family chose the second son as political heir, the other brothers sold him their shares of Saudi Oger, and the company closed in 2017Beirut, Lebanon
  398. Rong Yiren: Rong Yiren 19492005The Rong family's mills passed to the state in the 1950s, and the son who stayed became China's vice president and his son a billionaireShanghai, China, and Hong Kong
  399. Ryszard Kukliński - Cmentarz Wojskowy na Powązkach (8): Warszawa, Powązki Wojskowe2004Polish colonel Ryszard Kukliński passed 40,000 pages to the CIA, was sentenced to death in absentia, and lost both sons within months in 1994Tampa, Florida, USA; Warsaw, Poland
  400. Nawaz Sharif: Official Photograph of Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan taken by his personal photographer Z A Balti, released for public domain.2004A Qatari prince's letter said Nawaz Sharif's father had willed his Gulf profits to a grandson, and courts fought for six years over four Park Lane flatsPark Lane, London, England; Islamabad, Pakistan; British Virgin Islands
  401. St Nicholas' church, Great Munden - geograph.org.uk - 3771574: St Nicholas' church, Great Munden2004Melita Jackson left £486,000 to animal charities and nothing to the daughter who left home at 17, and the courts argued over the daughter's share for ten yearsGreat Munden, Hertfordshire, England, UK (the daughter's home)
  402. Copacabana Palace en 1923: Copacabana Palace en 19232004The heir to the Santos docks fortune spent it all and died on a state pension in the Rio hotel his family built and soldCopacabana Palace, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  403. Ol' Dirty Bastard: Ol' Dirty Bastard, an American rapper, performing on MTV. He is wearing a blue jacket, and against a black background2004Ol' Dirty Bastard died without a will; his widow sued the Wu-Tang Clan for royalties while his children said they had received nothingNew York City
  404. Dimebag Darrell: Dimebag at Monsters of Rock 19942004Dimebag Darrell was shot dead on stage with no will; his girlfriend of two decades was left out, later took over his estate's trust, and lost most of its suit against Dean Guitars in 2026Columbus, Ohio
  405. Rick James: Rick James in Lifestyles of the Rich 19842004Rick James's trust was sued for $50 million by a woman who says he raped her at 15 in a Buffalo group homeLos Angeles, California
  406. AI illustration: The Linnaeusstraat in Amsterdam on a grey November morning, 2004, a bicycle lying on its side in the empty street2004Theo van Gogh was killed on an Amsterdam street on 2 November 2004, and Mohammed Bouyeri was sentenced to life without parole as a terroristAmsterdam, Netherlands
  407. AI illustration: Manuscripts and a laptop on a desk in a Stockholm flat, 20042004Stieg Larsson's partner of 30 years got nothing from the Millennium fortune because they never marriedStockholm
  408. AI illustration: A wedding bouquet on a hospital bedside table in Washington, D.C., 20042004Dart Group's founder fired his son during his own divorce, then married on his deathbed and cut his children out of his willWashington, D.C.
  409. John McCain: John McCain official portrait 2009 (3x4 cropped)2004The McCain brothers fought over which nephew would run their french fry empire, and one brother was removedFlorenceville, New Brunswick
  410. AI illustration: The Croisette at Cannes at night, 20042004The 10th Earl of Shaftesbury was strangled by his wife's brother in Cannes, and his heir died six months laterCannes, France
  411. António Champalimaud: Retrato de António Champalimaud, obra de 2015 de Júlio Pomar, gravada em coluna de betão na esplanada do Centro Champalimaud, em Lisboa2004Portugal vetoed António Champalimaud's bank deal with Santander until Brussels overruled it for the first timeLisbon
  412. Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld: Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld 19762004Prince Bernhard denied a secret daughter to the Lockheed inquiry, then left her and a second one a sixth of his estate eachUtrecht, Netherlands
  413. Marlon Brando: Marlon Brando publicity for One-Eyed Jacks2004Marlon Brando's $21.6 million will left out one child, and a son's girlfriend scattered part of his ashesLos Angeles, California
  414. Ray Charles: Ray Charles classic piano pose2004Ray Charles gave each of his 12 children $500,000 and left the rest to a foundation; seven of them moved to take back his songsBeverly Hills, California
  415. Birla Family Tree: a family tree of all the members of the Birla Family Other information This is similar to the tons of family tree images on google search, but entirely made on m2004Priyamvada Birla's will left a Rs 5,000 crore group to her accountant; the Birla family has fought it in court since 2004Kolkata, West Bengal, India
  416. Yukos-azs: Yukos petrol station, Moscow2003Russia jailed Yukos owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky and auctioned his oil company for back taxes, and the Dutch Supreme Court made a $50 billion award to its shareholders finalMoscow, Russia, and The Hague, Netherlands
  417. Celia Cruz: Celia Cruz 1957 color2003Celia Cruz left everything to her husband; one of her executors sued the other for draining his money while he had dementiaFort Lee, New Jersey
  418. Elliott Smith: Elliott Smith2003Elliott Smith's partner sued his estate for lifetime support, and a talent-agent law voided their whole agreementLos Angeles, California
  419. Johnny Cash: Johnny Cash in a 1979 publicity photo for the CBS Television program The Johnny Cash Spring Special2003Johnny Cash's trust sued Coca-Cola for using a tribute singer who sounds like himNashville, Tennessee
  420. Barry White: Barry White, Bestanddeelnr 927-0098 (cropped)2003Barry White never divorced the wife he separated from in 1988; she became his executor, and 2 of his children later sued her over stopped paymentsCedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
  421. Nina Simone: Portrait of the American singer Nina Simone, 1965.2003Nina Simone left most of her estate to a trust for African children; the California Attorney General said her daughter diverted it, and the daughter resigned and gave up the rightsCarry-le-Rouet, France
  422. AI illustration: The rooftop test track of the Lingotto factory in Turin2003Margherita Agnelli sued her three children over her mother's estate, and Turin prosecutors charged her son John Elkann with tax fraudTurin, Italy; Marella's declared residence in Switzerland
  423. Strom Thurmond: Strom Thurmond, c 1961 (cropped)2003Strom Thurmond's family confirmed his Black daughter six months after his death, and South Carolina added her name to his monumentEdgefield, South Carolina
  424. Anita Mui: Avenue of Stars, Anita Mui (Ank Kumar)2003Anita Mui put her estate in a trust to keep it from her mother; the mother sued for 20 years, went bankrupt, and died in 2026 after Mui's ashes went missingHong Kong
  425. John Ritter: John Ritter 19772003John Ritter's family collected $14 million in settlements, then lost a $67 million suit against two doctorsBurbank, California
  426. Alberto Sordi: Alberto Sordi (1962)2003Alberto Sordi's sister left his €50 million to a foundation, relatives accused nine people of exploiting her, and all nine were acquittedhis villa at the Baths of Caracalla, Rome, Italy
  427. Dayanidhi Maran: The Minister of Commerce & Industries, Sultanate of Oman, Mr. Maqbool Ali Bin Sultan calls on the Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology,2003Dayanidhi Maran alleged his brother took control of Sun TV while their father was in a coma, then withdrew the notice two months laterChennai, India
  428. Arnaud Lagardère: Arnaud lagardere - portrait2003Arnaud Lagardère inherited control of his father's group in 2003, lost it to Vivendi in 2023, and was charged with using company money to pay inheritance debtParis, France
  429. Antilia, Mumbai: Antilia as seen from Dr. Gopalrao Keshav Marg in Mumbai2002An orphanage trust sold its Mumbai plot for Antilia in 2002, the waqf board called the sale illegal, and the Bombay High Court dismissed the last challenge in 2025Altamount Road, Mumbai, India
  430. Ted Williams: Ted Williams (cropped)2002Ted Williams's will asked for his ashes to be scattered at sea, two of his children had him frozen in Arizona, and an ex-employee said his head was severedInverness, Florida, USA
  431. Layne Staley: Layne Staley July 2, 19892002Layne Staley's mother was paid his Alice in Chains share for ten years, then sued his bandmates when they ended itSeattle, Washington
  432. John Entwistle: John Entwistle-12002John Entwistle's executors sold his guitars, his cars, his house and its last 700 lots within three years of his death; his ashes stayed in the groundsHard Rock Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
  433. AI illustration: An oil refinery at Jamnagar, Gujarat, lit up at night2002Dhirubhai Ambani died without a will; one son became Asia's richest man and the other told a court he was worth zeroBreach Candy Hospital, Mumbai
  434. JB Pritzker: JB Pritzker 2026 (less cropped)2002A 19-year-old Pritzker heir sued her father and 11 cousins for raiding her trusts, and took about $450 millionChicago
  435. Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum: Site of the Retiro and the Prado in Madrid 49 (29684554308)2002Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza sued over his family's Bermuda trust and sold his collection to Spain for $350 millionSant Feliu de Guíxols, Spain
  436. Freddy Heineken: Persconferentie jaarcijfers Heineken voorzitter RvB A. H. Heineken (kop), Bestanddeelnr 933-28952002Freddy Heineken was kidnapped for 35 million guilders, and his only daughter inherited control of the breweryNoordwijk
  437. AI illustration: The Supreme Court of the United States building, Washington2002Twins conceived after their father's death were denied his Social Security benefits by a unanimous Supreme CourtFlorida
  438. AI illustration: A pickup truck parked overnight on a Pittsburgh street in winter, late 1990s2002Hall of Famer Mike Webster lived in his truck, died at 50, and his estate won his NFL disability pay after his deathPittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  439. Princess Margaret: Portrait of Princess Margaret, circa 1950.2002A Jersey accountant sued to open Princess Margaret's sealed will to prove he was her secret sonKing Edward VII's Hospital, London
  440. The Queen Mother: Portrait of Queen Elizabeth (1900–2002)2002The Queen Mother left her estate to her daughter free of inheritance tax under a 1993 deal between the palace and the TreasuryRoyal Lodge, Windsor, England
  441. ConstitutionalCourtofSouthAfrica-20070622: The Constitutional Court of South Africa at Constitution Hill, Braamfontein, Johannesburg.2002South Africa's Constitutional Court made two Khayelitsha girls sole heirs of their father and struck down male primogeniture in 2004Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa
  442. Shuji Nakamura: Shuji Nakamura Nobel2001Shuji Nakamura was paid ¥20,000 for the blue LED patent, a Tokyo court awarded him ¥20 billion, and he settled for ¥840 millionTokyo, Japan
  443. Map of California, marked on the globe2001A doctor patented a cell line from John Moore's spleen, and California's Supreme Court ruled that Moore did not own his cellsLos Angeles, California, USA
  444. Fragata ARA Libertad (Q-2): Fragata ARA Libertad (Q-2).2001A hedge fund had Argentina's navy training ship held in Ghana for 11 weeks over defaulted bondsTema, Ghana
  445. Luzhou city: Luzhou city2001A dying man in Luzhou left his savings and his ashes to the woman he lived with, and the court gave everything to his wifeLuzhou, Sichuan, China
  446. Aaliyah: Aaliyah in Berlin, May 20002001Aaliyah's uncle owned her masters, and most of her music stayed off streaming for 20 years after her deathAbaco Islands, Bahamas (plane crash)
  447. George Harrison: George Harrison in the Oval Office during the Ford administration.2001George Harrison's estate sued his cancer doctor for making him sign a guitar two weeks before he diedLos Angeles, California
  448. Anthony Quinn: Anthony Quinn around the 1960s2001Anthony Quinn bought 29 acres on Rhodes in 1960, a Greek court cancelled the sale in 1984, and he died before he was repaidBoston, Massachusetts
  449. AI illustration: A corporate headquarters tower in Seoul, 20032001Hyundai's founder split his empire between feuding sons, and the heir he chose jumped from his office during a corruption probeSeoul, South Korea
  450. AI illustration: Crated paintings in a Paris art gallery on the Rue La Boétie, 20012001Daniel Wildenstein's widow said his sons hid the art fortune in trusts, and France prosecuted the heir for tax fraudParis
  451. AI illustration: Tyntesfield, the Gothic Revival house near Bristol2001Lord Wraxall's will gave Tyntesfield to 19 relatives and ordered a fast sale, and the public raised millions to buy itTyntesfield, Wraxall, North Somerset, England
  452. AI illustration: Yellow backhoe loaders lined up outside a Staffordshire factory2001The JCB founder's sons litigated in three countries over the company, then a cousin's £30 million fee claim failedLondon
  453. Supreme Court of Japan: Supreme Court of Japan (10357245203)2001Japan's Supreme Court struck down the half-share rule for children born outside marriage in 2013, 18 years after upholding itTokyo, Japan
  454. Zhang Xueliang: Chang Shueliang2001Zhang Xueliang inherited his murdered father's Manchurian army in 1928 and spent more than 50 years in detentionHonolulu
  455. Dale Earnhardt: Dale Earnhardt visits Langley AFB2001Dale Earnhardt's widow got Florida to seal his autopsy photos, and 18 states copied the lawDaytona International Speedway, Florida
  456. Narayanhiti Palace Museum, where the story took place2001Nepal's crown prince shot dead the king, the queen and seven relatives, and was king for three days while in a comaNarayanhiti Palace, Kathmandu, Nepal
  457. Tzaneen tea plants: Tea plantation in Tzaneen, South Africa. August 2003.2001South Africa's Constitutional Court upheld the Valoyi community's choice of Tinyiko Shilubana as its first woman Hosi in 2008Nwamitwa, near Tzaneen, Limpopo, South Africa
  458. Jai Vilas Palace ( Scindia Palace): Jai Vilas Palace, the current residence of the royal Maratha family 'Scindia', is an Italianate structure combining the Tuscan and Corinthian ar2001Gwalior's Rajmata disinherited her son and barred him from her last rites; the Scindia property fight ran 40 yearsGwalior, Madhya Pradesh; Bombay and Delhi High Courts, India
  459. René Favaloro: Rene Favaloro2000René Favaloro, who developed coronary bypass surgery, shot himself after his foundation went unpaid by Argentina's health insurersBuenos Aires, Argentina
  460. Map of China, marked on the globe2000A Hong Kong buyer asked twice whether anything had happened in the flat; a boy had fallen to his death from its balconyYau Yat Chuen, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
  461. Big Pun: Passport of Big Pun, an American rapper. Image produced 1998 or earlier. Copyright-free as image is taken according to federal government specifications. Photoshop work to2000Big Pun's widow sued Fat Joe for his posthumous royalties, saying payments stopped in 2005White Plains, New York
  462. Hedy Lamarr: Hedy Lamarr publicity photo for the film The Heavenly Body, 19442000Hedy Lamarr's adopted son sued in Florida in 2000 over a will that left him nothing from her $3.3 million estateCasselberry, Florida
  463. AI illustration: The Palazzo Doria Pamphilj on the Via del Corso, Rome2000Rome's last Doria Pamphilj princess adopted two English babies, and her daughter went to court to keep her brother's surrogate-born children out of the inheritancePalazzo Doria Pamphilj, Via del Corso, Rome

Postwar 1945 to 2000

  1. Nicola Trussardi: (Bergamo, 17 giugno 1942 – Milano, 13 aprile 1999)1999Nicola Trussardi and his son Francesco died in car crashes four years apart, and the family lost the Trussardi companyMilan, Italy
  2. Fred Trump Jr.: Fred Trump Jr. 1966 (cropped)1999Fred Trump's grandchildren contested his will in 2000, and Donald Trump and 2 siblings cut off health insurance for them and an ailing babyNew Hyde Park, New York, USA
  3. Curtis Mayfield: Curtis Mayfield1999Curtis Mayfield's manager ran his estate; his widow said the manager borrowed against the songs and took about $920,000 in commissionsRoswell, Georgia
  4. AI illustration: Orange-and-white rental trucks lined up in a Phoenix, Arizona, lot1999U-Haul's founder lost his company to his sons, a daughter-in-law was shot dead, and a jury awarded his side $1.47 billionPhoenix, Arizona, and Telluride, Colorado
  5. AI illustration: Fire engines below a burning penthouse in Monaco, December 19991999Banker Edmond Safra died in a fire his nurse set in Monaco while his bank was being sold to HSBCMonaco
  6. AI illustration: The rotunda of Ickworth House, Suffolk1999The 7th Marquess of Bristol spent a fortune of up to £35 million on drugs and died at 44 after selling the Ickworth leaseLittle Horringer Hall, Ickworth estate, Suffolk
  7. Hussein of Jordan: 16.09.1963. Le roi de Jordanie à Sud Aviation. (1963)1999King Hussein of Jordan removed his brother as heir after 34 years, two weeks before he diedAmman, Jordan
  8. AI illustration: A long table in a rabbinical court room in Zurich, 19991999Rabbi Joseph Halpern's family settled his estate before a Beth Din in Zurich, then fought in London over whether Jewish law governed the dealEngland (probate) and Zurich (arbitration)
  9. Map of India, marked on the globe1999Vineeta Sharma's father died in 1999 and the Delhi courts said she was too late to share the family property; the Supreme Court made every Hindu daughter a co-owner by birthDelhi, India
  10. Avarua waterfront, Rarotonga, Cook Islands: Avarua waterfront, Rarotonga, Cook Islands in 2003 - excellent shoreline protection1998A couple put their Ponzi commissions in a Cook Islands trust that locked when they were sued, and a US judge jailed them for six monthsLas Vegas, Nevada, USA; Rarotonga, Cook Islands
  11. Sonny Bono: Sonny Bono1998Sonny Bono's widow used a 2016 copyright termination notice to stop paying Cher her half of his song royalties, and a federal judge ruled for CherHeavenly Mountain Resort, South Lake Tahoe, California, USA
  12. Phil Hartman: Phil Hartman in character as Chick Hazard, Private Eye, circa 1978.1998Phil Hartman was shot dead by his wife in 1998; their wills left $1.23 million to two children, and a 1999 suit blamed ZoloftEncino, California
  13. AI illustration: A typed will with a forged signature on a doctor's desk in Hyde, 19981998A forged will leaving £386,000 to Dr Harold Shipman exposed Britain's worst serial killerHyde, Greater Manchester
  14. AI illustration: Probate files tied with tape on a shelf in a Saarland district court, 19981998A German woman born in 1948 lost her father's estate to relatives he never met, and Europe's human rights court ruled for herSaarland, Germany
  15. Mausoleum of General Sani Abacha in Kano1998Four governments returned more than $780 million of General Sani Abacha's money to NigeriaAbuja
  16. Tammy Wynette: Tammy Wynette 1977 (cropped)1998Tammy Wynette's daughters sued her husband for $50 million, and her body was exhumed for an autopsyNashville, Tennessee
  17. Frank Sinatra: Frank Sinatra (1957 studio portrait close-up)1998Frank Sinatra's will disinherited any family member who challenged it, listing 13 forbidden legal actionsLos Angeles, California
  18. AI illustration: The golden domes of the Istana Nurul Iman palace, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei1998Brunei accused the sultan's brother of taking billions as finance minister, and the Privy Council ordered him to hand over his hotelsBandar Seri Begawan, Brunei; London; New York
  19. Procès-verbal for the recovery of the items the Bảo Đại Emperor gave to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam during his ab: A report about the recovery of the ceremonial sword and se1997Bảo Đại handed his gold seal to the revolution in 1945, sued his own son for it in France, and his widow's heirs sold it for 6.1 million eurosHuế, Vietnam; Paris, France
  20. The Notorious B.I.G.: Image of the Notorious BIG in NY1997The Notorious B.I.G.'s mother and widow co-owned his catalog; after the mother died, her trustee sued the widow and wonLos Angeles, California
  21. Fela Kuti: Fela Kuti circa 19861997Fela Kuti's brother announced he died of AIDS, he was buried in his own courtyard, and his estate signed with WME 26 years laterLagos, Nigeria
  22. Townes Van Zandt: Singer-Songwriter Townes Van Zandt in Concert at "Kult" Niederstetten, Germany1997Townes Van Zandt's ex-wife ran his estate, his eldest son questioned her title to the songs, and the family spent 11 years fighting the label that held his mastersSmyrna, Tennessee
  23. Willem de Kooning: Willem de Kooning in his studio1997Willem de Kooning's Woman-Ochre was cut from a Tucson museum frame in 1985 and found in 2017 at the estate sale of a retired coupleTucson, Arizona; Cliff, New Mexico
  24. James A. Michener: James Albert Michener · DN-SC-92-053681997James Michener gave away about $117 million and left the bulk of his estate to Swarthmore CollegeAustin, Texas
  25. Charles Kuralt 1976 CBS publicity1997CBS newsman Charles Kuralt kept a second family for 29 years, and a letter from his hospital bed gave his mistress his Montana landNew York City
  26. AI illustration: A newspaper office on a palm-lined street in Santa Barbara, California1997Craig McCaw's ex-wife took about $460 million, mostly in Nextel stock, and bought a California newspaper with itSeattle and Santa Barbara
  27. AI illustration: The front steps and iron gate of Casa Casuarina on Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, 19971997Gianni Versace was shot dead in Miami and left half his fashion house to his 11-year-old nieceCasa Casuarina, Miami Beach, Florida
  28. Kilkenny Castle, where the story took place1997The Butlers sold Kilkenny Castle to the town for £50 in 1967, and the Ormonde earldoms went dormant in 1997Chicago, Illinois
  29. Louis, Prince Napoléon: Louis Bonaparte1997Louis Napoléon's 1997 will passed over his son Charles and named his 11-year-old grandson head of the Bonaparte housePrangins, Vaud, Switzerland
  30. Michael Hutchence: Michael-hutchence-INXS-19861997Michael Hutchence left half his estate to his baby daughter, and the money went into offshore trusts she did not controlRitz-Carlton hotel, Double Bay, Sydney
  31. Jack Kent Cooke: Jack Kent Cooke circa 1955 (cropped)1997Jack Kent Cooke's will ordered the Redskins sold to fund his foundation, and his son was outbid by Daniel SnyderWashington, D.C.
  32. Diana, Princess of Wales: Diana, Princess of Wales 1997 (2)1997Princess Diana's executors changed her will after her death and gave each godchild one item instead of a quarter of her possessionsPitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France
  33. Mobutu Sese Seko: Mobutu (cropped)1997Switzerland released Mobutu Sese Seko's frozen money to his heirs, and his body stays in RabatRabat, Morocco
  34. Harbour, Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus: Harbour, Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus1996Titina Loizidou was kept from her Kyrenia land after 1974, won in Strasbourg, and Turkey paid in 2003 but never gave back the landKyrenia (Girne), Cyprus; Strasbourg, France
  35. Map of South Korea, marked on the globe1996Samsung's heir and his three siblings bought Everland bonds at 7,700 won a share in 1996, two executives were convicted, and their father was cleared on that chargeSeoul, South Korea
  36. Bradley Nowell: Bradley Nowell, deceased lead singer of Long Beach rock group 'Sublime' is shown here at KROQ's Weenie Roast 1995. Friends and family recently held a concert to ben1996Bradley Nowell had registered the name Sublime to himself, and his estate got a federal injunction against his own bandmatesSan Francisco, California
  37. François Mitterrand: President François Mitterrand in 1983 (cropped)1996François Mitterrand's secret daughter walked behind his coffin after the state had paid to hide herParis
  38. Tupac Shakur: Tupac Shakur in 19951996Tupac Shakur's estate forced Drake to delete a song that used an AI copy of Tupac's voiceLas Vegas, Nevada, USA
  39. Tupac Shakur: Tupac Shakur in 19951996Tupac's mother beat his absent father in court and built his estate; her executor was then sued by Tupac's sisterLas Vegas, Nevada
  40. AI illustration: The Moody Mansion and the Strand in Galveston, Texas1996Shearn Moody Jr. was accused of making Moody Foundation grants to himself, and the IRS sought $14 millionGalveston, Texas
  41. Koning Moshoeshoe van Lesotho vertrekt van Schiphol, Bestanddeelnr 924-0658: Collectie / Archief : Fotocollectie Anefo Reportage / Serie : [ onbekend ] Beschrijving : Koning Moshoe1996Lesotho's military ruler exiled King Moshoeshoe II and put his son on the throne, the son handed it back in 1995, and the father died in a car crash a year laterMaseru, Lesotho
  42. Map of Lesotho, marked on the globe1996A Lesotho chief's eldest daughter sued to inherit his chieftainship, and the courts kept it in the male lineHa Mamathe, Berea District, Lesotho
  43. Kim Kwang-seok: Kim Kwang-seok performing live in 19921996Kim Kwang-seok's daughter, heir to his song copyrights, died in 2007, and her mother told no one for ten yearsSeoul, South Korea
  44. Bus Memorial to Ken Saro-Wiwa (5927206987): 9 July 2011. Ten feet high, steel sculpture of a Nigerian Bus parked behind the Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Tottenham. It's a memorial to 1995Nigeria hanged Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight Ogoni activists over oil-region protests, buried them without their families, and pardoned them 30 years laterPort Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria
  45. Yeshiva University Stern College for Women 253 Lexington Avenue: 253 Lexington Avenue at the corner of East 35th Street in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City,1995An IRS auditor who said she was held back as a Jewish woman left $22 million in stock to Yeshiva University, a school she had no ties toNew York City, New York, USA
  46. Map of New York, marked on the globe1995Seymour Durst passed over his eldest son, the family bought Robert out for about $65 million, and Robert died a convicted murdererNew York, New York, USA
  47. Panorama of United States Supreme Court Building at Dusk: Panorama of the west facade of United States Supreme Court Building at dusk in Washington, D.C., United States of America.1995J. Howard Marshall II's widow Anna Nicole Smith won $474 million in a bankruptcy court, and after two Supreme Court cases her estate got nothingHouston, Texas, USA
  48. Patricia Highsmith: Patricia-Highsmith-19621995Patricia Highsmith left her whole estate, over $3 million, to the Yaddo artists' colony, and her papers went to the Swiss Literary ArchivesLocarno, Switzerland
  49. AI illustration: Alnwick Castle above the River Aln, Northumberland1995The Duke of Northumberland agreed to sell a Raphael to the Getty for £35 million, and the government blocked itLondon; Alnwick Castle, Northumberland
  50. Maurizio Gucci: Maurizio Gucci matrimonio1995Maurizio Gucci was shot dead in Milan in 1995 on the order of his ex-wife Patrizia ReggianiVia Palestro 20, Milan
  51. AI illustration: A blank official certificate form with ruled boxes, one box left empty, on a registry office counter, England, 1990s, all lines blank with no writing1995A British widow had her dead husband's sons abroad, then fought until Parliament let his name go on their birth certificatesNottinghamshire, England
  52. Lana Turner: Lana Turner 1940s publicity portrait1995Lana Turner left her daughter $50,000 and the rest of a $1.7 million trust to her maid of 45 yearsLos Angeles, California
  53. Bob Ross: Bob Ross publicity photo (c. 1982) (cropped)1995Bob Ross left his name to his son, and his business partners won it in courtOrlando, Florida
  54. Selena: Selena Quintanilla 19861995Selena was shot by her fan club president; her father later sued her widower to stop a TV show about herCorpus Christi, Texas
  55. Eazy-E: Eazy E headshot1995Eazy-E married on his deathbed and left Ruthless Records to his bride; his son challenged the marriage 21 years laterLos Angeles, California
  56. Jerry Garcia: Jerry-Garcia-01cropped1995Jerry Garcia's widow barred his ex-wives from his funeral and stopped paying his $5 million divorce settlementSerenity Knolls treatment center, Forest Knolls, California
  57. Map of Texas, marked on the globe1994A son-in-law moved 98 percent of a dying Texan's fortune into a family partnership the day after a "Fortress Plan" seminar, and the IRS taxed all of itWaco, Texas, USA
  58. Bundesverfassungsgericht - Karlsruhe: Bundesverfassungsgericht - Karlsruhe1994A German mother disinherited the son who attacked her, he killed her a month later, and two courts still awarded him his compulsory shareCologne court district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  59. Kam Tin Tree House - 2007-09-30 13h55m08s SN200780: Kam Tin Tree House (An old banyan tree grew bigger and bigger besides the stone house, and after centuries, there're only part o1994A Yuen Long woman's brother drove her from their father's house, and village women made Hong Kong let daughters inherit New Territories land in 1994Yuen Long, New Territories, Hong Kong
  60. Kurt Cobain: Nirvana around 1992 (cropped)1994Kurt Cobain left no will; his widow sued his bandmates for Nirvana, sold a quarter of his songs, and his Unplugged guitar went to his daughter's ex-husbandSeattle, Washington
  61. Harry Nilsson: Trade ad for Harry Nilsson's single "Many Rivers To Cross".To better adapt it to his respective Wikipedia article, the ad was cropped and cleaned in a graphics editi1994Harry Nilsson's business manager stole his savings, and he died in Chapter 11 owing 75 creditorsAgoura Hills, California
  62. Jack Kirby: Jack-Kirby art-of-jack-kirby wyman-skaar1994Jack Kirby's heirs served 45 copyright termination notices on Marvel; the Second Circuit ruled his work was for hire in 2013 and the case settled in 2014Thousand Oaks, California
  63. Martha Raye: Martha Raye 1951 press photo1994Martha Raye married a man 33 years younger and left him her $2 million estate, after her daughter sued for conservatorshipLos Angeles, California
  64. Russborough House: Russborough-House Part-of-the-facade1994Russborough House was robbed four times from 1974 to 2002, and Sir Alfred Beit gave his stolen Vermeer to Ireland before it was foundDublin
  65. AI illustration: A meat-packing plant in the flat farmland of Westphalia, 1990s1994Robert Tönnies sued his uncle Clemens to take back a 5 percent gift in the family meat groupMünster
  66. Courtney Love: CourtLoveRoyalGeo040325 (49 of 54) (crop)1994A court removed 17-year-old Frances Bean Cobain from Courtney Love's care, and she took control of her father's imageSeattle, Washington
  67. General Yamashita Surrenders: General Yamashita, Commander, Japanese forces, ‘Tiger of Malaya,” and his staff walk down the trail to U.S. forces in northern Luzon, occupied by Co ‘1993A Baguio locksmith said Marcos's men seized his golden Buddha, and a Hawaii jury valued the gold he never got back at $22 billionBaguio City, Philippines; Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
  68. Downtown Bentonville at Blue Hour: Terry Block Building and Walton 5&10 in downtown Bentonville, Arkansas at blue hour1993Audrey Walton put about $200 million of Wal-Mart stock into two trusts reported as gifts worth nothing, and the Tax Court ruled for her against the IRSWashington, D.C., USA (US Tax Court)
  69. Brandon Lee: Brandon lee (cropped)1993Brandon Lee was killed on the set of The Crow in 1993 by a bullet fragment fired from a prop gun, and his mother and fiancee settled with the producers for an undisclosed sumWilmington, North Carolina
  70. Rudolf Nureyev: Nureyev 9 Allan Warren1993Rudolf Nureyev left most of his estate to two foundations; a sister and niece contested the will, and a federal judge ruled for the foundation in 1998Levallois-Perret, France
  71. Raymond Burr: Raymond-Burr-1968-cropped1993Raymond Burr left everything to his partner Robert Benevides, and a judge threw out his niece's claim of undue influence in 1994his ranch on West Dry Creek Road, near Healdsburg, California
  72. Doris Duke: Doris Duke 1951 (cropped)1993Doris Duke left $1.2 billion with her butler as executor, and a court-appointed lawyer said her doctor hastened her deathFalcon Lair, Beverly Hills
  73. Cawdor Castle, where the story took place1993The 6th Earl Cawdor left Cawdor Castle to his second wife, and a court put his son's children out of itLondon
  74. Albert II of Monaco: Albert II - 08.06.2025 - Encontro com Sua Alteza o Príncipe de Mônaco, Alberto II (54574973880)1993Albert II of Monaco acknowledged two children born outside marriage, and Monaco's constitution keeps both off the throneMonaco
  75. Walt Disney: Walt Disney 1946 (cropped2)1993Walt Disney's twin grandchildren split over a $400 million trust after the trustees paid one twin and refused the otherCalifornia, USA
  76. Audrey Hepburn: AudreyKHepburn1993Audrey Hepburn's two sons ended up on opposite sides of a lawsuit over who controls her imageTolochenaz, Switzerland
  77. Frank Zappa: Zappa 16011977 01 3001993Gail Zappa left two of her children control of Frank Zappa's estate, and Dweezil was told he could not use his own surname for his bandLos Angeles, California
  78. Malcha Mahal: Malcha Mahal1993A woman claiming to be heir of the kings of Awadh lived nine years in a Delhi railway station and won a palace; she was the widow of a university registrarMalcha Mahal, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi, India
  79. Cantinflas: Cantinflas en 1967 (cropped)1993Cantinflas's son and nephew fought over his films on the strength of a deathbed paper, and the family crypt was broken open in 2018Mexico City, Mexico
  80. Pablo Escobar: Pablo Escobar Mug (cropped)(b)1993Pablo Escobar's four hippos outlived him, Colombia seized his ranch, and in 2026 the government approved killing their descendantsPuerto Triunfo, Antioquia, Colombia
  81. Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village: Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, 707 Shaker Rd, New Gloucester, ME Maine (l-r) Herb House, Boys' Shop (Museum Reception Center), Spinhouse1992The Canterbury Shakers closed membership in 1957, refused to recognize the converts at Sabbathday Lake, and the last Shaker community has three members in 2025Canterbury, New Hampshire, USA; New Gloucester, Maine, USA
  82. Alex Haley: Alex Haley1992Alex Haley died owing about $1.5 million, his estate auctioned his Pulitzer for $50,000, and Betty Shabazz sued over the Malcolm X manuscriptSeattle, Washington
  83. Benny Hill: Benny Hill. Waxwork of Benny Hill in character as Fred Scuttle on The Benny Hill Show.1992Benny Hill left an estate of 7,548,192 pounds to seven nieces and nephews, and his grave was broken into in 1992 over a rumour of buried goldTeddington, London
  84. Marlene Dietrich: Marlene Dietrich in No Highway (1951) (Cropped)1992Marlene Dietrich's daughter sold her estate to Berlin in 1993, about 300,000 pages, 16,500 photographs and 3,300 garments12 avenue Montaigne, Paris
  85. Gina Rinehart: Gina Rinehart June 20151992Gina Rinehart's children sued her for control of a $5 billion family trust, and her daughter replaced her as trusteePerth and Sydney
  86. Freddie Bartholomew: Freddie Bartholomew in Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)1992Freddie Bartholomew's parents lost a court fight with his aunt over the boy and his MGM salarySarasota, Florida
  87. Francis Bacon: Portrait of Francis Bacon.label QS:Len,"Portrait of Francis Bacon."1992Francis Bacon's sole heir sued Bacon's dealer for up to £100 million, then dropped the case two weeks before trialMadrid
  88. Map of Australia, marked on the globe1992Eddie Mabo died five months before the High Court upheld Meriam title to his island, and his grave was defaced the day after his memorialMer (Murray Island), Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia
  89. Waggoner Ranch Commissary at NHRC in Lubbock, TX IMG 1613: Waggoner Ranch Commissary — at the National Ranching Heritage Center. At Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.1991Electra Waggoner Biggs sued in 1991 to sell her family's oil-and-cattle ranch, and after 25 years a court receiver sold it to Stan KroenkeVernon, Wilbarger County, Texas, USA
  90. Yale Skull and Bones Tomb: The Skull & Bones Tomb, circa 2006.1991Skull and Bones' alumni trust changed the locks on the Tomb in 1991 when the seniors tapped seven women, and William F. Buckley went to court to stop the initiationThe Tomb, 64 High Street, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; Deer Island, St. Lawrence
  91. Miles Davis: Miles Davis by Palumbo cropped1991Miles Davis's will left nothing to two of his sons, and the eldest wrote a book blaming his aunt and sisterSt. John's Hospital, Santa Monica, California
  92. Eric Carr: Eric Carr (1983)1991A lawyer sued KISS in the name of Eric Carr's estate, and Carr's family said they had never authorized itNew York, New York
  93. Jerzy Kosiński: Jerzy Kosiński (by Eric Koch, 1969)1991Jerzy Kosiński was accused of plagiarism and ghostwriting in 1982 and killed himself in 1991 with a plastic bag over his headNew York City
  94. Redd Foxx: Redd Foxx 19661991The IRS seized Redd Foxx's Las Vegas home, seven vehicles and bank accounts in 1989, and his estate was still in probate with an IRS lien in 2006Los Angeles, California
  95. Gene Roddenberry: Gene roddenberry 19761991Gene Roddenberry's first wife sued his estate for Star Trek profits and lost 2-1 on appeal in 1996; his widow's 2009 trust left their son $60 million and the dogs a $4 million home trustSanta Monica, California
  96. Martha Graham: Martha Graham 19481991Martha Graham left her dances to Ron Protas in 1991, and federal courts ruled from 2002 to 2006 that her own center owned themNew York City
  97. Margot Fonteyn: Margot Fonteyn - 1960s1991Margot Fonteyn died in Panama in 1991 after her savings went to her paralysed husband's care, and a 1990 gala raised 250,000 pounds for herPanama City
  98. AI illustration: A white exhumation tent among the graves of Père Lachaise cemetery at night, 19981991A French court declared Yves Montand a girl's father after his death, and his body was exhumed to test itSenlis, France
  99. AI illustration: Frozen sample vials lifted in a rack from a steaming liquid-nitrogen tank, early 1990s, unlabelled1991A Los Angeles man willed 15 vials of his sperm to his girlfriend before killing himself, and his children asked the court to destroy themLas Vegas, Nevada; estate probated in Los Angeles
  100. AI illustration: The Committee for Privileges room in the House of Lords, Westminster1991A fugitive baron died in Manila with two infant sons by two women, and the Lords gave his title to his half-brother after DNA ruled out one boy and bigamy the otherManila, Philippines
  101. Robert Maxwell: Robert Maxwell 1989 (3x4 cropped 2)1991Publisher Robert Maxwell went overboard from his yacht, and his sons inherited companies that had used the staff pension fundsAtlantic Ocean, off the Canary Islands
  102. Dr. Seuss: Children's author Ted Geisel, (Dr. Seuss), three-quarter length portrait, seated at desk, facing front] / World Telegram1991Dr. Seuss's widow ran his licensing for 27 years; three years after her death his estate pulled six of his booksLa Jolla, California
  103. Freddie Mercury: Freddie Mercury performing in New Haven, CT, November 19771991Freddie Mercury left his house and half his fortune to his ex-girlfriend, who buried his ashes in a place only she knowsGarden Lodge, Kensington, London
  104. Padmanabhaswamy Temple Gopuram: Padmanabhaswamy Temple Gopuram, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India1991Travancore's last ruler died in 1991, the Kerala High Court said his brother could not inherit the temple's management, and the Supreme Court gave the family controlSree Padmanabhaswamy Temple, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
  105. Halston evening dress: Sequined polyester 1974, USA Gift of Celanese, 80.128.12 YSL + Halston: Fashioning the 70s Photograph by Eileen Costa © The Museum at FIT.1990Halston sold his name with his company for $16 million and was then barred from itSan Francisco, California, USA
  106. CodexLeicester: Ghezzi-Coke-Hammer-Gates Kodeks1990Death duties forced an earl's family to sell Leonardo's notebook in 1980, and a widow's niece's lawsuit forced its next owner's museum to sell it againEngland; Los Angeles, California, USA
  107. 1907 Saint-Gaudens double eagle high relief obverse: Obverse of 1907 high relief Saint-Gaudens double eagle1990A jeweller's daughter found ten 1933 gold double eagles in his safe-deposit box, handed them to the Mint to authenticate, and the government kept themPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
  108. Shiprock, New Mexico uranium mill aerial photo: Aerial photograph of Shiprock, New Mexico uranium mill tailings pile and surrounding area, 2002. The view is looking toward the sout1990Navajo uranium miners died of radiation, and their widows had to prove marriages made by Navajo custom to collect $100,000Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, USA
  109. Willie Nelson: Willie Nelson and his guitar "Trigger"1990The IRS seized Willie Nelson's ranch, studio and guitars over a $16.7 million tax bill, and fans bought them backAustin and Dripping Springs, Texas
  110. Sammy Davis Jr.: Sammy Davis Jr. 19721990Sammy Davis Jr. died owing the IRS about $7 million, and his widow lost the rights to his name and musicBeverly Hills, California
  111. Stevie Ray Vaughan: Stevie Ray Vaughan Live 19831990Stevie Ray Vaughan's mother and brother sued the helicopter company; his fiancée was left out of the estate, and thieves later took his belongings from Jimmie's storage unitEast Troy, Wisconsin
  112. Erich Maria Remarque: Davos, Erich Maria Remarque1990Paulette Goddard inherited Erich Maria Remarque's money, properties and art in 1970 and left New York University more than $20 million in 1990Switzerland
  113. Roald Dahl: Uitreiking Gouden Griffel en Penseel in Utrecht. Roald Dahl (l) en Nannie Kuiper 13 oktober 19821990Netflix bought the Roald Dahl Story Company in September 2021 for a reported 500 million pounds, about $686 millionGreat Missenden, England
  114. Jim Henson: Jim Henson, creator, The Muppets1990Jim Henson died during a $150 million sale to Disney, his children ended the deal and sued Disney, and the Muppets went to Disney anyway in 2004New York Hospital, New York
  115. AI illustration: Silver, porcelain and furniture laid out for auction in a palace hall at St. Emmeram, Regensburg, 1993, full-bleed picture with no border or page1990Gloria von Thurn und Taxis auctioned the family treasures and handed 2,200 objects to Bavaria to settle her husband's estateKlinikum Großhadern, Munich
  116. AI illustration: The European Court of Human Rights building in Strasbourg1990French law gave a child born of adultery half a share of his mother's estate until Europe's human rights court ruled against it in 2000France
  117. Joe Robbie: JoeRobbie1 (cropped)1990Joe Robbie's nine children sued each other, his widow claimed her 30 percent, and a $47 million tax bill forced the sale of the DolphinsMiami, Florida
  118. Armand Hammer: Armand Hammer 821990Armand Hammer built his museum with Occidental Petroleum money and died with shareholders, his son and USC in courtLos Angeles, California
  119. Sun Hung Kai Centre at night: Hong Kong Sun Hung Kai Centre at night.1990Sun Hung Kai's eldest son was kidnapped for a record ransom, then removed as chairman by his mother, who controlled the family's sharesHong Kong
  120. Malcolm Forbes: Malcolmforbessr1990Malcolm Forbes spent 25 years buying the tsars' Fabergé eggs, his family sold all nine to a Russian billionaire before the auction, and the US sanctioned the buyer in 2018New York, USA; Saint Petersburg, Russia
  121. WangHQ: Old headquarters of Wang Laboratories in Lowell, MA1990An Wang put his son in charge of a $3 billion company, the son was out by 1989, and Wang Laboratories went bankrupt in 1992Boston and Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
  122. Emperor Showa: Emperor Showa, 1st Guard Infantry Regiment1989Japan's imperial family paid 3.3 billion yen in property tax in 1947, and in 1989 the new emperor paid 428 million yen in inheritance tax while the regalia passed tax-freeFukiage Palace, Tokyo, Japan
  123. Mariano Marcos: Mariano Marcos21989Marcos drew a salary of 100,000 pesos a year, and the Philippine Supreme Court took $658 million of his Swiss depositsHonolulu, Hawaii, USA; Manila, Philippines
  124. Mariano Marcos: Mariano Marcos21989Marcos's body lay in a glass case in Batac for 23 years until a 9-5 Supreme Court vote put it in the Heroes' CemeteryBatac, Ilocos Norte, and Libingan ng mga Bayani, Taguig, Philippines
  125. Rue Louis Vuitton - Asnières-sur-Seine (FR92) - 2024-04-06 - 1: Rue Louis-Vuitton, Asnières-sur-Seine.1989The Vuitton family's patriarch brought in Bernard Arnault and was fired from LVMH, and Arnault has locked his own five children into a 30-year holdingParis, France
  126. Map of New York, marked on the globe1989A New York court ruled the Nyack house "haunted as a matter of law" and let the buyer walk away from $650,0001 LaVeta Place, Nyack, Rockland County, New York, USA
  127. AI illustration: A photographer's loft on Bond Street, New York, with prints and a camera on a long table, 19891989Robert Mapplethorpe inherited three quarters of Sam Wagstaff's $7 million estate over the sister's challenge, left his own parents nothing, and was tried posthumously in CincinnatiBoston
  128. Edward Abbey: "Black Sun", by Edward Abbey (cropped)1989Edward Abbey wrote instructions to be buried without a coffin or permit, and friends buried him in the Arizona desert two days after he diednear Tucson, Arizona
  129. August Busch III: August Busch III, New York Amsterdam News 1977 11 26 pg44 (cropped)1989August Busch III ousted his father from Anheuser-Busch in a boardroom coup, and 33 years later the family lost the companySt. Louis
  130. AI illustration: The fort and Raj Mahal palace of Faridkot, Punjab1989Faridkot's Maharaja lost his only son, and a will read three days after his death gave his forts and palaces to a trust run by his staffBatra Hospital, Delhi, India
  131. AI illustration: Forchtenstein Castle on its rock in Burgenland, Austria1989Prince Paul Esterházy made his widow sole heir, and the Esterházy family lost Burgenland's largest estate to her foundationsZurich, Switzerland
  132. AI illustration: A typed will beside a hardback memoir on a writing desk, 19891989Bette Davis wrote her daughter, her adopted daughter and two grandsons out of her will after "My Mother's Keeper"Paris, France
  133. Salvador Dalí: Salvador Dalí 19391989A Madrid judge had Salvador Dalí exhumed for a paternity test 28 years after his death, and the DNA said noFigueres, Catalonia, Spain
  134. Cakobau with son and heir, 1861: Seated portrait of Thakombau, king of the Fijian group and his son (possibly Ratu Epeli Nailatikau). When the British HMS Pelorus was in Fiji in 181989The Vunivalu of Bau title stood empty for 34 years after 1989 because Cakobau's clan could not agree on an heirBau Island, Fiji
  135. 14th Dalai Lama: Tenzin Gyatso - Trento 2013 011989The Dalai Lama named a six-year-old as Panchen Lama in 1995; the boy disappeared within days and China installed another boy chosen from a golden urnTashilhunpo Monastery, Shigatse, Tibet, China
  136. Stamp of Abu Dhabi - 1964 - Colnect 197383 - Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan: Perforation varieties · Perf 13 x 13½ (Mi 3C, Sn 3a, Sg 3a): See variants · Overprints · "20 Fils1989Three Abu Dhabi rulers were killed in family feuds in six years; the survivors swore to their mother never to do it again, and in 1966 one brother removed another without bloodshedAbu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
  137. Raj Kapoor: Радж Капур в окружении почитателей из Советского Союза, 1950-ые (встреча в Индии с делегацией узбекских писателей: Самиг Абдукаххар и др) Raj Kapoor surrounded by admir1988Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar were born in Peshawar houses their families left at partition, the new owners refused to sell, and the province took both by compulsory purchasePeshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
  138. AI illustration: Newspaper presses running in Louisville, Kentucky, 19861988The Binghams sold the Louisville Courier-Journal after a daughter demanded her shares be bought outLouisville, Kentucky
  139. Chiang Ching-kuo 19481988Chiang Ching-kuo never acknowledged his twin sons, and one of them took the Chiang name 63 years laterTaipei, Taiwan
  140. Jean-Michel Basquiat: Jean-Michel Basquiat passport (cropped)1988Basquiat died at 27; his estate shut its authentication board, and the FBI later seized 25 fake Basquiats from a museumNew York
  141. Luis Barragán House and Studio Street view: Luis Barragán House and Studio Street view1988Luis Barragán's archive was sold in 1995 and kept closed in Switzerland, and an artist made a diamond from his ashes to trade for itMexico City, Mexico
  142. Aristotle Onassis: Aristotle Onassis 1967cr1988Aristotle Onassis's only granddaughter inherited half his fortune at 18, after her father and the trustees fought for yearsAthens and Skorpios, Greece, and Switzerland
  143. Map of Texas, marked on the globe1987Clint Murchison Jr. inherited an oil fortune, bought the Dallas Cowboys for $550,000, and died $100 million short of his debtsDallas, Texas, USA
  144. Imjingak Park & the Freedom Bridge: Imjingak park was built to console those from both sides who are unable to return to their hometowns, friends and families because of the divisi1987A doctor fled south in 1950 with one daughter, and 59 years later his four children left in North Korea sued their half-siblings for his estateSeoul, South Korea; Sunchon County, North Korea
  145. Liberace: Liberace 18 Allan Warren1987Liberace's doctor signed a death certificate that hid AIDS; the coroner pulled his embalmed body back for an autopsyThe Cloisters, Palm Springs, California
  146. Peter Tosh: BushDoctor1978 (cropped2)1987Peter Tosh died without a will; his ten children fought in a Manhattan court over his royaltieshis home, Kingston, Jamaica
  147. Jaco Pastorius: Jaco Pastorius with bass 19801987Jaco Pastorius died broke after a club bouncer beat him, his estate nearly closed with debts, and his stolen bass took four years of litigation to get backFort Lauderdale, Florida
  148. Kishore Kumar: Legendary singers of India1987Kishore Kumar's nephew agreed to sell his childhood home for Rs 14 crore, his son published a legal notice to stop it, and the house became a ruinMumbai, India
  149. AI illustration: Ives Street in Chelsea, London, brick terraces on a summer afternoon, 19871987Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali was shot in London in 1987, Britain expelled Israeli officials after a Mossad double agent was jailed, and no one has been charged with the murderLondon
  150. James Baldwin: James Baldwin 37 Allan Warren (cropped)1987James Baldwin's estate sold his papers to the Schomburg Center in 2017, with part of his correspondence reported sealed for 20 yearsSaint-Paul-de-Vence, France
  151. Fred Astaire: Astaire, Fred - Never Get Rich1987Fred Astaire's widow charged fees for clips of him, lost a federal appeal over 90 seconds of film, and licensed him to a vacuum maker over his daughter's objectionLos Angeles, California, USA
  152. Andy Warhol: Andy Warhol by Bernard Gotfryd 19801987Andy Warhol's foundation valued his art at $95 million; a court said $390.9 million, and his estate lawyer was paid on the differenceNew York
  153. A View of Tirumala Venkateswara Temple: A View of Tirumala Venkateswara Temple, Andhra Pradesh1987Four families held Tirumala's priesthood by birth and kept the temple jewels in turns; Andhra Pradesh abolished the inheritance in 1987Tirumala, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India
  154. Map of Japan, marked on the globe1986Japanese courts cancelled auction sales of houses where owners had died by suicide, and in 2021 the state set a three-year disclosure ruleNiigata, Sendai, Sapporo, Fukuoka and Tokyo, Japan
  155. Henry Moore: Henry Moore in workshop Allan Warren (cropped)1986Thieves stole Henry Moore's 2-ton Reclining Figure, valued at 3 million pounds, from his foundation in 2005 and police believe it was sold for scrap worth under 3,000 poundsPerry Green, Hertfordshire
  156. L. Ron Hubbard: L. Ron Hubbard in 1950 (cropped 3x4)1986L. Ron Hubbard was cremated and his ashes scattered at sea within a day of his death in January 1986, after his son had sued to have him declared deadCreston, San Luis Obispo County, California
  157. Coluche: Press conference with French humorist Coluche about the Restos du Coeur in Strasbourg on 20 February 19861986Coluche left 6.1 million francs of debt in 1986, his ex-wife refused the estate, and his sons spent 28 years suing over his sketchesOpio, Alpes-Maritimes, France
  158. Georgia O'Keeffe1986Georgia O'Keeffe's late codicils left most of a $65 million estate to her assistant, 58 years younger, and her family suedSanta Fe, New Mexico
  159. AI illustration: A police cordon on a Madrid street at dawn, 19861986ETA killed the 17th Duke of Veragua, a descendant of Columbus and a Spanish vice admiral, in Madrid in 1986Madrid, Spain
  160. Jorge Luis Borges: Jorge Luis Borges 1951, by Grete Stern (full)1986Borges left everything to the woman he married seven weeks before he died; she died without a willGeneva, Switzerland
  161. AI illustration: A family trust document on a kitchen table in a Chicago suburb, 20091986Max Feinberg's trust treated any grandchild who married outside Judaism as dead, and the Illinois Supreme Court let it standCook County, Illinois
  162. Map of Kenya, marked on the globe1986Kenya's Court of Appeal gave S.M. Otieno's body to his brother and clan over his widow's objection, and he lay unburied for 140 daysNairobi and Nyamila, Nyalgunga, Siaya County, Kenya
  163. Ricky Nelson: Decca Records Rick Nelson 19661985Ricky Nelson died in a plane fire owing money; his ex-wife tried to take over the estate, lost, then fought her brother Mark Harmon for custody of their sonDe Kalb, Texas
  164. Orson Welles: Orson Welles, photographed by Carl Van Vechten1985Orson Welles's daughter Beatrice sued his partner Oja Kodar, fought her over The Other Side of the Wind, and lost her claim to the Citizen Kane copyrightLos Angeles, California
  165. Marc Chagall: Shagal Choumoff1985Chagall's heirs paid his death duties with 46 paintings and 406 drawings, and his granddaughters' committee seized a £100,000 fake to destroy itSaint-Paul-de-Vence, France
  166. Rock Hudson - portrait1985A jury found Rock Hudson hid his AIDS from his lover and awarded $21.75 million against his estateLos Angeles, California
  167. Philip Larkin: Ocean, Humphrey; Philip Larkin; National Portrait Gallery, London, copyright owned by Humphrey Ocean, permission given to publish on Wikipedia1985Philip Larkin's secretary shredded his 30 volumes of diaries after he died, on an instruction his will did not spell outHull, England
  168. Jackie Wilson: Jackie Wilson 19611984Jackie Wilson spent eight years in a coma under a court-appointed guardian, died $300,000 in debt, and was buried in an unmarked graveMount Holly, New Jersey
  169. Maharana Pratap: Maharana Pratap By Surendra Singh Shaktawat1984A Maharana's will gave Udaipur's City Palace to his younger son, and 41 years later the heirs threw stones at its gatesCity Palace, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India
  170. Map of Italy, marked on the globe1984Lord Brooke sold Warwick Castle to Madame Tussauds for £1.3 million in 1978, ending 374 years of Greville ownershipRome
  171. Jackie Coogan: Jackie Coogan 19621984Jackie Coogan earned $3 million as a child; $252,000 was left when he sued his motherCalifornia
  172. Truman Capote: Truman Capote by Jack Mitchell1984Truman Capote's ashes were divided, stolen at a party, returned in a garden hose, and auctioned in 2016Bel Air, Los Angeles
  173. Marvin Gaye: Marvin Gaye in 19731984Marvin Gaye was shot dead by his father, left no will and $9 million in debt, and his children won the "Blurred Lines" caseLos Angeles, California
  174. Anna Anderson: AnnaAnderson19221984Anna Anderson claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia for 64 years and fought German courts for 32 years for the Romanov moneyCharlottesville, Virginia, USA
  175. Meyerlansky: Meyer Lansky, mugshot of New York Police Departement1983The FBI believed Meyer Lansky had $300 million hidden; he died in Miami with less than $35,000 in the bankMiami Beach, Florida, USA; Herzliya, Israel
  176. Dennis Wilson: Dennis Wilson 1982 (portrait crop)1983Dennis Wilson's estranged wife had him buried at sea with White House help, against his brother's plan to bury him beside their fatherMarina del Rey, California
  177. Arthur Koestler: Arthur Koestler (1969)1983Arthur Koestler and his wife Cynthia died together in 1983; his 1 million pound estate paid for a parapsychology chair after four universities declined it8 Montpelier Square, London
  178. Tennessee Williams: Tennessee Williams NYWTS1983Tennessee Williams left his $10 million estate to Sewanee and his brother $25,000; the brother sued for undue influence and settled for $100,000New York City
  179. George Balanchine: George Balanchine (1965)1983Balanchine's 1983 will split the rights to about 100 ballets among a handful of friends, and the heirs formed a TrustNew York City
  180. AI illustration: The Manhattan Surrogate's Court building on Chambers Street, 19861983A Johnson & Johnson heir left $400 million to the maid he married, and his six children suedFort Pierce, Florida
  181. Muddy Waters: Muddy Waters november 19761983Muddy Waters' heirs spent 35 years fighting his manager over his copyrightsWestmont, Illinois
  182. AI illustration: A sealed case of royal jewels on a shelf in a Bank of Italy vault, Rome1983Italy's crown jewels have sat in a Bank of Italy vault since 1946, and a Rome court ruled in 2025 they belong to the stateGeneva, Switzerland
  183. Indian Land for Sale: United States Department of the Interior advertisement offering 'Indian Land for Sale'. The man pictured is a Yankton Sioux named Not Afraid Of Pawnee.1983A 40-acre allotment had 439 owners, Congress let tiny shares pass to the tribe instead of the heirs, and the Supreme Court struck the law down twiceSouth Dakota, USA
  184. Scaffolding, under Blackfriars Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 3472781: Scaffolding, under Blackfriars Bridge1982God's banker was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge with bricks in his pockets, and the Vatican bank paid $250 million to his bank's creditorsBlackfriars Bridge, London, England; Rome, Italy
  185. Randy Rhoads: RandyRhoads19801982Randy Rhoads's mother gave filmmakers his photos for a documentary that never came out, and an appeals court let them publish a book insteadLeesburg, Florida
  186. Ayn Rand: Photo portrait of Russian-American writer Ayn Rand used for the first-edition back cover of her novel The Fountainhead (1943).1982Ayn Rand's heir kept the first and last pages of The Fountainhead manuscript; the Library of Congress took them from his home in January 2002New York
  187. Vic Morrow: Cropped screenshot showing Vic Morrow, from movie trailer of 1955 film Blackboard Jungle1982A helicopter killed Vic Morrow and two child actors on the Twilight Zone set in 1982, and director John Landis and four others were tried for manslaughter and acquitted in 1987Indian Dunes, Valencia, California
  188. Rainer Werner Fassbinder: PER51895 0611982Fassbinder's first wife said the head of his foundation invented a marriage to him to control his estate, and 25 colleagues demanded she resignMunich, West Germany
  189. AI illustration: Whaling factory ships moored at Sandefjord, Norway, 1950s1982Whaling magnate Anders Jahre denied owning a fortune abroad, and Norway spent 30 years after his death recovering about 1 billion kronerSandefjord, Norway
  190. Map of Eswatini, marked on the globe1982Swaziland's royal council deposed Queen Regent Dzeliwe in 1983 after Sobhuza II diedMbabane, Eswatini
  191. Palden Thondup Namgyal: Palden Thondup Namgyal, 12th and last Chogyal (king) of Sikkim.1982Indian troops disarmed Sikkim's palace guard in 1975; the last king died in New York, his heir died on a mountain road, and a federal committee was still deciding which palace property the family ownsMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA; Gangtok, Sikkim, India
  192. Alfred S. Bloomingdale: Alfred Bloomingdale1982Alfred Bloomingdale's mistress sued his dying body for palimony, was beaten to death a year later, and her estate won $200,000Los Angeles, California, USA
  193. Natalie Wood: Natalie Wood Allan Warren1981Natalie Wood drowned off Santa Catalina Island in 1981, and in 2012 the Los Angeles coroner changed her death certificate to "drowning and other undetermined factors"Catalina Island, California
  194. Bob Marley: Bob Marley circa 1976 (cropped)1981Bob Marley died without a will, and his widow forged his signature to move his companies into her nameCedars of Lebanon Hospital, Miami
  195. Harpur-Crewe baronets: Calke Abbey house1981Charles Harpur-Crewe died in 1981, an £8 million tax bill fell on Calke Abbey, and the house went to the nation with everything in itCalke Abbey, Ticknall, Derbyshire, England
  196. Joe Louis: Joe Louis by van Vechten1981Joe Louis owed the IRS more than $1 million and ended his life as a casino greeter in Las VegasLas Vegas, Nevada
  197. A residential area in Umuahia: A residential area in Umuahia1981Nigeria's Supreme Court upheld Gladys Ukeje's share of her father's Lagos estate and declared the Igbo rule excluding daughters void in 2014Lagos, Nigeria
  198. Rumtek Monastery 01: Plaque of Rumtek Monastery, Sikkim, India1981The 16th Karmapa died in Illinois in 1981; two rival successors were enthroned, and the Black Crown he left at Rumtek has gone unused sinceZion, Illinois, USA; Rumtek Monastery, Sikkim, India
  199. Budapest, Hungarian National Museum, Seuso treasure, ewer: Budapest, Hungarian National Museum, Seuso treasure, ewer, 4th century1980A Hungarian soldier was found hanged beside an empty pit in 1980, and the Roman silver he is believed to have dug up sold for €43 millionPolgárdi, Fejér County, Hungary
  200. Derrynaflan chalice: Derrynaflan chalice1980A father and son found a medieval church hoard with metal detectors; the High Court gave them £5.5 million, and the Supreme Court gave the state the hoardDerrynaflan, County Tipperary, Ireland
  201. Orapa Diamond Mine, Botswana (ASTER): The Orapa diamond mine is the world's largest diamond mine by area. The mine is located in Botswana. It is the oldest of four mines operated b1980Britain barred Seretse Khama from his chieftaincy for marrying an Englishwoman, and as Botswana's president he signed his people's mining land over to the state without compensationSerowe, Botswana
  202. John Lennon: John Lennon, cropped photograph taken by Jack Mitchell for the New York Times, November 2, 1980.1980John Lennon's will left everything to a trust run by Yoko Ono, and his son Julian sued for 16 yearsNew York City
  203. John Lennon 1969 (cropped): Collectie / Archief : Fotocollectie Anefo Reportage / Serie : [ onbekend ] Beschrijving : John Lennon en echtgenote Yoko Ono vertrekken van Schiphol naa1980John Lennon's diaries and watch were stolen from Yoko Ono's home and taken to Berlin; Switzerland's top court ruled the watch hers in 2024The Dakota, New York City, New York, USA
  204. Nina Kandinsky: Portrait de Nina Kandinsky, Hugo Erfurth, 19241980Nina Kandinsky was strangled at her Gstaad chalet in 1980, about $2 million of her jewellery was stolen, and no one has been chargedGstaad, Switzerland
  205. Jean-Paul Sartre: Jean Paul Sartre 19651980Sartre adopted Arlette Elkaïm and made her his heir, so Simone de Beauvoir had no legal say over his work and adopted a daughter of her ownParis, France
  206. Hilmar Reksten: HilmarReksten1980Norway bought shipowner Hilmar Reksten's shares in 1975 while his fortune sat hidden abroad; his estate went bankrupt and his heir paid back 60 million kronerBergen, Norway
  207. AI illustration: A cotton textile mill in the Vosges, France, 1970s1980Marcel Boussac, France's richest man in 1951 and Dior's backer, died ruined; his collapsed group became Bernard Arnault's startDammarie-sur-Loing, Loiret
  208. Peter Sellers: Peter Sellers at home in Belgravia, London, 19731980Peter Sellers signed a trust for his daughter the day he collapsed; his widow kept a £4 million estateLondon, England
  209. AI illustration: A burned-out car on a street in Asunción, Paraguay, 19801980Nicaragua's Decree 3 confiscated Somoza family property in 1979, and Somoza was killed in Asunción in 1980Asunción, Paraguay
  210. AI illustration: 650 Fifth Avenue, the New York tower built by the Pahlavi Foundation1980Iran sued the exiled Shah in New York for billions, lost, and the tower his foundation built ended up paying terror victims $318 millionCairo, Egypt
  211. H. L. Hunt: H. L. Hunt (American oil magnate, 1965)1980H.L. Hunt's sons bought a third of the world's silver, lost more than $1 billion, and filed for bankruptcy after a Peruvian state company won in courtDallas, Texas, and New York, USA
  212. Samuel Newhouse: Undated photo of Samuel Newhouse, business person in the mining industry1979The IRS valued Samuel Newhouse's newspaper shares at $1.32 billion and sought a $305 million fraud penalty, and the Tax Court sided with his sonsStaten Island, New York, USA
  213. John Wayne: John Wayne - still portrait1979John Wayne's heirs ended an 11-year trademark fight with Duke University after agreeing that no letter of DUKE on their liquor will be blueUCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
  214. Sid Vicious: Sid Vicious 1978 (cropped)1979Sid Vicious asked to be buried beside Nancy Spungen; her mother said no, and his mother scattered his ashes on the grave anyway63 Bank Street, Greenwich Village, New York
  215. Jean Seberg: Jean seberg panorama 19631979The FBI planted a false story about Jean Seberg's pregnancy in 1970, admitted it in 1979, and she was found dead in her car in ParisParis, France
  216. Darryl F. Zanuck: Darryl F. Zanuck 19641979A French woman sued Darryl F. Zanuck's estate for $15 million in 1980, saying his son had her cut from the will; the case ended in 1988 with her claim going to a universityPalm Springs, California
  217. Raul Gardini1979Raul Gardini ran his in-laws' Ferruzzi group, was voted out in 1991 and shot himself in 1993 as it collapsed with 31,000 billion lire of debtRomagna, Italy (plane crash); Milan (Gardini)
  218. AI illustration: The harbour of Monaco at dusk, late 1970s1979Charles Clore moved to Monaco to avoid tax, and the Revenue proved after his death that he was still EnglishThe London Clinic, London
  219. AI illustration: The beach at Golden Beach, Florida, on a rough day, 19791979Rams owner Carroll Rosenbloom drowned, his widow inherited 70 percent of the team, fired his son and moved the team to St. LouisGolden Beach, Florida
  220. Conrad Hilton: Conrad Hilton (croped)1979Conrad Hilton left his hotel shares to his foundation, and his son Barron spent 10 years in court winning them backSanta Monica, California
  221. Peggy Guggenheim: Peggy Guggenheim, Lo Specchio (1958) (cropped)1979Peggy Guggenheim's grandsons sued the Guggenheim Foundation in Paris to undo her gift of the Venice collection and lostCamposampiero, near Padua, Italy
  222. Remains of the Plasco Building: نمایی از بقایای ساختمان پلاسکو، بهمن ۱۳۹۶1979Iran's revolutionary court had plastics maker Habib Elghanian shot in 1979, and the state took the tower he builtTehran, Iran
  223. Barbara Hutton: Barbara Hutton on a ship (cropped)1979Barbara Hutton inherited the Woolworth fortune at 21, married seven times, and died with $3,500 in the bankBeverly Wilshire Hotel, Beverly Hills, California, USA
  224. Norman Rockwell: Rockwell-Norman-LOC1978Norman Rockwell's sons sued to stop the Berkshire Museum selling paintings he gave it, and Shuffleton's Barbershop went to George Lucas's museumStockbridge, Massachusetts, USA
  225. Bob Crane: Bob Crane Colonel Hogan 19691978Bob Crane was bludgeoned to death in 1978, left everything to his estranged second wife, and the 1994 acquittal and 2016 DNA retest never named a killerScottsdale, Arizona
  226. AI illustration: A Florida courthouse in the sun, 19841978J. Roderick MacArthur sued his late father's $1.5 billion foundation in 1984 and asked a court to liquidate itFlorida
  227. Ferrari 330 America fl: Ferrari 330 America1977A Beverly Hills oil widow's will told her brother-in-law to bury her in her Ferrari or lose his inheritance, and a court held her to itBeverly Hills, California, and San Antonio, Texas, USA
  228. Maria Callas: Maria Callas 19581977Maria Callas died without a valid will, her estranged husband and mother split her $8 million, and her ashes were stolenParis, France
  229. Elvis Presley promoting Jailhouse Rock: A photograph promoting the film Jailhouse Rock depicts singer Elvis Presley.1977Elvis Presley's probate judge ruled that Colonel Parker's 50 percent share "shocks the conscience of the court" and ordered the estate to sue himGraceland, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
  230. Charlie Chaplin: Charlie Chaplin portrait Getty 17394119521977Two men stole Charlie Chaplin's coffin for ransom, and his widow refused to payCorsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland
  231. Glensheen1977An heiress and her nurse were killed inside Glensheen, and the adopted daughter who stood to inherit $8 million was acquittedGlensheen, Duluth, Minnesota
  232. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: Jackie Kennedy Color Portrait (3x4 cropped)1977Jacqueline Onassis paid to stop her aunt's eviction from Grey Gardens, and the house sold for $220,000 on condition it not be torn downGrey Gardens, East Hampton, New York
  233. Joan Crawford: JCrawford391977Joan Crawford's will left out Christina and Christopher "for reasons which are well known to them"New York City, New York
  234. Groucho Marx: Groucho Marx - portrait1977Groucho Marx's companion lost the fight over his estate, and his heirs lost the rights to his actLos Angeles, California
  235. Bing Crosby: Bing Crosby Paramount Pictures1977Bing Crosby's sons waited for a trust they could not touch until 65, and their mother's trust went brokeNear Madrid, Spain
  236. Vladimir Nabokov: Vladimir Nabokov 19731977Nabokov told his wife to burn his last novel; it sat in a Swiss bank vault for 32 years before their son published itMontreux, Switzerland
  237. Lynyrd Skynyrd: Lynyrd Skynyrd (1977)1977Lynyrd Skynyrd's widows and survivors used a 1988 court order to block a film about the plane crash, and lost on appealGillsburg, Mississippi
  238. Plowing land for cane planting on Hacienda Luisita, Central Tarlac, P: Plowing land for cane planting on Hacienda Luisita, Central Tarlac, P.I. (Neg. No. 338, July 11, 1929 - R.D. 1976The Cojuangcos bought Hacienda Luisita in 1957 on a promise to sell it to tenants, and the Supreme Court ordered it handed to 6,296 farmworkers in 2011Tarlac, Philippines
  239. Map of Texas, marked on the globe1976Fort Worth oil heir Cullen Davis was tried for killing his stepdaughter and for hiring a hitman to kill his divorce judge, was acquitted, and later listed $865 million in debtsFort Worth, Texas, USA
  240. Ibnu sutowo PYO: Ibnu Sutowo, Menteri Minyak, dan Gas Bumi1976A Pertamina general died with 54 million marks in Singapore accounts in his and his widow's names, and the courts gave it to the state oil company as bribesSingapore, and Jakarta, Indonesia
  241. Bodenreform-Urkunde-1945-1947: Bodenreformurkunde 1947 (weil Saatzuchtgut erst verspätet)1976East Germany gave Junker land to new farmers in 1945, and reunified Germany took it back from their heirs without compensationSaxony-Anhalt, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania and Brandenburg, Germany; European Cou
  242. Florence Ballard: Florence Ballard (1965)1976Florence Ballard was put out of the Supremes, barred from using the name for a $139,804 payment, and was on welfare seven years laterMount Carmel Mercy Hospital, Detroit, Michigan
  243. Howard Hughes: Howard Hughes 19381976Howard Hughes left no valid will, a jury found the Mormon will naming Melvin Dummar a forgery, and Texas and California fought over his death taxesOn a flight to Houston, Texas, USA
  244. Julie Christie: Julie Christie (1997) (2)1976The Man Ray Trust said in 2021 that 148 of 188 lots in a Christie's Paris sale of his assistant's collection lacked clear title; Christie's sold themParis
  245. Eileen Gray: Eileen Gray1976Eileen Gray's furniture was removed from her villa E-1027 and sold at Sotheby's in 1991; the state bought the ruined house in 1999Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France
  246. Agatha Christie: Agatha Christie in Nederland (detectiveschrijfster), bij aankomst op Schiphol me, Bestanddeelnr 916-8898 (cropped)1976Agatha Christie gave her grandson the rights to The Mousetrap as a child, and the company holding her estate was sold three timesWallingford, England
  247. Gordon Getty: Gordon and Ann Getty and children at service for J. Paul Getty (cropped) (2)1976Gordon Getty, sole trustee of the family trust, sold Getty Oil to Texaco, and his nieces petitioned to remove himLos Angeles and Houston
  248. J. Paul Getty: JP Getty 1944 (cropped) (2)1976J. Paul Getty paid part of his kidnapped grandson's ransom and lent the rest to his son at 4% interestSutton Place, Surrey, England
  249. AI illustration: A bedsit room in Pimlico, London, 19761976The 7th Duke of Leinster sold his future inheritance to a moneylender and died in a London bedsitLondon (Pimlico)
  250. Barry Munitz1976Getty Trust chief Barry Munitz resigned in 2006 and paid back $250,000 after reports on his spendingSutton Place, Surrey, England
  251. Umm Kulthum: Umm Kulthum as Fatimah1975Umm Kulthum's heirs sued to pull the biopic "El Sett" from cinemas, and Egypt's Administrative Court ordered them to pay costsCairo, Egypt
  252. The Stooges: Iggy and The Stooges - 45723931871975The Three Stooges' heirs fought each other over royalties, then won the case that set the limits of a dead star's likenessLos Angeles area, California
  253. Francisco Franco: Francisco Franco posed portrait photograph1975Spain's Supreme Court confirmed in March 2026 that Franco's grandchildren must give the Pazo de Meirás to the stateMadrid
  254. Faisal of Saudi Arabia: King Faisal bin Abdulaziz (cropped)(b)1975Saudi King Faisal was shot by his nephew during an audience, and the nephew was beheaded in a Riyadh squareRiyadh, Saudi Arabia
  255. National Palace, Addis Ababa, where the story took place1975Ethiopia's Derg said Haile Selassie died after prostate surgery, and his bones were found under his palace office 16 years laterJubilee Palace, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  256. AI illustration: The green hills of Marin County above San Francisco Bay, 1970s1975Beryl Buck left oil stock for Marin County, Shell's purchase made it worth $253 million, and a court kept it in MarinMarin County, California
  257. Josephine Baker: Baker Harcourt 1940 21975Josephine Baker barricaded herself in the kitchen of her château when it was sold for her debts, and was carried out to the stepsParis; Château des Milandes, Dordogne, France
  258. Amityville house: The house featured by the movie The Amityville Horror, built circa 1924, at 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, New York, United States. By the time this photograph was1974The Amityville house sold for $80,000 after six murders; the family that fled sued, and a judge called their story largely fiction112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, Long Island, New York, USA
  259. Mercer Ellington: Mercer Ellington (cropped)1974Duke Ellington's grandchildren beat their father's estate for his royalties, then lost to EMI over foreign earningsNew York City
  260. Grave of Nick Drake, Tanworth-in-Arden - geograph.org.uk - 6972505: Grave of Nick Drake, Tanworth-in-Arden1974Nick Drake's estate stopped the auction of six unheard 1967 recordings claimed by his friend Beverley MartynTanworth-in-Arden, Warwickshire
  261. Anne Sexton: Anne Sexton, Boston University1974Anne Sexton's psychiatrist gave about 300 therapy tapes to her biographer after her death, with her daughter's consent as literary executor, and ethicists condemned itWeston, Massachusetts
  262. Suicide of Christine Chubbuck: Christine Chubbuck 1974 (HQ)1974Christine Chubbuck shot herself on live television in 1974, and her station's tape has been held privately sinceSarasota, Florida
  263. Charles Lindbergh: Charles Lindbergh (Harris & Ewing photo, cropped)1974Charles Lindbergh had seven secret children in Germany, confirmed by DNA 29 years after his deathKipahulu, Maui, Hawaii
  264. AI illustration: Mysore Palace lit up at night, Mysuru1974Karnataka took Mysore Palace during the Emergency, lost in court in 1997, and passed a law to take it again in 1998Mysore Palace, Mysuru, Karnataka, India
  265. AI illustration: Lower Belgrave Street, London, at night, November 19741974Lord Lucan vanished the night his children's nanny was killed in 1974, and the High Court declared him dead in 2016Last seen at Uckfield, East Sussex
  266. AI illustration: Furniture and paintings laid out for auction inside Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire, 19771974The government refused Mentmore for £2 million, and Sotheby's sold its contents for more than £6 million in 1977Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire
  267. H. L. Hunt: H. L. Hunt (American oil magnate, 1965)1974Oilman H.L. Hunt had three families with 15 children, and the wife from his bigamous marriage sued his heirs four years after his deathDallas, Texas
  268. AI illustration: An old car parked on a Chicago street, 1970s1974A court had ordered Sherman Gordon to support his daughter, but Illinois gave his only asset, a $2,500 car, to his parents and siblingsChicago, Illinois
  269. Louis Kahn: LouisKahn1974Louis Kahn died unidentified in a Penn Station restroom, owing hundreds of thousands of dollars, with three families at his funeralPennsylvania Station, New York
  270. Juan Perón: Official photo of President of Argentina, Juan Domingo Perón, using the presidential sash.1974Thieves cut the hands off Juan Perón's body in 1987 and demanded 8 million dollars, and the judge investigating died in a car crashBuenos Aires, Argentina
  271. Buenos Aires Puerto Madero Porteño 1999-05-01: A 1999 photo of the abandoned grain storage, elevator, and mill complex "El Porteño" in Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires. It was renovated1974Montoneros kidnapped the Born brothers, heirs to Bunge y Born, and freed them after nine months for a reported $60 millionBuenos Aires, Argentina
  272. Rudolf-Dassler: Tombstone of Rudolf Dassler, showing his real birthdate, 29th of April 18981974Puma's founder left everything to one son, the other son won control in court, and the Dassler brothers lie at opposite ends of one cemeteryHerzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany
  273. Jim Croce: Jim Croce publicity portrait ABC Records (cropped)1973Jim Croce's widow sued his producers and their lawyer over the contracts he signed in 1968, and won only against the lawyerNatchitoches, Louisiana
  274. Víctor Jara: Photograph of the Chilean singer-songwriter Víctor Jara performing in Helsinki at a protest against the war on Vietnam.1973Soldiers shot Víctor Jara 44 times, his widow buried him in secret, and 50 years later Chile jailed his killers and Florida deported the last oneEstadio Chile, Santiago, Chile
  275. Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Pierre Auguste Renoir, uncropped image1973A French court gave Renoir's assistant Richard Guino co-authorship of the Renoir sculptures in 1973; his heirs won a US infringement verdict against Renoir's great-grandson in 2008France; Arizona, USA
  276. Pearl S. Buck: Pearl S. Buck - 19601973Pearl S. Buck left three contradictory wills, a dance instructor and her seven adopted children fought for six years, and a Vermont court found undue influenceDanby, Vermont
  277. Pablo Picasso: Pablo picasso 11973Picasso died with no will and about 43,000 works, and the French state took its tax in paintingsMougins, France
  278. AI illustration: The fort palace of Mahmudabad, Uttar Pradesh, 1970s1973India's 2005 Supreme Court ruling gave the Raja of Mahmudabad's son back his palaces, and Parliament rewrote the law to take them againLondon
  279. Marjorie Merriweather Post: Marjorie Merriweather Post Hutton Davies NYWTS1973Marjorie Merriweather Post deeded Mar-a-Lago to the nation, and Congress handed it back in a Lake Tahoe land billHillwood, Washington, D.C.
  280. Christabel Russell: Christabel and Geoffrey Russell, 19241973Christabel Russell said she was a virgin when her son was conceived, and the House of Lords made him heir to the Ampthill baronyEngland; buried at Chenies, Buckinghamshire
  281. AI illustration: A notarized paper on a New York lawyer's desk, 1970s1973Mario Lalli called Robert "my son" in a notarized paper, and the Supreme Court still let New York shut him out of the estateNew York
  282. Pablo Neruda, escritor y poeta entregando papeles a un hombre1973Chile dug up Pablo Neruda 40 years after the 1973 coup, and scientists found botulism bacteria in his toothSantiago, Chile
  283. AI illustration: A rented room on Webster Avenue, Chicago, piled with handmade books and painted scrolls, 19731973About 50 distant cousins of Henry Darger sued the landlords who saved his art, 49 years after his deathChicago
  284. J. R. R. Tolkien: J. R. R. Tolkien, ca. 19251973The Tolkien estate sued New Line for $150 million, saying it had received nothing from three films that earned billionsBournemouth, England
  285. Gram Parsons1973Gram Parsons' road manager stole his body from Los Angeles airport and burned it in Joshua TreeJoshua Tree Inn, Yucca Valley, California
  286. AI illustration: A will on a desk in an Ohio lawyer's office, 1970s1973An Ohio doctor's will gave his son seven years to marry a Jewish woman or lose his share to the State of Israel, and the court upheld itMahoning County (Youngstown), Ohio
  287. Eugenio Garza Sada (cropped): The Eugenio Garza Sada Memorial at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education in Monterrey, Nuevo León, México.1973Guerrillas killed Eugenio Garza Sada in a kidnapping attempt in 1973, and his family split the Monterrey Group into fourMonterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
  288. Bruce Lee as Chen Zhen (4x5 cropped): Bruce Lee as Chen Zhen National General Pictures publicity photo distributed for The Chinese Connection1973A Chinese fast-food chain used a Bruce Lee figure as its logo for 15 years, and his daughter sued for 210 million yuanHong Kong; buried in Seattle, Washington, USA
  289. Ezra Pound: Ezra Pound by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1913, collotype photograph, from the National Portrait Gallery, which explicitly releases this image under the CC0 license. It was p1972Ezra Pound spent more than 12 years at St. Elizabeths; his wife held legal control, and after he died the Pound archive was sold to Yale and both claimants were paidVenice, Italy
  290. Ghassan Kanafani: Historical portrait photograph of Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani.1972A car bomb killed Ghassan Kanafani and his 17-year-old niece in Beirut on 8 July 1972, and Mossad is reported to have claimed responsibilityBeirut, Lebanon
  291. Edward VIII: HRH The Prince of Wales No 4 (HS85-10-36416)1972Edward VIII gave up the throne, sold Sandringham and Balmoral to his brother, and hid how much money he hadParis, France
  292. Marie Robertson: Marie Robertson på filmpremiären av Jack Reacher i Filmstaden i Stockholm den 11 december 2012.1972Marie Robertson's heirs sued Princeton over her $35 million gift in 2002 and settled in 2008 with $40 million in legal fees repaidNew York
  293. Said bin Taimur in the United Kingdom - 1939: A picture of the 13th Sultan of Muscat and Oman, and the poet Hilal bin Badr (right) and Abd al-Mun'im al-Zawawi (left) before him1972Oman's sultan was counting his money when his son demanded his abdication in 1970; he fired a pistol, signed, and flew to London that nightSalalah, Oman; London, England
  294. Coco Chanel: Coco Chanel in Los Angeles, 1931 (cropped)1971Coco Chanel used Nazi anti-Jewish laws to try to take her perfume company from the Wertheimers, who had signed it over to an aircraft makerHôtel Ritz, Paris, France
  295. Farnsworth image dissector tube: One of the first experimental video camera tubes, called an image dissector, designed by American engineer Philo T. Farnsworth in 1930.1971RCA fought Philo Farnsworth for the television patent, lost, paid him royalties, and he died in debt while television made others richHolladay, near Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
  296. Jacobo Arbenz 1951 (cropped): Presidente Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán durante su nombramiento como Comandante de las Fuerzas Armadas.1971Arbenz's land law took 234,000 acres from United Fruit; after the 1954 coup the junta seized the Arbenz family farm, and Guatemala apologised to his family in 2011Guatemala City and Finca El Cajón, Escuintla, Guatemala
  297. Igor Stravinsky: Photoportrait of Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. Taken by George Grantham Bain's news picture agency. Source: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014712545/1971Stravinsky's widow and children litigated his estate for four years, and the dispute over the royalties reached a New York appeals court in 2003New York, United States
  298. Louis Armstrong: Louis Armstrong in Color (restored)1971Louis Armstrong's will said he had no children, his widow's nieces contested her will, and his letter called a girl born in 1955 his "Little Satchmo"Queens, New York
  299. AI illustration: A grave covered in flowers and candles among the tombs of Père Lachaise cemetery, Paris, one single continuous view1971Jim Morrison left everything to Pamela Courson; she died three years later without a will, and both sets of parents fought for The Doors' moneyParis, France
  300. Idi Amin: Idi Amin at UN (United Nations, New York)1971Idi Amin seized the Madhvani sugar estate in 1972; the widow came back to one working tractor, and the heirs split again in 2020Kakira, Jinja, Uganda
  301. Kevadon (thalidomide), 1960: In 1960, the FDA received a new drug application for a sedative, thalidomide, used for years in other countries to treat a variety of maladies, includi1970Grünenthal paid 100 million marks into a foundation for thalidomide victims, and a 1971 law wiped out their claims against the companyStolberg and Aachen, Germany
  302. Map of North Carolina, marked on the globe1970Two brothers spent eight years in jail for refusing to leave their grandfather's heirs' property on Silver Dollar Roadnear Beaufort, Carteret County, North Carolina, USA
  303. Janis Joplin: Janis Joplin 19701970Janis Joplin changed her will two days before she died and left $2,500 for her friends to throw a partyLandmark Motor Hotel, Los Angeles, California
  304. Barnett Newman: Newman Barnett1970Barnett Newman's "Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III" was slashed in Amsterdam in 1986; a $400,000 restoration was judged to have destroyed itNew York City
  305. Yukio Mishima: Yukio Mishima, 1955 (cropped 850×950 px)1970Mishima's widow boycotted Paul Schrader's 1985 film, and his children won a copyright suit over his lettersIchigaya, Tokyo
  306. Mark Rothko: Consuelo Kanaga (American, 1894-1978). Mark Rothko, Yorktown Heights, ca. 1949. Gelatin silver photograph, 10 x 8in. (25.4 x 20.3cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Wallace 1970Mark Rothko's executors sold 798 of his paintings to a gallery one of them worked for, and his 19-year-old daughter suedNew York City
  307. Jimi Hendrix: Jimi Hendrix (1967) (cropped)1970Jimi Hendrix died with no will, and his father's will later cut his brother out of an $80 million estateSamarkand Hotel, Notting Hill, London
  308. AI illustration: Police cars at night outside an apartment building on Via Puccini, Rome, 19701970Marquis Casati Stampa shot his wife, her lover and himself; his daughter inherited at 19 and sold Arcore to Berlusconi for unlisted sharesVia Puccini 9, Rome
  309. House of the Gyeongju Choe Clan: House of the Gyeongju Choe Clan in the Gyochon Traditional Village.1970A Korean family gave away 300 years of wealth to found a college, and the government merged it and named Park Chung-hee its founderGyeongju and Daegu, South Korea
  310. Ekofisk Central 1983: This 1983 photo shows the concrete based Ekofisk central platform1969Phillips Petroleum found Ekofisk on its last required well in 1969, and Norway saved the oil money in a fund for future generationsOslo, Norway, and North Sea block 2/4
  311. 2012 Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum: Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, Hanoi.1969Ho Chi Minh's will asked for cremation and his ashes split three ways; the Politburo embalmed him, cut the request from the published will and moved his death date by a dayHanoi, Vietnam
  312. Judy Garland: Judy Garland publicity photo1969Judy Garland's fifth husband buried her in New York; 48 years later her children moved her to HollywoodCadogan Lane, Belgravia, London
  313. John Kennedy Toole: 1954 Yearbook photo of John Kennedy Toole1969John Kennedy Toole's mother got A Confederacy of Dunces published, then fought a bookseller and Toole's relatives over The Neon Bible until 1989Biloxi, Mississippi
  314. Sharon Tate: Sharon Tate Valley of the Dolls 1967 - Restoration1969After Sharon Tate's murder her mother Doris backed California's 1982 Victims' Bill of Rights and became the first victim's relative to speak at a state parole hearing10050 Cielo Drive, Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles
  315. Jack Kerouac: Kerouac by Palumbo 2 (cropped)1969A Florida judge ruled that the will giving Jack Kerouac's estate to his widow's family was forged, and the ruling changed nothingSt. Petersburg, Florida
  316. AI illustration: A painting crated and sealed in a New York museum storeroom, 19981969A Schiele portrait lent to MoMA was seized in New York as Nazi loot, and the Vienna museum paid the owner's heirs $19 million to keep itLondon
  317. AI illustration: Soldiers storm the Lubiri palace walls in Mengo, Kampala, 19661969The Kabaka of Buganda climbed his palace wall to escape the army, and died in a London flat three years laterLondon, England
  318. Varikkassery maa: Varikkassery mana Varikkasseri Mana (Malayalam: വരിക്കാശേരി മന), alternatively known as Varikkumanchery Mana, is one of the oldest traditional aristocratic Namboo1969Kerala tradition says Parashurama gave the land to Brahmins; only eldest Namboodiri sons could marry so estates never split, and land reform took them in 1969Kerala, India
  319. Frankie Lymon: Frankie Lymon1968Three women claimed to be Frankie Lymon's widow, and New York courts had to decide who owned his share of "Why Do Fools Fall in Love"New York City
  320. Martin Luther King Jr.: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Lyndon Johnson (cropped)1968Martin Luther King Jr.'s estate sued his daughter in 2014 to take his Nobel medal and Bible for sale, and a judge locked both in a bank boxMemphis, Tennessee, USA
  321. Marcel Duchamp: French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)1968Marcel Duchamp worked in secret for 20 years on Étant donnés; it was moved to Philadelphia under his 1966 instructions after he died in 1968Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
  322. AI illustration: A farmhouse in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, late 1960s1968Ezra Vincent signed a paper acknowledging his daughter, and in 1971 the Supreme Court let his brothers and sisters take his whole estateRapides Parish, Louisiana
  323. John Steinbeck: John Steinbeck 1939 (cropped)1968A jury awarded John Steinbeck's stepdaughter more than $13 million against his son's family for blocking films of his novelsNew York
  324. Assis Chateaubriand: Senador Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Mello1968Assis Chateaubriand had Vargas change the law to win custody of his daughter, gave his media empire to 22 employees, and that daughter lost the fight to recover it in 2014São Paulo, Brazil
  325. Mohammad Mosaddeq, Ahmadabad 1967: Mohammad Mosaddeq (1882-1967), Iranian Prime Minister and a major political figure in the modern history of Iran. This photograph was taken ca 191967Mossadegh nationalised Iran's oil, was overthrown in a CIA and MI6 coup, and was buried under the floor of his own houseAhmadabad, Iran
  326. John Coltrane: Amerikaanse jazz-saxofonist John Coltrane op Schiphol aangekomen. John Coltrane1967A cousin with only a life estate sold John Coltrane's Philadelphia house for $100,000, and his sons sued to take it backHuntington, New York
  327. Brian Epstein: Collectie / Archief : Fotocollectie Anefo Reportage / Serie : [ onbekend ] Beschrijving : Aankomst Brian Epstein (manager Beatles) op Schiphol (Grand Gala du Disque 1967Brian Epstein died at 32 owed 25 percent of the Beatles' royalties for nine years, and his mother sold that claim to a City investment trustLondon, England
  328. Josephine Hopper: The Art Student, 1906. Portrait of Miss Josephine Nivision, later known as Jo Hopper, by Robert Henri.1967Jo Hopper left the Whitney more than 3,000 Edward Hopper works in 1968; a critic alleges a Nyack minister who shared the residue took hundreds more, and the museum has declined to pursue itNew York City
  329. Jayne Mansfield: Jayne Mansfield (Kiss Them For Me) - Color1967Jayne Mansfield's estate was appraised at $600,000 in 1967; by 1977 her children found about $500,000 in debts and the estate insolventU.S. Highway 90 near the Rigolets Bridge, Louisiana
  330. Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach: Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach1967Alfried Krupp was convicted at Nuremberg, got his property back in 1951, and left the firm to a foundation instead of his sonEssen, West Germany
  331. Janusz Radziwiłł (1612–1655): Portrait of Janusz Radziwiłł (1612–1655).1967Prince Janusz Radziwiłł lost about 43,700 hectares to Soviet and communist seizure, and his wife died in NKVD custodyWarsaw
  332. Felix Yusupov: Prince Felix Yusupov1967Prince Felix Yusupov sold two Rembrandts to Joseph Widener with a buy-back option, raised the money, and lost them in courtParis
  333. Lobkowicz family: Lobkowitz-fuerstliches-Wappen1967The Lobkowicz family lost its castles to the Nazis in 1939 and the Communists in 1948, and a grandson spent 12 years recovering the Prague palaceDover, Massachusetts
  334. AI illustration: Soldiers blast open the Qing imperial tombs at the Eastern Qing Tombs, 19281967China's last emperor kept his title and palace after abdicating, and soldiers blew open his ancestors' tombsBeijing, China
  335. AI illustration: Villa Hügel, the Krupp family house above the Ruhr at Essen, 19671967Arndt von Bohlen und Halbach gave up the Krupp inheritance for 2 million marks a year so a foundation could own the companyEssen, West Germany
  336. Sarah Rector Birth Record: Birth Record (affidavit) of en:Sarah Rector.1967Oil on an 11-year-old Creek Freedwoman's allotment brought her $300 a day, a white guardian took charge, and W. E. B. Du Bois wrote to her judge about reports she was being cheatedTaft, Oklahoma, USA
  337. Usman Ali Khan: His Exalted Highness, the Nizam of Hyderabad, Osman Ali Khan, is pictured in an official photo wearing his coronation robes.1967Three days after Hyderabad surrendered in 1948, its minister moved £1 million to Pakistan's envoy; a London court gave it back to the Nizam's heirs 71 years laterHyderabad, India; NatWest (formerly Westminster Bank), London
  338. Che Guevara: Ernesto Guevara. Retrato. ca.19451967Bolivian officers cut off Che Guevara's hands in 1967, a minister had them smuggled toward Cuba in a jar, and his body was found under an airstrip 30 years laterLa Higuera and Vallegrande, Bolivia
  339. Bin Ladin: Bin Ladin building. Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 2004. Photo by Bertil Videt.1967Mohammed bin Laden's sons ran his construction group for decades, and three of them signed their shares over to the state while detainedJeddah and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  340. AI illustration: An office tower on the flat prairie outside Wichita, Kansas, 1980s1967Bill Koch sold his stake for $1.1 billion, sued his brothers for more, lost, and settled after 20 yearsWichita, Kansas, USA
  341. Alberto Giacometti: Title [Giacometti] PK-F-A.06801 Creator/other Andriesse, Emmy (1914-1953) Shelfmark PK-F-A.06801 Subject (topical) PortraitsMen (male humans)ArtistsSculptors Su1966A forger sold about 1,300 fake Giacometti sculptures over ten years, German police seized more than 1,150 suspect works in 2009, and a Stuttgart court gave dealers two-year suspended sentencesChur, Switzerland
  342. Claude Monet: Portrait photograph of the French impressionist painter Claude Monet by Nadar1966Monet's last heir died in a car crash on 3 February 1966 and left Giverny and his father's paintings to the Académie des Beaux-ArtsVernon, France
  343. Lenny Bruce: Lenny Bruce 19611966Lenny Bruce died broke in 1966 with an appeal pending, and New York pardoned him in 2003Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles
  344. AI illustration: The Khas Bagh palace of the Nawabs of Rampur, 19661966The Nawab of Rampur's eldest son took all his private property in 1966; after 53 years the Supreme Court split it among 16 heirsRampur, Uttar Pradesh, India
  345. Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne: Bryan Guinness in Taormina, Italy, 19291966Guinness heir Tara Browne died at 21 before his £1 million inheritance, and his mother won custody of his sonsRedcliffe Gardens, South Kensington, London, England
  346. Elie Cohen at his Damascus residence in 1963: Elie Cohen at his Damascus residence in 1963. Elie Cohen, the Israeli spy known in Syria at the time by the alias Kamel Amin Thabit, w1965Syria hanged Israeli spy Eli Cohen in 1965 and kept his body; 60 years later the Mossad brought back his will and the keys to his Damascus flat, but not his remainsDamascus, Syria; Jerusalem
  347. W. Somerset Maugham: Maugham retouched1965Somerset Maugham tried to disinherit his daughter in 1962 to adopt his secretary Alan Searle; a 21-month case in British and French courts barred the adoptionFrance
  348. T. S. Eliot: Thomas Stearns ('T.S.') Eliot with his sister and his cousin, by Lady Ottoline Morrell (died 1938). See source website for additional information.1965T. S. Eliot's 1,131 letters to Emily Hale stayed sealed at Princeton for 60 years, and Harvard released his own denial the same dayLondon, England
  349. AI illustration: Coffee beans pouring from a roaster in a Hamburg roastery, 20011965Tchibo heir Günter Herz was forced out by his family in 2001 and sold out with his sister for an estimated $5 billionHamburg
  350. Farouk of Egypt: Farouk-King-1965King Farouk left Egypt on his yacht, and one of his gold coins later sold for $18.9 millionRome, Italy
  351. Statue of a Victorious Youth, front - Getty Museum (77.AB.30): Ancient Greek bronze sculpture in the Getty Villa1964Italian fishermen netted a Greek bronze in 1964, Italy's courts acquitted the sellers, and decades later ordered it confiscated from the GettyAdriatic Sea off Pedaso and Fano, Italy; Malibu, California, USA
  352. Vasily Grossman: Grossman V.S1964The KGB seized Vasily Grossman's novel and every draft in 1961, and the FSB gave the papers to a state archive in 2013, not to his heirsMoscow, Russia
  353. Ian Fleming: Ian Fleming c. 1958 (cropped)1964Ian Fleming had two heart attacks during the Thunderball trial, settled, and died nine months laterCanterbury, England
  354. AI illustration: A bank transfer order on a field desk inside the Malinta Tunnel, Corregidor, 19421964Philippine Executive Order No. 1 paid MacArthur $500,000 in 1942, and the payment stayed secret until 1979Washington, D.C.
  355. Sam Cooke: Sam Cooke 21964Sam Cooke was shot by a motel manager who then sued his estate, and his manager's company already owned his recordingsHacienda Motel, Los Angeles
  356. Tsutsumi Yasuzirou1: 堤康次郎（Tsutsumi Yasuzirou）1964Seibu's founder left his railway empire to his third son over the eldest, and that son was convicted in 2005 over shares kept in other people's namesTokyo, Japan
  357. Édith Piaf: Studio photo1963Edith Piaf's body was driven secretly from Grasse to Paris so her death could be announced there, and her husband inherited her debtsPlascassier, Grasse, France
  358. Patsy Cline: Patsy Cline promotional photograph, circa 1957.1963Patsy Cline's brother sued her sister over Patsy's stage clothes, and a judge ordered the dresses sold to pay the lawyernear Camden, Tennessee (plane crash)
  359. C. S. Lewis: CS Lewis photo on dust jacket1963A Lewis scholar says he saved C. S. Lewis's papers from a bonfire; a critic charged in 1988 that the story and an unfinished novel were a hoaxOxford, England
  360. Sylvia Plath1963Sylvia Plath died separated but not divorced, so Ted Hughes inherited her work and destroyed her last journalLondon
  361. Rikidōzan: Rikidōzan1963Rikidōzan hid that he was Korean, died of a yakuza stab wound, and left his 22-year-old widow president of five companies and a reported 3 billion yen of debtTokyo, Japan
  362. Oregon Supreme Court Building circa 1922: Oregon Supreme Court Building in Salem. From: Carey, Charles Henry. (1922). History of Oregon. Pioneer Historical Publishing Co.1962Oregon claimed a dead woman's estate because her only heirs lived in East Germany, and the Supreme Court ruled in 1968 that a state cannot run its own Cold War through probateOregon, USA; East Germany
  363. Marilyn Monroe: A glamorous Marilyn Monroe in a red dress, taken for publicity purposes for 1953 film How to Marry a Millionaire.1962Marilyn Monroe's executor told tax officials she lived in New York, so a court barred her estate's company from claiming California image rightsBrentwood, Los Angeles, California, USA
  364. AI illustration: Power lines and a hydroelectric dam of the Catalan power network, 1950s1962Juan March bought Barcelona Traction bonds, had the company declared bankrupt in Reus and took Catalonia's power networkMadrid
  365. Ernie Kovacs: Ernie kovacs 19561962Ernie Kovacs's mother sued his widow, Edie Adams, over how she paid his tax debtsLos Angeles, California
  366. Solomon-linda: Solomon Linda in 1941 (color corrected version)1962Solomon Linda sold "Mbube" for 10 shillings, and his daughters seized Disney's South African trademarks to win a share of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"Johannesburg, South Africa
  367. Patrice Lumumba, 1960: Portrait of Patrice Lumumba1961A Belgian police officer kept Lumumba's tooth after dissolving his body in acid; Belgium returned it in 2022, and the last suspect died before trial in 2026Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Brussels, Belgium; Kinshasa, Democrat
  368. Sarita Kenedy East: Sarita Kenedy East, rancher and philanthropist of South Texas1961Ranch heiress Sarita Kenedy East left her fortune to a foundation controlled by a Trappist monk, and more than 200 people claimed to be her heirsKenedy County, Texas, USA (died in New York City)
  369. Dashiell Hammett: Dashiell Hammett 19511961The US government seized Dashiell Hammett's royalties for back taxes, and after he died Lillian Hellman took control of his copyrightsNew York
  370. AI illustration: Soldiers guard the gates of a confiscated Trujillo family estate, Dominican Republic, 19621961The Dominican Republic confiscated the Trujillo family's property by law in 1962, and his remains lie in a cemetery near MadridNear Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
  371. Ernest Hemingway's home in Havana, Cuba LCCN2010638847: Title: Ernest Hemingway's home in Havana, Cuba Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color. Notes: Heming1961Ernest Hemingway's widow gave his Cuban house to Castro's government in 1961 and shipped his papers and paintings out on a shrimp boatSan Francisco de Paula, Havana, Cuba
  372. Kottayam Cheria Pally01: Cheria Pally Church outside in Kottayam, Kerala, India selfmade by pitichinaccio, 26 Dec 20051960Mary Roy's brother told her to leave their father's cottage, she sued, and the Supreme Court gave Kerala's Syrian Christian daughters equal shares back to 1951Kottayam, Kerala, India
  373. Zora Neale Hurston: Hurston-Zora-Neale-LOC1960A yardman burned Zora Neale Hurston's belongings after she died in a county welfare home in 1960, and a deputy sheriff put out the fireFort Pierce, Florida
  374. Richard Wright: Portrait of Richard Wright1960Richard Wright died in a Paris clinic in 1960; his daughter and friends said the US government may have had him killedEugene Gibez clinic, Paris
  375. AI illustration: The palaces of Bhopal above the Upper Lake, 19601960Bhopal's heiress left for Pakistan, her sister's line took the palaces, and in 2025 a court reopened Saif Ali Khan's inheritanceBhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
  376. Loretta Young: Loretta young studio portrait1960Loretta Young hid her daughter by Clark Gable in orphanages, then "adopted" her, and admitted the truth only in a book published after her deathLos Angeles, California
  377. Fausto Coppi: Fausto Coppi, Tour de France 1952 01 (cropped)1960Fausto Coppi's son was born in Argentina so he could carry the Coppi name, because Italian law made him another man's sonTortona, Italy
  378. AI illustration: Boris Pasternak's wooden dacha at Peredelkino in snow, 19601960Eleven weeks after Boris Pasternak died, the Soviet state arrested his companion over his Doctor Zhivago royalties and sent her to a camp for eight yearsPeredelkino, USSR
  379. Map of Cuba, marked on the globe1960Cuba seized the Havana docks in 1960, a US company won more than $100 million from each of four cruise lines, and the Supreme Court revived its claim in 2026Havana, Cuba
  380. Siriraj Bimuksthan Museum 2023: ด้านหน้าของพิพิธภัณฑ์ศิริราชพิมุขสถานและอดีตที่ตั้งของสถานีรถไฟธนบุรี ในปี 20231959Thailand executed Si Quey in 1959 and a hospital museum displayed his embalmed body as a "cannibal" for 60 years before he was crematedBangkok and Nonthaburi, Thailand
  381. Map of New York, marked on the globe1959Robert Kaufmann left his fortune to the man he lived with, and two New York juries gave it to his brothersNew York City, New York, USA
  382. Buddy Holly: Buddy Holly Brunswick Records1959Buddy Holly's widow charged Lubbock to use his name, and the city renamed its festival and walk of famenear Clear Lake, Iowa
  383. AI illustration: A villa in Hamburg-Blankenese at night, 19961959Cigarette heir Jan Philipp Reemtsma sold his inheritance and was kidnapped for a 30 million mark ransomHamburg
  384. AI illustration: Blank adoption papers and a fountain pen on an empty court clerk's desk in Louisville, Kentucky, 1959, no people1959A Kentucky man adopted his own wife so she could inherit from his mother's trust, and the court refusedLouisville, Kentucky
  385. Frank Lloyd Wright: Frank Lloyd Wright portrait1959Frank Lloyd Wright's grave in Wisconsin was emptied 26 years after his burial, and his body was cremated for ArizonaPhoenix, Arizona
  386. Billie Holiday: Portrait of Billie Holiday and Mister, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., ca. Feb. 1947 (LOC, 5020400274, cropped)1959Billie Holiday died under arrest in a hospital bed with 70 cents in the bankMetropolitan Hospital, New York
  387. Map of Cuba, marked on the globe1959Cuba seized the Arechabala family's Havana Club rum company in 1959, and the family's lapsed US trademark has been in court ever sinceCárdenas, Cuba
  388. 301-es parcella 1988: 301-es parcella (1988)1958Hungary hanged Imre Nagy in 1958 and buried him face down under a woman's name, and over 200,000 people came to his reburial in 1989Budapest, Hungary
  389. AI illustration: Opened and emptied safe-deposit boxes in a Budapest bank vault, 19451958Baron Ferenc Hatvany came out of hiding in 1945 to find his Budapest bank vaults emptied, and a British panel recommended a looted Constable be returned to his heirsLausanne, Switzerland
  390. Alfred Józef Potocki: Alfred Józef Potocki foto (cropped)1958Count Alfred Potocki shipped about 700 crates from Łańcut to Vienna before the Red Army arrived, and the castle became a state museumGeneva
  391. Jack L. Warner: Jack Warner portrait copy1958Jack Warner took control of Warner Bros. in 1956 after his brothers sold out; Harry died two years laterLos Angeles, California
  392. Al-Rehab Palace, where the story took place1958Iraq's 23-year-old king and his family were shot in the palace courtyard, and the regent's body was dragged through BaghdadRihab Palace, Baghdad, Iraq
  393. Mahar: "A Mahar woman," a watercolor by Rao Bahadur M. V. Dhurandhar, 1928; more watercolors from the set: *"A working woman at Ajmere"* *"ABengali lady"* *"A Bhatia lady"* *"A Bhi1958Mahar families inherited village land in return for hereditary service; Ambedkar told them to give it up, and Bombay abolished the watans in 1958Bombay Presidency (Maharashtra and northern Karnataka), India
  394. Laura Ingalls Wilder: Laura Ingalls Wilder cropped sepia21957Laura Ingalls Wilder left her book royalties to a Missouri library after her daughter's death; the daughter's heir renewed the copyrights, and a 2001 settlement paid the library $875,000Mansfield, Missouri
  395. Mike Florio: Mike Florio 20141957The Florio family built Sicily's largest business group and lost all of it to the banks and the state by 1935Palermo
  396. Pedro Infante: Pedro Infante en 1954 (cropped)1957Mexico's Supreme Court annulled Pedro Infante's second marriage six days before he died in a plane crashMérida, Yucatán, Mexico
  397. Casa escuela rural de Montegrande: This is a photo of a national monument in Chile:1957Gabriela Mistral left her South American royalties to the poor children of her village, and Pinochet's government let anyone publish her work in Chile from 1979Montegrande, Coquimbo, Chile
  398. Aga Khan III: Aga Khan III (5399571310)1957The Aga Khan's will passed over his son Aly Khan and made his 20-year-old grandson imamVersoix, near Geneva, Switzerland
  399. Juan Negrín 1938 (cropped): Juan Negrín in 1938.1956Spain's gold went to Moscow in 1936; when Negrín died, his son gave Franco the receipts, and Moscow said the money was all goneCartagena, Spain; Odessa and Moscow, USSR; Paris, France
  400. Itagaki taisuke and Lin Hsien-tang 1914: 「台湾同化会」設立のため、台湾に渡った板垣退助と出迎える人々との写真。中央の白髭の老人が板垣退助、後列右から2人目が林献堂。1956Taiwan's leading landlord Lin Hsien-tang left for Japan "for treatment" in 1949 and never came back, and the 1953 land-to-the-tiller law paid landlords in bonds and sharesTokyo, Japan; Wufeng, Taichung, Taiwan
  401. Jackson Pollock: Jackson Pollock by Hans Namuth (cropped)1956Jackson Pollock's mistress Ruth Kligman claimed he painted Red, Black & Silver for her weeks before his 1956 crash, and his widow Lee Krasner and the Pollock-Krasner board rejected itEast Hampton (Springs), New York
  402. Angela Merkel: Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, chairperson of the CDU1956Angela Merkel returned two Emil Nolde paintings to the Berlin museum foundation in April 2019, as a Nationalgalerie show detailed his Nazi loyaltySeebüll, Germany
  403. Robert Walser: Robert Walser, in Zürich, around 1900.1956Robert Walser was found dead in the snow in 1956 after 23 years in an asylum, and his guardian Carl Seelig controlled the microscripts until 1962Herisau, Switzerland
  404. Bela Lugosi: Lugosi Béla fortepan 14652 (cropped)1956Bela Lugosi's widow and son sued Universal over Dracula merchandise and lost in 1979Los Angeles, California
  405. Albert Einstein: Albert Einstein Head cleaned1955Einstein gave his Nobel money to his first wife and asked to be cremated in secret, and the pathologist kept his brain for decadesPrinceton, New Jersey, USA
  406. Albert Einstein Head: Albert Einstein1955Albert Einstein's publicity rights ended in 2005, a judge ruled, defeating Hebrew University's suit over a GM ad with his face on a muscled bodyPrinceton, New Jersey, USA
  407. James Dean: James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (HQ)1955James Dean died without a will, his father inherited, his wrecked Porsche vanished in 1960, and his estate sued Twitter over @JamesDeannear Cholame, California
  408. AI illustration: The Hotel Metropole in Vienna under armed guard, 1938, where Louis de Rothschild was held1955The Nazis held Louis de Rothschild hostage in Vienna in 1938 and released him for the family's assetsMontego Bay, Jamaica
  409. Calouste Gulbenkian: Calouste Gulbenkian photo1955Calouste Gulbenkian left his oil fortune to a Lisbon foundation and his son Nubar about $2.5 millionAviz Hotel, Lisbon
  410. Robert Peary: Robert Peary self-portrait, 19091955Peary and Henson each fathered a son in Greenland, and Henson was moved beside Peary at Arlington in 1988New York; Washington, D.C.
  411. Charlie Parker: Portrait of Charlie Parker in 19471955Charlie Parker's wife, his partner and his mother fought over his body, and he was buried where he asked not to beNew York
  412. May 27, 1936 10-10 A.M. VIEW FROM SOUTHEAST. - Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's County: Ogle, Samuel; Tasker, Benjamin; Tasker, Benjamin; Franklin1955Ann Woodward shot her husband, the owner of Nashua, a grand jury cleared her in 30 minutes, and both her sons later killed themselvesOyster Bay, Long Island, New York, USA
  413. David Sarnoff: DavidSarnoff 19221954Edwin Armstrong jumped from his apartment after years of suing RCA over FM radio, and his widow, once Sarnoff's secretary, won the casesNew York City, New York, USA
  414. Harald Quandt1954The Quandt fortune behind BMW used about 50,000 forced labourers, a 2011 family-funded study foundCairo
  415. Frida Kahlo: Frida Kahlo, by Guillermo Kahlo1954Diego Rivera locked Frida Kahlo's bathroom after she died, and her clothes and papers stayed sealed for 50 yearsCoyoacán, Mexico City
  416. Adolf Hitler: Hitler portrait crop (cropped)(2)1954Hitler paid his field marshals 4,000 Reichsmarks a month and gave Guderian a confiscated Polish estateSchwangau, West Germany
  417. Map of Vietnam, marked on the globe1953A landowner whose family gave the Viet Minh 700 taels of gold was shot as the land reform's first example in 1953, and her family found her bones in 1990Đồng Bẩm, Thái Nguyên, Vietnam
  418. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg NYWTS: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, separated by heavy wire screen as they leave U.S. Court House after being found guilty by jury.1953The Rosenbergs were executed in 1953, child-care agencies petitioned for custody of their sons and the boys' trust fund, and the sons have spent 70 years on their mother's caseSing Sing prison, Ossining, New York, USA
  419. Map of New York, marked on the globe1953The CIA gave Army scientist Frank Olson LSD without telling him, he fell from a New York hotel nine days later, and the $750,000 his family accepted later blocked their murder suitHotel Statler, New York City, USA
  420. Lavrentiy Beria: Lavrentiy Beria portrait 21953Beria was shot half an hour after his verdict in 1953; his son lived as Sergo Gegechkori and died five months after Russia's Supreme Court refused to clear his fatherMoscow, Russia; Kyiv, Ukraine
  421. Rough cullinan diamond: The rough Cullinan diamond.1953The Transvaal bought the largest diamond ever found as a birthday gift for Edward VII, the cutter kept the smaller stones as his fee, and South Africans petition for its returnCullinan, Gauteng, South Africa; London, England
  422. Eugene O'Neill: Eugene O’Neill, Nobel laureate in Literature 19361953Eugene O'Neill disowned his daughter Oona in 1943, and his widow Carlotta released Long Day's Journey Into Night in 1956 against his 25-year banBoston, Massachusetts
  423. Woburn Abbey, where the story took place1953The 12th Duke of Bedford was found shot in 1953, and the son he had cut off opened Woburn Abbey to paying visitors to meet a £4.5 million tax debtEndsleigh estate, Devon
  424. Dylan Thomas: Dylan Thomas icon Blashford 19371953Dylan Thomas lost the Under Milk Wood manuscript in a Soho pub, his producer found it and sold it for £2,000, and his widow Caitlin lost her suit to get it backSt Vincent's Hospital, New York
  425. Jim Thorpe: Jim Thorpe 1913b-cr1953Jim Thorpe's widow sold his body to two Pennsylvania towns, which renamed themselves after himLomita, California
  426. Hank Williams: Hank Williams Promotional Photo1953Hank Williams' daughter was born five days after his death, made a ward of the state, and won half his estate 34 years laterOak Hill, West Virginia
  427. Eva Perón: Evita (cropped)1952Argentina's military seized Eva Perón's embalmed body and buried it in Milan under a false nameUnzué Palace, Buenos Aires
  428. AI illustration: A picture book left open on a windowsill above the harbour at Nice, 19521952The author of Goodnight Moon left her royalties to a neighbour's nine-year-old son, who spent the millionsNice, France
  429. Bangalore Nagarathnamma: Indian Carnatic singer Bangalore Nagarathnamma with her pet dog (3 November 1878 - 19 May 1952)1952A devadasi singer spent her fortune on a temple for the saint Thyagaraja, was barred from singing at his festival, and held her ownThiruvaiyaru, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India
  430. Henrietta Lacks: Henrietta Lacks (cropped)1951Doctors took Henrietta Lacks's cells without her knowledge in 1951, and her estate has settled with Thermo Fisher and NovartisBaltimore, Maryland, USA
  431. Baghdad Synagogue: Meir Tweig Synagogue or Meir Taweig or Meir Tweg Synagogue in Baghdad, Iraq1951Iraq took the property of the Jews who left in 1951, US troops found their community's books in a flooded secret-police basement in 2003, and the books have stayed in AmericaBaghdad, Iraq; Washington, D.C., USA
  432. Hearst Castle: Hearst Castle Casa Grande September 2012 panorama 21951Hearst's will locked his company in a trust until every relative alive in 1951 dies, and the company gave his castle to CaliforniaBeverly Hills, California
  433. Adolf Hitler: Hitler portrait crop (cropped)(2)1951Fritz Thyssen paid for Hitler's rise, lost his fortune to him in 1939, survived the camps and emigrated on his book royaltiesMartínez, near Buenos Aires
  434. Philippe Pétain: Pétain - portrait photographique1951Pétain's property was confiscated in 1945 and his coffin was stolen from Île d'Yeu in 1973Port-Joinville, Île d'Yeu, France
  435. Albert Coombs Barnes: Albert Coombs Barnes (January 2, 1872 – July 24, 1951)1951A Pennsylvania judge let the Barnes Foundation move Albert Barnes's art to Philadelphia in 2004, against his indenturenear Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
  436. Calumet farm 2012: View of stables at Calumet Farm, Lexington, KY1950Calumet Farm passed to a widow for life, then to a grandson-in-law who ran up $127 million in debt and went to prisonLexington, Kentucky, USA
  437. George Bernard Shaw: George Bernard Shaw1950George Bernard Shaw's will ordered a new 40-letter alphabet; the High Court found the trust not charitable in 1957, and the National Gallery of Ireland received a third of his royalties until 2020Ayot St Lawrence, England
  438. AI illustration: Compton Place, Eastbourne, the house where the 10th Duke of Devonshire died in 19501950The 10th Duke of Devonshire died in 1950 before his tax plan matured, and his heirs took 17 years to pay 80 percent death dutyCompton Place, Eastbourne, Sussex
  439. AI illustration: Český Krumlov Castle, the Schwarzenberg seat taken by Czechoslovakia under a 1947 law1950Czechoslovakia passed a law to take one family's estate, and the Schwarzenberg heirs have lost every claim to it sinceBordighera, Italy
  440. George Orwell: George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair (1903 - 1950), an English writer born in British India. On of his first jobs was acting as imperial police office1950George Orwell married Sonia Brownell in a hospital in October 1949 and died in January 1950; his estate's accountant ran his rights until she sued in 1979University College Hospital, London
  441. 770 Eastern Parkway: 770Lubavitch1950The Lubavitcher Rebbe's grandson sold books from the movement's library as his inheritance; a federal court ruled the library was never the Rebbe's to leave770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York
  442. Recueil."Noblesse oblige" film de Robert Hamer: Sujet : Kind hearts and coronets (film) Contient : coupures de presse Langue : français1949In Kind Hearts and Coronets, a disowned daughter's son sets out to kill the eight relatives ahead of him in line and becomes a dukeChalfont, England (fictional dukedom)
  443. Liu's manor - 收租院展览 20161123: ​大邑刘氏庄园博物馆展出大型泥塑《收租院》1949Landlord Liu Wencai died before land reform reached him, his manor became a museum of his crimes, and in 1988 its "water dungeon" was relabelled an opium storeAnren, Dayi County, Sichuan, China
  444. Lead Belly: Leadbelly with Accordeon1949Lead Belly's family trust sued his publishers in 2026 over 49 songs it took back by copyright terminationNew York City
  445. Margaret Mitchell: Margaret Mitchell NYWTS1949Margaret Mitchell's estate sued to stop a novel retelling Gone With the Wind from the view of a slave, and ended up funding a Black collegeAtlanta, Georgia
  446. Wright brothers first successful flight Kill Devil Hills North Carolina December 1903: Photograph of the first successful flight of the Wright brothers, December 17, 1903. Orville 1948The Smithsonian got the Wright Flyer for $1 on a contract that returns it to the Wright heirs if the museum says anyone flew firstDayton, Ohio, USA
  447. Shafik Adas: שפיק עדס1948Iraq hanged its richest Jew, Shafiq Ades, outside his own house in Basra in 1948 and took his estateBasra, Iraq
  448. Kerrobert Court House: Currently holds the town office, a museum and various offices.1948Cecil Harris lay pinned under his tractor for 10 hours and scratched his will into the fenderSaskatchewan, Canada
  449. Zelda Fitzgerald: Zelda Fitzgerald (1923 Portrait) Retouched1948Zelda Fitzgerald died locked in a fifth-floor room when fire destroyed Highland Hospital in 1948; nine women died and no one was chargedAsheville, North Carolina
  450. AI illustration: Opencast coal mining dug up to the lawns of Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire, 19471948The government ordered opencast mining up to Wentworth Woodhouse, and the Fitzwilliam earldom ended in 1979Saint-Bauzile, Ardèche, France
  451. Hideki Tojo: Hideki Tojo Portrait 1941 (3x4 cropped)(2)1948US Army papers show Hideki Tojo's ashes were scattered over the Pacific in 1948Sugamo Prison, Tokyo
  452. Muhammad Ali Jinnah: Jinnah1945c1948Jinnah left his Bombay house to his sister; India took it as evacuee property, and his daughter died with her claim still pendingSouth Court (Jinnah House), Malabar Hill, Mumbai, India
  453. Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din: Drawing showing Imam Yahya of Yemen (Yahya Muhammad Hamidaddin, 1869–1948), who succeeded his father as imam in 1904, on the frontispiece page of Ameen1948Yemen's Imam Yahya groomed his son to inherit an office meant to go to the most able; rebels killed him in 1948, and the tribes that won the throne back for the son looted Sanaanear Sanaa, Yemen
  454. Raoul Wallenberg Schutzpass 29. September 1944: Raoul Wallenberg protective passport (Schutzpass), dated 29 September 1944, for Josefa Frankel, née Tauszig, signed by Carl Ivan Dan1947The Soviets said Raoul Wallenberg died in a Moscow prison in 1947; Sweden's tax agency declared him dead in 2016, and a Moscow court refused his family the prison recordsBudapest, Hungary; Moscow, Russia; Stockholm, Sweden
  455. Al Capone: "Scarface" Al Capone is shown here at the Chicago Detective bureau following his arrest on a vagrancy charge as Public Enemy No. 1 in this 8 x 10 black & white origi1947Al Capone went to prison for tax evasion and paid every cent, a live TV search for his vault found nothing, and his family sold his pistol for $860,000Palm Island, Miami Beach, Florida, USA; Chicago, Illinois, USA
  456. Map of United Kingdom, marked on the globe1947A colonel took the trousers off the solicitor who wrote himself into a client's will, went to prison, then beat him in the House of Lords without a lawyerBrighton, England, UK (the solicitor's practice)
  457. The Hope Diamond - SIA: 1974. The Hope Diamond, one of the largest of all blue diamonds, 45.52 carats, exhibited at the National Museum of Natural History. The gem is slightly lops1947The Hope Diamond's curse story was sold with the stone in 1911; its owner's will put it in trust for her grandchildren, and her trustees sold it to pay her debtsWashington, D.C., USA
  458. Collyer Bros Park jeh: Looking northwest from 5th Avenue at en:Collyer brothers Park on a cloudy late afternoon.1947The Collyer brothers died in their inherited Harlem house under more than 100 tons of hoarded goods, and 56 people claimed the estate2078 Fifth Avenue, Harlem, New York City, USA
  459. Aleister Crowley: Aleister Crowley, thinker1947Aleister Crowley died with £430 and left his writings to his order, and a federal court decided in 1985 which of the rival orders owned themNetherwood, Hastings, England; California, USA
  460. Pierre Bonnard: Tête de Bonnard (Portrait photograph of Pierre Bonnard), c.1899, Musée d'Orsay, restaurée1947Pierre Bonnard's wife had four unknown nieces; a French court ruled in 1951 that he forged her will, and the family won on appealLe Cannet, France
  461. Henry Ford and Charlie the Elephant at Universal City 1916 021947The Fords put 90% of Ford Motor into a foundation and kept the votes, and Henry Ford II quit its board in 1976Dearborn, Michigan
  462. AI illustration: Orange groves and bean fields on the Irvine Ranch, Orange County, 1940s1947Joan Irvine Smith fought the foundation that controlled her grandfather's Irvine Ranch for 33 years and left with $256 millionCalifornia
  463. Map of Argentina, marked on the globe1947Bolivia seized the tin king's mines in 1952, and his heir offered the government a 5 million dollar loan for a law that would let him divorceBuenos Aires, Argentina
  464. 5th Reting Rinpoche in his tent: Jamphel Yeshe Gyaltsen, the 5th Reting Rinpoche in his tent.1947The regent who found the 14th Dalai Lama handed power to a rival in 1941, was arrested for plotting to take it back, and died in a Potala cellPotala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet, China
  465. 1922-06-06, El Liberal, Simón I. Patiño: Una entrevista interesante. Los propósitos del nuevo ministro de Bolivia.1947Simón Patiño built a tin fortune from one Bolivian vein, and five years after his death the revolution took his minesBuenos Aires, Argentina, and Llallagua, Bolivia
  466. Harry Kendall Thaw on trial - sketch: Harry Kendall Thaw watching the faces of the men in the jury box1947Harry Thaw's mother spent the family fortune to free him after he shot Stanford White, and his will left Evelyn Nesbit $10,000Miami Beach, Florida, USA
  467. Evalyn Walsh McLean: Evalyn Walsh McLean cph.3b188351947Evalyn Walsh McLean wore the Hope Diamond through a son's death, a husband's insanity and the Lindbergh hoax, and her estate sold itWashington, D.C., USA
  468. Hermann Göring: Hermann Goering - Nuremberg 2 (cropped)1946Hitler was godfather to Göring's daughter, the city of Cologne gave her a Cranach, and she lost the painting in 1968 and her father's estate in 2015Carinhall, Germany; Cologne, Germany; Munich, Germany
  469. Homma Museum of Art: Homma Museum of Art (Sakata City, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan)1946Japan's largest landlord told reporters in 1945 he would not regret going from 1,500 chō to 5, and the 1946 law left a resident landlord about oneSakata, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
  470. W. C. Fields: W. C. Fields, NPG 94 461946W.C. Fields paid his son's mother $20,000 to deny he was the father, and his will's orphan college lost to the wife he never divorcedPasadena, California
  471. William S. Hart: Williamshart1946William S. Hart left his only son nothing and his ranch to Los Angeles County; the son fought for a decadeNewhall, California
  472. Grand Palace, where the story took place1946Thailand's 20-year-old king was found shot in his bed, and three palace servants were executed nine years laterBoromphiman Throne Hall, Grand Palace, Bangkok, Thailand
  473. Max Warburg: Max Warburg 19051946The Nazis forced Max Warburg to give up M.M. Warburg & Co in 1938; his son Eric needed until 1970 to restore the family nameNew York; bank in Hamburg
  474. Map of Japan, marked on the globe1945Workers in Tokyo dug up the bones of at least 62 people at the old Army Medical School in 1989, and Japan has never identified themToyama, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
  475. Predappio, cimitero di San Cassiano (01): Predappio, cimitero1945Partisans shot Mussolini, fascists stole his body from an unmarked grave, and the state hid it in a monastery for 11 years before trading it for votesMilan; Cerro Maggiore; Predappio, Italy
  476. Crown, Sword and Globus Cruciger of Hungary-edit: Espada, cetro, orbe y corona de San Esteban de Hungría1945Hungary's crown guard handed the Holy Crown to the US Army in 1945, it sat in Fort Knox for 33 years, and Carter gave it to a communist governmentMattsee, Austria; Fort Knox, Kentucky, USA; Budapest, Hungary
  477. Erstausgabe von Mein Kampf: First edition of Adolf Hitler's book "Mein Kampf", July 1925. An exhibit of the German Historical Museum in Berlin1945Hitler willed his property to the Nazi Party, a Munich court gave it to Bavaria, and Bavaria used his copyright to block Mein Kampf for 70 yearsBerlin, Germany; Munich and Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany
  478. Palais Ephrussi (30703) stitch IMG 0449 - IMG 0462: Palais Ephrussi1945The Gestapo took the Ephrussi palace in Vienna in 1938; the family says a maid hid the netsuke in her mattress, and the Jewish Museum says it cannot be provedVienna, Austria
  479. Château Mouton Rothschild, where the story took place1945Vichy expropriated the Rothschild vineyards at Pauillac, and Philippe de Rothschild's wife died at Ravensbrück before Mouton came back to the familyChâteau Mouton Rothschild, Pauillac, Gironde, France; Ravensbrück, Germany
  480. Catherine Palace interior - Amber Room (1)1945German troops packed the Amber Room into 27 crates in 1941, and it has been missing since 1945Catherine Palace, Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin), Russia; Königsberg (Kaliningrad)
  481. Anne Frank: Anne Frank passport photo, May 1942 (cropped)1945The Anne Frank Fonds named Otto Frank a co-author of the diary to extend its copyright past 2016Bergen-Belsen; Basel
  482. The Hershey Company: Hershey Factory1945The Hershey school trust voted to sell Hershey Foods to Wrigley for $12.5 billion in 2002, and a Pennsylvania court stopped itHershey, Pennsylvania
  483. The Hershey Company: Hershey Factory1945The Hershey school paid $12 million for a failing golf course, and the attorney general twice demanded reforms of its boardHershey, Pennsylvania
  484. Anton Webern: Anton Webern in Stettin, October 19121945Anton Webern was shot dead by a US Army cook in Mittersill on 15 September 1945, and the record shows no trialMittersill, Austria
  485. Béla Bartók: Bartók Béla 19271945Béla Bartók's New York estate was in court for 22 years, and the trustee claimed his manuscriptsNew York City

World wars 1914 to 1945

  1. Richard Sorge's Grave 01: Могила советского разведчика Рихарда Зорге на кладбище «Тама» в Токио1944Japan hanged Soviet spy Richard Sorge and Moscow refused to claim him; his Japanese partner moved his body to her own grave plot and tended it until she diedSugamo Prison and Tama Cemetery, Tokyo, Japan
  2. Reza Pahlavi: رضا پهلوی در گفتگو با سیامک دهقانپور از صدای آمریکا، تیر ۱۴۰۳ 02 (cropped)1944Revolutionaries demolished Reza Shah's mausoleum in 1980 and could not find his body, and a mummified body turned up on the site in 2018Johannesburg, South Africa; Cairo, Egypt; Rey (Tehran), Iran
  3. Glenn Miller: Glenn Miller1944Glenn Miller vanished over the English Channel; his widow licensed his name for $1, and his children lost it in courtover the English Channel
  4. Charles Bedaux: Charles Bedaux and filmakers1944Charles Bedaux hosted the Windsor wedding at Candé, died in FBI custody awaiting treason charges, and his widow gave the château to FranceChâteau de Candé, Monts, Indre-et-Loire, France; Miami, Florida
  5. Louis Renault (industrialist): Louis Renault en 19181944Louis Renault died in custody before trial, and France took his company without paying his heirsParis clinic, after detention at Fresnes prison
  6. Friedrich Gutmann: Friedrich Bernhard Eugen Gutmann met zoon Bernhard1944Banker Fritz Gutmann was killed at Theresienstadt, and his heirs sued an American collector to get back his DegasTheresienstadt
  7. Erwin Rommel: Erwin-Rommel-19411944Rommel took poison on 14 October 1944 in exchange for a state funeral and pensions for his familyIn a car between Herrlingen and Wippingen, Württemberg
  8. Edvard Munch: Portrait of Edvard Munch (cropped)1944Armed men took Munch's The Scream and Madonna from Oslo's Munch Museum in 2004, a court ordered two thieves to pay the city 750 million kroner, and police recovered both in 2006Oslo
  9. Throne of Mir Sayyid Alim Khan: 1911-19201944The last emir of Bukhara fled across a river on a raft in 1920 and left three sons behind; two were shot and the third publicly renounced himQalai Fatu, near Kabul, Afghanistan
  10. Nikola Tesla: A photograph image of Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) at age 34.1943The US government sealed Nikola Tesla's papers after he died, his nephew took them to Belgrade, and the church and scientists later fought over his ashesHotel New Yorker, New York City, USA
  11. 1583 portrait of Sir Francis Drake1943Oscar Hartzell sold shares in a $22 billion Sir Francis Drake estate that did not exist, and about 70,000 Midwesterners paidMedical Center for Federal Prisoners, Springfield, Missouri
  12. Sergei Rachmaninoff: Sergei Rachmaninoff cph.3a405751943Russia's culture minister demanded Rachmaninoff's remains back from New York, and his descendants said noBeverly Hills, California
  13. Beatrix Potter: Beatrix Potter by King cropped1943Beatrix Potter left more than 4,000 acres and 14 or 15 farms to the National Trust, with a life interest for her husbandNear Sawrey, Lake District, England
  14. AI illustration: A closed account ledger on the counter of a Zurich bank, 19981943Credit Suisse demanded a death certificate for a banker killed at Majdanek; his daughter waited until 1998 for his accountCredit Suisse, Geneva
  15. Map of United Kingdom, marked on the globe1942Britain blew up Burmah Oil's installations in 1942, the House of Lords ruled the Crown must pay, and Parliament passed a law backdated to cancel the debtBurma (Myanmar), and London, UK
  16. Mildenhall Great Dish, Late Roman period, silver - British Museum - DSC01383: Mildenhall Great Dish, Late Roman period, silver - British Museum - DSC01383.1942A ploughman and his employer kept the Mildenhall Treasure at home for four years, used the dishes, and got a reduced rewardWest Row, near Mildenhall, Suffolk, England
  17. Cementry-Salonika: A rabbi makes a traditional visit to the cemetery. Salonica1942Thessaloniki destroyed its 450-year-old Jewish cemetery in December 1942, used the stones to build, and put a university on the landThessaloniki, Greece
  18. Bruno Schulz: Drohobycz bruno schulz tablica 20081942Bruno Schulz was shot in the street in Drohobych in November 1942 in a feud between two SS men; in 2001 Yad Vashem cut his murals from a pantry wall and flew them to IsraelDrohobych (then in German-occupied Poland, now Ukraine)
  19. Lucy Maud Montgomery: LMM signed photo1942L.M. Montgomery's death certificate said coronary thrombosis; her granddaughter wrote in 2008 that she took her own lifeToronto, Ontario
  20. Map of United Kingdom, marked on the globe1941Thailand's finance ministry sued its abdicated king for 6.27 million baht in 1939 and won an order freezing everything he ownedBangkok, Thailand; Compton House, Wentworth, Surrey, England
  21. Arno Nadel Fritz Grünbaum: Arno Nadel Fritz Grünbaum1941Fritz Grünbaum died at Dachau owning about 70 Schieles; his heirs won them back in New York, then one heir sued Christie's over the restDachau, Germany; Vienna, Austria; New York, USA
  22. Franz Koenigs1941Franz Koenigs lost his drawings to a bank five weeks before the German invasion; Hitler bought 528 and the Dutch state has refused his heirs four timesCologne railway station
  23. J. P. Morgan: J.P. Morgan (cropped)1941Oklahoma oilman E.W. Marland annulled his adoption of his wife's niece and married her, then lost his company to J.P. Morgan's bankersPonca City, Oklahoma
  24. James Joyce: Revolutionary Joyce Better Contrast1941James Joyce's grandson destroyed his aunt Lucia's letters and threatened scholars until the copyrights ran out in 2012Zurich
  25. AI illustration: Huis Doorn, the Kaiser's house in exile in the Netherlands, 19411941The Kaiser's heirs claimed thousands of artworks and compensation, dropped the suits over the Nazi question, and settled after 99 yearsHuis Doorn, Netherlands
  26. Rabindranath Tagore: 1926 Rabindrath Tagore1941Rabindranath Tagore's 1913 Nobel gold medal and 49 other items were stolen from the Visva-Bharati museum in March 2004 and have not been recoveredCalcutta, India
  27. Trotsky Memorial in Garden - Leon Trotsky Museum - Coyoacan - Mexico City - Mexico (15333660737): Trotsky Memorial in Garden - Leon Trotsky Museum - Coyoacan - Mexico City - Mexico1940Stalin's agents killed Trotsky and members of his family; he sealed his exile papers at Harvard until 1980, and the grandson who survived kept his house as a museumCoyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico
  28. Hôtel du Grand Orient [de France], rue Cadet [9e arrondissement] : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]: Sujet : Hôtels particuliers -- Paris (France) Paris (France) -- Arrondis1940German units emptied the French Masonic headquarters in June 1940, the Red Army took the archives to Moscow, and France got them back in 2001Paris, France; Berlin, Germany; Česká Lípa, Czech Republic; Moscow, Russia
  29. Jacques Goudstikker: Jacques Goudstikker (1938)1940Jacques Goudstikker died fleeing the Nazis, Göring took his paintings, and the Netherlands returned 202 of them in 2006aboard the SS Bodegraven, English Channel
  30. William Vestey, 1st Baron Vestey: Baron Vestey LCCN20147182891940The Vestey meat brothers left Britain over income tax, set up a Paris trust and bought a peerageGerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire
  31. Paul Klee: Paul Klee by Hugo Erfurth, 19221940Paul Klee's widow sold his estate for SFr120,000 two days before dying; his son sued the foundation that received it, and the case settled after four yearsMuralto, Switzerland
  32. F. Scott Fitzgerald: Photo portrait of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald used in a year-long print advertising campaign for the Woodbury Soap Company, in which Fitzgerald featured as one 1940F. Scott Fitzgerald left an estate of about $35,000 in 1940, and the Catholic church refused his burial plot until his daughter petitioned in 1975Los Angeles, California
  33. Palais Wittgenstein 01: Palais Wittgenstein Musiksalon1939The Wittgenstein siblings gave the Reichsbank their Swiss-held fortune in 1939 for "half-Jewish" status, and Vienna paid Paul's heirs €7,400 in 2008Vienna, Austria; Switzerland; New York, USA
  34. UBS Headquarters, Zurich (Ank Kumar, Infosys Limited) 01: UBS Headquarters, Zurich (Ank Kumar, Infosys Limited)1939Switzerland made bank secrecy a crime in 1934, and the night guard who took bank files from a UBS shredder in 1997 had to seek asylum in the United StatesZurich, Switzerland; Brooklyn, New York, USA
  35. Berlin, Leipziger Platz mit Warenhaus Wertheim, 1910: Berlin, Leipziger Platz mit Warenhaus Wertheim1939The Wertheims lost Berlin's Leipziger Platz store under Nazi laws, Germany gave the land to Karstadt in 1991, and Karstadt paid €88 million in 2007Berlin, Germany
  36. Henry Pellatt: Sir Henry Mill Pellatt1939Sir Henry Pellatt built Casa Loma with Home Bank loans, the bank failed, and Toronto took the castle for unpaid taxesMimico, Toronto, in his former chauffeur's house
  37. Fritz Mannheimer: Josephine Baker, NL-HlmNHA 54004680001939Banker Fritz Mannheimer died ten weeks after his wedding, his bank failed, and Hitler bought his collection from the creditorsVaucresson, France
  38. Presidente Lázaro Cárdenas reunido con Sindicato obrero veracruzano en 1938: Banquete ofrecido al Presidente de México Lázaro Cárdenas por el Sindicato de Santa Rosa (hoy Ciudad Me1938Mexico expropriated the foreign oil companies in 1938, crowds brought chickens and jewelry to help pay, and Mexico paid the companies in fullMexico City, Mexico
  39. Nikolai Bukharin: N.I. Bukharin (1888-1938) Crop1938Bukharin made his wife memorise his last letter before his arrest, and she carried it through 20 years of camps and exile until he was cleared in 1988Moscow, Russia
  40. Anthony Comstock: Anthony Comstock1938Comstock heir Clarence Mackay cut his daughter out of his will for marrying Irving Berlin, and after her baby died he took her backNew York, New York, USA; Harbor Hill, Roslyn, New York
  41. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk: Ataturk1930s1938Atatürk left his İş Bankası shares to his party, and the state took them twiceDolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul
  42. Robert Johnson1938Robert Johnson died in 1938 with nothing, and a Mississippi court found his heir 62 years laternear Greenwood, Mississippi
  43. Bran Castle TB1: Bran Castle, Bran, Brasov, Transylvania, Romania.mw-parser-output .monument-istoric{width:400px;max-width:100%;margin:1px;padding:2px;background-color:#800000;colo1938Brașov gave Bran Castle to Queen Marie in 1920, her daughter lost it in 1948, and Romania returned it to her grandchildren's generation in 2006Bran, Brașov County, Romania
  44. J. M. Barrie: James Matthew Barrie001937J.M. Barrie gave Peter Pan to a children's hospital, and Parliament made the hospital's royalty permanentLondon
  45. George Gershwin: George Gershwin, 28 March 19371937George Gershwin died at 38 without a will, and the Gershwin trusts lobbied Congress for 20 more years of copyrightLos Angeles, California, United States
  46. H. P. Lovecraft: Portrait of horror fiction writer, Howard P. Lovecraft.1937H. P. Lovecraft's literary executor died in 1951, his papers went to August Derleth, and no court has settled who owns his copyrightsProvidence, Rhode Island
  47. Ermelino Matarazzo: Localização do distrito de Ermelino Matarazzo no município de São Paulo.1937Brazil's largest industrial group lost its chosen heir in a car race, passed to the founder's twelfth child, and filed for court protection in 1983São Paulo, Brazil
  48. Blas Infante 1910: Blas Infante in 19101936Franco's side shot Blas Infante in 1936, a tribunal fined him 2,000 pesetas in 1940, and his widow paidSeville, Spain
  49. John Ringling: John Nicholas Ringling1936John Ringling left his Venetian mansion and art museum to Florida and died with $311 in the bank, and the state fought his creditors for ten yearsNew York City
  50. Vladimir Lenin: Lenin in 1920 (cropped)1936Lenin's 1918 decree took Sergei Shchukin's 258 paintings, and his heirs' claims in Paris and Los Angeles failedParis
  51. George V: King George 1923label QS:Len,"King George 1923"1936George V's doctor injected him with morphine and cocaine so his death would make the morning papersSandringham House, Norfolk, England
  52. Henry Wellcome: Henry Wellcome 19301936Henry Wellcome left his drug company to trustees in 1936, and in 1995 they sold it to its rival GlaxoLondon
  53. Templo masónico histórico, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, España, 2012-12-15, DD 01: Historic masonic temple, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain1936Franco's forces seized the Masonic temple of Santa Cruz de Tenerife on 19 July 1936, used it for interrogations, and Spain moved to declare it a memorial in 2025Calle San Lucas, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain; Salamanca, Spain
  54. Federico García Lorca: Lorca (1914)1936Federico García Lorca was shot with three other men in August 1936, and a 2009 dig at the supposed grave in Alfacar found no remainsAlfacar, near Granada, Spain
  55. Maxim Gorky: Black and white film copy negative of Maxim Gorky, half-length portrait, facing front by Herman Mishkin, N.Y.1936The 1938 Moscow trial charged Yagoda and doctors with murdering Maxim Gorky and his son; 18 defendants were sentenced to be shotGorki-10, near Moscow
  56. Robert E. Howard: Robert E. Howard1936Robert E. Howard shot himself in June 1936 and his mother died a day or two later; a will naming a friend was reportedly lost, and the Conan rights passed to a nurse's daughterCross Plains, Texas
  57. Hetty Green: Hetty Green, half-length portrait, seated1936Four states and the United States claimed $37.7 million in death taxes from Hetty Green's son's $36 million estateLake Placid, New York, USA
  58. Hugo Junkers 1920: Hugo Junkers1935The Nazi state forced Hugo Junkers to give up his patents and his company, and he died under house arrest on his 76th birthdayGauting, near Munich, Germany
  59. Moïse Kouamé: Moïse Kouamé (2026 US Open) 02 (cropped)1935Moïse de Camondo left his Paris house to France in memory of his son; the Nazis deported his daughter and grandchildren, and his ex-wife sold her Renoir portraitParis, France; Auschwitz, Poland
  60. Offering from Sacred Cenote of Chichen Itza: Maya Gallery, INAH, National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com.1935A US consul bought Chichén Itzá for 200 pesos and shipped the Sacred Cenote's offerings to Harvard; his heirs won the land back in Mexico's Supreme CourtChichén Itzá, Yucatán, Mexico
  61. Max Liebermann: Hilsdorf, Jacob - Max Liebermann (Zeno Fotografie)1935Max Liebermann's widow Martha killed herself in March 1943 as police came to deport her, and in 2025 a Dutch committee advised returning a Liebermann drawing from the Rijksmuseum to her heirsBerlin
  62. Kazimir Malevich: Casimir Malevich photo1935Kazimir Malevich's heirs sued Amsterdam over 84 works held since 1958; in April 2008 the city returned five paintingsLeningrad, USSR
  63. Alban Berg: Alban Berg (1885–1935) ~1930 © Max Fenichel (1885–1942)1935Alban Berg's widow kept the third act of Lulu unfinished for 41 years, and a composer finished it in secret for the publisherVienna
  64. Carlos Gardel: Carlos gardel en su casa 19331935Carlos Gardel's will said he was born in Toulouse and left everything to his mother, and his estate passed from her to his agent's family while Uruguay says he was born thereMedellín, Colombia
  65. Juan Vicente Gómez: Gómez, 1928 restored1935Venezuela confiscated dictator Juan Vicente Gómez's fortune after his death in 1935, after first letting more than 90 relatives leave with moneyMaracay, Aragua, Venezuela
  66. Palais Petschek (Petschkův palác) in der Prager Neustadt Eingang: Eingang zum Palais Petschek (Petschkův palác) in der Prager Neustadt, Politických vězňů im März 2022. Drehort des 1934Göring took over "the Petschek question" in 1938, Flick's companies got the mines, and the Nuremberg court said the seizure was outside its jurisdictionAussig (Ústí nad Labem), Czech Republic; Prague, Czech Republic; Germany
  67. Werner Herzog: Werner Herzog-92901934Hungary seized Baron Herzog's collection of 2,000 artworks in 1944, and US courts ended his heirs' 15-year lawsuit in 2026Hungary
  68. Paul von Hindenburg: Paul v. Hindenburg1934Hindenburg's Neudeck estate was put in his son's name, and Hitler's government added tax-free landNeudeck, East Prussia (now Ogrodzieniec, Poland)
  69. Jackson Barnett and wife: Jackson Barnett, the world's richest Indian, with wife at White House.1934A woman married "the world's richest Indian", the Interior Secretary gave away $1.1 million of his oil money, and the courts took it backLos Angeles, California, USA (allotment in Creek County, Oklahoma)
  70. County Mayo - Moore Hall - 20181027163650: County Mayo, Moore Hall.1933Anti-Treaty IRA men burned Moore Hall in 1923 because a Moore brother backed the Treaty, and the novelist's ashes lie on Castle Island in Lough CarraMoore Hall, Carnacon, County Mayo, Ireland
  71. António de Oliveira Salazar: António de Oliveira Salazar portrait (by Manuel Alves San Payo) – Lisboa1932Portugal's last king left his collections to the nation, and Salazar's government put the whole Bragança estate into a state foundation over the claimant's protestFulwell Park, Twickenham, England
  72. Ivar Kreuger: Kreuger ca19201932Ivar Kreuger shot himself in Paris in 1932, and auditors found his match empire rested on forged Italian bondsParis
  73. Tomáš Baťa: Tomas Bata1932Tomáš Baťa died in a plane crash, his half-brother took the shoe company, and the family litigated for 15 yearsOtrokovice, near Zlín, Czechoslovakia
  74. AI illustration: Bundles of cash and bonds in a shoebox in a room of the Herald Square Hotel, New York, 19321932A recluse died in a New York hotel with a fortune in cash, 1,103 people claimed it, and the 10 real heirs had never met herHerald Square Hotel, New York
  75. Paul Bern: Jean Harlow & Paul Bern 19321932Paul Bern was found shot two months after marrying Jean Harlow, his common-law wife Dorothy Millette drowned days later, and a judge made Harlow executor of his estate9820 Easton Drive, Beverly Hills, California
  76. Reynolda House south facade 1919: Thomas Warren Sears photonegative of the south face of the Reynolda House in 1919, showing the official entrance and porte-cochere.1932A tobacco heir was shot at Reynolda, his pregnant widow was indicted for murder, and their son was paid $6.25 millionReynolda, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
  77. Map of New York, marked on the globe1931John Wendel kept his sisters from marrying to hold the family's Manhattan land together, and more than 2,000 people claimed the last sister's estate442 Fifth Avenue, New York City, USA
  78. Silas Aaron Hardoon: Silas Aaron Hardoon, 哈同 (1851 ~ 1931-06-19)1931Shanghai's richest landlord left everything to his Eurasian Buddhist widow, his Iraqi relatives sued, and the People's Republic closed the case in 1957Shanghai, China
  79. Lillian Leitzel: Lillian Leitzel (1931)1931Lillian Leitzel fell to her death in 1931, and her widower Alfredo Codona shot his third wife and himself in 1937 during a property splitCopenhagen, Denmark; Long Beach, California
  80. Golden stool 31 January 1935: Photo of the Asante Golden Stool with its immediate caretaker.1931The British demanded the Asante Golden Stool in 1900 and never obtained itKumasi, Ghana
  81. Sakichi Toyoda: Sakichi Toyoda1930Sakichi Toyoda sold his loom patents to a British firm, the money started Toyota, and the loom company went to an adopted son-in-lawNagoya, Japan
  82. AI illustration: Claimants to the Garrett estate queue to file at Philadelphia City Hall, 1930s1930A Philadelphia widow left $17 million and no will, and 26,000 people claimed to be her heirsPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
  83. Arthur Conan Doyle: Arthur Conan Doyle by Walter Benington, 19141930Arthur Conan Doyle's heirs charged licence fees for Sherlock Holmes until a court ruled the character was free to useCrowborough, England
  84. Laurel Hill Cemetery Advertisement (1904): Laurel Hill Cemetery Advertisement (1904) From "Philadelphia: The Birthplace of the Nation, The Pivot of Industry, The City of Homes" by 1930Henrietta Garrett died in 1930 with $17 million and no will; more than 25,000 people claimed to be her kin, ten went to jail, and three cousins she never met inheritedPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
  85. D. H. Lawrence: D H Lawrence passport photograph1930D. H. Lawrence was exhumed in France in 1935 and cremated for a New Mexico shrine, and a scholar reported that the man who carried the ashes said he threw them awayVence, France
  86. AI illustration: Police cars at night outside Greystone, the Doheny mansion in Beverly Hills, February 19291929The oil heir who carried $100,000 to the Interior Secretary was shot dead in his new mansion five months after moving inGreystone, Beverly Hills, California
  87. Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig: Sir Douglas Haig1928Earl Haig was given £100,000 by Parliament and an estate by public subscription, and his earldom has no heir in 2026London
  88. Thomas Hardy: Thomas Hardy Restored Portrait 1910–1915 (3x4 cropped)1928Thomas Hardy's heart was buried in his first wife's grave and his ashes in Westminster Abbey after his executor overruled his wish; a legend says a cat ate the heartMax Gate, Dorchester, England
  89. Merck Engelapotheke: Merck's Engel-Apotheke (Angels-Pharmacy) in the second half of the 17th century in Darmstadt1926A Merck grandson handed the family's American shares to the US government in 1917, and the two Merck companies have fought over the name ever sinceRahway, New Jersey, USA, and Darmstadt, Germany
  90. Rudolph Valentino: Rudolph-Valentino-by-Donald-Biddle-Keyes-19221926Rudolph Valentino's will gave his ex-wife $1, and his body went into a borrowed cryptNew York City, New York
  91. Dame Fanny Lucy Houston (née Radmall) when Lady Byron: Dame Fanny Lucy Houston (née Radmall) photogravure, published 19091926A shipowner's widow reportedly tore up a will leaving her £1 million, inherited about £5.5 million, and died without a will of her ownaboard the yacht Liberty, off Jersey
  92. Charles Vance Millar: Charles Vance Millar1926Charles Vance Millar left his estate to the Toronto mother with the most babies in 10 years, and 4 mothers with 9 children each split itToronto, Canada
  93. Harry Houdini: Harry Houdini1926Houdini's great-nephew and two authors announced a 2007 plan to exhume his body to test for poisonDetroit, Michigan
  94. Vajiravudh: Vajiravudh of Siam (cropped)1925Siam's 1924 succession law barred princesses, so King Vajiravudh's only child, born as he lay dying, could not inherit his throneGrand Palace, Bangkok, Thailand
  95. The Japanese Tea Garden, located inside Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California LCCN2013630140: Title: The Japanese Tea Garden, located inside Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, 1925The Hagiwara family kept San Francisco's Japanese Tea Garden for 47 years; the 1942 removal orders took it, and the city paid two survivors $5,000 each in 1983Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California, USA
  96. Adele Bloch-Bauer: Adele Bloch-Bauer vers 19201925Adele Bloch-Bauer's will asked for her Klimt portraits to go to Austria; the Nazis took them, and her niece won them back in 2006Vienna
  97. Max Linder: Max Linder - Feb 1922 Photoplay1925Max Linder and his wife died in a Paris hotel in 1925, a letter said "He will kill me," and his brother won custody of his daughter and her fortuneParis
  98. Sergei Yesenin: Esenin Moscow 19221925Sergei Yesenin was found hanged in the Hotel Angleterre in 1925, his heirs went to court for three years, and his secretary died at his graveHotel Angleterre, Leningrad, USSR
  99. Gloria Morgan-Vanderbilt with daughter: Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt with her daughter Gloria Vanderbilt1925A judge took 10-year-old Gloria Vanderbilt from her mother and gave her and her trust to her auntManhattan, New York, USA
  100. Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev: Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev1924Baku oil baron Taghiyev lost his mansion to the Bolsheviks in 1920 and died two days after learning his daughter had fled to PersiaMardakan, Baku, Azerbaijan
  101. Franz Kafka: Franz Kafka, 19231924Kafka told Max Brod to burn his papers; Brod saved them, and the fight over them ended in a Swiss bank vault in 2019Kierling, Austria; Tel Aviv
  102. Giacomo Puccini: Giacomo Puccini LCCN2005685154 (1) cropped1924Puccini's fortune passed to his son's widow, then her brother, then reportedly a butler, before the son's illegitimate daughter won it in courtBrussels, Belgium
  103. Bogd Khan: Depicted person: Bogd Khan – Great Khan of Outer Mongolia (1869–1924)1924When the Bogd Khan died in 1924, Mongolia's government took his seal, declared a republic and banned the search for his reincarnationUrga (Ulaanbaatar), Mongolia
  104. Временный деревянный мавзолей: Временный деревянный Мавзолей Ленина, 19241924Lenin's widow opposed embalming him and gave the party his letter asking it to remove Stalin; the party put the body on display and kept the letter from the congress floorRed Square, Moscow, Russia
  105. Hugo Stinnes: Hugo Stinnes ca18901924Hugo Stinnes had a hand in more than 4,000 companies when he died in 1924, and his sons lost most of them within a yearBerlin and Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
  106. Warren G. Harding: Warren G. Harding 1920s portrait (3x4 cropped)1923Nan Britton lost her libel suit over Warren Harding's daughter in 1931, and DNA proved the daughter was his in 2015San Francisco, California
  107. Pancho Villa: General Francisco Villa (cropped)1923Villa's soldiers took Luis Terrazas's son from the British consulate for ransom, and Mexico bought the family's estates for 13.6 million pesos in 1922Chihuahua, Mexico
  108. Burton Tutankhamun tomb photographs 1 009: Harry Burton: Tutankhamun tomb photographs: a photographic record in 5 albums containing 490 original photographic prints ; representing 1923Egypt kept every object from Tutankhamun's tomb and paid the Carnarvon heirs their costs in 1930Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt
  109. Pancho Villa: General Francisco Villa (cropped)1923Pancho Villa's grave was opened in 1926 and his head taken, and his widows' court fight ended with the government seizing his haciendaHidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico
  110. Sarah Winchester: Sarah Lockwood Winchester in her only extant image circa 1920.1922Sarah Winchester inherited a rifle fortune and built a San Jose mansion; the medium who supposedly ordered it was invented in 1967San Jose, California, USA
  111. Ernest Shackleton: Ernest Shackleton before 19091922Shackleton died about £40,000 in debt, his widow chose his grave on South Georgia, and his brother went to prison for fraudaboard Quest, Grytviken, South Georgia
  112. Marcel Proust: Otto Wegener Proust vers 1895 bis1922Proust's sister-in-law burned his papers after her husband died in 1935, and a perfume heir bought his furniture for 1,500 francsParis, France
  113. Map of North Carolina, marked on the globe1921Pink Chaffin said his dead father led him to a second will hidden in Genesis 27, and a North Carolina court admitted it in 1925Mocksville, Davie County, North Carolina, USA
  114. Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil: Isabel, Princesa do Brasil, 1846-1921 (cropped)1921Princess Isabel sued Brazil for her Rio palace in 1895, and her heirs lost the case 125 years laterRio de Janeiro, Brazil
  115. Portrait of Ivan Morozov21921Ivan Morozov's great-grandson sued Yale and the Met for a Van Gogh and a Cézanne seized by the Bolsheviks, and lost both casesKarlsbad (Karlovy Vary), Czechoslovakia
  116. U'mista Cultural Centre (9413864866): In the late 1800s this figure currently at the U'mista Cultural Centre in Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada, would have welcomed guests to p1921Police raided Dan Cranmer's 1921 potlatch, and the masks surrendered to keep people out of prison went to museums, a collector and an official's own collection'Mimkwamlis, Village Island, British Columbia, Canada
  117. Enrico Caruso: Postcard of Enrico Caruso, ca. 19101921Enrico Caruso's body lay in a glass-topped coffin in Naples for years, and his estate was split by a Naples decree that two New Jersey courts reopenedHotel Vesuvio, Naples
  118. Ernest Burkhart and his wife Mollie Kyle: Ernest Burkhart and his wife Mollie née Kyle.1921Oil made each Osage headright worth a fortune, at least 24 Osage were killed in the early 1920s, and Congress stopped non-Osage from inheriting headrights in 1925Fairfax, Osage County, Oklahoma, USA
  119. Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche: [Porträt von Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche]1920Roche's founder lost control of his company in the 1919 crisis, and his heirs used a voting pool and a $20.7 billion buyback from Novartis to hold itBasel, Switzerland
  120. AI illustration: Italian state officials list the Borghese paintings in the Casino Borghese, Rome, 19021920Prince Paolo Borghese lost the family fortune in the Rome building crash, and the state bought the Borghese collection for 3.6 million lireVenice
  121. Amedeo Modigliani: Amedeo Modigliani in his studio1920Modigliani died poor, his partner jumped from a window the next day, and Italian police later closed a Modigliani show for fakesParis
  122. Maria Pavlovna of Russia in tiara: Maria Pavlovna of Russia1920The Soviet state sold the Romanov jewels by the kilogram in 1926, while a British antiquarian helped a grand duchess get her jewels out and her daughter sold the tiara to Queen MaryPetrograd (Saint Petersburg), Russia; Moscow, Russia; London, UK
  123. Horace Elgin Dodge: Horace Elgin Dodge1920The Dodge brothers sued Henry Ford for dividends, sold him their shares for $25 million, and both died within a yearDetroit, Michigan, USA
  124. Young-Anleihe 1930 1000$: Amerikanische Tranche der Young-Anleihe: Deutsches Reich (Internationale Anleihe des Deutschen Reiches 1930 - German Government International Loan 1930) 51919Germany paid the last interest on its 1920s reparation loans on 3 October 2010, 92 years after the First World War endedBerlin, Germany
  125. Griffith J. Griffith: Griffith Jenkins Griffith1919Griffith J. Griffith gave Los Angeles a 3,015-acre park, shot his wife and went to prison, and used his will to build the Griffith ObservatoryLos Angeles, California, USA
  126. Emiliano Zapata: Emiliano Zapata41919Anenecuilco gave Zapata its colonial land titles in 1909; the man he left them to was killed in a land fight with Zapata's sonAnenecuilco, Morelos, Mexico
  127. Confucius: Confucius, fresco from a Western Han tomb of Dongping County, Shandong province, China (cropped)1919Confucius's 77th-generation heir was made a duke as a baby, and Red Guards later dug up his father and hung the body from a treeQufu, Shandong, China; Taipei, Taiwan
  128. Bukit Brown Cemetery, Singapore - 20111210-04: A general view of tombs in Bukit Brown Cemetery, Singapore.1918Singapore took the Ong clan's burial hill for a public cemetery, then dug up more than 4,000 of its graves for a highway, and unclaimed remains were to be scattered at seaBukit Brown, Singapore
  129. Gustav Klimt: Klimt1918After Gustav Klimt died in 1918, the mothers of his children claimed support from his estate and were paid 4,000 to 10,000 crowns eachVienna, Austria
  130. Ipatjew-Haus2: Das Ipatjew-Haus in Swerdlowsk, in dem die Zarenfamilie erschossen wurde. Abgescannt von einer sowjetischen Postkarte von 1928.1918Russia buried the last tsar's family 80 years after the shooting, the Church has not accepted the bones, and two of the children's remains have been in archive boxes since 2007Yekaterinburg, Russia; Peter and Paul Cathedral, Saint Petersburg, Russia
  131. Auffahrt, Flug u. Ende des Zeppelin'schen Luftschiffes Modell 4: Wreckage of the Zeppelin LZ4 after the crash in Echterdingen1917Germans gave Count Zeppelin 6 million marks after his airship burned, and his great-grandson has spent ten years trying to take the foundation back from a cityFriedrichshafen, Germany
  132. Emprunt Russe 500 fr 1894: Scan d'un document original, datant de 1894 : titre au porteur portant le n° 301021. Obligation d'État de 125 Roubles-or, soit 500 francs-or, montant le 1917Russia repudiated the tsar's bonds, France settled for $400 million in 1997, and the holders' association tried to seize a Russian sailing ship and a cathedralParis, France
  133. Iolani Palace, photograph by Frederick George Eyton-Walker, c. 18901917Hawaii's last queen was imprisoned in an upstairs bedroom of her own palace, and the building served as the capitol of the government that removed her until 1969ʻIolani Palace, Honolulu, Hawaii
  134. Liliʻuokalani: Liliuokalani, c. 18911917Queen Liliʻuokalani sued the United States for Hawaii's crown lands and lostHonolulu, Territory of Hawaii
  135. Villa Bethania Rennes-le-Château: Die Villa Bethania in Rennes-le-Château1917The priest of Rennes-le-Château put his buildings in his servant's name, a restaurant owner spread a treasure story in 1956, and Pierre Plantard tied it to an invented secret orderRennes-le-Château, Aude, France
  136. Scott Joplin: Scott Joplin in 19121917Scott Joplin died in a state hospital without a will, his papers were lost in a trustee's estate, and his widow's trust won $177,980 in 1977Manhattan State Hospital, Ward's Island, New York, United States
  137. Auguste Rodin: Auguste Rodin by George Charles Beresford (NPG x6573)1917Rodin gave all his works and reproduction rights to France in 1916, and the Musee Rodin spent 18 years in court over about 1,700 casts it called fakesMeudon, France
  138. Buffalo Bill: Portrait of William F. Cody (aka) "Buffalo Bill"1917Buffalo Bill's 1913 will gave everything to Louisa; Denver newspaper owners held his $20,000 debt, and Wyoming has claimed his body since 1917Denver, Colorado
  139. Mata Hari: MataHari151917Mata Hari's body went unclaimed after her 1917 execution, and the embalmed head kept in a Paris anatomy museum was found missing in 2000Vincennes, near Paris
  140. Von Dervis Mansion Exhibition 1902 - Third Imperial Egg magnified: The Third Imperial Fabergé Easter Egg displayed among Marie Feodorovna's Fabergé treasures in the Von Dervis Mans1917The Bolsheviks sold the tsars' Fabergé eggs abroad, and one sold in New York in 1964 as a gold watch turned up with a man who had bought it for scrapMoscow, Russia; New York, USA; London, UK
  141. EAST (FRONT) ELEVATION - Henry M. Flagler Mansion, Whitehall Way, Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, FL: EAST (FRONT) ELEVATION - Henry M. Flagler Mansion, Whitehall Way, Palm Beach, P1917Henry Flagler's widow left $5 million to her new husband in a codicil signed eight days before she died, and her family dug up her bodyLouisville, Kentucky, USA
  142. Thibaw Min: Thibaw Min1916King Thibaw handed Burma's crown jewels to a British colonel in 1885, and the Nga Mauk ruby was never seen againMandalay, Myanmar; Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India
  143. Ishi: Ishi portrait1916Ishi asked to be cremated by Yahi custom, and the university sent his brain to the Smithsonian, which returned it 84 years laterSan Francisco, California, USA
  144. Roger Casement-Grave in Glasnevin: Roger Casement-Grave in Glasnevin1916Britain hanged Roger Casement in 1916 and buried him in quicklime, returned him to Dublin in 1965 on condition he stay out of the North, and in October 2026 his supporters applied to move himPentonville Prison, London; Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland; Murlough Bay, C
  145. Jack London: Jack London young1916Jack London left nearly his entire estate to his wife Charmian in 1916; she kept the ranch, evicted a biographer, and her 1938 will turned it into a state parkGlen Ellen, California
  146. Talaat Pasha: Mehmed talat1915Talaat asked the US ambassador for the list of Armenians insured by American companies, and 89 years later New York Life paid $20 million to their heirsOttoman Empire (Turkey); Los Angeles, California, USA
  147. George Washington Vanderbilt II: GeorgeVanderbiltII1914George Vanderbilt's widow sold most of Biltmore's land to the United States, and his grandsons split the house from the dairyWashington, D.C.
  148. A colorful corner of Baconsfield Park, Macon, Ga. (8367054949): File name: 06_10_014111 Title: A colorful corner of Baconsfield Park, Macon, Ga. Date issued: 1930 - 1945 (approxima1914Senator Bacon left Macon a park for white people only; when the courts opened it to all, it went back to his heirs and became a strip mallMacon, Georgia, USA
  149. Ambrose Bierce: Abierce1914Ambrose Bierce vanished in Mexico in 1913 or 1914, and a priest put a plaque in a Sierra Mojada cemetery in 2004 for the grave a witness describedMexico, location unconfirmed
  150. Interior of Oba's compound burnt during siege of Benin City, 1897: Interior of Oba's compound burnt during seige of Benin City (present day Nigeria) , with bronze plaques in the fo1914Nigeria vested ownership of the looted Benin Bronzes in the Oba of Benin in 2023Calabar, Nigeria

Industry and empire 1800 to 1914

  1. Rudolf Diesel: Rudolf Diesel21913Rudolf Diesel vanished from a Channel steamer in 1913 and left his wife a bag of money with papers showing his debtsaboard the steamer Dresden between Antwerp, Belgium, and Harwich, England
  2. Adolphus Busch: Adolphus busch21913Adolphus Busch's widow stayed in Germany during World War I, and the US Alien Property Custodian took her share of the brewery until she came homeVilla Lilly, Bad Schwalbach, Germany; St. Louis, Missouri, USA
  3. Sol Plaatje 002: Photograph of Sol Plaatje from his 1915 book Native Life in South Africa.1913Under the 1913 Natives Land Act a farmer named Kgobadi was ordered off his land by sunset, and his baby died on the road and was buried at night in a stolen graveOrange Free State, near the Transvaal border, South Africa
  4. Menelik II: Emperor Menelik II photographed on the throne in coronation garb.1913Menelik II's death was kept secret in 1913, and his named heir Lij Iyasu was deposed in 1916 and died a prisonerAddis Ababa, Ethiopia
  5. Terra Nova Expedition: Scott's party at the South Pole1912Scott's last plea raised £76,000: widows were paid by their husbands' rank, and £10,000 founded the Scott Polar Research InstituteRoss Ice Shelf, Antarctica
  6. Bram Stoker: Bram Stoker 19061912Bram Stoker's widow sued over Nosferatu, and a German court ordered every copy of the film destroyedLondon
  7. Contract of the Hukuang Railway Bond: Contract of the Imperial Chinese Government 5% Hukuang Railways Sinking Fund Gold Loan of 19111911Nine Americans won $41.3 million from China on 1911 imperial railway bonds, and the judgment was set aside after Beijing protestedNorthern District of Alabama, USA
  8. Gustav Mahler: Photo of Gustav Mahler by Moritz Nähr 011911Alma Mahler held Mahler's unfinished Tenth Symphony for decades and first demanded a veto over Deryck Cooke's completionVienna
  9. Leo Tolstoy: Leo Tolstoy 1908 Portrait (3x4 cropped)1910Tolstoy signed a secret will in the woods to give his copyrights to the publicAstapovo railway station, Russia
  10. Kylemore Abbey, where the story took place1910A duke bought Kylemore Castle with an American heiress's family money, lost it to debts, and later went to prisonKylemore, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland
  11. Prince Francis of Teck: Francis of Teck1910A prince left the family emeralds to his mistress in 1910, and every senior British royal will has been sealed sinceLondon and Windsor, England
  12. Ancient Yapese stone money: Monnaies de pierre alignées contre un mur de pierre sèche, municipalité de Rull, Îles Yap1910On Yap, a family stayed rich for generations on a stone coin lying at the bottom of the seaYap, Federated States of Micronesia; Palau
  13. Hawley Harvey Crippen: Dr crippen1910Dr Crippen was hanged for killing his wife, and the court refused to let his mistress take the wife's estate through his willHilldrop Crescent, London, UK
  14. Mark Twain: Mark Twain by AF Bradley (cropped 2)1910Mark Twain fired his secretary Isabel Lyon in 1909 and wrote 429 pages accusing her and her husband, a text kept private until 2015Redding, Connecticut
  15. Leopold II of Belgium: Leopold II, King of the Belgians by Alexander Bassano (1889)1909Leopold II owned the Congo personally, married his 26-year-old mistress five days before he died, and his daughters sued for the moneyLaeken, Belgium
  16. Geronimo: Geronimo (Goyathlay), a Chiricahua Apache; full-length, kneeling with rifle1909Geronimo's descendants sued Skull and Bones in 2009 for the skull a member's 1918 letter says was taken from his grave, and a federal judge dismissed the caseFort Sill, Oklahoma, USA; the Tomb, 64 High Street, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
  17. Bhawal prince: Photograph, circa early 1900s, of Ramendranarayan Roy, prince of Bhawal estate, (currently Gazipur District, Bangladesh)1909A Bengal prince was cremated in 1909, a holy man claimed to be him, and the Privy Council confirmed it in 1946; he died two days laterDarjeeling; Bhawal estate, Joydebpur (Gazipur), Bangladesh
  18. Daria i Noor Dhaka 1851: Daria i Noor Dhaka 18511908A Nawab of Dhaka pledged the Daria-i-Noor to the British in 1908, and Bangladesh has not opened the vault to see if it is still thereLahore, Pakistan; Kolkata, India; Dhaka, Bangladesh
  19. Vita Sackville-West: Vita as a married woman1908Lord Sackville's son by a married Spanish dancer sued for Knole and the peerage, and the court ruled all her children illegitimateKnole, Sevenoaks, Kent
  20. Cyrus Teed: Cyrus Teed1908Cyrus Teed's followers watched his body waiting for him to rise, until the county health officer ordered him buried; a hurricane later took the tombEstero, Lee County, Florida, USA
  21. Andrew Carnegie: Andrew Carnegie, by Theodore Marceau (cropped) (2)1907Cassie Chadwick said she was Andrew Carnegie's illegitimate daughter, borrowed against forged Carnegie notes, and broke an Ohio bankOhio State Penitentiary, Columbus
  22. Ilia Chavchavadze: Ilia Tchavtchavadze1907Ilia Chavchavadze was shot dead on the road to his Saguramo estate in 1907, and the Georgian church made him a saint in 1987Road from Tbilisi to Saguramo, near Mtskheta, Georgia
  23. John D. Rockefeller: Portrait of J. D. Rockefeller1906John D. Rockefeller's father lived 50 years as "Dr. Levingston" with a second wife and was buried under the false nameFreeport, Illinois
  24. Paul Cézanne: Paul-Cezanne1906Cézanne's 1902 will left everything to his son and nothing to his wife Hortense, and they sold his studio to Vollard for 275,000 francsAix-en-Provence, France
  25. Marshall Field: Marshall Field circa 1915 (cropped)1906Marshall Field's son was shot two months before he died, and his will locked his fortune away for the grandsons until 1943Chicago, Illinois, USA
  26. Jane Stanford: Portrait of Jane Stanford1905Jane Stanford, sole funder of Stanford University, died of strychnine in 1905 and the university president said it was natural causesMoana Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii
  27. Ernst Abbe: Ernst Abbe (HeidICON 29803) (cropped)1905Ernst Abbe gave the Zeiss works to a foundation, and after 1945 a western and an eastern Zeiss sued each other over the name for 17 yearsJena, Germany
  28. RappHouseOldEconomyPA: The Rapp house in Old Economy Village, Pennsylvania.1905The celibate Harmony Society dwindled to eight members, the US Supreme Court refused the heirs a share in 1902, and the last trustees split the fortune with PennsylvaniaEconomy (Ambridge), Beaver County, Pennsylvania, USA
  29. Jules Verne: Photograph of Jules Verne by Félix Nadar1905Jules Verne's son rewrote his posthumous novels, and Verne's lost 1863 novel stayed in a locked safe until his great-grandson forced it open in 1989Amiens, France
  30. Map of Hawaii, marked on the globe1905The Bishop Museum lent 83 burial objects to a Hawaiian group for one year, the group sealed them in a cave, and a federal judge jailed its leader until they came outKawaihae, Hawaii, USA
  31. Savva Morozov: Морозов Савва Тимофеевич (1862-1905) ; (eng.-Morozov Savva Timofeevich)1905Savva Morozov's mother pushed him out of the family mills, he was found shot in Cannes, and his insurance went to a Bolshevik actressCannes, France, and Orekhovo-Zuevo, Russia
  32. Herero chained: Herero chained during the 1904 rebellion.1904Germany sent the heads of Herero and Nama prisoners to Berlin for race research, and the Charité returned 20 skulls to Namibia in 2011Shark Island, Lüderitz, Namibia, and Berlin, Germany
  33. Westminster Abbey, where the story took place1904Stanley was refused burial beside Livingstone in Westminster Abbey, and his papers were sold to Belgium in four partsLondon
  34. Lemp Mansion 2012: Lemp Mansion in 20121904Three Lemps shot themselves in the family mansion, Prohibition closed the brewery, and the house now sells haunted toursLemp Mansion, 3322 South 13th Street, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
  35. Theodor Herzl: Theodor Herzl (3x4 cropped)1904Herzl's testament asked for his children to lie beside him; Israel buried his suicide son and his daughter there 76 years after their deathsVienna, Austria; Bordeaux, France; Mount Herzl, Jerusalem, Israel
  36. Paul Gauguin: Paul Gauguin Wearing a Breton Jacket1903Paul Gauguin died in the Marquesas with no will, the colony auctioned his paintings for a few francs, and his widow Mette got about 4,000 francsAtuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands
  37. AI illustration: Rhodes's grave on the granite dome of World's View in the Matopos hills, 19021902Parliament cancelled the Kaiser's 15 Rhodes Scholarships in 1916, and Zimbabwean officials called for Rhodes's body to be removedMuizenberg, Cape Colony
  38. Brewster'sMillions: First edition cover of Brewster's Millions.1902In Brewster's Millions, a man must spend a $1 million inheritance in a year with nothing to show for it in order to inherit $7 millionNew York City, USA (setting)
  39. Émile Zola: Nadar (atelier de) - Emile Zola, 13-5565351902A 1953 newspaper said a chimney sweep blocked Émile Zola's flue in 1902, and the Panthéon ceremony for his remains ended with a gunman wounding DreyfusParis, France
  40. Giuseppe Verdi: Giuseppe Verdi by Ferdinand Mulnier BW1901Giuseppe Verdi's villa was closed by a Parma court in 2022 over an heirs' fight, then taken by the state for about 7.6 million euros against a 30 million appraisalMilan
  41. Friedrich Nietzsche: Nietzsche187a1900Nietzsche's sister took control of his papers while he was insane, published The Will to Power, and Hitler came to her funeralWeimar, Germany
  42. Oscar Wilde: Oscar Wilde by Napoleon Sarony. Three-quarter-length photograph, seated (cropped)1900Oscar Wilde died bankrupt in Paris; his friend Robbie Ross bought back the rights and gave the income to Wilde's sonsParis
  43. Rice University - William Marsh Rice statue1900A lawyer and a valet killed William Marsh Rice in 1900 to take the fortune he left to found Rice InstituteNew York City
  44. Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers in Egyptian getup: Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, in Egyptian getup, performs a ritual in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Picture from be1900The Golden Dawn expelled its founder in 1900, his envoy Aleister Crowley tried to seize the London vault in a mask, and Yeats and the landlord threw him out36 Blythe Road, Hammersmith, London, England
  45. Horace Tabor: Horace Austin Warner Tabor - Brady-Handy1899Horace Tabor left his wife for Baby Doe, lost his silver fortune in 1893, and Baby Doe was found frozen at his last mineDenver, Colorado
  46. AI illustration: Hinton House, the Poulett seat at Hinton St George, Somerset, 1890s1899The House of Lords gave the Poulett earldom to the 6th Earl's 15-year-old son over the elder son the Earl disownedHinton St George, Somerset (family seat)
  47. Johann Strauss I: StraußVaterLitho1899Johann Strauss II gave up Austrian citizenship and his church to remarry, then left his fortune to a music society instead of his familyVienna, Austria-Hungary
  48. Minik Wallace: Minik in New York1898Peary brought six Inuit to New York in 1897, and the museum faked a funeral and kept Minik's father's skeleton until 1993New York; Pittsburg, New Hampshire
  49. Tichborne case: TichborneTryptich1898A Wapping butcher's son claimed the Tichborne baronetcy, and a 188-day perjury trial sent him to prison for 14 yearsLondon
  50. Lewis Carroll: LewisCarrollSelfPhoto1898Lewis Carroll's diaries lost four volumes and ten pages before reaching the British Library in 1969; his Alice manuscript sold at Sotheby's in 1928Guildford, England
  51. Louis Henri, Prince of Condé: French: Portrait en pied du duc de Bourbon, en tenue de lieutenant général title QS:P1476,fr:"Portrait en pied du duc de1897The last Prince of Condé was found hanged after willing Chantilly to an 8-year-old prince, who later gave it to the Institut de France while in exileChantilly, Oise, France
  52. Barney Barnato00: Portrait of Barney Barnato (1852-1897)1897Diamond magnate Barney Barnato went overboard from a mail steamer in 1897, a blackmailer shot his nephew Woolf Joel dead the next year, and his son inherited at twoat sea near Madeira; Johannesburg, South Africa
  53. George Pullman tomb by Gerald Farinas: Tomb of George Pullman at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois.1897George Pullman's will cut his twin sons to $3,000 a year for lacking "a sense of responsibility," and his family buried him under steel rails and concreteChicago, Illinois, USA
  54. Alfred Nobel: Alfred Nobel31896Alfred Nobel gave 94 percent of his fortune to prizes, and his relatives and the King of Sweden tried to stop itSanremo, Italy
  55. Broighter Boat: The Broighter Boat. from On Broighter, Limavady, County Londonderry, and on the Find of Gold Ornaments There in 1896 Robert Cochrane The Journal of the Royal Societ1896The British Museum bought the Broighter gold boat for £600, and the Crown sued the Museum in 1903 to send it to DublinBroighter, near Limavady, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland; London; Dublin,
  56. Maurice de Hirsch: Baron hirsch1896Baron Maurice de Hirsch left his fortune to his widow, who gave it away and passed the rest to an adopted sonnear Érsekújvár, Hungary (now Nové Zámky, Slovakia)
  57. Nagarakretagama of Indonesian 14th century Majapahit manuscript: Nagarakretagama of Indonesian 14th century Majapahit manuscript1895Dutch troops took a quarter tonne of gold from the Lombok palace in 1894, and with it the only manuscript of Majapahit's royal chronicleCakranegara, Lombok, Indonesia
  58. Hamilton Palace: HamiltonPalacepostcard1895The Dukes of Hamilton sold Hamilton Palace's collections in 1882 and 1919, then demolished the palace over mining subsidenceAlgiers
  59. Governor Pio Pico at age 90: Governor Pio Pico at age 90.1894California's last Mexican governor signed what he said was a mortgage, the courts called it a sale, and he lost his last ranch at 90Whittier and Los Angeles, California, USA
  60. James Graham Fair - Brady-Handy: James Graham Fair. Library of Congress description: "Fair, Hon. Jas. G. of Nevada, Senator"1894Senator James Fair locked his fortune in a trust, a school principal produced a pencil will and a marriage contract, and his children turned on herSan Francisco, California, USA
  61. Gustave Caillebotte: Gustave Caillebotte photo c18781894Gustave Caillebotte left France more than 60 Impressionist works in 1894; the state refused part and hung 38 in 1897Gennevilliers, France
  62. Suzuki Shoten burnt out: 鈴木商店（Suzuki Shoten） in Kobe burnt out.1894A widow inherited a Kobe sugar trader, her manager made it bigger than Mitsui, rioters burned it, and it failed in 1927Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan
  63. Koh-i-Noor: Replica of the Koh-i-Noor (cropped)1893A 10-year-old Sikh maharaja signed away the Koh-i-Noor to Queen Victoria, and other countries still claim itParis, France
  64. Otto von Bismarck: Otto von Bismarck 1885 (cropped)1893Bismarck's banker Gerson von Bleichröder left a fortune to his sons; his son's painting went to Göring, and Bavaria returned it in 2017 and bought it back the same dayBerlin, Germany; Munich, Germany
  65. Dunrobin Castle, where the story took place1892The 3rd Duke of Sutherland left his fortune to his second wife, and she went to Holloway prison for contemptDunrobin Castle, Sutherland
  66. Lizzie Borden House (Bed Breakfast) (3535957840): Erected in 1845, the home was originally a two family and was later made into a single family by Andrew J. Borden. Andrew J. Borde1892Lizzie Borden was acquitted of killing her father and stepmother, inherited his fortune with her sister, and wrote her sister out of her willFall River, Massachusetts, USA
  67. Map of Nebraska, marked on the globe1892A widow left her inherited fortune to a Lincoln charity home; her family said a planchette and her dead husband's spirit guided her, and Nebraska upheld the will in 1895Brownville, Nemaha County, Nebraska, USA
  68. Borley Rectory after the fire: Borley Rectory1892Borley Rectory passed from father to son for 64 years, drew ghost hunters for a decade, and burned in 1939 with the insurers suspecting arsonBorley, Essex, England
  69. Walt Whitman: Walt Whitman - George Collins Cox1892Walt Whitman's brain was removed at his autopsy for a brain club and was destroyed within a yearCamden, New Jersey
  70. Helmuth von Moltke the Elder: Portrait of Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (by Carl Günther) - BNF Gallica (cropped)1891Moltke bought Kreisau with his 1866 war grant; his great-grandnephew was hanged in 1945 and the family lost the estateBerlin
  71. Dutchmans Trail, Palamino Mountain (left), Weavers Needle (right) (3285875350): Superstition Wilderness.1891Jacob Waltz died in 1891 and his carer sold maps to his supposed gold mine; searchers have died looking for it sinceSuperstition Mountains, near Apache Junction, Arizona, USA
  72. Herman Melville: Herman Melville by Joseph O Eaton1891Herman Melville's widow tied his unpublished papers in bundles in 1891, and Billy Budd stayed in a breadbox until a biographer opened it in 1919New York City
  73. P. T. Barnum: P. T. Barnum - 02176a (cropped)1891P.T. Barnum's will paid a grandson to take the Barnum name; sources give the sum as $25,000 or a share of the estateBridgeport, Connecticut
  74. Pedro II of Brazil: Pedro II of Brazil - Brady-Handy1891Pedro II's heirs still collect 2.5 percent of every land sale in central Petrópolis, 137 years after the empire fellPetrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  75. Il generale Weyler: Il generale Weyler (xilografia).1890The Dominican landlords evicted José Rizal's family from Calamba in 1890, and the United States bought the friar estates in 1903Calamba, Laguna, Philippines
  76. AI illustration: Manuscripts and diaries burning in a fireplace in a Trieste house, 18901890Richard Burton's widow burned his manuscript of The Scented Garden and his diaries after he diedTrieste, Austria-Hungary
  77. Vincent van Gogh: Self-Portrait title QS:P1476,en:"Self-Portrait "label QS:Len,"Self-Portrait "label QS:Les,"Autorretrato"label QS:Lnds,"S1890Van Gogh's brother died six months after him, and Theo's widow built the reputation from the paintings she inheritedAuvers-sur-Oise, France
  78. Louis Le Prince: Louisleprincerestored1890Louis Le Prince filmed moving pictures in 1888, vanished from a train in 1890, and his son died after testifying against EdisonDijon, France
  79. Joseph Merrick: Joseph Merrick carte de visite photo, c. 18891890Joseph Merrick's manager stole his savings, the London Hospital took him in, and after his death it kept his skeleton while his flesh went to an unmarked graveWhitechapel, London, England, UK
  80. Da Ke ding: Da Ke ding1890A widow at 19 promised to guard her family's two great bronze cauldrons, hid them through seven Japanese raids, and gave them to the stateBeijing; Suzhou, Jiangsu; Shanghai, China
  81. Sophia Schliemann wearing Treasure A, Troy: Heinrich Schliemann's wife, Sophia, wearing gold jewelry from Treasure A, ca 18731890Schliemann smuggled Priam's Treasure out of the Ottoman Empire and gave it to Berlin, the Red Army took it in 1945, and Moscow kept it secret for 50 yearsHisarlik (Troy), Turkey; Berlin, Germany; Moscow, Russia
  82. William Waldorf Astor: William Waldorf Astor1890William Waldorf Astor built a hotel beside his aunt's house over who was "Mrs. Astor", and her son built a taller one on hersFifth Avenue, New York City, USA, and Cliveden, England
  83. Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria: Rudolf Crown Prince of Austria LOC1889Austria's crown prince shot his 17-year-old lover and himself at Mayerling, and the throne passed to the man killed at SarajevoMayerling hunting lodge, Lower Austria
  84. Antonio Meucci: Antonio Meucci1889Antonio Meucci could not pay $10 to renew his telephone caveat, Bell got the patent, and Meucci died before the courts ruledStaten Island, New York, USA
  85. Father Damien's grave in 1907: Father Damien's grave in 1907, during Jack London's visit to Kalaupapa.1889Father Damien was buried on Molokai where he had served leprosy patients, Belgium took the body in 1936, and Hawaii got back his right hand in 1995Kalawao, Molokai, Hawaii, USA, and Leuven, Belgium
  86. John Stith Pemberton: John Pemberton1888John Pemberton invented Coca-Cola, sold it off in pieces while addicted to morphine, and died poor in 1888, leaving his widow a pauperAtlanta, Georgia, USA
  87. Ludvig Nobel: Ludvig Nobel1888The Nobel brothers built Russia's largest oil company in Baku; Ludvig's son fled the Bolsheviks disguised as a peasant and sold half the shares to Standard OilBaku, Azerbaijan; St Petersburg, Russia; Stockholm, Sweden
  88. J. C. Jacobsen: JC Jacobsen 1886 by August Jerndorff1887Carlsberg's founder gave his brewery to a foundation after a feud with his son, who built a rival brewery beside itRome
  89. AI illustration: Boats with lanterns search Lake Starnberg below Berg Castle for Ludwig II, 13 June 18861886Bavaria deposed Ludwig II as insane over his castle debts, he died in a lake the day after his arrest, and Neuschwanstein opened to paying visitors within weeksLake Starnberg, near Berg Castle, Bavaria
  90. Emily Dickinson: Black-white photograph of Emily Dickinson21886Emily Dickinson's poems were edited by her brother's mistress, and her sister sued the mistress for a strip of landAmherst, Massachusetts
  91. The Shooting of Judge Terry - National Police Gazette 1889-08-31: The Shooting of Judge Terry. Scenes in and about the Lathrop, Cal., depot where Marshal Nagle killed the famous hu1885Sarah Althea Hill produced a marriage contract and a will from San Francisco's richest man, federal judges ruled them forged, and her husband was shot dead attacking a Supreme Court justiceSan Francisco, California, USA
  92. Victor Hugo: Portrait photograph of Victor Hugo published in the widely distributed serial publication entitled Galerie contemporaine, littéraire, artistique. Issued in parts from 1885Victor Hugo left 50,000 francs to the poor and asked for their hearse; France gave him a state funeral that drew more than two million peopleParis, France
  93. Jumbo: Jumbo and his keeper Matthew Scott1885Jumbo the elephant was killed by a train in 1885; his skeleton, hide, heart and ashes went to four different ownersSt. Thomas, Ontario
  94. Tomb of The Mahdi (8626640228): The Mahdi, a Sudanese religious and military leader who defeated the English in 1885, is buried in this tomb at Omdurman. The British blew up the or1885Kitchener had the Mahdi's tomb destroyed in 1898 and his skull taken, and Parliament debated it before the skull was buried at Wadi HalfaOmdurman, Sudan
  95. Glenveagh Castle: Glenveagh Castle - geograph.org.uk - 515171885Glenveagh's builder evicted 244 people in three days, a later owner vanished in a storm, and the last owner gave the castle to IrelandGlenveagh, County Donegal, Ireland
  96. Amanda America Dickson: Amanda America Dickson 0011885A Georgia planter left his estate to his daughter by an enslaved girl, and his white relatives lost their challenge in 1887Hancock County, Georgia
  97. Ulysses S. Grant: Gen. U.S. Grant writing his memoirs, Mount McGregor, June 27th, 1885 LCCN965222501885Grant lost his savings in the Grant & Ward fraud and wrote memoirs that paid his widow about $450,000Mount McGregor, New York
  98. Bernice Pauahi Bishop: Bernice Pauahi Bishop, age twenty-three1884The last Kamehameha princess left her lands to a school, and a judge removed its trustees for self-dealing 115 years laterHonolulu, Kingdom of Hawaii
  99. Kamehameha Schools: First Graduating Class of the Kamehameha School for Boys, 18911884A 1997 essay called "Broken Trust" led a Hawaii court to remove the Bishop Estate trustees, who were paid up to $900,000 a yearHonolulu, Kingdom of Hawaii
  100. An lang: Điện Long Ân, An Lăng, nơi thờ cúng vua Dục Đức, Thành Thái và Duy Tân1883Emperor Tự Đức's will called his heir unfit, and his regents crowned four emperors in just over a year and poisoned twoHuế, Vietnam
  101. Château de Chambord LCCN20176597811883France seized Chambord in 1915 because its owner served Austria, while his half-brothers, who fought for the Allies, sued him for a bigger shareChâteau de Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, France
  102. Court of Appeals (NYPL b11708223-G91F099 037ZB): * Includes views by R. E. Churchill, Aaron Veeder, Jeffers & McDonnald and other photographers and publishers. Robert Dennis Co1882A 16-year-old poisoned his grandfather to stop him changing his will, and New York's highest court took the farm from him in 1889rural northern New York, USA; New York Court of Appeals
  103. Robert Todd Lincoln: Lincoln, Robert (son of Abraham Lincoln) Crop1882Robert Lincoln had his mother declared insane the day after detectives saw $56,000 in bonds sewn into her petticoatsChicago, Illinois, USA
  104. Shiraoi-upopoy 25: 北海道白老郡白老町にある「民族共生象徴空間」ウポポイ（国立アイヌ民族博物館）1880Japanese scientists dug up more than 1,600 Ainu remains for study, and Ainu groups sued universities to bring them homeUrahoro, Hokkaido, Japan; Shiraoi, Hokkaido
  105. Edwin Drake: Edwindrake1880Edwin Drake drilled the first US oil well in 1859, lost his savings by 1866, and lived on a Pennsylvania state pensionTitusville and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA
  106. John Sutter: John A. Sutter Oval Crop Edit Desat1880Gold was found on John Sutter's land in 1848, his son built Sacramento on it against his wishes, and he died in a Washington hotel waiting for Congress to pay himWashington, D.C., USA; Sacramento, California, USA
  107. Thérèse Humbert: Thérèse Humbert1879Thérèse Humbert borrowed for 20 years against an inheritance from an American millionaire who never existed, and the safe held almost nothingParis, France
  108. John Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland: 5th Duke of Portland bust1879A widow said the Duke of Portland had faked his own death as a London shopkeeper, and the coffin was opened to settle itLondon
  109. Caroline Norton: Caroline Norton (1808-77) society beauty and author by GH, Chatsworth Coll.1877Caroline Norton's husband claimed her book earnings and her inheritance from her mother, and her campaign changed English property lawLondon, England, UK
  110. Brigham Young: Brigham Youngtitle QS:P1476,en:"Brigham Young"label QS:Len,"Brigham Young"1877The church claimed $999,000 of Brigham Young's estate, his heirs sued, and the three apostles who were his executors went to the penitentiarySalt Lake City, Utah, USA
  111. Gustave Courbet: Gustave Courbet, photograph Atelier Nadar, c. 1860s1877Gustave Courbet was billed 323,000 francs to rebuild the Vendôme Column and died in Swiss exile in 1877La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland
  112. His Excellency General Sir Jang Bahadur Kunwar Rana (1817–1877), Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of Nepal: H.E. General Sir Jang Bahadur Kunwar Rana (1817-77), Prime Minister1877Nepal's Rana prime ministers passed the office brother to brother by a roll; in 1934 the ruler struck off the sons of low-caste mothers, and their sons joined the party that opposed itKathmandu, Nepal
  113. Cornelius Vanderbilt: Cornelius Vanderbilt Daguerrotype2 (cropped)(b)1877Cornelius Vanderbilt left nearly all of $100 million to one son, and the son he passed over argued spiritualism had unhinged him10 Washington Place, New York City
  114. Juan Manuel de Rosas: Juan Manuel de Rosas by Norris1877Argentina confiscated Rosas's property and sentenced him to death; he died a tenant farmer in England and was reburied in 1989Southampton, England
  115. Alexander Turney Stewart: Alexander Turney Stewart1876Thieves stole A. T. Stewart's body from his New York vault, and his widow paid $20,000 for a satchel of bonesNew York City, New York, USA
  116. Antonio López de Santa Anna: Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna c18531876Santa Anna sold La Mesilla to the United States for $10 million, mortgaged his estates from exile, and Illinois keeps his legMexico City
  117. Empress Dowager Cixi: The Ci-Xi Imperial Dowager Empress (9.2)1875Cixi made her sister's son emperor, an official killed himself to object to the adoption, and the emperor died of arsenic in 1908Beijing and Jizhou (Tianjin), China
  118. Isaac Singer: Isaac Merrit Singertitle QS:P1476,en:"Isaac Merrit Singer"label QS:Len,"Isaac Merrit Singer"1875Isaac Singer left a sewing-machine fortune to children by five women, and a former partner claimed to be his widowOldway, Paignton, Devon, England
  119. James Addison Reavis in prison clothes: James Addison Reavis with imprisoned at Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory1874James Addison Reavis forged a Spanish barony covering 12 million acres of Arizona, presented a ranch girl as its heiress, and went to prisonPhoenix, Arizona, USA
  120. GENERAL VIEW, ca. 1874 (Photocopy made in 1966 from original view in Hawaii State Archives) - Lunalilo's Tomb, Punchbowl: GENERAL VIEW, ca. 1874 (Photocopy made in 1966 from origin1874Two Hawaiian kings died without naming heirs, the 1874 election ended in a riot that killed a legislator, and King Lunalilo left his lands to a home for poor HawaiiansHonolulu, Hawaii, USA
  121. Johns Hopkins: Hopkinsp1873Johns Hopkins left $7 million in railroad stock to found a hospital, the stock stopped paying, and records found in 2020 showed he had owned slavesBaltimore, Maryland, USA
  122. Captain jack 1873: Captain Jack (Kintpuash), a Modoc subchief, executed October 3, 1873; bust-length, full-face. Photographed by Louis Heller, 1873. American Indian Select List num1873The Army hanged Captain Jack, shipped his head to Washington in a barrel marked "specimens of natural history," and exiled his people to OklahomaFort Klamath, Oregon, USA
  123. City of Glasgow Bank cheque1877: A cleared cheque from 1877, the year before the collapse of the City of Glasgow Bank1873Trustees holding a dead man's bank shares for his daughters were made personally liable when the City of Glasgow Bank failedGlasgow and Edinburgh, Scotland
  124. Takaparawhau & Bastion Rock 1901: Looking east along Biddicks Bay towards Takaparawhau showing Bastion Rock, since demolished, 1901.1873The Native Land Court declared Ōrākei inalienable, the Crown took or bought almost all of it, and 800 police and soldiers ended a 506-day occupation with 222 arrestsŌrākei and Bastion Point (Takaparawhau), Auckland, New Zealand
  125. David Livingstone: David Livingstone by Thomas Annan1873Livingstone's heart was buried in Zambia, his body was carried 1,000 miles to Westminster Abbey, and his son died in a Confederate prison under a false nameChitambo's village, Ilala (now Zambia)
  126. Joseph Emory Davis: Joseph Emory Davis1870Joseph Davis sold his plantations to the man he had enslaved, and his brother Jefferson Davis sued the family for Brierfield and wonDavis Bend (now Davis Island), Warren County, Mississippi, USA
  127. Eliza Lynch mausoleum: Eliza Lynch mausoleum in Recoleta cemetery, Asunción, Paraguay.1870Eliza Lynch buried Paraguay's dictator and their son in 1870, was expelled when she came back for his lands, and Paraguay voted in 2025 to move her bones to its Pantheon of HeroesCerro Corá, Paraguay
  128. Charles Dickens: Dickens Gurney head1870Dickens left £1,000 to the actress he hid for 12 years, and burned 20 years of letters in his gardenGad's Hill Place, Kent
  129. William T. G. Morton: WTG Morton1868William Morton patented ether anaesthesia, never collected a royalty, and died in debt while his rivals died by suicide and in an asylumNew York City, USA
  130. Eilley Bowers: Eilley Bowers 21868Eilley Bowers took mining claims for unpaid board, became one of the first Comstock millionaires, and lost her mansion at auctionGold Hill and Washoe Valley, Nevada, USA
  131. Tewodros II: Téwodros II - 21868Tewodros II shot himself at Maqdala in 1868, Britain auctioned his treasury and took his son, and in 2023 Buckingham Palace refused to return the son's remainsMaqdala, Amhara Region, Ethiopia
  132. Maximilian I of Mexico: Maximilian of Mexico bw1867Juárez refused to hand over Emperor Maximilian's body after the 1867 execution, and his widow's fortune went home to Belgium with her under her brother's controlQuerétaro, Mexico
  133. Maximilian I of Mexico: Maximilian of Mexico bw1867Maximilian made the two-year-old grandson of Mexico's first emperor a prince and his ward, and the boy died a Georgetown language teacher with no childrenMexico City, Mexico
  134. Aga Khan I: l'Imam degli Ismailiti Aga Khan I (1817-81)1866Bombay Khoja dissidents sued the first Aga Khan for control of the community's funds, and a British judge ruled in 1866 that he was their hereditary imamBombay (Mumbai), India
  135. Moot Hall, Keswick - geograph.org.uk - 609044: Moot Hall, Keswick1865John Banks believed devils and a dead man were pursuing him, left his cottages to his niece, and the court upheld the willKeswick, Cumberland (Cumbria), England, UK
  136. Hetty Green cph: Hetty Green, half-length portrait, seated1865Hetty Robinson produced a will page giving her all of her aunt's $2 million, and a Harvard mathematician testified the signature was tracedMassachusetts, USA
  137. Sassoon David Sassoon: w:David Sassoon (seated) and his sons w:Elias David Sassoon, w:Albert Abdallah David Sassoon & w:Sassoon David Sassoon.1864David Sassoon's sons split his firm in two, his daughter-in-law Flora was pushed out, and his great-grandson Victor lost ShanghaiBombay (Mumbai), India, and Shanghai, China
  138. Isma'il Pasha: Portrait of Isma'il Pasha (1830–1895), Khedive of Egypt.1863Khedive Ismail sold Egypt's Suez Canal shares to Britain for £4 million in 1875, and the Ottoman sultan deposed him four years laterCairo, Egypt
  139. Armsmear (Hartford, CT): Photograph of 'Armsmear' (Samuel Colt's House) — in Hartford, Connecticut. This is an oblique view of the front facade. 1967 photo from the HABS—Historic A1862Samuel Colt left $15 million, and the "nephew" in his will was the son of his brother, who died in his cell on his execution dayHartford, Connecticut, USA
  140. Bahadur Shah Zafar: This file has been provided by the British Library from its digital collections. Links to the British Library's website may be broken as the library recovers fr1862A British officer shot the last Mughal emperor's sons in 1857, and in 2025 India's Supreme Court threw out his great-grandson's widow's claim to the Red FortDelhi, India; Rangoon (Yangon), Myanmar; Howrah, West Bengal, India
  141. Uriah P. Levy: Uriah Phillips Levy1862Uriah Levy willed Monticello to the United States, the Confederacy auctioned it, and New York's highest court voided the giftNew York City; Monticello, Albemarle County, Virginia
  142. Agatha Christie: Agatha Christie in Nederland (detectiveschrijfster), bij aankomst op Schiphol me, Bestanddeelnr 916-8898 (cropped)1861The 2nd Duke of Buckingham owed £1.46 million, fled his creditors, and Christie's sold the contents of Stowe in 1848Great Western Hotel, Paddington, London
  143. Charles Goodyear: Southworth and Hawes - Charles Goodyear (Zeno Fotografie) crop1860Charles Goodyear patented vulcanized rubber, spent the profits in court, and died $200,000 in debt on the way to his dying daughterNew York City, New York, USA
  144. HavishamFraser: Miss Havisham and Pip, in an illustration for the Household Edition of Dickens's Great Expectations.1860In Great Expectations, Pip's secret fortune comes from a transported convict, and the Crown takes it when the convict is condemnedKent and London, England (setting)
  145. Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte: Triple portrait of Elizabeth Patterson (a.k.a. "Betsy Bonaparte")1860Napoleon annulled his brother's Baltimore marriage, and Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte's son lost his claim to the Bonaparte inheritance in a Paris courtBaltimore, Maryland, USA; Paris, France
  146. Julia Pastrana: Julia Pastrana1860Julia Pastrana's husband sold her embalmed body after she died in 1860, and it was exhibited, stolen and stored in Oslo until Mexico buried it in 2013Moscow
  147. Nana Saheb Peshwa II: Nana sahib1859The British refused the last Peshwa's adopted son his father's pension, and after 1857 dug his treasure out of the wells at BithurBithur and Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India; Nepal
  148. Residence of Jejeebhoy: Residence of Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, 1st Baronet.1859Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy's baronetcy fund pays only an heir who gives up his own name, and every holder since 1859 has taken hisBombay (Mumbai), India
  149. Maniram Dewan: Maniram Dewan1858Maniram Dewan, the first Indian to plant tea commercially in Assam, was hanged in 1858, and the British auctioned his tea gardensJorhat, Assam, India
  150. The 'Central America' engulphed by the ocean - 1857: The 'Central America' engulphed by the ocean - 1857 "About eight o'clock the ship began to settle badly, when she momentarily r1857Insurers paid for the SS Central America's gold in 1857 and claimed it again when it was found in 1988; the finder spent ten years jailed over 500 missing coinsAtlantic Ocean, about 160 miles off South Carolina, USA; Columbus, Ohio
  151. Arlington House, east front, June 28, 1864 LCCN20046801401857The Lee family lost Arlington over a $92.07 tax, the Army buried soldiers on it, and the Supreme Court awarded $150,000Arlington, Virginia
  152. Emily Ruete (Sayyida Salme), Princess of Zanzibar: Portrait of Emily Ruete (Sayyida Salme) in traditional dress as a Princess of Zanzibar.1856Sayyid Said died at sea in 1856, his sons split Oman and Zanzibar, and his daughter Salme was refused her inheritanceAt sea between Oman and Zanzibar; buried at Zanzibar, Tanzania
  153. AI illustration: Alton Towers, Staffordshire, in the 1850s1856The 17th Earl of Shrewsbury left his estates to the Duke of Norfolk's baby son; a distant cousin won the earldom and Alton TowersAlton Towers, Staffordshire
  154. Indonesian: Penangkapan DiponegoroThe Arrest of Diponegorotitle QS:P1476,id:"Penangkapan Diponegoro"label QS:Lid,"Penang: Depicts the arrest of prince Diponegoro at the end of the 1855Prince Diponegoro was arrested at peace talks in 1830, and the kris the Dutch returned in 2020 had been missing for decadesFort Rotterdam, Makassar, Indonesia
  155. Messiah Stradivarius ashmolean: Photo of the Messiah - Salabue Stradivarius violin1854A violin dealer was found dead on a farm with 144 Italian instruments, and his heirs sold the unplayed "Messiah" StradivariCremona, Italy; Fontaneto, Piedmont, Italy; Paris, France; Oxford, England
  156. Map of United Kingdom, marked on the globe1853One wave took a Manchester family off the wreck of the Dalhousie, and their estates went to strangers because no one could say who died firstoff Beachy Head, East Sussex, England
  157. Damodar Rao of Jhansi: The place from where Rani Lakshmibai jumped1853The East India Company refused the Raja of Jhansi's deathbed adoption, took the state, and kept the boy's inheritance in trust for goodJhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India; Indore, Madhya Pradesh
  158. Charles Dickens: Dickens Gurney head1852In Dickens's Bleak House, the Jarndyce will case runs for generations until the legal costs have swallowed the estateLondon, England (Court of Chancery)
  159. Nikolai Gogol: NV Gogol1852Gogol burned the second part of Dead Souls nine days before he died; in 1931 his coffin was opened, and legend says the skull was missingMoscow, Russia
  160. Arthur Wellesley: The Duke of Wellington is standing at half-length, wearing Field Marshal’s uniform, with the Garter star and sash, the badge of the Golden Fleece, and a special b1852Belgium bought out the Duke of Wellington's "perpetual" Waterloo rent in 1988 and kept a right to take back the landWalmer Castle, Kent
  161. Apsley House, where the story took place1852Parliament bought Wellington an estate, and the 7th Duke gave Apsley House to the nation in 1947 while keeping a family flatWalmer Castle, Kent
  162. John Woodhouse Audubon: John Woodhouse Audubon1851Audubon's widow sold the Birds of America copper plates in 1870 and buyers melted most of them for scrapNew York City
  163. Begum Samru: Begum Sambre (vers 1750 - 1836), souveraine de la principauté indienne de Sardhana1851Begum Samru's heir was declared insane on his wife's petition, and after his death she contested his will leaving £200,000 to an Indian collegeSardhana, Uttar Pradesh, India; London
  164. John McDonogh: Johnmcdonogh1850John McDonogh left two cities a fortune for free schools, his heirs said Louisiana law voided the gift, and New Orleans pulled down his statue in 2020McDonoghville, Louisiana, USA
  165. Margaret Fuller: Daguerreotype of Margaret Fuller (1810-1850). Further information from Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life (Volume 1) by Charles Capper: The original daguer1850Margaret Fuller, her husband and their son drowned 100 yards from Fire Island in 1850, and her manuscript history of the Roman Republic was lostoff Fire Island, New York
  166. Richard Mentor Johnson1850Vice President Richard Mentor Johnson's daughter was ruled illegitimate, and a Kentucky court gave his estate to his brothersFrankfort, Kentucky
  167. Edgar Allan Poe: Edgar Allan Poe, circa 1849, restored, squared off1849Edgar Allan Poe's self-appointed literary executor was his enemy, who wrote his obituary under a false name and rewrote his lettersBaltimore, Maryland
  168. Frédéric Chopin: Frederic Chopin photo1849Chopin's sister smuggled his heart into Warsaw, an SS officer took it in 1944, and scientists examined it in 2014 without opening the jarParis, France; heart at Holy Cross Church, Warsaw, Poland
  169. Wuthering: Title page of original edition of Wuthering Heights (1847)1847In Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff takes both families' estates through a mortgage, a marriage and a dying boy's will, and a lawyer showed in 1926 the law holds upWest Yorkshire moors, England (setting)
  170. John Franklin: Sir John Franklin title QS:P1476,en:"Sir John Franklin "label QS:Len,"Sir John Franklin "label QS:Lbn,"স্যার জন ফ্রাঙ্কল1847The Navy declared Franklin's crews dead in 1854 while his wife paid for the search, and the wrecks found 160 years later belong partly to the InuitKing William Island, Nunavut, Canada
  171. Letter of Kenesary-sultan: Письмо Кенесары Касымова Оренбургскому военному губернатору. 22 февраля 1841 г. Подлинник. ЦГА РК. Ф. 4.1847Kenesary Khan was beheaded in 1847 and his skull sent to Omsk as a trophy; in 2021 Putin promised to return itKeklik-Sengir valley, Kyrgyzstan
  172. Karl Wilhelm Naundorff: Naundorff11845Karl Wilhelm Naundorff sued the Bourbons as the lost son of Louis XVI, and DNA from the boy's heart ended the claim in 2000Delft, Netherlands
  173. Montecristo-80: isola di Montecristo - Autore: Ambrogio Volpi1844In The Count of Monte Cristo, a cardinal poisoned for his money left his heir only a breviary, and the will hidden in it passed to a prisonerChâteau d'If, Marseille, France, and the island of Montecristo, Italy (sett
  174. monnaie : Monaco, Louis II, 500 francs, 1934: Sujet : Numismatique médiévale Monaco Ancien possesseur : Beistegui, Charles de (1895-1970). Ancien possesseur Appartient à l’ensemble1842Families who had inherited unpaid Mississippi bonds for 90 years gave them to the Prince of Monaco to sue, and the Supreme Court said a foreign state cannotJackson, Mississippi, USA
  175. Misión de Nuestra Señora de Loreto - Baja California Sur (14563317428): Loreto, Mexico 2014 Legend and history confirms that Father Juan Maria de Salvatierra with very few resource1842Mexico seized the Jesuit mission fund for California in 1842, and the claim ran 125 years through the first case at The HagueMexico City, Mexico; California, USA; The Hague, Netherlands
  176. E. View of Bellary Fort: East View of Bellary zFort1842A Bellary liquor contractor died without a will, his brother claimed the estate as a Hindu joint family, and the Privy Council asked how the family livedBellary (Ballari), Karnataka, India
  177. Beau Brummell: BrummellEngrvFrmMiniature1840Beau Brummell spent his inheritance on clothes and cards, fled London by night, and died in a paupers' asylum in CaenCaen, France
  178. Portrait of Niccolò Paganini1840The Church refused Paganini burial, and his embalmed body was moved from cellar to cellar for 36 yearsNice, Kingdom of Sardinia
  179. Hope Diamond, 45.52 Carats, South Africa (10436497285): Natural History Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com.1839A banker's nephews fought ten years over his jewels, and the heir who got the Hope Diamond could sell it only with the court's permissionLondon, England; Paris, France; Washington, D.C., USA
  180. Stephen Van Rensselaer: Stephen Van Rensselaer III1839Stephen Van Rensselaer III's will ordered $400,000 in back rents collected, and his tenants answered with the Anti-Rent WarAlbany, New York
  181. Thomas F. Mulledy signature 1838 articles of agreement p7: Signature of Thomas F. Mulledy, the Jesuit provincial superior for the Maryland province, on page 7 of the articles of ag1838The Maryland Jesuits sold 272 people for $115,000 in 1838 to pay Georgetown's debts, and in 2021 the order pledged $100 million to their descendantsWashington, DC, USA; Iberville and Ascension parishes, Louisiana, USA
  182. Malay Heritage Centre, Istana Kampong Glam 3, Dec 05: Malay Heritage Centre, Istana Kampong Glam 3, Dec 051835Raffles made Hussein sultan without the regalia, and in 1897 a court ruled his grandsons' palace land belonged to the CrownKampong Glam, Singapore
  183. Pontalba Buildings-Jackson Square-New Orleans: Pontalba Building1834The heiress to the land around New Orleans's main square was shot four times by her father-in-law over her fortune, survived, and built the Pontalba BuildingsMont-l'Évêque, France; New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
  184. Olivia Serres: Engraving of Olivia Serres1834A house painter's daughter claimed to be a royal princess, and a jury ruled her proofs forged in 1866 without hearing the Crown's full replyLondon
  185. Pedro V of Portugal: Pedro V, King of Portugal1834Pedro I left his heart to Porto, the city council and a church brotherhood fought over where to keep it, and Brazil borrowed it in 2022Porto, Portugal
  186. Nicéphore Niépce: Posthumous portrait of J.N. Niépcelabel QS:Len,"Posthumous portrait of J.N. Niépce"label QS:Lfr,"Portrait posthume de J.1833Nicéphore Niépce died before photography paid, his partner named it the daguerreotype, and France gave Niépce's son the smaller pensionSaint-Loup-de-Varennes, Burgundy, France
  187. Map of South Korea, marked on the globe1833The Korean tale of Heungbu and Nolbu says the elder brother took the whole inheritance and threw the younger out, and a swallow reversed their fortunesNamwon, North Jeolla, South Korea (villages that claim the story)
  188. Hauser Kreul: Kaspar Hauser1833A rumour said Kaspar Hauser was the stolen heir to the throne of Baden; he was stabbed to death in 1833, and a 2024 DNA study ruled out the Baden lineAnsbach, Bavaria, Germany
  189. Yagan: Yagan Statue 20051833Settlers cut off Yagan's head for a £30 reward, it was shown in London and buried in a Liverpool grave, and Noongar elders buried it in the Swan Valley in 2010Upper Swan, Western Australia, Australia
  190. Rio Arriba CCH: Rio Arriba County Courthouse, Rapp and Rapp, architects, 1916-171832Heirs of a Mexican land grant raided the Tierra Amarilla courthouse in 1967 to arrest the district attorneyTierra Amarilla, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, USA
  191. Jeremy Bentham: Jeremy Bentham title QS:P1476,en:"Jeremy Bentham "label QS:Len,"Jeremy Bentham "label QS:Lbn,"জেরেমি বেন্থাম"1832Jeremy Bentham willed his body to be dissected and displayed, and students stole his head in 1975Queen's Square Place, Westminster; University College London, England
  192. Walter Scott: Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) title QS:P1476,en:"Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) "label QS:Len,"Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)1832Walter Scott owed £130,000 when his printer failed, refused bankruptcy, and wrote until he died to pay itAbbotsford, Scotland
  193. The Throne of Kandyan Kings: The Throne of Kandyan Era Sri Lankan Kings.1832The British deposed the last king of Kandy, barred his family from the throne forever, and kept his throne at Windsor until 1934Kandy, Sri Lanka; Vellore Fort, Tamil Nadu, India; Windsor Castle, England
  194. Stephen Girard: Stephen Girard by JR Lambdin1831Stephen Girard left $7.5 million for "poor white male orphans", and courts fought over the word "white" until 1968Philadelphia
  195. Boki and Liliha, printed by C. Hullmandel; drawn on stone from the original painting by John Hayter, London, 1824: Na Poki, Prime Minister of the Sandwich Islands (actually Governo1830Hawaiʻi's young king inherited the chiefs' sandalwood debt, and the governor who sailed to cut more sandalwood never came backHonolulu, Oʻahu, Hawaii, USA; Erromango, Vanuatu
  196. Thomas Lawrence: Self-portrait of Sir Thomas Lawrence P.R.A. title QS:P1476,en:"Self-portrait of Sir Thomas Lawrence P.R.A. "label QS:Len1830Thomas Lawrence died in debt in 1830 and the nation refused his Old Master drawings for £18,000, so a dealer who was his main creditor took themLondon
  197. Simón Bolívar: Simón Bolívar. Toro Moreno, Luis. 1922, Legislative Palace, La Paz1830Simón Bolívar's will left only the Aroa copper mines, his sisters sold them in 1832, and Hugo Chávez had his bones dug up in 2010Santa Marta, Colombia
  198. The Soviet Union 1971 CPA 4069 stamp (Shah Diamond, 16th Century): USSR stamp: The Shah Diamond, 16th Century. Series: Diamond Fund1829A Tehran mob killed Russia's envoy in 1829, and the Shah paid for it with a diamond carved with the names of three kingsTehran, Iran; St Petersburg and Moscow, Russia
  199. James Smithson: James Smithson title QS:P1476,en:"James Smithson "label QS:Len,"James Smithson "1829A duke's illegitimate son left his fortune to the United States, which used it to found the SmithsonianGenoa
  200. Francisco Goya: Spanish: El pintor Francisco de GoyaPortrait of Francisco de Goyatitle QS:P1476,es:"El pintor Francisco de Goya"label QS1828Goya's grave in Bordeaux was opened in 1888 and his skull was missing; he was reburied in Madrid in 1919 without itBordeaux, France
  201. Dingane - 'Bulalani abathakathi' - 1897: Dingane got up and yelled "Bulalani abathakathi" ("kill the magicians") and the warrior immediately killed the Boer representatives. In rea1828Dingane and Mhlangana killed their half-brother Shaka in 1828, and their brother Mpande took the Zulu throne with Boer help in 1840KwaDukuza (Stanger), KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  202. Rose Hall (Jamaica): Rose Hall, the estate house of a former sugar plantation, in Jamaica.1827Rose Hall's heir died in debt, his widow sold her rights for £200, and a novel later made her the "White Witch" who killed three husbandsRose Hall, near Montego Bay, St James, Jamaica
  203. Rose Hall (Jamaica): Rose Hall, the estate house of a former sugar plantation, in Jamaica.1827Jamaican legend says the mistress of Rose Hall murdered her husbands; the records say her husband died in debt and she sold her claim for £200Rose Hall, near Montego Bay, Jamaica
  204. George Hudson: George Hudson (4)1827George Hudson inherited £30,000 from a great-uncle in "suspicious circumstances," became the Railway King, and died with less than £200York, England
  205. Lady Jane Douglas: Crop of Portrait-Of-Lady-Jane-Douglas,-Full-Length,-As-A-Shepherdess-Seated-In-A-Landscape1827Lady Jane Douglas said she gave birth to twins in Paris at 50, and the Duke of Hamilton sued to prove her son was a stolen childScotland
  206. Ludwig van Beethoven: Beethoven with the manuscript of the Missa solemnis1827Beethoven took his nephew from the boy's mother in court; the nephew shot himself, then inherited everythingVienna, Austria
  207. Map of Australia, marked on the globe1826Worrall held Fisher's power of attorney, said Fisher had sailed for England, and sold his property; Fisher was in a grave on Worrall's landCampbelltown, New South Wales, Australia
  208. Map of New York, marked on the globe1826Masons took William Morgan from a New York jail in 1826 to stop his exposé, and a stranger's body was buried in his nameCanandaigua and Batavia, New York, USA; Fort Niagara, New York, USA
  209. World headquarter of the Bektashis: This picture is captured in the World headquarters of the Bektashis which is located in the capital of Albania (Tirana).1826The Sultan abolished the Bektashi order in 1826 and gave its lodges away, Atatürk closed the rest in 1925, and in 2024 Albania proposed a sovereign state for its leaderIstanbul, Turkey; Hacıbektaş, Turkey; Tirana, Albania
  210. Thomas Jefferson: Rembrandt Peale - Thomas Jefferson title QS:P1476,en:"Rembrandt Peale - Thomas Jefferson "label QS:Len,"Rembrandt Peale 1826Thomas Jefferson's will freed his two youngest sons by Sally Hemings, and his debts sent 130 enslaved people to auctionMonticello, Albemarle County, Virginia
  211. Jacques-Louis David: French: Portrait de l'artiste Self-portraittitle QS:P1476,fr:"Portrait de l'artiste "label QS:Lfr,"Portrait de l'artiste1825France refused to take back Jacques-Louis David's body in 1825, so he lies in a Brussels cemetery under an obeliskBrussels
  212. Exercierplatz Sans souci Haiti illustration Naturhistorische Reise nach der westindischen Insel Hayti Brasiliensium Ritt: Exercier-Platz in Sans-Souci auf Hayti. Illustration aus N1825France made Haiti pay 150 million francs in 1825 to compensate its former slaveholders, and Haitians paid on the debt until 1947Port-au-Prince, Haiti
  213. Alexander III of Russia: Tsar Alexander III c. 18851825Alexander I sealed his brother's renunciation of the throne in envelopes, Russia swore allegiance to the wrong heir, and the guards revoltedTaganrog, Russia; crisis in Saint Petersburg, Russia
  214. Lord Byron: Portrait of Lord Byron, British poet (1788–1824)label QS:Len,"Portrait of Lord Byron, British poet (1788–1824)"1824Byron's friends tore up and burned his memoirs in his publisher's fireplace four weeks after he diedMissolonghi, Greece
  215. Map of Virginia, marked on the globe1822An 1885 pamphlet says a buried treasure in Virginia belongs to 30 men and their heirs, named in a cipher nobody has solvedBedford County, Virginia, USA
  216. Mary Shelley: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley title QS:P1476,en:"Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley "label QS:Len,"Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley "l1822Shelley's father would fund his widow only if she published no biography, and she kept the remains of his heart in her deskat sea off Viareggio, Italy
  217. Ali Pasha of Yanina: Portrait of Ali Pasha1822The Ottoman state killed Ali Pasha of Ioannina in 1822 and confiscated more than 950 farmsPandeleimon Monastery, Ioannina
  218. Glamis Castle 01: Glamis Castle in Scotland, as seen from Angles Park.1821The peerage records Lord Glamis's first son as born and dead on 21 October 1821; a legend says he lived, hidden in the castle, and each heir was told the secretGlamis Castle, Angus, Scotland
  219. John Keats: John Keats1821Keats's letters to Fanny Brawne were published in 1878 over objections and sold at Sotheby's in 1885 for £543 17sRome, Papal States
  220. Napoleon: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries label QS:Len,"The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries"labe1821Napoleon's will left 10,000 francs to the man who tried to shoot the Duke of WellingtonLongwood, Saint Helena
  221. Demasduit: Description: Demasduit (1819)DESCRIPTION: Portrait of Demasduit (Mary March) 1819 watercolour on ivory USE/REPRODUCTION: Copyright: Expired Credit: Library and Archives 1820Settlers seized Demasduit to recover stolen property and killed her husband; their remains sat in Edinburgh until 2020Red Indian Lake, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
  222. Crown, Henry I of Haiti (Henri Christophe), Haiti, 1820 - Bode-Museum - DSC02719: Exhibit in the Bode-Museum, Berlin, Germany. This work is in the public domain because the artist 1820Haiti's King Henry shot himself, rebels bayoneted his 16-year-old heir ten days later, and the queen took her daughters into exile in PisaMilot (Sans-Souci Palace), Haiti
  223. Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher: Field Marshal Prince von Blucher1819Soviet soldiers emptied Blücher's mausoleum in 1945, and his family lost the Silesian estateKrieblowitz, Silesia (now Krobielowice, Poland)
  224. Jane Austen: Portrait of Jane Austen in watercolor and pencil1817Kelly Clarkson bought Jane Austen's ring for 152,450 pounds in 2012, and Britain barred export until a museum raised the same sumWinchester, England
  225. Mutiny on the Bounty: The Mutineers turning Lt Bligh and part of the Officers and Crew adrift from His Majesty's Ship the Bounty, 28 April 1781817Bounty mutineers' descendants argued in 2004 that burning the ship in 1790 put Pitcairn outside British law, and the Privy Council rejected it in 2006Bond Street, London
  226. Francis Humberston Mackenzie: Francis Mackenzie, 1st Baron Seaforth FRS (9 June 1754 – 11 January 1815), Chief of the Highland Clan Mackenzie who raised the 78th (Highlanders) Regi1815A Highland prophecy says the last Seaforth chief would be deaf and outlive his sons, Lord Seaforth's death in 1815 matched it, and historians say the seer may never have existedRoss-shire and the Isle of Lewis, Scotland
  227. Sarah Baartman: Saartjie Baartman (portrait)1815France passed a law in 2002 to return Sarah Baartman's remains to South AfricaParis, France
  228. Statue of the Duke of Sutherland, Ben Braggie, Golspie (2994889656): Statue of the Duke of Sutherland, Ben Braggie, Golspie1814Patrick Sellar burned houses in Strathnaver for the Sutherland estate, a jury acquitted him of culpable homicide in 1816, and the duke's statue still stands over GolspieStrathnaver, Sutherland, Scotland
  229. Marquis de Sade: Portrait of Marquis de Sade (1740-1814)1814The manuscript of Sade's 120 Days of Sodom was smuggled into Switzerland in 1982, sold for 7 million euros in 2014, and bought by France for 4.55 million euros in 2021Charenton asylum, France
  230. Myra Clark Gaines: Myra Clak Gaines1813Myra Clark Gaines sued for 51 years over her father's lost will and the New Orleans land sold from his estate, and her heirs collected after she diedNew Orleans, Louisiana, USA
  231. Mayer Amschel Rothschild: Mayer Amschel Rothschild1812Mayer Amschel Rothschild's 1812 will shut his daughters and sons-in-law out of the bank; the Frankfurt house closed in 1901 for lack of a male heirFrankfurt am Main
  232. Sacagawea: Detail Lewis & Clark at Three Forks1812William Clark became court guardian of Sacagawea's two children in 1813 and freed York only years after the expeditionManuel Lisa's fort, upper Missouri River
  233. John Knill: John Knill1811John Knill's will pays ten girls to dance round his empty tomb in St Ives every five years, and they danced again in July 2026Gray's Inn, London; St Ives, Cornwall, England
  234. Frederick Berkeley, 5th Earl of Berkeley: A-noble-commander-from-South-Gloucester-taken-on-the-Steyne-at-Brighton1810The Earl of Berkeley's eldest son was ruled illegitimate in 1811 after the church register entry for a secret 1785 marriage proved forgedEngland
  235. Thomas Paine: Thomas Painetitle QS:P1476,en:"Thomas Paine"label QS:Len,"Thomas Paine"1809Thomas Paine's bones were dug up by an admirer, shipped to England and lost59 Grove Street, Greenwich Village, New York
  236. Meriwether Lewis: Meriwether Lewis-Charles Willson Peale1809Meriwether Lewis died insolvent with his drafts refused by the War Department, and 198 relatives have not been allowed to exhume his bodyGrinder's Stand, Natchez Trace, Tennessee
  237. Joseph Haydn: Portrait of Joseph Haydn1809Phrenologists stole Haydn's head after burial, and it was reunited with his body 145 years laterVienna, Austria
  238. Zheng Yi Sao: 鄭一嫂1807Zheng Yi's widow took command of his pirate fleets, married his adopted heir, and surrendered to the Qing in 1810 keeping her plunderCanton (Guangzhou), China
  239. Polish: Portret Henryka Benedykta Stuarta Portrait of Henry Benedict Stuarttitle QS:P1476,pl:"Portret Henryka Benedykta : Polish: Portret Henryka Benedykta Stuarta Portrait of Henr1807The last Stuart heir lost his fortune to the French, lived on a pension from George III, and left the Stuart jewels to the Prince of WalesFrascati, Lazio, Italy
  240. Nicolas Leblanc: Nicolas Leblanc - CNAM1806The Revolution guillotined Nicolas Leblanc's patron, seized his soda works and published his patent, and the state paid his heirs 49 years after his suicideParis, France
  241. Friedrich Schiller: Portrait of Friedrich Schillerlabel QS:Len,"Portrait of Friedrich Schiller"label QS:Lfr,"Portrait de Friedrich Schiller"1805Weimar buried a skull as Friedrich Schiller's in 1827; DNA tests in 2008 showed it and the skeleton were not hisWeimar, Germany
  242. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson: Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, 1758-1805 label QS:Len,"Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, 1758-1805"label QS:Lar,"نائب أ1805Nelson left Emma Hamilton to the nation; Parliament paid his brother and Emma died in debt in CalaisHMS Victory, off Cape Trafalgar
  243. The blowing up of the Spanish Frigate Mercedes at the Battle of Cape Santa Maria, 1804label QS:Len,"The blowing up of th: The blowing up of the Spanish Frigate Mercedes at the Batt1804A Spanish frigate blew up in 1804 with Captain Alvear's wife and seven children aboard, and in 2007 his descendants sued for its silveroff Cape Santa Maria, Portugal; coins now in Cartagena, Spain
  244. Johann Adam Weishaupt: Portrait of Adam Weishaupt (1748-1830)1804Bavaria banned the Illuminati in 1785 and published their seized papers, and a duke's will sent the rest to Sweden to keep them secretMunich, Germany; Gotha, Germany; Stockholm, Sweden; Berlin, Germany
  245. Porträt der Praskovia Kovalyova-Zhemchugovalabel QS:Len,"Porträt der Praskovia Kovalyova-Zhemchugova": Portrait of Praskovia Kovalyova-Zhemchugova (1768-1803), Russian opera singer1803Russia's richest count married his serf actress in secret, she died weeks after their son's birth, and the boy inherited about 150,000 serfsSaint Petersburg and Moscow, Russia
  246. Sailors' Snug Harbor, Staten Island, New York, Valentine's Manual: Wood engraving of the Sailors' Snug Harbor on Staten Island, New York City1801A sea captain's son willed his Manhattan farm to retired sailors, a Loyalist's son sued as heir to the Supreme Court, and the ground rents housed 1,000 sailorsGreenwich Village, Manhattan, and Staten Island, New York City, USA
  247. Benedict Arnold: General Benedict Arnoldlabel QS:Len,"General Benedict Arnold"1801Benedict Arnold was paid £6,315 for changing sides and died in debt; his widow paid the debtsLondon
  248. A View of the Jesuits College and Church - Vue de l Eglise et du College des Jesuites , 1761: A View of the Jesuits College and Church1800When the last Jesuit in Canada died in 1800 the Crown took the order's estates, and 88 years later the Pope divided the compensationQuebec City, Quebec, Canada
  249. Arrest of the Queen of Georgia (Geoffroy, 1845)-1: Arrest of Maria, Queen of Georgia, in 1801 (Geoffroy, 1845)1800Georgia's last king asked Russia for protection, Russia abolished his dynasty, and his heirs were suing each other over the royal name in 2019Tbilisi, Georgia

Empires and conquest 1500 to 1800

  1. Yamanaka & Co. Prince Gong Mansion: 恭親王府正殿前 明治45年3月 （右より） 菅金福 山中六三郎 山中六三郎 親王府総務 劉恵郷 岡田友次 親王家執事 金雨三 同 陳顕建1799China's new emperor arrested his father's favourite five days after the old emperor died, let him hang himself, and seized a fortune put at up to 800 million taelsBeijing, China
  2. George Washington: George Washington label QS:Les,"George Washington, primer presidente de los E.E. U.U."label QS:Len,"George Washington"1799Washington's will freed 123 people, his heir sold 54 more, and the family sold Mount Vernon for $200,000Mount Vernon, Virginia
  3. Tipu's Tiger front view 2006AH4173: Tippoo's Tiger1799The British army broke up Tipu Sultan's gold throne to divide as prize money; his sword sold for £14 million in 2023 while descendants pulled rickshawsSeringapatam (Srirangapatna), Karnataka, India
  4. Napoleon: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries label QS:Len,"The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries"labe1798Napoleon took Malta from the Knights in three days in 1798, his flagship blew up with the island's treasure by legend, and Malta gave the Order part of its old fort back in 2001Valletta, Malta; Aboukir Bay, Egypt; Fort St Angelo, Birgu, Malta
  5. AI illustration: An unsigned will found in William Jennens's coat pocket at Acton Place, Suffolk, 17981798William Jennens died with an unsigned will in his pocket, and claimants fought over his fortune until 1915Acton Place, Suffolk
  6. Horace Walpole: Portrait of Horace Walpole (1717-1797)1797Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill collection was sold off over 24 days in 1842 after heirs spent the family fortuneLondon, England
  7. AI illustration: Counsel argue the Thellusson will before the Court of Chancery in Lincoln's Inn Hall, 17991797Peter Thellusson locked his fortune away for three generations, and Parliament changed the law to stop anyone copying himPlaistow Lodge, Bromley, Kent
  8. Thai King Tomb Pagoda, Amarapura: Utumphon's tomb pagoda in Amarapura Township, Myanmar1796Burma took Ayutthaya's former king prisoner in 1767, and in 2013 a Thai team dug up the tomb said to hold his ashesLin Zin Gon cemetery, Amarapura, Mandalay, Myanmar
  9. Robert Burns: Robert Burns, 1759 - 1796. Poet title QS:P1476,en:"Robert Burns, 1759 - 1796. Poet "label QS:Len,"Robert Burns, 1759 - 11796Robert Burns's widow died in 1834, and local men opened his tomb at night to cast his skull for a phrenologistDumfries, Scotland
  10. Igreja de São Francisco de Assis (Diamantina, Minas Gerais): Igreja de São Francisco de Assis em Diamantina, Minas Gerais1796Chica da Silva, born enslaved, made a will naming 14 children as heirs and divided enslaved people among themArraial do Tejuco (Diamantina), Minas Gerais, Brazil
  11. Catherine the Great: Portrait of Catherine II of Russia (1729-1796)1796Catherine the Great tried to pass over her son Paul for the throne, and Paul made a law that no ruler could choose an heir againSaint Petersburg, Russia
  12. Louis XVII: Louis XVII title QS:P1476,en:"Louis XVII "label QS:Len,"Louis XVII "1795A doctor stole the heart of the boy king Louis XVII, and DNA in 2000 ended 200 years of impostorsTemple prison, Paris, France
  13. Portrait of Monsieur de Lavoisier and his Wife, chemist Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze: Portrait of Monsieur de Lavoisier and his Wife, chemist Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze1794The Revolution guillotined Lavoisier and seized his notebooks, and his widow fought until she got back the property and nearly all his papersParis, France
  14. Cowdray ruins 20: Ruins of Cowdray House, Midhurst, West Sussex, England.1793Legend says a monk cursed the family given Battle Abbey's lands to end by fire and water; in 1793 Cowdray burned and its young owner drowned in the Rhine within weeksCowdray, Midhurst, West Sussex, England
  15. Palace of Versailles: Versailles Palace (FRA) – Equestrian Olympic Venue1793The Revolution auctioned Versailles's furniture in 17,000 lots, and a top expert was convicted in 2025 of forging royal chairs for the buy-back marketPalace of Versailles, Yvelines, France; Tribunal correctionnel de Pontoise
  16. Gia Long: Emperor Gia Long1792Gia Long dug up the Tây Sơn emperors in 1802, pounded their bones and locked their skulls in a prisonPhú Xuân (Huế), Vietnam
  17. Joaquim José da Silva Xavier signature: Assinatura de Tiradentes (Joaquim José da Silva Xavier) no auto da devassa.1792Portugal's 1792 sentence declared Tiradentes's children and grandchildren infamous, and Brazil later paid pensions to people who said they descended from himRio de Janeiro, Brazil
  18. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Mozart familylabel QS:Lfr,"portrait de la famille Mozart"label QS:Len,"Mozart family"1791Mozart's widow passed off a Requiem finished by his student as his own and sold it twiceVienna, Austria
  19. Benjamin Franklintitle QS:P1476,en:"Benjamin Franklin"label QS:Len,"Benjamin Franklin": A painting of Benjamin Franklin ca. 17851790Benjamin Franklin left Boston and Philadelphia £1,000 each for 200 years, and his heirs, a school and the state fought over itPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania; Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  20. AI illustration: Peers in Westminster Hall at the bigamy trial of the Duchess of Kingston, 17761788The House of Lords convicted the Duchess of Kingston of bigamy, and she left England with the Duke's fortuneParis
  21. Charles Byrne (giant): Charles Byrne; James Burnett, Lord Monboddo; William Richardson; John Bell; Baillie Kyd by John Kay1783Charles Byrne arranged to be buried at sea to escape the anatomists, and John Hunter got his body and displayed his skeleton for 200 yearsLondon, England, UK
  22. Wat Intharam (Wat Bang Yi Ruea Nok) - The stupa of King Taksin (1): พระสถูปบรรจุพระบรมอัฐิของสมเด็จพระเจ้าตากสินมหาราช ณ วัดอินทาราม (วัดบางยี่เรือนอก หรือวัดบางยี่เรือใต้) แขวงบาง1782General Chakri took Taksin's throne in 1782 while Taksin's son and heir was away at war, and dug up Taksin's body two years laterThonburi (Bangkok), Thailand; Cambodia
  23. Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captain Cook by John Webber: Kalaniopuu, King of Hawaii, bringing presents to Captain Cook. Shows a Hawaiian canoe with "crab-claw" a1782Kalaniʻōpuʻu left Hawaiʻi Island to his son and the war god to his nephew Kamehameha, and the chiefs who got no land started the war that made Kamehameha kingHōnaunau, Kona, Hawaii, USA
  24. Greenway Court, Virginia, where the story took place1781Virginia confiscated Lord Fairfax's Northern Neck, and his heir's land claim reached the Supreme Court twiceGreenway Court, Virginia
  25. Partida de casamiento de José Gabriel Túpac Amaru y Micaela Bastidas: Registro parroquial que contiene la partida de matrimonio de José Gabriel Túpac Amaru y Micaela Bastidas. Ubic1781A Cuzco chief sued for four years to be recognised as the last Inca's heir, then led the 1780 rebellion with the case still undecidedCuzco, Peru
  26. The ahu ula (feathered cloak) of Kalaniopuu: The ahu ula (feathered cloak) that chief Kalaniopuu gave to captain James Cook, on long-term loan from Te Papa Tongarewa (the national 1779Hawaiʻi's ruling chief put his feather cloak on Captain Cook in 1779, and it took 237 years and a New Zealand museum to bring it homeKealakekua Bay, Hawaiʻi Island, USA; London, England; Wellington, New Zealand; H
  27. James Cook: Captain James Cook, 1728-79 title QS:P1476,en:"Captain James Cook, 1728-79 "label QS:Len,"Captain James Cook, 1728-79 "1779Captain Cook's body was returned in pieces, and his widow outlived all six children and destroyed his letters before she died in 1835Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii
  28. Emerald Buddha 1873: ms:Buddha Zamrud, Istana Mewah, ms:Bangkok, ms:Thailand1778The future Rama I took the Emerald Buddha from conquered Vientiane, and it has stayed in Bangkok for two centuriesVientiane, Laos; Grand Palace, Bangkok, Thailand
  29. Voltaire: French: Portrait de Voltaire (1694-1778) en 1718 Voltaire the age of twenty-four (?)title QS:P1476,fr:"Portrait de Volta1778Voltaire was refused a Paris burial in 1778, buried in secret, moved to the Panthéon in 1791 with his heart kept apart, and a legend says his bones were thrown away in 1814Paris, France
  30. Harrison H4 chronometer: Harrison's chronometer on display at National Maritime Museum in Greenwich1776John Harrison solved longitude at sea, the Board of Longitude withheld the £20,000 prize, and his son took the case to the kingRed Lion Square, London, England
  31. Maharaja Nandakumar, Calcutta: Maharaja Nandakumar, Calcutta1775A Bengali official accused Warren Hastings of bribery, was charged weeks later with forging a dead banker's bond, and was hanged under an English statuteCalcutta (Kolkata), India
  32. LRicci: Lorenzo Ricci, S.J.1775The Pope suppressed the Jesuits in 1773 and their Superior General died a prisoner in Castel Sant'Angelo, declaring the Society innocentCastel Sant'Angelo, Rome, Italy
  33. Ivan VI of Russia: Ivan VI Antonovich (Oranienbaum)1774Ivan VI's brothers and sisters were born in prison, held at Kholmogory for 36 years, and sent to Denmark in 1780 on a Russian pensionKholmogory, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia; Horsens, Denmark
  34. The entrance of Shaniwar Wada.: This is a photo of ASI monument number1773Raghunathrao's men killed the 17-year-old Peshwa in his palace, his widow bore a son who took the throne back, and Pune says the boy still cries for his uncleShaniwar Wada, Pune, Maharashtra, India
  35. AI illustration: Annapolis, Maryland, on the Severn River, about 17701771Lord Baltimore was acquitted of rape in 1768, left Maryland to his illegitimate son in 1771, and the son lost it to the RevolutionNaples
  36. William Beckford: William Beckford1770William Beckford inherited a Jamaican sugar fortune at 10, built Fonthill Abbey, and sold it before its tower fellFonthill, Wiltshire, England
  37. Expulsion of the Jesuits from Spain, 1767: Depiction of the embarkation of the Jesuits in Cartagena (Spain), bound for the Papal States in compliance with the expulsion order issue1767Spain opened sealed orders in every Jesuit town on one night in 1767, seized the order's property, and the Pope's cannon turned the exiles' ships awayMadrid and over 120 Spanish towns; Civitavecchia, Italy; Corsica, France
  38. Jean-Marie Leclair: JMLeclair1764Jean-Marie Leclair was found stabbed three times at his Paris door in October 1764, and his ex-wife sold his belongings and unpublished musicRue Carême-Prenant, Le Marais, Paris
  39. Cudjoe: CUDJOE MAKING PEACE WITH COLONEL JOHN GUTHRIE1764Jamaica granted Cudjoe's Maroons 1,500 acres by treaty in 1739, then shipped them to Nova Scotia in 1796 and auctioned the landTrelawny Town (later Maroon Town and Flagstaff), St James, Jamaica
  40. Tvorozhnikov: Vasily Mirovich Standing over the Body of Ivan VI at Schlusselburg Fortress1764Russia's infant emperor Ivan VI was deposed at 15 months, held prisoner for 23 years, and killed by his guards under standing orders in 1764Shlisselburg Fortress (Oreshek), Leningrad Oblast, Russia
  41. House of Jagat Seth, Nashipur, Murshidabad, West Bengal 01: House of Jagat Seth, Nashipur, Murshidabad, West Bengal1763The Jagat Seths financed the British at Plassey; six years later the Nawab had the two heads of the bank killed and their bodies thrown from a fortMurshidabad, West Bengal; Munger Fort, Bihar, India
  42. Yeongjo of Joseon: Korean: 영조 어진Portrait of King Yeongjotitle QS:P1476,ko:"영조 어진"label QS:Lko,"영조 어진"label QS:Len,"Portrait of King Yeongjo1762King Yeongjo locked his heir in a rice chest until he died, and the heir's son became king and moved the body into a new fortressChanggyeong Palace, Seoul, South Korea
  43. Cock Lane ghost: Cock Lane as seen in MEMOIRS OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE Madness of Crowds, 18521760Kent inherited his dead lover's money, and her "ghost" accused him of poisoning her; a London jury convicted the ghost's handlers in 1762Cock Lane, Smithfield, London, England
  44. James Annesley: James Annesley, (1715-1760), Claimant to the Annesley Peerage1760An uncle shipped his 12-year-old nephew to America as a servant to take the Anglesey titles, and a Dublin jury found for the nephew in 1743Lee, near London
  45. John Byng: Portrait of Admiral John Byng (1704-1757)1757Admiral John Byng was shot under the Articles of War, his family kept his estate, and no pardon has been grantedHMS Monarch, Solent
  46. Nader Shah: Contemporary portrait of Nader Shah. Artist unknown, created in ca. 1740 in Iran (cropped)1747Nader Shah's Indian jewels cost his blind grandson his life under torture, and a deposed shah took them into the Russian legationMashhad and Tehran, Iran
  47. Himeji Castle Okiku Well: Himeji Castle Okiku Well1741Okiku broke one of ten heirloom dishes, was killed and thrown into a well, and Himeji Castle still shows the wellHimeji Castle, Hyogo, Japan; Bancho, Edo (Tokyo), Japan
  48. Antonio Vivaldi: Vivaldi1741Antonio Vivaldi was buried in Vienna for 19 florins 45 kreuzer, and his manuscripts were sold off, then found at a school in 1926Vienna
  49. Trinity Church (Manhattan): Trinity Church (1788-1839), Broadway at Wall Street, New York1738Descendants of a 1640s settler sued Trinity Church for downtown Manhattan, and courts ruled the church's 230 years of possession beat their claimNew York City
  50. Joseph Süß Oppenheimer1738Württemberg hanged Joseph Süß Oppenheimer in a cage in 1738 and auctioned his property months before the verdictgallows outside Stuttgart
  51. Florentine Diamond aigrette: Florentine Diamond as cap decoration. This foto was made between 1870 and 1900.1737The last Medici left the Florentine Diamond to Tuscany, the Habsburgs took it to Vienna, and it surfaced in a Quebec bank vault in 2025Florence, Italy; Vienna, Austria; Quebec, Canada
  52. Edward Gibbon: Edward Gibbon title QS:P1476,en:"Edward Gibbon "label QS:Len,"Edward Gibbon "label QS:Lbn,"এডওয়ার্ড গিবন"1736Parliament confiscated South Sea director Edward Gibbon's £106,543 in 1721 and left him £10,000; he rebuilt the fortune and willed it past his sonPutney, London, England
  53. Portrait of Isaac Newton (1642-1727)label QS:Lde,"Porträt des Isaac Newton (1642-1727)"label QS:Len,"Portrait of Isaac N: Portrait of Isaac Newton (1642-1727)label QS:Lde,"Porträt 1727Isaac Newton died without a will, and his heirs held his alchemy and theology papers for 209 years before selling them for £9,000London, England
  54. Estampes par Nicolas de Larmessin.f149.Le grand cherif Mouley-Ismaël, roi du Maroc: Les augustes représentations de tous les rois de France, depuis Pharamond jusqu'à Louis XIV,... 1727Moulay Ismail of Morocco died in 1727 with hundreds of sons, and his army made and unmade sultans for thirty yearsMeknes, Morocco
  55. Probably Dorothy, Viscountess Townshend title QS:P1476,en:"Probably Dorothy, Viscountess Townshend "label QS:Len,"Probab: Probably Dorothy, Viscountess Townshend title QS:P1476,en:1726Dorothy Walpole married the man her father forbade, died of smallpox at Raynham in 1726, and became the Brown Lady photographed on its stairs in 1936Raynham Hall, Norfolk, England
  56. Thomas Guy: Thomas Guy (1644–1724) title QS:P1476,en:"Thomas Guy (1644–1724) "label QS:Len,"Thomas Guy (1644–1724) "1724Thomas Guy sold his South Sea stock at the top of the 1720 bubble and left the profit to found Guy's HospitalSouthwark, London, England, UK
  57. John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough: John Churchill (1650–1722), 1st Duke of Marlborough, Captain-General of the English Forces and Master-General of the Ord1722Marlborough's £5,000 Post Office pension was paid to his heirs for 178 years, and Blenheim's builders went unpaid in 1712Windsor Lodge
  58. Palace of Heavenly Purity (20220218132818): Qianqing Palace, where the famous "Zheng Da Guang Ming" plaque is located.1722The Kangxi Emperor deposed his heir twice, and the son who followed him hid the next heir's name behind a palace plaqueChangchun Garden and the Palace of Heavenly Purity, Beijing, China
  59. Edward Colston: Portrait of Edward Colston (1636-1721)label QS:Len,"Portrait of Edward Colston (1636-1721)"1721Edward Colston's charities carried his name for 300 years, until protesters threw his statue in Bristol harbourMortlake, Surrey; Bristol, England
  60. William Penn1718William Penn went to debtors' prison while he owned Pennsylvania, and his heirs later traded 24 million acres for £130,000 and a £4,000 British annuityRuscombe, Berkshire
  61. Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia: Peter the Great Interrogating the Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich at Peterhoflabel QS:Les,"Pedro el Grande interroga al zarév1718Peter the Great had his son tortured to death, changed the law so he could pick any heir, and died without naming oneSt Petersburg, Russia
  62. Portrait of Tokugawa Yoshimune: Portrait of Tokugawa Yoshimune1716The child shogun died in 1716 and the Tokugawa main line ended, so a branch lord whose three elder brothers had died took the titleEdo Castle, Tokyo, Japan
  63. Dilston Castle: Dilston Castle (grid reference NY97566328) is a ruined 15th century towerhouse situated at Dilston, near Corbridge, Northumberland.1716The Earl of Derwentwater was beheaded in 1716, Parliament gave his estates to Greenwich Hospital, and in 1868 a woman calling herself his heir moved into the ruined castleTower Hill, London; Dilston, Northumberland, England
  64. Louis XIV: French: Portrait de Louis XIV en costume de sacre Portrait of Louis XIVtitle QS:P1476,fr:"Portrait de Louis XIV en costu1715Louis XIV's will gave power to his illegitimate son, and the Paris Parlement annulled it the day after he diedPalace of Versailles, France
  65. The Votive Portrait of Prince Constantin Brâncoveanu with Cyrillic inscription at Horezu Monastery (1709): Tabloul votiv din catoliconul Mănăstirii Hurezi: Constantin Brâncoveanu, 1714The Ottomans beheaded Prince Constantin Brâncoveanu and his four sons in Istanbul in 1714 after four months of torture over his fortuneIstanbul (Constantinople), Turkey
  66. Christopher Codrington: James Thornhill (1675-1676-1734) (copy after) - Christopher Codrington (1668–1710) - ASC-034 - All Souls College (croppe1710Christopher Codrington willed his Barbados plantations to a Church of England missionary society, which held enslaved people on them from 1710 to 1836Barbados
  67. Wager's Action off Cartagena, 28 May 1708 label QS:Len,"Wager's Action off Cartagena, 28 May 1708": The English painter Samuel Scott (1702-1772) specialised in marine painting and 1708The galleon San José sank off Cartagena in 1708 with nearly 600 people, and Colombia, Spain, a US salvage company and a Bolivian people all claim its cargooff Cartagena, Colombia
  68. Tomb Aurangzeb: Aurangazeb's tomb in Khuldabad1707Aurangzeb was buried under a plain stone as he willed, and his sons fought for the throne; one said "a throne or a bier"Khuldabad, near Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India; battle at Jajau near Agra
  69. Yodoya Monument (1): Yodoya Monument1705The shogunate confiscated Osaka's richest merchant house in 1705 for living beyond its stationOsaka, Japan
  70. Japanese: 『市川團十郎（初代）の竹抜き五郎』Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjūrō I in the role of Takenuki Gorō (Soga no Gorō).title QS:P1476,ja: This is likely one of the most famous early Torii school i1704Danjūrō I was stabbed to death in his dressing room by a rival actor, and his 15-year-old son took the name that is now in its 13th generationIchimura-za theatre, Edo (Tokyo), Japan
  71. Robert Hooke: Portrait of a Mathematician 1680c1703Robert Hooke said he would endow the Royal Society, died without a will, and cousins he barely knew took the moneyLondon, England
  72. Samuel Oppenheimer1703The Habsburg state owed Samuel Oppenheimer millions when he died in 1703; it declared his firm bankrupt and his estate was auctioned in 1763Vienna
  73. Asano Naganori: Naganori Asano1701The shogunate confiscated Lord Asano's 53,000-koku domain the day he drew his sword, and his retainers waited 21 months to take revengeEdo (Tokyo) and Akō, Hyōgo, Japan
  74. Pg 108 - Kidd at Gardiner's Island: Kidd at Gardiner's Island: illustration of pirate captain William Kidd's supervision of the burial of his treasure at Gardiner's Island1701Captain Kidd buried treasure on Gardiners Island to bargain for a pardon, and the governor who had backed his voyage dug it upGardiners Island, New York, USA; Wapping, London, England
  75. Charles II of Spain: Spanish: Carlos II de España Charles II of Spaintitle QS:P1476,es:"Carlos II de España "label QS:Les,"Carlos II de Españ1700Spain's childless Charles II left his whole empire to a French prince in his will, and Europe went to war for 13 yearsMadrid, Spain
  76. Suruga-cho-Straße in Tokio: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, No. 0081694Mitsui's 1722 house code barred any branch from dividing or selling its share, and the US occupation took the families' property in 1946Kyoto and Edo (Tokyo), Japan
  77. Mausoleum of Job Charnock (5375872517): Mausoleum of Job Charnock1693The Sabarna Roy Choudhury family sold three villages to the East India Company in 1698, and their descendants won a 2003 ruling that Job Charnock did not found KolkataKolkata, India
  78. Giles Corey: Old drawing of the death of Giles Corey (September 19, 1692) by being pressed with heavy stones after conviction as a witch during the Salem Witch Trials.1692Salem pressed Giles Corey to death under stones for refusing a jury trial, and his land went to his sons-in-law under a will he had already signedSalem, Massachusetts, USA
  79. Henry Morgan: Morgan,Henry1688Henry Morgan left his plantations and 131 enslaved people to his wife and nephews, and four years later his grave went under the seaPort Royal, Jamaica
  80. Peter Chamberlen the third: Peter Chamberlen. Line engraving by T. Trotter, 1794, after1683The Chamberlen family kept the obstetric forceps secret for over a century, and their instruments were found hidden in the family house two centuries laterWoodham Mortimer, Essex, England, UK
  81. 6DalaiLama: The Sixth Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso1682Tibet's regent hid the Fifth Dalai Lama's death for 15 years; a Mongol khan later deposed the Sixth and put his own candidate in the PotalaPotala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet, China
  82. Pierre-Paul Riquet: Pierre-Paul Riquet (1604-1680)1680Pierre-Paul Riquet spent his fortune on the Canal du Midi, died eight months before it opened, and left his heirs the canal and its debtsToulouse, France
  83. Louis XIV: French: Portrait de Louis XIV en costume de sacre Portrait of Louis XIVtitle QS:P1476,fr:"Portrait de Louis XIV en costu1680Louis XIV jailed Fouquet for life 19 days after his party at Vaux-le-Vicomte, and in 2019 robbers tied up its 90-year-old owner with his own necktiesVaux-le-Vicomte, Maincy, Seine-et-Marne, France
  84. Fat-Mats (1719, Martin Fur Copper Mine, Falun, Sweden): Fat-Mats (from Leyel, 1722 & Wiman, 1941) This is the story of Fat-Mats. It in no way counts as a story about fossils, b1677A Falun copper miner vanished in 1677, his body came out of the mine 42 years later, his old fiancée named him, and he was put on showFalun, Dalarna, Sweden
  85. Portrait of Henry Frederick Howard, 22th Earl of Arundel (1608-1652) title QS:P1476,en:"Portrait of Henry Frederick Howa: Portrait of Henry Frederick Howard, 22th Earl of Arundel (1677The Earl of Arundel's heir went insane in Padua, his younger brothers fought over the family settlement, and the case created the rule against perpetuitiesPadua, Italy; estates in England, UK
  86. KingPhilip 1827 BenjaminChurch SamuelDrake04264001: Description according to the metadata delivered with the image by the John Carter Brown Library: Portrait of King Philip or Meta1676Plymouth put Metacom's head on a pole for about 20 years and sold his wife and nine-year-old son into slaveryMount Hope (Bristol), Rhode Island, USA
  87. Johannes Vermeer: The Procuress.1675Vermeer died with 11 children and debts; his widow paid creditors in paintings and petitioned for bankruptcyDelft, Dutch Republic
  88. Molière: French: Molière Molièretitle QS:P1476,fr:"Molière "label QS:Lfr,"Molière "label QS:Len,"Molière"1673Molière died in 1673 after collapsing in his own play; priests refused him last rites, and Louis XIV allowed a night burialParis, France
  89. AI illustration: Shah Jahan, imprisoned by his son Aurangzeb, looks from Agra Fort at the Taj Mahal1666Mughal prince Aurangzeb jailed his father for eight years and executed his brother to take the throneAgra Fort and Delhi, India
  90. Elisabetta Sirani: Self-portrait1665Elisabetta Sirani died at 27 in Bologna in 1665; her father charged the maid with poisoning her and then withdrew the chargeBologna, Papal States
  91. Fresco depicting Bhai Makhan Shah Labana finding Guru Tegh Bahadur, with a young-lad and Mata Nanaki, from Gurdwara Baba: Fresco depicting Bhai Makhan Shah Labana finding Guru Tegh1664A Sikh guru disinherited his elder son for changing one verse for Aurangzeb, and rival claimants sat at Bakala waiting to be namedKiratpur and Bakala, Punjab, India; Dehradun, Uttarakhand
  92. Koxinga: The Portrait of Koxinga鄭成功畫像1662Koxinga ordered his heir and his own wife killed over a child born to a wet nurse, and died before his generals obeyedTainan, Taiwan
  93. Grand noeud de corsage de l'impératrice Eugénie - François Kramer - Musée du Louvre Objets d'art OA 12238: Grand noeud de corsage de l'impératrice Eugénie - François Kramer - Musée1661France sold its crown jewels in 1887 to stop a king returning; the Louvre bought one back for €6.72 million, and thieves took it in eight minutes in 2025Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
  94. Oliver Cromwell's head, late 1700s: A sepia drawing of the head of Oliver Cromwell, from a copy of Pennant's London1658England dug up Oliver Cromwell, hanged his corpse and put his head on a pole, and collectors sold the head for 300 years until a college buried it in secret in 1960Westminster Hall, London, England; Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, England
  95. Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal: Depicted person: Shabdrung – title used when referring to or addressing great lamas in Tibet, particularly those who held a hereditary lineage1651Bhutan's founder died in 1651, and his officials kept the death secret for 54 years while issuing orders in his namePunakha, Bhutan
  96. De Lekdijk bij Hagestein dicht bij de stuw: Koolzaadtijd, dan is het zeker mooi op de Lekdijk in Hagestein niet ver van de stuw en het begin van de mooie Hoeveweg en ook niet ver v1648A Dutch water board still pays interest on dike bonds sold in 1638 and 1648, and Yale collected 12 years of it in 2015Utrecht, Netherlands
  97. Ibrahim I: Ibrahim I of the Ottomans1648The last male of the Ottoman house would not leave his room when told he was sultan, and eight years later his mother agreed to his depositionTopkapı Palace, Istanbul, Turkey
  98. Dito medio della mano destra to Galileo - 2432 - Museo Galileo - Firenze: Middle finger of Galileo Galileis right hand, exhibited in the Museo Galileo in Florence.1642The Church refused Galileo a tomb for 95 years, and when his body was moved in 1737 admirers cut off three fingers and a toothFlorence, Italy
  99. Saskia van Uylenburgh: Portrait of Saskia van Uylenburgh title QS:P1476,en:"Portrait of Saskia van Uylenburgh "label QS:Len,"Portrait of Saskia1642Saskia's will let Rembrandt use their son's inheritance only if he never remarried, and he lived unmarried and went bankruptAmsterdam, Netherlands
  100. Domenichino: Portrait de Domenichino (1581-1641)1641Legend: Domenichino died in Naples in April 1641 and was said to have been poisoned by rival painters; the one early biographer cited blames his relativesNaples
  101. Kabuki Actor Arashi Rikan II as Iemon Confronted by an Image of His Murdered Wife, Oiwa: Kabuki Actor Arashi Rikan II as Iemon Confronted by an Image of His Murdered Wife, Oiwa, on1636Oiwa's shrine says she and her adopted-heir husband restored the Tamiya fortunes; the 1825 play has him betray her for a richer matchYotsuya, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
  102. Samuel de Champlain: Samchamprifle1635Champlain named the Virgin Mary as his heir in 1635; his cousin sued in Paris and the will was annulled in 1639Quebec
  103. AI illustration: The House of Lords chamber at Westminster hears a peerage claim, 17th century1632The House of Lords ruled the Earl of Banbury's sons were not his, and the Knollys family lost the earldom after 152 years of claimsLondon
  104. Abbas III: Abbas III1629Shah Abbas had one son killed and two blinded, and died with no son able to ruleMazandaran, Iran
  105. Abu'l-Hasan Asaf Khan: Portrait. Abu'l Ḥassán Aaṣaf Xán (cropped)1627Asaf Khan crowned a Mughal prince to hold the throne for Shah Jahan, and Shah Jahan had him imprisoned and killedLahore, Pakistan
  106. Silver ingots - HistoryMiami - IMG 8113: Silver ingots salvaged from the wreck of the Nuestra Senora de Atocha, sunk by storm in the Marquesas in 1622; silver primarily from (prese1622Mel Fisher lost his son and daughter-in-law hunting the Atocha, found its main treasure ten years to the day later, and beat Florida in the Supreme Courtabout 40 nautical miles west of Key West, Florida, USA
  107. BandaBesarIslandSeenFromFortBelgica: An Indonesian island of Banda Besar seen from Fort Belgica.1621The Dutch East India Company executed 44 Banda chiefs in 1621 and gave the nutmeg groves to Dutch planters, and one planter family says it has held its grove for 13 generationsBanda Islands, Maluku, Indonesia
  108. Burton Agnes Hall 01: Burton Agnes Hall, Burton Agnes, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.1620Burton Agnes Hall has passed by inheritance since 1610, and its builder's daughter is said to be bricked into a wallBurton Agnes Hall, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
  109. Walter Raleigh: Walter Ralegh title QS:P1476,en:"Walter Ralegh "label QS:Len,"Walter Ralegh "1618James I gave Walter Raleigh's Sherborne estate to his favourite over a missing phrase in a trust deed, and Raleigh's widow kept his embalmed head for 29 yearsOld Palace Yard, Westminster
  110. Pocahontas: Matoaks als Rebecka daughter to the mighty Prince Powhâtan Emperour of Attanoughkomouck als virginia converted and bapti1617Pocahontas's son inherited Virginia land, and Virginia's 1924 race law made an exception that kept families claiming descent from her legally whiteGravesend, England (family land on the James River, Virginia, USA)
  111. Miguel de Cervantes: Portrait of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra commonly said to be that which, according to the prologue to Cervantes' "Exemplary Novels", was painted by Juan de Jáu1616Spain announced in March 2015 that it had found Cervantes among bones of 15 to 17 people in a Madrid convent, with no DNA to confirm itMadrid, Spain
  112. William Shakespeare: Portrait of William Shakespeare (1564-1646) title QS:P1476,en:"Portrait of William Shakespeare (1564-1646) "label QS:Len1616Shakespeare left his wife his "second best bed" and struck his new son-in-law out of the willStratford-upon-Avon
  113. Shimizudani Refinery Ruins at Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine 001: 島根県大田市にある清水谷精錬所跡。世界文化遺産「石見銀山遺跡とその文化的景観」を構成する資産の一部。1613Tokugawa Ieyasu's mine magistrate died rich in 1613, and the shogunate made his seven sons kill themselves and seized everything he ownedIwami Ginzan, Ōda, Shimane, Japan
  114. Thomas Sutton's Monument, The Charterhouse Chapel, Farringdon: Charterhouse, Farringdon1611England's richest commoner left his fortune to a hospital, and his nephew and Francis Bacon tried to break the willHackney and the Charterhouse, London, England
  115. 광해군묘: Tomb of Gwanghaegun of Joseon1608King Gwanghae's officials killed his eight-year-old half-brother in exile, and the boy's mother gave her name to the coup that deposed himGanghwa Island, Incheon, and Seoul, South Korea
  116. Бегство Кучума из города Кашлык: The conquest of Siberia by Yermak (1580—1585). The miniature depicts the fall of Qashliq to Yermak, and the flight of Khan Kuchum (23-25 October 151605Siberia's last khan lost his capital to Cossacks in 1582 and his family to Moscow in 1598; his descendants served the tsars as Princes SibirskyIrmen River on the Ob, near Novosibirsk, Russia
  117. Tabulae Rudolphinae - Frontispiece: Frontispiece of : "Tabulae Rudolphinae : quibus astronomicae ...." by Johannes Kepler1601Tycho Brahe's heirs were never paid for his observations, so they took them back from Kepler and won the right to censor his booksPrague, Czech Republic
  118. Hamlet Q1 Frontispiece 1603: Frontispiece to the First Quarto (1603) of William Shakespeare's Hamlet1599In Shakespeare's Hamlet, an uncle kills the king, marries the widow and is chosen king over the son, and the crown ends with a foreign princeDenmark (setting)
  119. Oda Nobunaga: Portrait of Oda Nobunaga (detail). Important Cultural Property.1598Hideyoshi took over Nobunaga's house by backing a two-year-old heir, and after he died Tokugawa Ieyasu did the same to his own five-year-old sonFushimi Castle, Kyoto and Osaka Castle, Osaka, Japan
  120. Beatrice Cenci: Beatrice Cenci1598Beatrice Cenci and her family killed her father at his castle, Rome beheaded them, and most of the Cenci fortune went to the pope's nephewPetrella Salto and Rome, Italy
  121. Francis Drake: Sir Francis Drake wearing the Drake Jewel or Drake Pendant at his waist1596Francis Drake promised his estates to his wife, then signed them to his brother 2 days before dying at sea, and the brother won the lawsuitsat sea off Portobelo, Panama
  122. Map of Mexico, marked on the globe1596The Inquisition burned the heir to Nuevo León's governorship with his mother and three sisters in 1596, and his stolen memoir went back to Mexico in 2017Mexico City, Mexico
  123. Toyotomi Hideyoshi: Toyotomi Hideyoshi c1598 Kodai-ji Temple1595Hideyoshi's adopted heir was forced to kill himself after a son was born, and 39 of his wives, children and servants were beheaded in KyotoMount Kōya (Kōyasan), Wakayama, Japan; Sanjō riverbank, Kyoto, Japan
  124. Mehmed III: Sultan and 92. Caliph of Islam,Mehmet III of the Ottoman Empire (1566–1603)1595Ottoman Sultan Mehmed III had his 19 brothers strangled on the day he took the throneTopkapı Palace, Istanbul
  125. Christopher Marlowe: Unknown 21-year old man, supposed to be Christopher Marlowe title QS:P1476,en:"Unknown 21-year old man, supposed to be C1593Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a Deptford house on 30 May 1593 by a man later pardoned in 28 days, and the inquest record was found in 1925Deptford, England
  126. Goeidō - Higashi Honganji: Goeidō - Higashi Honganji1592Their mother produced a letter naming the younger son, Hideyoshi removed the elder as head of the Honganji, and Ieyasu gave the elder land for a rival temple in KyotoKyoto, Japan
  127. Sen no Rikyu JPN: a portrait by Tōhaku Hasegawa (長谷川等伯)(born in 1539 and dead in 1610), calligraphy by Shunoku Sōen (春屋 宗園)(born in 1529 and dead in 1611). Copied from http://www.o1591Hideyoshi ordered his tea master to kill himself in 1591, and the Sen family won back the name that three tea houses still carryKyoto, Japan
  128. Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich of Russia (1552–1553): Facial Chronicle - b.21, p. 5051591Tsarevich Dmitry died at Uglich in 1591, a man using his name took the throne in 1605, and Moscow hanged his widow's small son in 1614Uglich, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia
  129. The meeting of Grace O'Malley and Queen Elizabeth I: The meeting of Grace O'Malley and Queen Elizabeth I1583Gaelic law gave Gráinne O'Malley nothing from two husbands, so she sailed to Elizabeth I and won a pension from her sons' landsRockfleet (Carraigahowley), County Mayo, Ireland
  130. Ivan the Terrible: Ivan grozny frame1581Ivan the Terrible struck his heir on the head in November 1581, and his dynasty ended with his surviving son in 1598Aleksandrova Sloboda (Aleksandrov), Vladimir Oblast, Russia
  131. Thomas Gresham: Anthonis Mor 004 (cropped)1579Thomas Gresham left London a free college, and Parliament sold the building for a tax office in 1768Bishopsgate, City of London, England
  132. AI illustration: Merchants and notaries at the Rialto in Venice, 16th century1569Gracia Nasi's sister Brianda sued her in Venice for half the Mendes fortune and denounced her as a secret JewConstantinople
  133. Polish: Hołd pruski The Prussian Homagelabel QS:Lde,"Die Preußische Huldigung"label QS:Lfr,"L’hommage prussien"label QS:: Polish: Hołd pruski The Prussian Homagelabel QS:Lde,"Die P1568On Luther's advice the last Grand Master in Prussia dropped his vows in 1525, made the Order's state his hereditary duchy, and marriedKraków, Poland; Königsberg and Tapiau, Prussia (now Kaliningrad region, Russia)
  134. Michelangelo: Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) title QS:P1476,en:"Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) "label QS:Len,"Michelangelo B1564Michelangelo's nephew smuggled his body out of Rome to Florence in a bale of goods in March 1564, ahead of the pope's tomb planRome, Papal States
  135. Şehzade Bayezid: Sultan Suleiman the Magnicifient (d. 1566) and he son Bayezid (d. 1561) a miniature.1562Süleyman paid the Shah of Persia to hand back his son Bayezid, who was strangled in Qazvin with his four sonsQazvin, Iran
  136. Sri Lanka, Kandy, Temple of the Tooth, Sri Dalada Maligawa: Buddhist devotees pray towards the Buddha image in Kandy Buddhist temple. Sri Dalada Maligawa or the Temple of the Sacre1560Burma's king offered a fortune for the Buddha's tooth, Goa's archbishop ground it to powder, and two new teeth appeared within six yearsJaffna, Sri Lanka; Goa, India; Kandy, Sri Lanka
  137. Martin Guerre: Thumbnail (5)1560An impostor lived as Martin Guerre for three years, took his wife and land, and was hanged when the real Martin walked into courtArtigat, County of Foix, France
  138. Matrimonio de Martín de Loyola con doña Beatriz Ñusta, y de Don Juan Borja con Lorenza Ñusta: Matrimonio de Martín García Óñez de Loyola con la princesa inca Beatriz y de Juan de E1560An Inca princess was married to the captain who captured her uncle, their daughter got a Spanish marquisate with the Inca estate of Yucay, and Inca claimants fought for it after the line died outYucay, Cuzco, Peru
  139. Map of Mexico, marked on the globe1560Malinche's daughter sued her father's widow for the encomienda of Xilotepec, citing her mother's service to the Crown in the conquestXilotepec (Jilotepec), State of Mexico, Mexico
  140. AI illustration: Royal officers arrive at the Château de Chenonceau with a deed to take it back for the crown, 15591559Chenonceau was taken for a royal debt, taken from a king's mistress by his widow, and auctioned to a bank after its owner's ruinChâteau de Chenonceau, Indre-et-Loire, France
  141. Shane O'Neill meets Elizabeth: Shane O'Neill of Tyrone meets Queen Elizabeth of England1558England made Conn O'Neill's son by a blacksmith's wife his heir, and Conn's son Shane had the heir killedDungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, UK
  142. Empiezan las historias(Popol vuh): Title page of oldest known Popol Vuh manuscript1554The Popol Vuh says twin boys found their dead father's ballgame gear hidden in the roof, and it led them to the lords of the underworld who had killed himChichicastenango, Guatemala (where the book was kept)
  143. Bursa Şehzade Mustafa Türbesi 5970: Sehzade Mustafa’s tomb contains several other members of the family, Ahmed (son of Bayezit II, died 1513) and Orhan (son of Sehzade Mustafa), as1553Süleyman had his eldest son Mustafa strangled in the imperial tent in 1553 after his grand vizier produced a letter in the prince's name to the ShahAktepe camp near Ereğli, Konya, Turkey
  144. Pedro de Valdivia: Pedro de Valdivia1553Pedro de Valdivia's wife waited 27 years in Spain, learned on her voyage that he was dead, and the governor married to his former mistress did not pay her pensionTucapel, Chile
  145. Libellus de medicinalibus Indorum herbis ff. 38v-39r: Libellus de medicinalibus Indorum herbis ff. 38v-39r1552A Nahua healer's 1552 herbal was sent to Spain, passed through a royal pharmacist and a cardinal to the Vatican, and a pope returned it to Mexico in 1990Tlatelolco, Mexico City, Mexico
  146. AI illustration: Rebels led by Pedrarias's grandsons land on the shore at Panama, 15501550Pedrarias's grandsons killed the bishop of Nicaragua and raided Panama in 1550 to recover their father's lost wealthnear Panama
  147. Andrea Doria: Portrait of Andrea Doria1547Andrea Doria's chosen heir was shot at a Genoa gate in the Fieschi coup, the coup's leader drowned in the harbour, and the admiral's fortune passed to an eight-year-oldGenoa, Italy
  148. Henry VIII: Portrait of Henry VIII1547Henry VIII's will was signed with a stamp, not his hand, and its validity was disputed for 20 yearsPalace of Whitehall, London
  149. Hernán Cortés1547Cortés's heir was tried for treason, Mexico seized and sold the estate, and Lucas Alamán hid his bones from 1823 to 1946Castilleja de la Cuesta, Seville
  150. Musterung-Welser-Armada: Gouverneur de:Georg Hohermuth von Speyer (rechts) und de:Philipp von Hutten (Mitte) anläßlich der Musterung der Welser-Armada in Sanlúcar de Barrameda vor 1546Charles V gave the Welser bank Venezuela for its loans, and a Spanish governor had the head of the firm's son killed there in 1546El Tocuyo, Venezuela, and Augsburg, Germany
  151. Hernando de Soto: De Soto by Telfer & Sartain1542De Soto's body was sunk in the Mississippi, and his widow governed Cuba and fought his business partner over the estate until 1546 to 1550Guachoya, on the Mississippi River
  152. Francisco Pizarro: French: François Pizarre, conquistador (1475-1541) Francisco Pizarro, conqueror (1475–1541)title QS:P1476,fr:"François P1541Pizarro's daughter and heir married her imprisoned uncle, his skull was found in a lead box in 1977, and Spain reissued his marquisate in 2019Lima, Peru
  153. AI illustration: A mudflow from the Volcán de Agua sweeps over Santiago de los Caballeros, Guatemala, September 15411541Pedro de Alvarado's widow took over his governorship of Guatemala and died in a mudflow two days laterSantiago de los Caballeros (Almolonga valley), Guatemala
  154. Ibrahim Iskandar of Johor: King Ibrahim of Malaysia August 20251540Ethiopia's emperors held their brothers and sons on Amba Geshen for life until Ahmad ibn Ibrahim's army took the mountain in 1540Amba Geshen (Amba Gishen), South Wollo, Amhara Region, Ethiopia
  155. Oztoticpac Lands Aztec 1540 milcocolli tlahuelmantli: Otzoticpac Palace inside of the lands description in a milcocolli tlahuelmantli codex in Texcoco Mexico1539The Inquisition burned a lord of Texcoco in 1539 after his own relatives testified against him, and the map drawn for the fight over his land is in the Library of CongressTexcoco and Mexico City, Mexico
  156. Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar: DiegoVelazquezCuellar1538Diego de Almagro willed his governorship of New Toledo to his mestizo son, Pizarro ignored the will, and the son's followers killed PizarroCuzco, Peru
  157. Glamis Castle - geograph.org.uk - 637303: Glamis Castle1537James V burned Lady Glamis in 1537, took Glamis Castle and its silver, and the legend says she still kneels in the chapelCastle Hill, Edinburgh; Glamis Castle, Angus, Scotland
  158. Robert Aske: Aske affixing his proclamation on the door of York Cathedral1537Robert Aske's rebels demanded the repeal of the law that stopped landowners leaving land by will; Aske was hanged in chains, and Henry VIII gave way in 1540York, England, UK
  159. Muisca raft - detail - Museo del Oro, Bogotá: Detail of famous Muisca raft, Museo del Oro (Gold Museum), Bogotá1537A 1636 chronicle says the heir of Guatavita fasted six years in a cave and was covered in gold dust to take his uncle's lordship, and the rite gave the world El DoradoLake Guatavita, Cundinamarca, Colombia
  160. Window in the Roper Chapel of St. Dunstan's Church, Canterbury - geograph.org.uk - 3072341: Window in the Roper Chapel of St. Dunstan's Church, Canterbury1535Henry VIII beheaded Thomas More and took the family's property, and his daughter bribed a man for his head, which a Canterbury parish voted in 2025 to dig upTower Hill, London; St Dunstan's Church, Canterbury, England
  161. Mirza Kamran: Kamran Mirza1530Babur's son Kamran held his infant nephew Akbar on the walls of Kabul under fire, and Humayun had Kamran blindedAgra and Kabul; blinding in the Punjab (Pakistan)
  162. Hp inka12: Hp_inka12.jpg1527Atahualpa's captains hanged Huáscar's wives and children on the Cuzco road, burned a dead king's mummy, and killed Huáscar so Pizarro could not free himCuzco, Peru
  163. Jáchymov 2016 a: View over Jáchymov1526Count Stephan Schlick minted the first thalers from his silver mine, vanished at Mohács in 1526, and the new king took the mint from his familyJáchymov (Joachimsthal), Karlovy Vary Region, Czech Republic
  164. Juan Sebastián Elcano: Juan Sebastián Elcano, anonymous 19th century painting1526Elcano was granted 500 ducats a year for the first circumnavigation, was never paid, and left church bequests payable only from what the King owed himPacific Ocean, aboard the Santa María de la Victoria
  165. Jakob Fugger: Portrait of Jakob Fugger, (1459-1525)1525Jakob Fugger paid for Charles V's election, and his heirs lost much of the fortune when the Spanish crown stopped payingAugsburg
  166. Gasse in der Fuggerei, Augsburg: Narrow street in the Fuggerei, Augsburg.1525Jakob Fugger fixed the Fuggerei's rent at one guilder a year in 1521, and the rent has not changed in 505 yearsAugsburg, Bavaria, Germany
  167. Vasco da Gama: Ignoto portoghese, ritratto di un cavaliere dell'ordine di cristo, 1525-50 ca. 021524Vasco da Gama was ordered out of his home town of Sines in 1507 and asked to leave Portugal before the King made him a count in 1519Cochin, India
  168. OttomanJanissariesAndDefendingKnightsOfStJohnSiegeOfRhodes1522: Ottoman Janissaries and the defending Knights of St. John, Siege of Rhodes (1522)1523The Knights of St John surrendered Rhodes in 1522, sailed away with 4,000 islanders, and rented Malta from the Emperor for a falcon a yearRhodes, Greece; Viterbo, Italy; Birgu, Malta
  169. Ferdinand Magellan1521Magellan left a hereditary governorship to his son, but his wife and sons died, and his brother-in-law was still claiming the estate in 1540Mactan, Philippines
  170. Moctezuma II: Moctezuma Mendoza1520Spain and then Mexico paid Moctezuma's heirs for Tacuba lands until a 1934 decree, and a Spanish dukedom still carries his nameTenochtitlan
  171. Pedro Arias Dávila: Pedro Arias de Avila1519Pedrarias Dávila had Balboa, his son-in-law by proxy, beheaded at Acla in 1519 for treasonAcla, Darién, Panama
  172. Leonardo da Vinci: Portrait of Leonardo da Vincilabel QS:Len,"Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci"label QS:Les,"Retrato de Leonardo da Vinci"labe1519Leonardo da Vinci's legitimate half-brothers cut him out of their father's estate, and his will still left them money and landClos Lucé, Amboise, France
  173. Kabir: Kabir0041518Tradition says Hindus and Muslims fought over Kabir's body and found only flowers under the sheetMaghar, Sant Kabir Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, India
  174. Chamber of the Holy Mantle - Hirka-i Saâdet Dairesi: Chamber of the Holy Mantle - Hirka-i Saâdet Dairesi1517The Prophet's mantle and relics passed from dynasty to dynasty as proof of title, and the Ottomans shipped them from Cairo to Istanbul in 1517Cairo, Egypt; Topkapı Palace, Istanbul, Turkey
  175. Liu Jin: Liu Jin (1885-?)1510The eunuch who ran the Ming government was searched in front of the emperor, who found millions in silver and false sealsBeijing, China
  176. Ivan III of Russia: Ivan III of Russia 31509Ivan III crowned his grandson Dmitry as heir in 1498, then made his son Vasily heir and kept the grandson under guard until he died in 1509Moscow, Russia
  177. Abravanel Perush ha-torah: Title page of Isaac Abravanel: Perush ha-Torah. Varsha: Bi-Defus Y. Levenzohn, 1862-1863. Perush (Commentary) on the Pentateuch, originally published in 1508Isaac Abravanel lost an inherited fortune in Portugal, offered Spain 30,000 ducats to stop the expulsion, and lost everything again in NaplesLisbon, Portugal; Toledo, Spain; Naples, Italy; Venice, Italy
  178. Christopher Columbus: Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Columbus dead title QS:P1476,en:"Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Col1506Columbus's 1502 will disappeared while his descendants fought over the Veragua estate from 1578 to a final ruling in 1793Valladolid, Castile
  179. Christopher Columbus: Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Columbus dead title QS:P1476,en:"Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Col1506Columbus's heirs sued the Spanish Crown for 28 years over his promised tenth and viceroyalty, and settled for a dukedom and 10,000 ducats a yearValladolid; Montalbán
  180. Christopher Columbus: Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Columbus dead title QS:P1476,en:"Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Col1506Spain and the Dominican Republic both claim Columbus's body; a 2006 DNA test matched the Seville bones, and Santo Domingo refused testingValladolid, Castile
  181. Joanna of Castile: German: Johanna die in spain (1473-1435) Portrait of Joan the Madtitle QS:P1476,de:"Johanna die in spain (1473-1435) "la1504Isabella of Castile's will made her daughter Joanna queen, and Joanna's father and son kept her locked in Tordesillas for 46 yearsTordesillas, Spain
  182. Pope Alexander VI: Italian: Ritratto di Alessandro VI (Borgia, 1492-1503) Portrait of Alexander VI (Borgia, 1492-1503)title QS:P1476,it:"Ri1503Pope Alexander VI built a state in central Italy for his son Cesare Borgia, and Cesare lost it after his father's deathRome, Italy
  183. St Catherine Disputation - Andreas and Cem: St Catherine's Disputation / 2nd Room: Hall of the Saints (Sala dei Santi) The Borgia Apartments (Appartamento Borgia)Detail of probable1502The last Byzantine emperor's nephew signed his imperial rights over to the King of France in 1494 for 4,400 ducats a yearRome, Italy
  184. Llullaillaco Volcano in Salta province, Argentina: The summit of South America’s Llullaillaco Volcano has an elevation of 6,739 meters (22,110 feet) above sea level, making it the 1500The Inca chose a 13-year-old girl for sacrifice a year before her death, fed her elite food, and gave her coca and alcohol until she died on Llullaillacosummit of Volcán Llullaillaco, Salta, Argentina
  185. Liloa and Lonoikamakahiki: The two kāʻai (also written kaai): woven sennit burial caskets said to contain the iwi (bones) of the Hawaiʻi island rulers Līloa (left) and Lonoikamakah1500Hawaiian tradition says Līloa left the kingdom to his son Hākau and the gods to his low-born son ʻUmi, and ʻUmi killed Hākau and took the islandWaipiʻo Valley, Hawaii, USA

Medieval 500 to 1500

  1. Mehmed II: The Sultan Mehmet II title QS:P1476,en:"The Sultan Mehmet II "label QS:Len,"The Sultan Mehmet II "label QS:Lit,"Ritratto1495Mehmed II's younger son lost the throne to his brother and spent 13 years as a paid captive of the Knights of Rhodes, the Pope and the King of FranceCastel Capuana, Naples, Italy; buried Bursa, Turkey
  2. Lorenzo de' Medici: Italian: Ritratto di Lorenzo il Magnifico de' Medici Portrait of Lorenzo the Magnificenttitle QS:P1476,it:"Ritratto di L1492Lorenzo de' Medici took 53,643 florins from his cousins' inheritance, and two years after his death Florence seized the insolvent Medici bankFlorence, Italy
  3. Onin War Scene 1: Onin War Scene 11490A childless shogun adopted his brother as heir in 1464, then his wife bore a son, and the quarrel burned Kyoto for 11 yearsKyoto, Japan
  4. Charlotte Mary Yonge: Photo of Charlotte Mary Yonge1487Queen Charlotte of Cyprus lost her throne to her father's illegitimate son and signed her crowns of Cyprus, Jerusalem and Armenia over to SavoyRome, Italy; Kyrenia, Cyprus
  5. Map of United Kingdom, marked on the globe1485Malory says Uther's heir was raised in secret, the lords refused the boy who pulled the sword, and the common people made him kingLondon, England (the churchyard of "the greatest church of London" in
  6. Richard III of England: Richard III portrait1485Richard III's bones were found under a car park, and his distant relatives sued the government over where to bury himBosworth Field, Leicestershire, England
  7. Edward IV: Edward IV Plantagenet1483Parliament declared Edward IV's sons illegitimate, they vanished in the Tower, and two child skeletons found in 1674 have never been DNA-testedTower of London, England
  8. Mehmed IV: Mahomet IV. sonst Achmet genannt Türckischer Kaÿser1481A Turkish court ruled in 2020 that Mehmed II's endowment deed still bound Hagia Sophia as a mosque, while an Armenian foundation could not recover its confiscated Istanbul innIstanbul, Turkey
  9. Pazzi conspiracy: Nella stessa famiglia anche lo zio di Francesco, Jacopo fu tra i principali responsabili, e i congiurati si servirono della parentela di Guglielmo de' Medici, fra1478Florence seized the Pazzi bank's property the day after the cathedral murder and ordered the family's name and arms erased foreverFlorence, Italy
  10. Bruges. Eglise Notre-Dame. Tombeau de Marie de Bourgogne (1495) - Brugge. O.-L.-Vrouwkerk. Graf van Maria van Bourgondië: TitleBruges. Eglise Notre-Dame. Tombeau de Marie de Bourgo1477Charles the Bold died at Nancy, the King of France seized Burgundy from his 19-year-old heiress, and her marriage gave the Netherlands to the HabsburgsGhent and Bruges, Belgium
  11. Perchta z Rožmberka: Perchta z Rožmberka1476Perchta of Rožmberk was married off for money in 1449, refused her dying husband's plea for forgiveness, and the legend made her the White LadyVienna, Austria; Český Krumlov and Jindřichův Hradec, Czech Republic
  12. Grave of Vlad III the Impaler: Interior view of the Snagov monastery, where Vlad III the Impaler is supposed to be graved. The monastery is located in an island of the Lake Snagov,1476Vlad III Dracula's head was sent to the sultan, and the grave at Snagov opened in 1933 held no bodySnagov and Comana, Romania
  13. Bartolomeo Colleoni: BartholomaeusColleoni1566-691475Colleoni left Venice 100,000 ducats for a statue of himself in Piazza San Marco; Venice took the money and put the statue in front of the Scuola di San MarcoMalpaga (Bergamo) and Venice, Italy
  14. Nezahualcoyotl Codex Ixtlilxochitl: Nezahualcoyotl Codex Ixtlilxochitl facsimile 115-1301472The chronicles say Nezahualcóyotl had his bride's betrothed killed in battle, executed their son for treason, and named a 7-year-old heir on his deathbedTexcoco, State of Mexico, Mexico
  15. Inca Mummy: Illustration from the book El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno1471The dead Inca kings kept their palaces, servants and estates, and the Spanish seized their mummies in 1559 and lost them in a Lima hospitalCuzco, Peru (mummies taken to Lima)
  16. Panorama of Malbork Castle, part 4: Picture taken in Malbork after Wikimania 2010 conference. Panorama of Malbork Castle, Żuławy region, Poland.1467The Teutonic Knights could not pay their mercenaries, so the mercenaries sold the Order's capital, Marienburg, to the King of Poland in 1457Marienburg (Malbork), Poland; Königsberg (Kaliningrad), Russia
  17. Caister Castle - the tower - geograph.org.uk - 808701: Caister Castle - the tower. Caister Castle > 808658 consisted of two rectangular courtyards which were surrounded by a moa1459John Paston claimed Sir John Fastolf's lands under a deathbed spoken will, and the Duke of Norfolk besieged Caister Castle to take themCaister, Norfolk, England
  18. 영모전 단종 어진 2: 단종 어진(강원도 영월군 영월읍 영흥리 영모전에 있는 1927년 이규진의 이모본)1457Danjong's uncle took his throne, and three Joseon records give three accounts of how the 16-year-old died in exileYeongwol, Gangwon Province, South Korea
  19. Charles VII of France: KarlVII1456Jacques Coeur financed Charles VII's war, then the king charged him with poisoning the royal mistress and confiscated everythingBourges, France
  20. Gutenberg Bible, New York Public Library, USA. Pic 01: Gutenberg Bible on display at the New York Public Library1455Gutenberg's investor sued him in 1455 while the Bible was being printed, and Soviet officers carried one of the Bibles to Moscow in 1945Mainz, Germany; Leipzig, Germany; Moscow, Russia
  21. Tamaudun 02: 沖縄県 玉陵1450Kyoto Imperial University took bones from a Ryukyuan royal tomb, descendants sued for them, and the university gave them to the village in 2025 on condition they never be buriedUnten, Nakijin, Okinawa, Japan; Kyoto, Japan
  22. Here begynneth a gest of Robyn Hode: Beginn der Gest of Robyn Hode1450The Gest of Robyn Hode says a knight pledged his lands to an abbot for £400 and Robin paid the debt; a 1598 play made Robin an earl robbed by his uncleSt Mary's Abbey, York, and the greenwood, England
  23. Ulugh Beg: Ulugh Beg, Timurid painting 1425-501449Ulugh Beg kept back his son's share of the treasury, and the son defeated him, had him sentenced, and let the emirs kill him on the road to Meccanear Samarkand, Uzbekistan
  24. Map of Japan, marked on the globe1443Zeami lost his son and the leadership of his Noh troupe to the shogun's favourite, and was exiled to Sado at about 72Kyoto and Sado Island, Japan
  25. Map of South Korea, marked on the globe1441Sejo dug up Queen Hyeondeok's tomb after her son's fall; the legend says her coffin was thrown into the sea, and her rank came back 56 years laterSoreung, Ansan, Gyeonggi, South Korea; Hyeolleung, Donggureung, Guri, South Kore
  26. Gilles de Rais: Féron - Gilles de Rais (1405-1440) - MV 9621440Gilles de Rais sold his castles to the Duke of Brittany, seized a priest in church, and was hanged; his heirs then claimed the lands backNantes, Brittany, France
  27. Hungarian Crown Regalia: The Crown, Sword, and Scepter within the Hungarian Parliament Building (Országház) Budapest, Hungary1439A lady-in-waiting stole the Holy Crown of Hungary in 1440 so a baby born hours later could be crowned kingVisegrád, Hungary
  28. Inca Mummy: Illustration from the book El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno1438Sarmiento records that Inca Viracocha named his illegitimate son Urco heir, fled the Chanca attack, and died stripped of his property after his other sons killed UrcoCuzco and Caquia Xaquixahuana, Peru
  29. Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher, Place du Vieux-Marché, Rouen (La Prière pour la France): Carte postale n°1311431Joan of Arc's mother sued to clear her daughter's name, and in 1456 the church declared the 1431 trial nullRouen, France
  30. Seal of Vytautas the Great: Portrait seal of Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great.1430Polish lords stopped the crown sent for Vytautas in 1430, he died uncrowned, and his grave in Vilnius Cathedral has never been foundTrakai, Lithuania
  31. St Fillan’s Crozier. NMS: St Fillan’s Crozier with the Coigreach in view, 8th century, National Museum of Scotland1428A Highland family kept St Fillan's crozier for 500 years, took it to Canada, and sold it back to Scotland for $500Glendochart, Perthshire, Scotland; Plympton, Ontario, Canada
  32. Tezozomoc funeral: The funeral for the Tepanec ruler Tezozomoc.1426Tezozómoc named one son heir; another son took the throne and killed him, and the cities he had ruled destroyed AzcapotzalcoAzcapotzalco, Mexico City, Mexico
  33. 25 Wiki 20 EHM00042a+b 1-D Hildebrand Veckinchusen an seine Frau Margarethe 1421 by Olaf Malzahn: Foto: Olaf Malzahn1426A Hanseatic merchant was jailed for debt in Bruges for years, died weeks after release, and his widow was sued out of her houseBruges, Belgium, and Lübeck, Germany
  34. ChistyakovP SofVitovNaSvGRM: At the wedding of Vasilii the Dark Sofia Vitovtovna pulls the belt from Prince Vasilii Kosoi. Original title: see [1]1425Moscow's grand prince was blinded by his cousin in 1446, after his mother tore a disputed gold belt from another cousin at his weddingMoscow, Russia
  35. Emperor Go-Kameyama: Portrait of the Emperor Go-Kameyama1424Japan's Southern Court gave up the sacred regalia in 1392 on a promise to share the throne, the promise was broken, and loyalists stole the jewel back in 1443Yoshino, Nara and Kyoto, Japan
  36. Wat ratchaburana March 2025 24: Wat Ratchaburana is an ancient Buddhist temple founded in 1424. It is located in Ayutthaya Historical Park, Ayutthaya, Thailand.1424Two princes of Ayutthaya killed each other on elephants in 1424, and looters robbed their crypt in 1957Than Forest Bridge (Saphan Pa Than), Ayutthaya, Thailand
  37. Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire front: Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire in "Schatzkammer" Vienna1423An emperor gave Nuremberg the crown jewels "for permanent custody" in 1423; Vienna took them in 1800, Hitler took them back, and an American found them walled in a bunkerNuremberg, Germany; Vienna, Austria
  38. Richard Whittington: RichardWhittington 19thCEngraving After ReginaldElstrack 15901423Richard Whittington left no children and his fortune to London; his executors rebuilt Newgate prison and founded almshouses that still operateCity of London, England
  39. Nicolas Flamel: Nicolas Flamel Histoire critique1418Nicolas Flamel left his property to his Paris parish church, a 1612 book made him an alchemist, and treasure hunters ransacked his house for goldParis, France
  40. Palazzo datini, ext. 01: Palazzo Datini, Prato1410The merchant of Prato rewrote his will five weeks before he died and left 100,000 florins to the poor, under the town's controlPrato, Tuscany, Italy
  41. Le cadavre de Jean de Montagu détaché de la potence par son fils. G: Auteur(s): Langlois, Philibert, graveur Marck, dessinateur Autre titre: De 1226 à 1469 / De l'avènement de St L1409France's grand master was beheaded and hung at Montfaucon; his son won back his name and body, then died at AgincourtParis and Marcoussis, Essonne, France
  42. Tay Do castle South gate: Cổng Nam thành Tây Đô (thành nhà Hồ), Thanh Hóa, Việt Nam1407A royal in-law took Vietnam's throne from his own grandson in 1400, and China invaded claiming to restore the true heirThăng Long (Hanoi) and Tây Đô, Thanh Hóa, Vietnam; Nanjing, China
  43. Map of Indonesia, marked on the globe1406Two heirs of Majapahit went to war, 170 Ming soldiers died in the crossfire, and China billed the winner 60,000 liang of goldMajapahit (Trowulan) and Blambangan, East Java, Indonesia
  44. Timur: Timur reconstruction031405Soviet scientists opened Timur's tomb on 19 June 1941 over the objections of Samarkand's clerics, and the keeper who read out its warning was ordered arrestedGur-e Amir mausoleum, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
  45. Timur, forensic reconstruction by Gerasimov (1941): Timur, forensic reconstruction by Gerasimov (1941)1405Timur's will named a grandson in Kandahar, but another grandson took Samarkand and the treasury firstOtrar, Kazakhstan; Samarkand, Uzbekistan
  46. Schaedel mit Nagel: Schaedel, Vitaliebruder (?), Hanse1401Hamburg beheaded the pirate Störtebeker, legend put his gold in a church spire, and a skull said to be his was stolen from the city museum in 2010Hamburg, Germany
  47. Jianwen Emperor: Jianwen Emperor1398The Yongle Emperor took his nephew's throne in 1402, and the deposed emperor's two-year-old son was held for 55 yearsNanjing, Jiangsu, China
  48. Gisant de Léon V d'Arménie: Gisant de Léon V d'Arménie1393The last king of Armenia was ransomed from Cairo, made lord of Madrid for life, and his title passed to the kings of CyprusParis, France
  49. Nanjing-Zhonghua-Gate-3072: The Zhonghua Gate complex at the southern part of the City Wall of Nanjing1379The History of Ming says a rich man paid for a third of Nanjing's walls, offered to pay the emperor's army, and was exiled to YunnanNanjing, Jiangsu, China
  50. Arqua panorama: Panorama della zona alta dell'abitato di Arquà Petrarca da Monte Castello1374Venice gave Petrarch a house for his library, the library went to his enemies' heirs and then to France, and the skull in his tomb is a woman'sArquà Petrarca, Padua, Italy
  51. Imperial State Crown of Queen Victoria (2): Imperial State Crown of Queen Victoria, the state crown used by British monarchs from 1838 to 19371362Tradition says Pedro the Cruel took the "Black Prince's Ruby" from a Granadan sultan he killed with his own lance; it is a spinel in the front of Britain's crownTablada, near Seville, Spain; London, England
  52. Egypt and Nubia: Volume III - No. 8, Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Cairo: Egypt and Nubia: Volume III - No. 8, Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Cairo1361Plague estates paid for Sultan Hasan's Cairo mosque, a minaret fell and killed about 300, and the sultan was murdered and never buried in his tombCairo, Egypt
  53. 51. Morte di Marino Faliero, 17 Aprile 1355: The Execution of Doge en:Marino Faliero1355Venice beheaded Doge Marino Faliero in 1355, seized his palace, painted a black shroud over his portrait, and later voided his widow's willVenice, Italy
  54. Erfurter Schatz, jüdischer Hochzeitsring: Jüdischer Hochzeitsring aus dem sog. "Erfurter Schatz", aufbewahrt im Keller der Alten Synagoge in Erfurt1349A Jewish moneylender's silver lay under his Erfurt cellar from the 1349 massacre until archaeologists found it in 1998Michaelisstraße 43, Erfurt, Germany
  55. Palais-des-Papes-Avignon-June-2012: View of the Palais des Papes in Avignon, France in June 20121343King Robert's will left Naples to Joanna, her husband was strangled, and she sold the city of Avignon to the pope while the murder was examinedAvignon, France; Naples and Aversa, Italy
  56. Edward III: Edward III of England (Order of the Garter)1343Edward III did not repay the Bardi and Peruzzi, and both Florentine banks failed in the 1340sFlorence
  57. Tankiziyya, before 1920: Tankiziyya, before 19201340The sultan had his viceroy of Syria arrested, killed and stripped of his fortune; three years later the viceroy's grandson was sultan and his body came home to DamascusAlexandria, Egypt; Damascus, Syria
  58. Charter of Dečani by Stefan Uroš III: Почетак Дечанске повеље (потписи Стефана Дечанског и Цара Душана) (arhiva SANU)1331Serbia's King Milutin ordered his son blinded, and that son was later deposed by his own son and died in prison at Zvečan in 1331Zvečan fortress, Kosovo
  59. Remains of Wigmore Abbey - geograph.org.uk - 700446: Remains of Wigmore Abbey1330Edward III hanged Roger Mortimer without a trial and took his lands, and Mortimer's grandson won them back in 1354Tyburn, London; Wigmore, Herefordshire, England
  60. Korea-Seosan-Buseoksa-Building-01: Buseoksa.1330Korean thieves stole a Buddha from a Japanese island temple, a Korean temple claimed pirates had stolen it first, and Korea's Supreme Court sent it backKannonji, Tsushima, Nagasaki, Japan; Buseoksa, Seosan, South Korea
  61. Coronation of Philip VI of Valois and Jeanne of Burgundy (BNF fr 10135 - fol 412v): Coronation of King of France Philipp VI of Valois and Queen Jeanne of Burgundy by Archbishop of 1328France kept two kings' daughters off the throne, passed over Edward III, and later cited a Frankish land rule to justify itParis, France
  62. Mansa Musa: Detail from the Catalan Atlas Sheet 6 showing Mansa Musa1324Mansa Musa said he took Mali's throne because his predecessor sailed into the Atlantic and never came backMali Empire (modern Mali and Guinea)
  63. Marco Polo: Frontispice édition de Nuremberg 1477 (cropped)1324Marco Polo's son-in-law kept his daughter's third of the Polo estate, and she won it back in court 42 years laterVenice
  64. Dante Alighieri: Bargello - Kapelle Fresko 2a1321Florence demanded Dante's bones for 200 years; friars took them out of the tomb, and a worker found them in 1865Ravenna, Italy
  65. Khizr Khan and Devaldi enthroned. Duval Rani Khizr Khan of Amir Khusrau Dihvali. Scribe, Sultan Bayazid ibn Nizam Mughal: Khizr Khan and Devaldi enthroned. Duval Rani Khizr Khan of1316Malik Kafur read out a will that made a six-year-old sultan of Delhi, blinded the heirs, and was beheaded 35 days laterSiri, Delhi, India; Gwalior Fort
  66. Philip IV of France: Philip IV of France 1285-13141315Philip IV's treasurer was hanged on the Montfaucon gallows he had built, and the king who let him hang left legacies to his childrenMontfaucon, Paris, France
  67. Philip IV of France: Philip IV of France 1285-13141314Philip IV arrested every Templar in France in one morning, the pope gave their property to the Hospitallers, and the Hospitallers paid the king 200,000 livresParis, France
  68. Templars being burned at the stake.label QS:Len,"Templars being burned at the stake."label QS:Lde,"Verbrennung von Templ: Illustration, anonyme Chronik, „Von der Schöpfung der Welt1308One Templar said under torture in 1308 that he saw a brother leading 50 horses and heard of 18 galleys, and that is the only medieval source for a Templar treasure fleetPoitiers, France; Paris, France
  69. Portraits of Famous Men: Bao Zheng: Portraits of Famous Men: Bao Zheng1300In the Yuan play The Chalk Circle, a wife poisons her husband and claims his concubine's son to take the fortune, and Judge Bao tests the two mothersKaifeng, Henan, China (court of Bao Zheng in the play)
  70. Museo dell'Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore. Pope Boniface VIII: Museo dell'Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore. Pope Boniface VIII1297A Colonna cardinal kept his brothers' lands, the pope razed Palestrina in the fight, and a Colonna seized the pope at AnagniRome and Palestrina, Italy
  71. Coronation Chair and Stone of Scone: The Stone of Scone in the Coronation Chair at Westminster Abbey. No attribution was published in the source or any other book known to contain 1296Edward I took Scotland's coronation stone in 1296; four students took it back on Christmas Day 1950 and broke it in twoScone, Perthshire, Scotland; Westminster Abbey, London, England; Perth, Scotland
  72. Qalawun complex 02: Qalawun complex in Islamic Cairo, Egypt1290Sultan Qalawun built Cairo's great hospital with forced labour after a vow in a Damascus hospital funded by a captured European king's ransomCairo, Egypt, and Damascus, Syria
  73. Portrait of Abutsu-Ni: Portrait of Abutsu-Ni1275Nun Abutsu travelled to Kamakura in 1279 to claim her son's inheritance, died waiting, and the case ended 30 years laterKamakura, Japan; Hosokawa estate, Harima province (Hyōgo), Japan
  74. Fujiwara no Tameie: 藤原為家の肖像画。菊池容斎筆『前賢故実』巻第八（国文学研究資料館所蔵）より。1275A widowed nun rode from Kyoto to Kamakura in 1279 to sue her stepson for her son's estate, and her son's family still owns the archive she fought forKyoto and Kamakura, Japan; Hosokawa estate, Miki, Hyōgo
  75. Konradin: Codex Manesse, fol. 7r, Konradin von Hohenstaufen ("König Konradin der Jüngere") bei der Jagd mit Falken.1268Conradin, the last legitimate Staufer, willed his lands to his Bavarian uncles and was beheaded in Naples at 16Naples, Campania, Italy
  76. Möngke Khan: Möngke enthroned. Tarikh-i Jahangushay-i Juvaini, 1438, Shiraz1259When Möngke died at a siege, two of his brothers were proclaimed Great Khan in the same year and fought for four yearsDiaoyu Fortress, Hechuan (Chongqing); Kaiping (Inner Mongolia), China; Karakorum
  77. HulaguInBagdad: The Mongol ruler Hulagu in Baghdad interns the Caliph of Baghdad among his treasures.1258Hulagu took Baghdad and killed the last Abbasid caliph in 1258, chroniclers gave seven different deaths, and a surviving kinsman was made caliph in CairoBaghdad, Iraq; Cairo, Egypt
  78. Alamut Castle, Qazvin - 1: Alamut Castle, Qazvin Province1256The last lord of Alamut surrendered to the Mongols in 1256, the Persian historian Juvayni burned the castle's library, and the imam was killed on his way home from the KhanAlamut and Maymun-Diz, Qazvin province, Iran; Mongolia
  79. Spiro Craig Mound HRoe: The Great Mortuary or Craig Mound( also called "The Spiro Mound") is the second-largest mound on the Spiro site and the only burial mound. It is located abo1250Six men leased Spiro's burial mound for $300 from the guardian of the heirs, tunnelled in, sold the grave goods worldwide, and tried to blow up the restSpiro, Le Flore County, Oklahoma, USA
  80. Hylestad I, right (cropped): The right portal plank from Hylestad stave church, the so called "Hylestad I".1250The Völsunga saga says Fafnir killed his father for a cursed gold hoard and refused his brother any shareIceland (where the saga was written)
  81. Mausoleum of Shajar al-Durr DSCF2771: Mausoleum of Shajar al-Durr in al-Khalifa neighbourhood, Cairo1249Shajar al-Durr hid the death of Sultan al-Salih Ayyub in 1249, became sultan after his heir was killed, and was beaten to death in 1257al-Mansura, Egypt
  82. Möngke enthroned. Tarikh-i Jahangushay-i Juvaini, 1438, Shiraz: Möngke enthroned. Tarikh-i Jahangushay-i Juvaini, 1438, Shiraz1248Ögedei named a grandson as heir, two widows put other men on the throne, and Möngke executed the grandson's mother for sorceryKarakorum and the Onon River, Mongolia
  83. Prajnaparamita Java Side Detail: Bodhisattvadevi (female bodhisattva) Prajnaparamita; the buddhist goddess of transcendental wisdom, personified in a statue from 13th century Singh1247The Pararaton says a smith cursed the kris that killed him, and that it killed three rulers of Singhasari in turnTumapel (Singhasari), Malang, East Java, Indonesia
  84. Margarete von Babenberg: Margarete von Babenberg, auch Margareta von Österreich, tschechisch Markéta Babenberská, (* 1204 oder 1205; † 29. Oktober 1266 auf der Burg Krumau am Kamp)1246The last Babenberg duke died without sons in 1246, his widowed sister of about 47 married a 19-year-old Ottokar and handed him her title deeds, and he divorced herVienna and Hainburg an der Donau, Austria
  85. AI illustration: The White Tower of the Tower of London, 12441244Henry III took a third of David of Oxford's estate in 1244 and held his widow Licoricia in the Tower until it was settledOxford; Tower of London; Winchester
  86. Reliquary of the Crown of Thorns Notre-Dame NDP68 Cat95: Reliquary of the Crown of Thorns Notre-Dame NDP68 Cat951238A bankrupt emperor of Constantinople pawned the Crown of Thorns to Venetian lenders, and a fire chaplain carried it out of burning Notre-DameConstantinople; Venice, Italy; Paris, France
  87. Iltutmish: Islamic Sultanates. Delhi. Shams al-Dīn Iltutmish. AH 607-633 AD 1210-1235. AR Tanka (25mm, 11.07 g, 6h). Sind type1236Sultan Iltutmish named his daughter Razia heir over his sons; the nobles crowned a son, and the people of Delhi put her on the throneDelhi, India; killed near Kaithal, Haryana
  88. Archimedes Palimpsest: One page of Archimedes Palimpsest, On Floating Bodies1229Monks scraped Archimedes off the page in 1229, a Paris family kept the book in a damp cellar, and a judge let them sell it hours before a church's claim could stop itConstantinople; Jerusalem; Paris, France; New York, USA
  89. Burkhan Khaldun mount3: Burkhan Khaldun mount1227Genghis Khan's sons fought over the eldest son's birth before he named a successor, and his grave was never recordedBurkhan Khaldun, Khentii Mountains, Mongolia (reputed burial site)
  90. Statue Lý Chiêu Hoàng: Statue Lý Chiêu Hoàng1226Vietnam's only reigning empress was made to hand the throne to her child husband in 1225, and the chronicle says the Lý clan was buried alive in 1232Thăng Long (Hanoi), Vietnam
  91. Map of the Mali Empire: Own work, based off of Gomez, M. (2018). African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa (1st ed.). Princeton University Press. 1224The Sundiata epic says the king wanted his crippled son to rule, the council crowned his half-brother, and the exiled son came back to found MaliManden, Mali
  92. Raymond VI of Toulouse: Raimond6Toulouse1222The Church gave Raymond VI's county to the crusade leader and refused his body burial, and his granddaughter's childless marriage handed Toulouse to FranceToulouse, France
  93. UP rhino: Golden Rhinoceros at w:en:Mapungubwe Collection, SA1220Mapungubwe's royal dead were dug up in 1933 and reburied on their hill in 2007, but the gold rhinoceros stayed in a university museumMapungubwe Hill, Limpopo, South Africa
  94. Minamoto no Sanetomo: Minamoto no Sanetomo(源 実朝, 1192 –1219) was the third shogun of the Kamakura shogunate and the last head of the Minamoto clan of Japan. This picture has drawn 1219The shogun's nephew killed him on the shrine steps in 1219 to avenge his father, and the Minamoto line of shoguns ended that nightTsurugaoka Hachimangū, Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan
  95. King George III and his daughter, Queen Tamar: King George III and his daughter, Queen Tamar1213Georgia's King George III had no son and crowned his daughter Tamar co-ruler, and the place of her grave is still disputedGelati Monastery, near Kutaisi, Georgia
  96. Horses of Basilica San Marco bright: Original Horses Inside Basilica San Marco1205Venice took four bronze horses from Constantinople in 1204, Napoleon took them and Veronese's Wedding at Cana in 1797, and in 1815 only the horses went homeConstantinople (Istanbul), Turkey; Venice, Italy; Paris, France
  97. German: Hagen versenkt den Nibelungenhort.title QS:P1476,de:"Hagen versenkt den Nibelungenhort."label QS:Lde,"Hagen vers: German: Hagen versenkt den Nibelungenhort.title QS:P1476,d1200The Nibelungenlied says Hagen sank a widow's bridal treasure in the Rhine, and she had her brother beheaded trying to learn whereWorms, Germany, and the court of Etzel (setting)
  98. Artur of Brittany Alienor of Brittany: Artuš Bretaňský se sestrou Eleonorou1199Richard I's nephew Arthur disappeared in his uncle King John's prison, and Arthur's sister was held for 39 years until she diedRouen, France
  99. Damascus mausoleum of Sultan Saladin 1557: The entrance to the mausoleum from the street in front.1193Saladin left a gold ingot and 47 silver dirhams, not enough for his grave, and his brother took the empire from his sonsDamascus, Syria
  100. Moroccan-Quarter-Western-Wall-Jerusalem-Old: Looking down on the Moroccan Quarter (left part of picture, in front of wall), later the location of the Western Wall Plaza. The now Do1193A waqf fed Maghrebi pilgrims in Jerusalem for 774 years, and its quarter was bulldozed in one night in June 1967Maghrebi (Moroccan) Quarter, Old City, Jerusalem
  101. 230728 Chusonji Hiraizumi Iwate pref Japan01s3: Chūson-ji Konjiki-dō in Hiraizumi, Iwate prefecture, Japan1189The Ōshū Fujiwara grew rich on northern gold, the fourth lord turned on the fugitive his father told him to protect, his own vassal beheaded him, and his head lies in the family's gold hallHiraizumi, Iwate, Japan
  102. Entrance door of 'the church of Holy sepulchre': Entrance door to the church of Holy Sepulchre1187Two Muslim families have opened the Church of the Holy Sepulchre every day for centuries, and dispute which of them came firstChurch of the Holy Sepulchre, Old City, Jerusalem
  103. Jew's House: Jew's House, Lincoln (Grimm)1186When Aaron of Lincoln died in 1186, Henry II took his whole estate and set up a separate exchequer to collect his debtsLincoln, England
  104. Antoku Tenno-e (Akama Jingu Shimonoseki): Antoku Tenno-e, Akama Jingu, Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan1185A six-year-old emperor drowned at Dan-no-ura in 1185 in his grandmother's arms, and the sacred sword went down with himDan-no-ura, Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan
  105. Soga Brothers Surprising Suketsune, 1890: Dramatic kabuki scene from the famous tale of the Soga Brothers, whose lifelong quest was to avenge the death of their father at the hands1176The Tale of the Soga Brothers says a guardian took his ward's estate, the ward killed the guardian's son, and the son's boys killed him 17 years laterItō estate, Izu, and the Fuji hunting grounds, Shizuoka, Japan
  106. Emperor Sutoku: Portrait of the Emperor Sutoku (from the Tenshi-Sekkan Miei)1164Emperor Sutoku lost the throne to his brothers, died in exile, and was brought home as a spirit in 1868Sanuki Province (Sakaide, Kagawa), Japan; Shiramine Jingu, Kyoto, Japan
  107. Emperor Sutoku Refusing to Receive the Priest Ennyo in Exile: Japan, circa 1880 Prints; woodcuts Triptych; color woodblock prints Herbert R. Cole Collection (M.84.31.67) Japanese A1156A retired emperor and his brother went to war over the throne in 1156, and the winning side made a son behead his own fatherKyoto, Japan; Sanuki (Kagawa), Japan
  108. Tichborne dole: The Tichborne Dole1150Tradition says a dying Lady Tichborne crawled round 23 acres for a bread dole and cursed the family if it ever stoppedTichborne, near Alresford, Hampshire, England
  109. Rahere's Tomb - Walks in London, Augustus Hare, 1878: Illustration from Walks in London, Augustus Hare, 1878.1143Rahere founded St Bartholomew's Hospital after a vow in Rome, Henry VIII seized its income in 1539, and the City of London saved it weeks before the king diedWest Smithfield, London, England, UK
  110. Tomb of Yue Fei, 1907: 岳飛墓 (浙江 杭州)1142Song China killed its leading general on a charge its chancellor admitted might not exist, held his family 20 years, then restored his name and reburied himLin'an (Hangzhou), Zhejiang, China
  111. Map of New York, marked on the globe1142The Haudenosaunee Great Law vests the chiefs' titles in the women of each family, who can take back the antlersOnondaga, New York, USA
  112. Mapa podziału Księstwa Polskiego w 1102: The map of division of Polish Duchy in 1102, after death of Władysław I Herman.1138Bolesław III had his half-brother blinded, then split Poland among his sons in 1138, and the country stayed divided for about two centuriesPłock, Poland
  113. Mausoleum of Queen Arwa, Jibla (13082096983): Yemen1138Yemen's Queen Arwa ruled for half a century and left her jewels by will to a boy imam who had vanished in CairoDhu Jibla, Yemen
  114. Eleanor of Aquitaine: Church of Fontevraud Abbey Eleanor of Aquitaine effigy1137Eleanor inherited Aquitaine at about 13, took it back when France annulled her marriage, and married the future king of England eight weeks laterBordeaux, France
  115. Hospital of St Cross, Winchester: Hospital of St Cross .mw-parser-output .messagebox{margin:4px 0;width:auto;border-collapse:collapse;border:2px solid var(--border-color-progressiv1136A bishop's son ran England's oldest almshouse for decades on an income Trollope turned into The WardenSt Cross, Winchester, Hampshire, England
  116. Seated Portrait of Emperor Song Huizong 宋徽宗坐像: Seated Portrait of Emperor Song Huizong 宋徽宗坐像1135The Jurchens took two Song emperors north in 1127; a 1142 treaty brought home the father's coffin and left the son, a crowned emperor, in captivity until he diedKaifeng, Henan, China; Wuguocheng (Yilan, Heilongjiang), China; Lin'an (Han
  117. Henry I of England: Worcester chronicle - Henry I in a hulk1135Henry I's barons swore to make his daughter queen, and his nephew Stephen took the crown within weeks of his deathLondon, England
  118. BiddendenMaids(1808): BiddendenMaids(1808)1134Tradition says conjoined twins left Biddenden 20 acres for bread and cheese, and the rector sued to take the landBiddenden, Kent, England
  119. Li Qingzhao: 李清照塑像1129Li Qingzhao lost her late husband's collection to war and thieves, then reported her second husband to the courts and went to jail for itJiankang (Nanjing) and Hangzhou, China
  120. Hasan-i Sabbah: Asabah21124Hasan-i Sabbah had both his sons executed and left Alamut to a lieutenant from another castleAlamut Castle, Qazvin province, Iran
  121. Matilda of Tuscany: Mathilde und Hugo von Cluny als Fürsprecher Heinrichs IV. (cropped)1115Matilda of Tuscany gave her lands to the papacy, a historian says the surviving deed is a forgery, and the emperor took the lands the year after she diedCanossa, Italy, and Rome
  122. Codex Zouche-Nuttall - Lord 8 Deer captures Lord 4 Wind of Huachino: Lord 8 Deer captures Lord 4 Wind of Huachino1115The Mixtec codices record that Lord Eight Deer killed his wife's father to take Tilantongo, and that the boy he spared later killed him and married his daughterTilantongo, Oaxaca, Mexico
  123. Wuhsha al-dallala: Fragment of the Cairo Genizah - Legal document1100Wuhsha the broker was thrown out of synagogue on Yom Kippur for her son by a lover, and her will gave the lover "not one penny"Fustat (Old Cairo), Egypt
  124. El Cid: Estatua del Cid (Burgos)1099El Cid's widow carried his body out of Valencia, and his bones were moved five times between 1102 and 1921Valencia and Burgos, Spain
  125. Ослепление: Blinding of Vasilko1097The princes of Rus' agreed at Liubech in 1097 that each would keep his father's lands, and two of them then blinded a thirdLiubech, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine
  126. Calif al Mustansir Misr 1055: Calif_al_Mustansir_Misr_10551094The vizier al-Afdal put al-Musta'li on the Fatimid throne in 1094 over his elder brother Nizar, and the Ismailis splitCairo, Egypt
  127. AI illustration: William the Conqueror's funeral at Caen, 1087, stopped by a man claiming the church stood on his father's land1087William the Conqueror's funeral stopped when a man said the church stood on his father's stolen landPriory of Saint-Gervais, Rouen
  128. Arco de Elvira Granada: Esta es una fotografía, tomada con mi propio móvil en la que se puede ver el Arco de Elvira desde tres perspectivas diferentes; de frente ,por detrás ,y des1066Joseph ibn Naghrela inherited his father's place as vizier of Granada and was killed in the massacre of 1066Granada, Spain
  129. Vernet Edith discovering King Harold's corpse on the battle field of Hastings: Edith Swanneck discovering King Harold's corpse on the battle field of Hastings1066Domesday shows Count Alan holding 33 of the 40 estates of Edith the Fair, and in 1094 Archbishop Anselm wrote to her daughter, King Harold's daughter, who had left Wilton Abbey with AlanWilton Abbey, Wiltshire, and Cambridgeshire, England
  130. Central Mausoleum: Views of the central mausoleum photographed in 1951 (left) and 2007 (right), showing the degree of deterioration of the building1063Al-Bakri wrote that Ghana's king took every gold nugget and his heir was his sister's son, and in 1063 a nephew took the throne over the dead king's Muslim sonKoumbi Saleh, Hodh Ech Chargui, Mauritania (probable capital of Ghana)
  131. Fan Zhongyan: Fan Zhongyan scth1052Fan Zhongyan's 1050 clan trust fed every member a daily rice ration, and within a few years his son had to ask the emperor to let courts enforce itSuzhou, Jiangsu, China
  132. Mound 72 - Cahokia: Photo of Mound 72 at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site taken in May 20241050At Cahokia a man and woman were buried on 10,000 shell beads, and the same mound held 53 young women who had been strangledCahokia, near Collinsville, Illinois, USA
  133. Zoe Porphyrogenita: Zoe mosaic Hagia Sophia1041Empress Zoe adopted Michael V as her heir, he exiled her, and the people of Constantinople had him blinded in 1042Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey
  134. Mahmud of Ghazni: Mahmud of Ghazni, Ghaznavid ruler, conquering Qasdar (modern Khuzdar) in India, miniature from the Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh of 1030Britain carried gates from Mahmud of Ghazni's tomb to India in 1842 as the stolen gates of Somnath; they were Afghan cedar and are still in Agra FortGhazni, Afghanistan; Somnath, Gujarat, India; Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
  135. Mahmud of Ghazni: Mahmud of Ghazni, Ghaznavid ruler, conquering Qasdar (modern Khuzdar) in India, miniature from the Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh of 1030Mahmud of Ghazni left his throne to one son; the other blinded him, and the blind brother's son later killed the victorGhazni, Afghanistan
  136. Basil II: Basilios II1025Basil II left 200,000 pounds of gold and no son; his successors spent it, and the gold coin was debased to almost nothing by the 1080sConstantinople (Istanbul), Turkey
  137. Gold dinar of al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, AH 391: Dinar de ouro do califa fatímida Aláqueme Bimar Alá1021Sitt al-Mulk set aside the Fatimid heir after the caliph al-Hakim disappeared in 1021 and put his son al-Zahir on the throneMuqattam hills, Cairo, Egypt
  138. Mahmud I: 24th Sultan and 103rd Calip of Islam, Mahmud I (1696–1754).1020Tradition says Sultan Mahmud's gold for the Shahnameh reached Ferdowsi's town as his coffin left it, and his daughter refused itTus, Khorasan, Iran
  139. Boris Gleb astride: Saints Boris and Gleb astride.1015The Primary Chronicle says Sviatopolk had his brothers Borys and Hlib killed in 1015, and Yaroslav buried them as saints after taking KyivVyshhorod, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
  140. Norwegian Bokmål: Leiv Eirikson oppdager Amerika Leiv Eirikson discovering Americatitle QS:P1476,nb:"Leiv Eirikson oppda: Norwegian Bokmål: Leiv Eirikson oppdager Amerika Leiv Eiri1011The saga says Freydís Eiríksdóttir had her partners killed in Vinland, axed their five women herself and sailed home in their larger shipVinland (Newfoundland, Canada, is the only confirmed Norse site) and Greenland
  141. The Murder of Iraj: This folio from Walters manuscript W.602 illustrates the murder of Iraj.1010The Shahnameh says King Faridun gave Iran to his youngest son, and the two elder sons killed him and sent his head to their fatherIran (the kingdom of Iran in the epic)
  142. Queen Didda coin: Coins of Queen Didda (979 – 1003 AD). The Queen is depicted sitting cross legged on one side and standing on the other.1003Kalhana's chronicle says Queen Didda of Kashmir killed three grandsons on the throne and chose her heir with a heap of applesSrinagar, Kashmir, India
  143. Beowulf Cotton MS Vitellius A XV f. 132r: The first folio of the heroic epic poem Beowulf, written primarily in the West Saxon dialect of Old English. Part of the Cotton MS Vitelli1000Beowulf says a dying king won a dragon's hoard with no son to leave it to, and his people buried the gold with himland of the Geats, Scandinavia (setting)
  144. Ishinpo Nakarai: Ishinpō, Nakarai edition995An emperor gave Japan's oldest medical book to one physician family, and the author's descendants spent centuries trying to get it backKyoto and Tokyo, Japan
  145. Emperor Taizu play Cuju: Song Emperor Taizu, Emperor Taizong, prime minister Zhao Pu and other ministers were playing Cuju976Song records say the founder's mother made him leave the throne to his brother, and on the night he died the messenger fetched the brother instead of the sonKaifeng, Henan, China
  146. Yaropolk murder: Murder of Yaropolk972Sviatoslav split Rus' among three sons, and within eight years one had died in battle with his brother and another was killed on the third brother's ordersKyiv and Ovruch, Ukraine; Novgorod, Russia
  147. Aditya Chola II: Aditya Chola II969The Chola heir Aditya Karikala was murdered, and his brother Rajaraja seized the killers' lands and their relatives' lands years laterUdaiyargudi (Kattumannarkoil), Tamil Nadu, India
  148. The Blackstone: A close up of the Blackstone on the corner of the Kaba944Qarmatian raiders took the Black Stone from Mecca in 930 and held it for about 20 years before dropping it in a mosque in KufaMecca, Saudi Arabia; Hajar (al-Ahsa), Saudi Arabia
  149. Taira no Masakado Kubizuka: 将門塚正面。940Masakado fought his uncles for land, called himself the new emperor, and his head mound in Tokyo moved the Finance MinistryOtemachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan (mound); Kanto region, Japan
  150. Sun Jian and Yuan Shao quarrel over the Heirloom Seal: A Qing Dynasty illustration of a quarrel between Yuan Shao and Sun Jian over the Imperial Seal of China.937China's Heirloom Seal passed to every usurper for 1,100 years, and the last Later Tang emperor carried it into the fireLuoyang, Henan, China
  151. Eirik Blodøks with Gunhild, Egil Skallagrimsson standing: Eric Bloodaxe sitting on his throne with Gunnhild Mother of Kings at his side. The man standing up is Egil Skallagrimsson.935Egil's saga says a queen's men cut the court ropes to stop Egil's inheritance suit, and Egil later won the land by biting a man's throat outGulathing (Gulen), Norway, and Mosfell, Iceland
  152. Hebrew: כֶּתֶר אֲרָם צוֹבָא - Keter Aram TzovaAleppo Codextitle QS:P1476,he:"כֶּתֶר אֲרָם צוֹבָא"label QS:Lhe,"כֶּתֶר אֲ: The Aleppo Codex is a medieval manuscript of the Hebrew Bi930Aleppo's Jews were told their 1,000-year-old Bible was burned in 1947; it reached Israel in 1957, and the community sued for itTiberias; Jerusalem; Cairo; Aleppo, Syria; Jerusalem, Israel
  153. Anonymous-The King of Dongdan Goes Forth: The King of Dongdan Goes Forth (東丹王出行圖), scroll, light colors on silk. 146.8 x 77.3 cm. National Palace Museum, Taibei (國立故宮博物院). The pain926The Liao History says Abaoji's widow cut off her right hand and put it in his coffin instead of following him into deathZuzhou (Bairin Left Banner, Inner Mongolia), China
  154. Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos baptizes Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos: Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos baptizes Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos in 906.912Leo VI married his mistress as his fourth wife to make their son legitimate, and the patriarch who refused was forced outConstantinople (Istanbul), Turkey
  155. Kitano Tenjin Engi Emaki Michizane in exil: 大宰府の配所で恩賜の御衣を取出し嘆く菅原道真（承久本『北野天神縁起絵巻』巻4）903Japan's court exiled Michizane on a rival's charge, then restored his offices and made him Chancellor 90 years after his deathDazaifu, Fukuoka, Japan; Kyoto, Japan
  156. Laguna Copperplate Inscription in the National Museum of Anthropology: The Laguna Copperplate Inscription on display900The Laguna Copperplate of 900 AD cleared the children of Namwaran of a debt in gold, and warned anyone who later said it was unpaidLumban, Laguna, Philippines
  157. Alfred the Great: Alfred the Great, silver penny; struck 875–880 (obverse)899Alfred the Great's will answered his nephews' claim to their father's land, and one nephew rose against Alfred's sonWinchester, England, UK
  158. Map of United Kingdom, marked on the globe879Two detectorists sold a Viking-age hoard with coins showing Alfred the Great beside Ceolwulf II of Mercia, and about 270 coins are still missingEye, near Leominster, Herefordshire, England
  159. Gommateshwara, Shravanabelagola: T, Gommateshwara or Bahubali in Shravanabelagola850Jain tradition says Bahubali beat his elder brother for the kingdom, gave it up, and stood a year in meditation troubled that he stood on his brother's landAyodhya and Podanapur (legendary); Shravanabelagola, Karnataka, India
  160. Map of China, marked on the globe842Tibetan Buddhist histories say a monk shot Emperor Langdarma in 842; his two sons by different queens split the empireLhasa, Tibet, China
  161. Cheonghaejin jangdo: It is also called Janggun Island and is where the main camp of Cheonghaejin, established by Master Jang Bogo during the Unified Silla Dynasty, was located841Jang Bogo ruled the seas between China, Korea and Japan, tried to make his daughter a queen, and was stabbed over wine by an envoy who said he had fled the courtCheonghaejin, Wando, South Korea
  162. Louis the Pious: Ludwik I Pobożny840Louis the Pious's sons deposed him twice and fought a battle at Fontenoy, and the Treaty of Verdun split the empire into the lands that became France and GermanyVerdun, France
  163. Map of Iraq, marked on the globe828The Bukhtishu physicians served the caliphs for six generations: one was sentenced to death, one died in exile, and one great-grandson was disinherited by his stepfatherBaghdad, Iraq
  164. Karlsschrein+Aachen+Wothly: city of Pamplona whose walls collapse814Charlemagne's 811 division left two-thirds of his treasure to 21 archbishoprics and a silver table engraved with Constantinople to St Peter'sAachen, Germany
  165. A member of the Barmakid family offering gifts to the Caliph, From the Akhbar-i Barmakyan, India, Mughal, circa 1595-160: A member of the Barmakid family offering gifts to the Cali803Harun al-Rashid had his vizier Ja'far killed in one night in 803, hung his body in Baghdad, and took the Barmakid fortuneal-Anbar, Iraq; Baghdad, Iraq; Raqqa, Syria
  166. Chaco Canyon Pueblo Bonito digital reconstruction: A digital model of ancient Pueblo Bonito (Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, United States) before it was abandoned.800Pueblo Bonito's richest crypt held one maternal line for 330 years, and scientists sequenced it without asking the Pueblo tribesPueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, USA
  167. Irene of Athens: Irene solidus sb 1599 (obverse)797Empress Irene had her son Constantine VI blinded in the room where he was born and ruled Byzantium alone from 797Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey
  168. Mural room 1 bonampak: scene of a feast, Bonampak, Maya site.790Bonampak's king had his heir presented on the painted walls of his temple, and the heir never ruledBonampak, Chiapas, Mexico
  169. Japan- Nara, Todaiji Shosoin 2011: Japan: the Shōsō-in, imperial treasure house of the Tōdai-ji, in Nara city (Nara prefecture).756An empress gave her dead husband's treasures to a temple in 756, took back two swords, and they were found under the Great BuddhaTōdai-ji, Nara, Japan
  170. Castillo de Huarmey: Grabado del siglo XVII que representa al Castillo de Huarmey (Guarme), costa central del Perú, actual Áncash. Es una antigua construcción preinca, centro admin750Looters had dug all around it, but the Wari tomb at Castillo de Huarmey held 58 noblewomen and their queens, untouchedEl Castillo de Huarmey, Áncash, Peru
  171. Yaxchilan (Maya) Lintel 24 Depicting Autosacrifice of Lady Xoc (9817545535): Other Yaxchilan lintels on my Maya album from National Anthropology Museum, Mexico City. British Museum742Yaxchilan had no recorded king for ten years after Shield Jaguar died, and the son of his foreign second wife took the throneYaxchilan, Chiapas, Mexico
  172. Map of Tajikistan, marked on the globe722The last Sogdian king of Panjikent claimed the throne of Samarkand, was captured on Mount Mugh in 722 and executed; his archive survived in the castle ruinsMount Mugh, Zeravshan valley, Tajikistan
  173. Hoshi Ryokan: Hoshi Ryokan718A Japanese inn passed father to son for 46 generations since 718, and the heir's death put a daughter in line for the first timeAwazu Onsen, Komatsu, Ishikawa, Japan
  174. Justinian II: Justinian ii (2, cropped and askew)711Justinian II lost his throne and his nose in 695, took Constantinople back in 705, and was killed with his son in 711Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey
  175. Wu Zetian: 唐后行從圖 (局部) - 武則天705Wu Zetian deposed one son, had another forced to kill himself, made herself emperor, and was buried as an empress in her husband's sealed tombLuoyang, Henan; buried at Qianling, Shaanxi, China
  176. Maya Jade Mask & Burial Artifacts of Kinich Hanab Pakal, Ruler of Palenque, 615-683 AD: Maya Gallery, INAH, National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City. Complete indexed photo col683Pakal took Palenque's throne at 12 after an enemy sacked the city and the king died, and his son cut three rulers out of the official king listPalenque, Chiapas, Mexico
  177. Husayn Mosque, Karbala, Iraq 1765: A drawing of the Imam Husayn Mosque by German explorer Carsten Niebuhr during his travels to the Middle East. He drew this illustration of the Im680Mu'awiya made his son Yazid heir to the caliphate; Muhammad's grandson al-Husayn refused to swear and was killed at Karbala with most of his family's menKarbala, Iraq
  178. Emperor Tenji: Emperor Tenji (Kanou Tanyuu)671Emperor Tenji passed over his brother for his son in 671, and the brother raised an army, won the throne and had the official history written by his own sonŌtsu, Shiga, Japan; Yoshino, Nara
  179. Byzantine-style coinage of Khosrow II, minted in Syria: Heraclius, with Heraclius Constantine. 610-641. Æ Follis (27mm, 9.91 g, 9h). Contemporary imitation of a Nicomedia mint issu660The exilarch Bostanai married a Persian princess; after his death his other sons claimed her and her children as slavesBabylonia (Iraq)
  180. Uthman Koran Taschkent a: A qur'an from the 9th century. It is an alleged 7th century original of the edition of the third caliph Uthman (see en:Uthman Qur'an) but this is disputed656Tradition says Caliph Uthman was killed while reading this Quran; Russia took it as a trophy, and Lenin gave it backSamarkand and Tashkent, Uzbekistan; St Petersburg, Russia; Ufa, Bashkortostan, R
  181. Wang Xizhi: Portraits of Famous Men: Wang Xizhi649A Tang emperor sent an agent in disguise to take Wang Xizhi's Orchid Pavilion Preface from an old monk, and took it into his tombZhaoling, Liquan County, Shaanxi, China
  182. Irukaansatsuzu: Depiction of the assassination of Soga no Iruka from the Tōnomine Engi Scroll, painted during the Edo period (17-19th century).645Prince Naka no Ōe cut down Soga no Iruka at court in 645, Iruka's father burned the court histories as he died, and a 646 edict abolished private estatesAsuka Itabuki Palace, Asuka, Nara, Japan
  183. Madina: "Madina" and "Majmua aulia ekram," bazaar art, 1950's Source: ebay, Mar. 2012634Full brothers left with nothing asked the caliph Umar to treat their father as a donkey, and he changed his rulingMedina, Saudi Arabia
  184. Map of Saudi Arabia, marked on the globe632Jabir, with only sisters to inherit, asked Muhammad how to leave his estate; the last verse revealed answered him, and the caliph Umar said he never fully understood itBanu Salimah quarter, Medina, Saudi Arabia
  185. Map of Saudi Arabia, marked on the globe632While Muhammad's family prepared his body, a meeting in a Medina courtyard chose Abu Bakr as successor over the people of Medina's own candidateSaqifa of the Banu Sa'ida, Medina, Saudi Arabia
  186. Map of Saudi Arabia, marked on the globe632Fatima asked Abu Bakr for her inheritance from Muhammad; he refused, she did not speak to him again, and caliphs returned and seized the land of Fadak for 200 yearsFadak oasis and Medina, Saudi Arabia
  187. Taq Kasra - 1934: Taq Kasra - 1934628Persia's crown prince overthrew his father to stop a half-brother's succession, executed him, killed his brothers, and died of plague within monthsCtesiphon, Iraq
  188. Standing Portrait of Emperor Tang Taizong (I): This depicts Emperor Taizong of Tang (唐太宗).626Li Shimin killed his two brothers at the Xuanwu Gate, executed their ten sons and had the throne from his father within two monthsXuanwu Gate, Chang'an (Xi'an), Shaanxi, China
  189. Isidor Rabi: II Rabi625Sa'd ibn al-Rabi' was killed at Uhud and his brother took everything; his widow brought their two daughters to Muhammad, and the Koran's inheritance verse followedUhud, Medina, Saudi Arabia
  190. Edith Pretty: Edith Pretty624A 1939 inquest ruled the Sutton Hoo ship burial was Edith Pretty's property, and she gave it to the nationSutton Hoo, Suffolk, England
  191. Spencer Coll. Persian MS. 46 101v Yusha and Musa visit Khidr: Islamic depiction of Yusha (left) and Musa (middle) visiting Khidr (right) from a Persian 1580 manuscript.615The Koran says a servant of God holed a poor family's ship and rebuilt a stranger's wall for free, to save the ship from a king and two orphans' treasure from a townMecca, Saudi Arabia (where the surah was revealed); the sea and the town in the
  192. Al-khidr: en:Al-Khadir (right) and companion en:Zul-Qarnain (en:Alexander the Great) marvel at the sight of a salted fish that comes back to life when touched by the Water of Life.610The Quran says a servant of God rebuilt a wall in an inhospitable town so two orphans could recover their father's buried treasurean unnamed town (Quran 18:77)
  193. Kongo Gumi workers in early 20th century: Kongō Yoshie, the 38th master carpenter of Kongō Gumi and employees.578The Kongō family built temples for 40 generations from 578, and lost the company to debt in 2006Osaka, Japan
  194. Belt Mount: Avar; Belt fitting; Metalwork-Copper567Avar family trees show widows taken by their husband's son or brother, and one male line that vanished from its own cemeteryRákóczifalva, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, Hungary (with three other cemeteries on the
  195. Theodoric the Great: Teodorico re dei Goti (493-526)524Theodoric had Boethius clubbed to death and seized his estates, and the king's daughter gave them back to his sonsPavia (the Calventian estate), Italy
  196. Clovis I: Saint Remy baptise Clovis détail524Clovis's sons sent their mother scissors and a sword, then killed two of their dead brother's sons and split his kingdomParis, France
  197. 001125-TaqKasra-Iraq-IMG 7914-2: Taq Kasra, Madain, Iraq - February 2022 - Photo by: Safa Daneshvar طاق کسری، مدائن،‌عراق - بهمن ۱۴۰۰ - عکس از صفا دانشور520The exilarch Mar Zutra II ruled a Jewish state at Mahoza for seven years and was crucified on its bridge; his son was born the same dayMahoza, near Ctesiphon, Iraq

Ancient world to 500

  1. Sigiriya Luftbild (29781064900): Sigiriya Luftbild473The Culavamsa says Kassapa walled up his father alive after the king showed him a reservoir as his only treasureAnuradhapura and Kala Wewa, Sri Lanka
  2. Reconstitution de la Dame de Cao (Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Paris): Reconstitution en taille réelle de la Dame de Cao datation de la tombe : 450 ap. J.-C. Culture Moch450The Lady of Cao was buried with war clubs and a crown, the first Moche woman found with a ruler's emblems, with a teenage girl beside herHuaca Cao Viejo, El Brujo, Magdalena de Cao, La Libertad, Peru
  3. Melania the Younger: Melania the Younger, nun of Rome (Menologion of Basil II)439Melania the Younger sold estates across the Roman West and freed 8,000 slaves, and a later account says opponents tried to have her estates seizedRome, Italy; Jerusalem
  4. Beit Shearim - Catacomb no. 20: Necropolis at Beit Shearim, Catacomb no. 20425Rome stripped the last patriarch of the house of Hillel, let no son succeed him, and took the patriarch's tax for the imperial treasuryLand of Israel (Roman Palestine)
  5. Siberian Ice Maiden inside her wooden sarcophagus (reconstruction, Anokhin Museum): Siberian Ice Maiden inside her wooden sarcophagus (reconstruction, Anokhin Museum)400Archaeologists flew the Ukok princess to Novosibirsk in 1993, the Altai people blamed her removal for an earthquake, and she came home to a museum mausoleum in 2012Ukok Plateau, Altai Republic, Russia
  6. Map of China, marked on the globe314A Sogdian merchant's wife left in Dunhuang wrote that she would rather be a dog's wife than his; her daughter added that the family's debts had made them servantsDunhuang, Gansu, China
  7. Harischandra in Distress, having lost his kingdom and all the wealth parting with his only son in an auction: Harishchandra lost his kingdom and all the wealth parting with his onl300The Markandeya Purana says King Harishchandra gave the whole earth to a Brahmin sage, then sold his wife, his son and himself to pay the feeAyodhya and Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh, India
  8. Antoninian Vaballathus Augustus: Vabalathus. Usurper, AD 272. Antoninianus 3.82 g. Antioch. March-May AD 272. IM C VHABALATHVS AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right. VENVS267Palmyra's ruler and his heir were murdered in 267, and his widow Zenobia ruled for her own son; one Roman history says she was in on the plotEmesa (Homs), Syria
  9. Tomb of the Lord of Sipan: Tomb of the Lord of Sipan250Looters emptied a Moche tomb at Sipán in 1987, police shot their leader, and the archaeologist called in found the Lord of Sipán untouched below itHuaca Rajada, Sipán, Lambayeque, Peru
  10. Bavli Kiddushin Munich 95: העמוד הראשון של מסכת קידושין בכתב יד מינכן 95220The Talmud says a dying man left everything to his one true son out of ten, and a rabbi found him by telling the sons to beat their father's graveLand of Israel (Tiberias tradition)
  11. Septimius Severus: Septimius Severus busto-Musei Capitolini211Severus left Rome to two sons, their mother stopped them dividing the empire, and Caracalla had his brother killed in her armsEboracum (York), England; Palatine, Rome, Italy
  12. HuaTuo: Portrait of the physician Hua Tuo from a Qing Dynasty edition of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.208Cao Cao had his physician Hua Tuo put to death, and Hua Tuo burned his book of methods in prison when the jailer would not take itXu (Xuchang), Henan, China
  13. Aureus Didius Iulianus: Didius Julianus, 193, Aureus, Rome, AV 7.25 g. IMP CAES M DID – IVLIAN AVG Laureate head r. Rev. RECTOR – ORBIS Julianus standing l., holding globe and roll193The Praetorian Guard sold the Roman Empire to Didius Julianus for 25,000 sesterces a soldier, and he lasted 66 daysRome, Italy
  14. Aureus Didius Iulianus: Didius Julianus, 193, Aureus, Rome, AV 7.25 g. IMP CAES M DID – IVLIAN AVG Laureate head r. Rev. RECTOR – ORBIS Julianus standing l., holding globe and roll193The praetorian guard killed the emperor Pertinax and sold the empire to the highest bidder for 25,000 sesterces a soldierPraetorian camp, Rome, Italy
  15. The full album is known as Gathering Gems of Beauty (畫麗珠萃秀).: This painting depicts Cai Wenji (蔡文姬).192The Hou Han Shu says Cai Yong begged to be mutilated so he could finish his history, died in prison, and his ransomed daughter rewrote 400 of his 4,000 books from memoryChang'an (Xi'an), China
  16. 2017-08-03 August 2017 in Athens 51: August 2017 in Athens177A father found a treasure in his Athens house and willed every citizen a mina a year; his son paid it by collecting their grandfathers' debtsAthens and Marathon, Greece
  17. Herodes Atticus: Herodes Atticus - bust - Athens Museum177Herodes Atticus paid out his father's legacy to Athens by deducting debts, gave his son only his mother's property, and the Athenians took his body from MarathonMarathon and Athens, Greece
  18. Apuleius: Ancient philosopher (probably Apuleius or Lactantius) on late antique ceiling painting from Trier158Apuleius married a rich widow, her family charged him with winning her by magic, and he read her will aloud in court to show her son was the heirOea (Tripoli) and Sabratha, Libya
  19. Hadrian: München SMAEK 2019-03-23n136Hadrian forced his 90-year-old brother-in-law and the man's 18-year-old grandson to die, and the old man prayed Hadrian would long for death and not be able to dieRome, Italy
  20. Babatha: Registration document for four date orchards owned by en:Babatha, a 2nd century Jewish woman. One of the 35 separate papyrus scrolls belonging to her that were found in th132Babatha hid her lawsuits over her son's guardianship and her dead husband's orchards in a cave during the Bar Kokhba revoltCave of Letters, Nahal Hever, Judean Desert
  21. Marcus Aurelius: Portrait of Emperor Marcus Aurelius (type III). Roman artwork of the Antonine period. Discovered at Acqua Traversa, near Rome, 1674.108An orator ruined two brothers' father, made them his heirs, and the fortune passed down a chain of adoptions to Marcus Aurelius's motherRome, Italy
  22. Decebal suicide: The suicide of the Dacian King Decebal on the Trajan Column106Cassius Dio says Dacia's king buried his gold under a diverted river and killed the diggers, and a companion told the Romans where it wasSarmizegetusa Regia, Hunedoara County, Romania
  23. Pliny the Younger: 'Pliny the Younger and His Mother at Miseno'104Pliny says an 80-year-old father disinherited his daughter 11 days after remarrying, and 180 judges in four panels split two against twoRome, Italy
  24. Pliny the Younger - Como - Duomo - 4: Statue of Plinius Minor on the Duomo (Como)100Pliny tells of an Athens house let cheap because of its ghost; the philosopher who took it found a chained skeleton in the yardAthens, Greece
  25. Ban Gu: Ban Gu92Ban Gu died in a magistrate's prison with the Book of Han unfinished, and the emperor ordered his sister Ban Zhao to complete itLuoyang, China
  26. Santa Giustina (Padua) - Chapel of Saint Luke - Tomb of Luke the Evangelist (front): Churche Saint Justina of Padua in Italy. Chapel of Luke the Evangelist. Work of the Pisano-Vene80Christian tradition says the body of Luke "the beloved physician" was moved from Thebes to Constantinople and Padua, and an emperor took the head to PragueThebes, Greece; Padua, Italy; Prague, Czech Republic
  27. Arch of Titus Menorah: This photograph shows a modern replica of the Arch of Titus relief depicting the spoils of the Jerusalem Temple, including the temple menorah, carried in a t70Rome carried the Temple treasures in triumph, the Vandals took them to Carthage, and Procopius says Justinian sent them to Jerusalem because a Jew warned they brought down every palace that held themJerusalem; Rome, Italy; Carthage (Tunis), Tunisia; Constantinople (Istanbul), Tu
  28. 20171212 130500-rachel-wife-of-rabbi-akiva-grave-tverya: Tomb of Rachel in Tiberias70The Talmud says Kalba Savua disinherited his daughter for marrying the shepherd Akiva, then gave him half his fortuneJerusalem
  29. Galba: Gold Aureus of Galba (MANTIS)69A senator was accused of biting the severed head of Galba's heir, and years later he swore on his son's life to get into the heir's widow's willRome, Italy
  30. Petronius Arbiter: (Téléversé avec Commonist) Nouvelle version plus claire.66Petronius's will listed Nero's sex partners by name, and Pliny says he smashed a 300,000-sesterce basin to keep it from NeroCumae, Campania, Italy
  31. Seneca the Younger: Duble herma of Socrates and Seneca Antikensammlung Berlin 0765Seneca offered Nero his 300-million-sesterce fortune, was refused, and three years later was ordered to die and denied the tablets to write his willRome, Italy
  32. Boudica statue, Westminster (8433726848): Boudica statue, Westminster60King Prasutagus left half his kingdom to Nero to protect his daughters, and Tacitus says Roman officers flogged his widow Boudica and raped his daughtersTerritory of the Iceni (Norfolk), England
  33. Claudius: Claudius crop54Claudius's will was never read in public, and Nero poisoned Claudius's son Britannicus four months after taking the thronePalatine, Rome, Italy
  34. Pliny the Younger: 'Pliny the Younger and His Mother at Miseno'54Pliny says six men owned half of Roman Africa when Nero had them killed, and Suetonius says Nero seized the estates of anyone whose will left him too littleRome, Italy; Africa Proconsularis (Tunisia)
  35. Horti Lamiani (2006-2009): Planietria ricostruttiva degli Horti Lamiani41Suetonius says Caligula ignored Tiberius's will, killed his co-heir, and haunted the gardens he inherited until his sisters reburied himHorti Lamiani, Esquiline Hill, Rome, Italy
  36. Cleopatra: Kleopatra-VII.-Altes-Museum-Berlin140Cleopatra's grandson Ptolemy inherited Mauretania from his father Juba, and Caligula summoned him to Rome and had him killedRome, Italy; kingdom of Mauretania (Algeria and Morocco)
  37. Valles típicos de Obejo, Sierra Morena: valles típicos de Sierra Morena. Obejo33Tacitus says Tiberius had Spain's richest man thrown from the Tarpeian Rock and kept his gold and copper mines for himselfRome, Italy; mines in Hispania (Spain)
  38. Heiliger Rock Trier Wallfahrt 1891 (cropped): Detail of a drawing of the exhibition of the Seamless Robe of Jesus in Trier (Germany) in 1844 and 1891.30The Gospel of John says soldiers diced for the executed Jesus's seamless robe, and three churches claim to have itJerusalem; Trier, Germany; Argenteuil, France; Mtskheta, Georgia
  39. Luke Tittensor: Luke Tittensor in 201430Luke's parable of the prodigal son: a younger son took his inheritance while his father lived, spent it, came home, and the elder son objectedJudea (Luke 15 names no place)
  40. Livia: (Toulouse) Livie Musée Saint-Raymond Ra 34029Livia left Galba 50 million sesterces in figures, and her son Tiberius read it as 500,000 and paid nothingRome, Italy
  41. Suetonius: Suetonius etching (cropped)25Suetonius says Tiberius frightened a man worth 400 million sesterces into suicide to inherit, and Caligula sent poisoned sweets to men who named him heirRome, Italy
  42. Wang Mang(Emperor of the Xin dynasty): Wang Mang, courtesy name Jujun, officially titled the Shijianguo Emperor, was the founder and the only emperor of the short-lived Xin dynasty23The Han shu records that Wang Mang took the throne from a Han child, declared all land the "king's fields", repealed it three years later, and his head was kept for 272 yearsChang'an (Xi'an), Shaanxi, China
  43. Augustus: Augustus of Prima Porta14Augustus's will, read to the Senate by the Vestal Virgins, barred his daughter and granddaughter from his tombNola, Campania, Italy
  44. Noin-Ula carpet, fighting sceneNoin-Ula carpet, fighting scene: Noin-Ula carpet, fighting scene1On the Xiongnu frontier the great tombs were built for women, each flanked by commoner men in simple gravesTakhiltyn Khotgor, Mankhan, Khovd Province, Mongolia
  45. Tillya Tepe crown: Tillya Tepe crown www.flickr.com/photos/h_sinica/49049536268 www.flickr.com/photos/h_sinica/49049537778/in/album-72157... www.flickr.com/photos/h_sinica/490500401A nomad chief and five women were buried with 20,000 gold objects in Afghanistan; keyholders hid the hoard for 14 years, and in 2021 it went out of sight againTillya Tepe, near Sheberghan, Jowzjan, Afghanistan; Kabul
  46. Phraataces and Musa: Coin of Phraataces and Musa from Parthia2 BCEA slave woman sent from Rome persuaded the Parthian king to send his four sons to Rome, then her son killed him and married herParthian Empire (Iran and Iraq)
  47. 2010-06-21 06-37-33 Israel Herodium JH (52775611124): Herodium - an ancient Jewish fortress and town author: Jan Helebrant location: West Bank, Israel <a href="http://www.juhele4 BCEHerod the Great executed three sons, changed his will in his last days, and died five days after the last execution; Augustus split his kingdom among the survivorsJericho; buried at Herodium, West Bank
  48. Virgil: Virgil mosaic in the Bardo National Museum (Tunis) (12241228546)19 BCEVirgil asked for the Aeneid to be burned, and Augustus ordered it publishedBrundisium (Brindisi)
  49. Arch of Augustus Rimini 1916: Rimini's Arch of Augustus after the 1916 earthquake, in circa 191627 BCESepticia married an old man to spite her sons and left them nothing, and Augustus gave them her estateAriminum (Rimini), Italy
  50. Cleopatra: Kleopatra-VII.-Altes-Museum-Berlin130 BCECleopatra filled her tomb with treasure and torchwood so Octavian could not take it from her, and the tomb has never been foundAlexandria, Egypt
  51. The Banquet of Cleopatra title QS:P1476,en:"The Banquet of Cleopatra "label QS:Len,"The Banquet of Cleopatra "label QS:L: Cleopatra puts the pearl in the wine, family portrait feat30 BCEPliny says Cleopatra drank one of the two greatest pearls she inherited from eastern kings, and Rome cut the other in half for a statue of VenusAlexandria, Egypt; Rome, Italy
  52. Map of Italy, marked on the globe30 BCEHorace's Tiresias tells Ulysses to court rich old men's wills, and Petronius's Eumolpus wills his body to be eaten by his heirsCroton (Crotone), Italy (setting of the Satyricon episode)
  53. Cleopatra: Kleopatra-VII.-Altes-Museum-Berlin130 BCEMark Antony gave Cleopatra's children kingdoms in 34 BC, and after 30 BC Octavian killed Caesarion and gave the others to his sister to raiseAlexandria, Egypt
  54. Map of Turkey, marked on the globe41 BCECleopatra's sister Arsinoe IV fought Caesar, walked in chains in his triumph and was killed at a temple on Antony's orders, and the skeleton said to be hers was a boy'sEphesus (near Selçuk, Turkey)
  55. Cicero: Bust of Cicero (1st-cent. BC) - Palazzo Nuovo - Musei Capitolini - Rome 201643 BCEClodius burned Cicero's house and built a shrine to Liberty on the site, and Cicero's son was consul the year Antony's statues came downPalatine, Rome, Italy
  56. Hortensia (orator): Woodcut illustration of Hortensia pleading her case before the triumvirs - Penn Provenance Project43 BCERome's triumvirs ordered the 1,400 richest women to value their property for a war tax, and Hortensia's speech cut the list to 400Rome, Italy
  57. Bust of Cicero (1st-cent. BC) - Palazzo Nuovo - Musei Capitolini - Rome 2016: Palazzo Nuovo - Capitoline Museums - Rome43 BCEOctavian traded Cicero to Antony for the proscription list, and Antony's wife pierced the dead orator's tongue with her hairpinsnear Formiae (Formia), Italy
  58. Julius Caesar: Retrato de Julio César (26724093101) (cropped)44 BCEJulius Caesar's will, opened after his murder, made Octavian his son and gave every Roman 300 sestercesCuria of Pompey, Rome
  59. Denarius Sextus Pompeius-Scilla: Sextus Pompeius. 42-40 BC. AR Denarius (3.50 gm). MAG PIVS IMP ITER, galley adorned with aquila, sceptre and trident before the Colonna Rhegina, de48 BCEPompey's son held the sea, feasted Antony aboard his flagship, called it the only family house Antony had left him, and refused to cut the cablesMisenum (Miseno), Italy
  60. Laudatio Turiae col2 Terme: So-called “Laudatio Turiæ”, col.2 (2.2a to 2.11a). Latin inscription: “[varia et ampla subsi]dia fugae meae praestitisti ornamentis / [me instruxisti] c49 BCEA Roman husband's funeral inscription says relatives tried to void his wife's father's will after her parents were murdered, and she stopped themRome, Italy
  61. Cato Volubilis bronze bust: Bronze bust of Cato the Younger from the Archaeological Museum of Rabat, Morocco. Found in the House of Venus, Volubilis.50 BCECato gave his pregnant wife Marcia to the orator Hortensius, and took her back as Hortensius's rich widowRome, Italy
  62. Ptolemy XII Auletes: Ptolemy XII Auletes Louvre Ma344951 BCEPtolemy XII's will named Cleopatra VII and Ptolemy XIII joint heirs under Roman protection, and the heirs went to warAlexandria, Egypt
  63. Berenice IV of Egypt: Berenice IV, phraraoh of Egypt55 BCEBerenice IV took her father's throne, had one husband strangled within days, and was executed when Rome restored her father for 10,000 talentsAlexandria, Egypt
  64. Map of China, marked on the globe59 BCELiu He was emperor for 27 days, was removed for 1,127 offences, and his gold-filled tomb was found after tomb robbers dug into itHaihun (Nanchang), Jiangxi, China
  65. Nicomedes IV of Bithynia: Bithynia - king Nikomedes IV - 94-74 BC - silver tetradrachm - head of Nikomedes IV - Zeus - München SMS 0174 BCENicomedes IV left Bithynia to Rome, Mithridates said the queen had borne him a son, and Mithridates invadedNicomedia (İzmit), Turkey
  66. M. Tullius Cicero, Capitoline Museum, Rome: Bust of Cicero, Musei Capitolini, Rome, Half of 1st century AD75 BCEPublius Annius Asellus left everything to his only daughter, and the praetor Verres wrote an edict to take it from herRome, Italy
  67. Ptolemy X Alexander Tetradrachm Sear7939: Egypt, Ptolemaiovské království (Alexandrie) AR Tetradrachm RY 20 (95/4 př. n. l.) - Ptolemaios X Alexander (106-88 př. n. l.)80 BCESulla sent Ptolemy XI to marry Queen Berenice III, he had her killed within three weeks, the Alexandrians killed him, and Rome produced a will leaving Egypt to RomeAlexandria, Egypt
  68. M. Tullius Cicero, Capitoline Museum, Rome: Bust of Cicero, Musei Capitolini, Rome, Half of 1st century AD81 BCESulla's freedman bought a murdered man's estate of 6 million sesterces for 2,000, and the son was charged with killing his fatherRome and Ameria (Amelia, Umbria), Italy
  69. Gou yi fu ren: portrait of Lady Gouyi (Zhao Jieyu) from the Qing dynasty book Bai mei xin yong87 BCEEmperor Wu chose his youngest son as heir and had the boy's mother put to death, according to a supplement to the ShijiGanquan Palace (Yunyang, Shaanxi), China
  70. Trajan s column detail: Trajan s column detail91 BCEA Roman soldier came home from war to find that his father, told he was dead, had willed the family estate to othersRome, Italy
  71. Remains of Basilica Julia: The remains of Basilica Julia at the Forum Romanum in Italy.93 BCEA Roman wrote his will for a son who was never born, and Rome's two leading lawyers fought over whether the words or the intention ruledRome, Italy
  72. Ptolemy Apion MAN Napoli Inv5598: Herm head with corkscrew curls that may be a 18th-century restoration, traditionally identified as Ptolemy Apion, king of Cyrene, or Berenice.96 BCEPtolemy VIII willed Cyrene to Rome in 155 BC, and his son Ptolemy Apion's will handed it over in 96 BCCyrene (Shahat), Libya
  73. Ptolemy VIII Physcon: Head of Ptolemy VIII130 BCEPtolemy VIII married his sister Cleopatra II and then her daughter, and when his sister held Alexandria against him he sent her their son's head, hands and feetAlexandria, Egypt, and Cyprus
  74. Tiberius Gracchus: Eugene Guillaume - the Gracchi (cropped)133 BCETiberius Gracchus tried to enforce a 500-iugera cap on public land, senators clubbed him to death, and his brother's head was filled with lead for a rewardRome, Italy
  75. Attalus III: Attalid portrait at the Antikensammlung Berlin133 BCEKing Attalus III left his kingdom to Rome in his will, and a man claiming to be a royal bastard fought Rome for itPergamon, Asia Minor (modern Turkey)
  76. The full album is known as Gathering Gems of Beauty (畫麗珠萃秀).: This painting depicts Zhuo Wenjun (卓文君).140 BCEAn iron magnate swore his widowed daughter would get not one coin after she eloped, then gave her 100 servants and a million cash when she sold wine in his townLinqiong (Qionglai), Sichuan, China
  77. S-93 W Han banliang, Wendi, 179-157 BC, 24mm: The front and reverse sides of a metal coin, 24 mm in diameter, issued during the reign of Emperor Wen (r. 180–157 BCE) of the early H157 BCEEmperor Wen gave his favourite a copper mountain and the right to mint coins; the next emperor took everything, and he died owning nothingYandao, Shu (Ya'an, Sichuan), and Chang'an (Xi'an), China
  78. The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple.: The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple.175 BCESecond Maccabees says a king's minister came to seize the widows' and orphans' deposits in the Jerusalem Temple; a stele pieced together in 2005 and 2006 names the minister and a royal order on temple fundsJerusalem; Maresha, Israel; Antioch, Turkey
  79. Li Shiji: Chinese: 《唐名臣像-李英公》label QS:Lzh,"唐名臣像-李英公"176 BCEThe Shiji says a physician with five daughters and no son was sentenced to mutilation, and his youngest daughter's petition ended the punishmentChang'an (Xi'an), Shaanxi, China
  80. Ptolemy VI Philometor: Ring with the engraved portrait of Ptolemy VI Philometor.204 BCECourtiers hid Ptolemy IV's death, killed his queen, read out a will naming themselves regents, and the Alexandrian crowd killed them and their familyAlexandria, Egypt
  81. Rosetta Stone, British Museum: Rosetta Stone, British Museum204 BCEFrench soldiers found the Rosetta Stone in 1799, General Menou claimed it as his own, and Britain took it under the 1801 surrenderRashid (Rosetta), Egypt, and London, England
  82. BronzePlaque-EdictOfSecondEmperor-Qin-ROM-May8-08: Small bronze plaque containing an edict from the second emperor of the Qin dynasty. 209 BC. Cat # 931.13.195 Bishop C. White Coll210 BCEThe Shiji says the First Emperor's chancellor and his seal-keeper forged his last letter, and his eldest son killed himself on the forged orderShaqiu (Guangzong, Hebei), China
  83. “吕不韦”铜戈-战国晚期秦王政九年（前238）-青川县文物管理所藏 2024-10-31: ​“吕不韦”铜戈-战国晚期秦王政九年（前238）-青川县文物管理所藏235 BCESima Qian writes that a merchant bought a hostage prince the throne of Qin, then drank poison when the new king turned on himHandan, Hebei, and Xianyang, Shaanxi, China
  84. Kings Agis and Cleomenes: Engraving which accompanied Plutarch's Lives of Agis IV and Cleomenes III, in volume 4 of the John Dryden edition published 1711. The speech scroll in the241 BCESpartan king Agis IV gave his estate and 600 talents to a land division, and was strangled with his mother and grandmother before any land was dividedSparta, Laconia, Greece
  85. Arsinoe II: ArsinoeII269 BCEArsinoe II married her half-brother Ptolemy Keraunos to protect her sons, he had two of them killed in her arms, and she then married her full brotherCassandreia (Kassandreia, Greece) and Alexandria, Egypt
  86. Epicurus: Epikouros BM 1843270 BCEEpicurus willed his Garden to his school for ever, and two centuries later a Roman exile owned the ruins of his house and planned to pull it downAthens, Greece
  87. Map of Greece, marked on the globe287 BCETheophrastus left the Lyceum garden to ten men in common, Athens briefly banned unlicensed schools on pain of death, and Sulla's army wrecked the siteAthens, Greece
  88. French: Les Restes de Phocion title QS:P1476,fr:"Les Restes de Phocion "label QS:Lfr,"Les Restes de Phocion ": Esquisse de Charles Meynier pour le tableau "Les Cendres de Phocion" 318 BCEAthens executed Phocion at about 80, banned his burial in Attica, and Plutarch says his wife buried his bones under her hearthAthens, Greece; burned beyond Eleusis near Megara, Greece
  89. Aristotle: Aristotle Altemps Inv8575322 BCEAristotle's heirs hid his library in a trench to keep it from the kings of Pergamum, and Sulla carried it to RomeChalcis, Greece; Scepsis, Troad (Turkey); Athens and Rome
  90. AI illustration: Ptolemy's cavalry turn Alexander the Great's funeral carriage toward Egypt, 321 BC323 BCEAlexander the Great left his empire "to the strongest", and his general Ptolemy hijacked his bodyBabylon
  91. Alexander Pope: Alexander Pope title QS:P1476,en:"Alexander Pope "label QS:Len,"Alexander Pope "335 BCEAlexander razed Thebes and sold its people into slavery, but spared the house and descendants of the poet PindarThebes (Thiva), Greece
  92. Saqqara, Sarcophagus of Nectanebo II (never used), British Museum: Saqqara, Sarcophagus of Nectanebo II (never used since he left it when he fled south), British Museum343 BCEThe last native pharaoh fled the Persians and never used his sarcophagus, and the British took it from Alexandria in 1801 as the tomb of AlexanderAlexandria, Egypt, and London, England
  93. Demosthenes orator Louvre: Bust of the Greek orator Demosthenes. Marble, Roman artwork, inspired from a bronze statue by Polyeuctos (ca. 280 BC). Found in Italy.345 BCEA merchant died owing money on a Black Sea wine voyage, and his brother, a pupil of Isocrates, told the Athenian court he was not the heirPiraeus, Athens, Greece
  94. Plato: Plato Silanion Musei Capitolini MC1377347 BCEPlato's will left two farms and three minae to a boy, the Academy went to his nephew, and the nephew was carried to class paralysed until he took his own lifeAthens, Greece
  95. AGMA Kleroterion: Kleroterion. This device was used for the jury selection system in Athens. Bronze identification tickets were inserted to indicate eligible jurors who were also d350 BCEClaimants to Hagnias's estate in Athens produced a forged will, lost, and then took the estate by three or four votesAthens, Greece
  96. Map of Greece, marked on the globe370 BCEThe freed-slave banker Pasion willed his widow and his bank to his own freed slave Phormio; his son Apollodorus sued and was finedAthens and Piraeus, Greece
  97. Piraeus: Piraeus állomás376 BCEA 96-year-old Athenian moved into his brothel, tried to make a former prostitute's son his heir, and lay dead for two days while his house was emptiedAthens and Piraeus, Greece
  98. Demosthenes: Demostheneslabel QS:Lfr,"Démosthène"label QS:Len,"Demosthenes"376 BCEDemosthenes's guardians handed back the house, 14 slaves and 30 minae of a 14-talent estate, and he sued them at 20Athens, Greece
  99. The disrobing of Draupadi title QS:P1476,en:"The disrobing of Draupadi "label QS:Len,"The disrobing of Draupadi ": The disrobing of Draupadi, a miniature of the Basohli School400 BCEThe Mahabharata says the blind elder brother lost the throne, and his cousin staked the kingdom, his brothers, himself and his wife at diceHastinapura and Kurukshetra, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, India
  100. Bheeshma oathlabel QS:Len,"Bheeshma oath"label QS:Lml,"ഭീഷ്മശപഥം": Bhishma taking oath, on abdicating his right to the throne, in order to get the fisher girl married to his father400 BCEThe Mahabharata says Bhishma gave up the Kuru throne and vowed never to marry so his father could wed, and the line ran out of heirsHastinapura, Uttar Pradesh, India
  101. Emperor Yayati gray: A painting of Yayati400 BCEThe Mahabharata says King Yayati passed over four sons who refused to take his old age, and made the youngest his heirKingdom of the Lunar dynasty (legendary), northern India
  102. Battle of Cunaxa: Battle of Cunaxa401 BCECyrus the Younger's mother argued he was born to a reigning king; his elder brother got the throne, killed him at Cunaxa and cut off his head and handCunaxa, near Babylon, Iraq
  103. Map of Greece, marked on the globe404 BCEAthens's Thirty Tyrants arrested rich foreign residents for their money, took Polemarchus's 700 shields and 120 slaves, and made him drink hemlockAthens and Piraeus, Greece
  104. Sophocles: Sophocles pushkin406 BCECicero says Sophocles' son sued to take his estate on the ground that he was senile, and Sophocles read his new play to the courtAthens, Greece
  105. Nicias: Nicias, p 105 (World's Famous Orations Vol 1)413 BCENicias rented 1,000 slaves into Athens's silver mines, Syracuse executed him, the Thirty killed his son, and his nephew went to court to keep the family landSyracuse, Sicily, Italy; Athens, Greece
  106. Bust Alcibiades Musei Capitolini MC1160: So-called “Alcibiades”, ideal male portrait. Roman copy after a Greek original of the Late Classical period; the hermaic pillar and the ins415 BCEAthens condemned Alcibiades, auctioned his property item by item on marble slabs, ordered priests to curse him, then gave the property backAthens, Greece
  107. AI illustration: An eagle drops a tortoise over the coast at Gela, Sicily, 456 BC456 BCELegend: Aeschylus died at Gela in 456 or 455 BC when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his headGela, Sicily
  108. CHURCH(1893) p115 THEMISTOCLES: CHURCH(1893) p115 THEMISTOCLES459 BCEAthens condemned Themistocles for treason, Persia gave him three cities, and his relatives buried his bones in Attica in secretMagnesia on the Maeander, Turkey; Attica, Greece
  109. Haman Begging the Mercy of Esther: Haman Begging the Mercy of Esther474 BCEThe Book of Esther says the king hanged Haman on his own gallows and gave his house to Queen Esther the same daySusa (Shush), Iran
  110. Vix krater: Châtillon-sur-Seine480 BCEThe Vix grave held the largest metal vessel of the ancient world, buried with a woman, and some scholars questioned whether the body was a woman'sVix, at the foot of Mont Lassois, Côte-d'Or, France
  111. Piprawa vase with relics of the Buddha inscription: Piprawa vase with relics of the Buddha inscription480 BCEThe Pali canon says eight peoples demanded the Buddha's ashes; one share, found in 1898, was pulled from auction in 2025Kusinara (Kushinagar), Uttar Pradesh, India; Piprahwa, Uttar Pradesh
  112. Darius the Great: Darius I486 BCEDarius passed over his eldest son for Xerxes, grandson of Cyrus, on an argument supplied by an exiled Spartan kingSusa (Shush) and Persepolis, Iran
  113. Pythagoras: Pythagoras in the Roman Forumlabel QS:Len,"Pythagoras in the Roman Forum"label QS:Lhu,"Püthagorasz a római Fórumon"490 BCEPythagoras's daughter Damo would not sell his writings for any price, and Plato is said to have paid 100 minae for Pythagorean booksCroton and Metapontum, Italy
  114. Cuneiform tablet: account settlement, Egibi archive: Babylonian; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed508 BCEA Babylonian business house split its father's estate on one clay tablet, and its records stop when Babylon revolted against XerxesBabylon and Borsippa, Iraq
  115. Cambyses II: Stela Cambyses Apis closeup522 BCECambyses killed his brother Bardiya in secret; a man ruled Persia under the dead brother's name until Darius killed him and took the throneSikayauvatiš, Nisaya, Media, Iran; inscription at Behistun, Kermanshah, Iran
  116. Sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II: Sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II525 BCEA boy king of Sidon cursed anyone who moved his coffin; in 1855 it was dug up, fought over and shipped to the LouvreSidon, Lebanon
  117. Keltenmuseum Hochdorf 01: Celt's museum Hochdorf in Eberdingen, administrative district Ludwigsburg, Germany.530 BCEDNA showed the Celtic prince of Hochdorf was the uncle of the prince of Asperg, through his sister, and power passed down the mother's lineEberdingen-Hochdorf and Asperg-Grafenbühl, Ludwigsburg district, Baden-Württembe
  118. Tomb of Cyrus the Great: This is a photo of a monument in Iran identified by the ID530 BCEAlexander found Cyrus the Great's tomb robbed and the body thrown out, and tortured its hereditary guards, who named no onePasargadae, Fars province, Iran
  119. Belshazzar's Feast label QS:Lit,"Il festino di Baldassarre" label QS:Lfr,"Le Festin de Balthazar" label QS:Lpl,"Uczta Ba: Belshazzar's Feast label QS:Lit,"Il festino di Baldassarre539 BCEBabylon took the Temple vessels; Daniel says Belshazzar drank from them the night he was killed, and Ezra says Cyrus returned 5,400Jerusalem; Babylon (near Hillah), Iraq
  120. Zi Chan: Zi Chan (子產, 子产), also known as Gongsun Qiao (died 522 BC), was the most outstanding statesman of the State of Zheng in ancient China during the Spring and Autumn Period. 543 BCEZheng's minister was killed in the sheep market, his rivals died on the days his ghost named, and Zichan gave his son office to stop the hauntingXinzheng, capital of the state of Zheng, Henan, China
  121. L'Orphelin de la Maison de Tchao: This is a page of Joseph Henri Marie de Prémare's L'Orphelin de la Maison de Tchao, as published in Jean-Baptiste Du Halde's Description Géographi583 BCEThe Zuo zhuan and the Shiji give two accounts of how Jin destroyed the Zhao clan and gave its lands back to the one surviving boyState of Jin, Shanxi, China
  122. Periander Pio-Clementino Inv276: Bust of Periander bearing the inscription “Periander, son of Cypselus, Corinthian”. Marble, Roman copy after a Greek original from the 4th century.587 BCEHerodotus says Periander killed his wife, lost his heir over it, and stripped the women of Corinth to get her ghost to say where a deposit wasCorinth, Greece; Corcyra (Corfu), Greece
  123. Solon: Ignoto, c.d. solone, replica del 90 dc ca da orig. greco del 110 ac. ca, 6143594 BCEPlutarch says Solon's friends borrowed to buy estates before his debt cancellation, and Solon cleared his name by writing off five talents owed to himAthens, Greece
  124. Shinpukuji-bon Kojiki (真福寺本古事記): Page from a facsimile of the 14th century Shinpukuji manuscript (真福寺本) of the Kojiki published in 1924-1925.660 BCEThe Kojiki says the Sun Goddess sent her grandson to rule Japan with a mirror, a jewel and a sword, and the law still passes them with the throneIse Grand Shrine, Mie, Japan; Atsuta Shrine, Nagoya; Imperial Palace, Tokyo
  125. Sennacherib: Sanherib-tr-4271681 BCESennacherib named his younger son Esarhaddon heir; his elder sons killed him, and Esarhaddon then bound the empire by oath to his own chosen heirNineveh (Mosul), Iraq
  126. Hezekiah, King of Judah: Drawing; Drawings687 BCEThe Bible says King Hezekiah showed Babylon's envoys his treasury, and Isaiah told him his heirs would lose it; Babylonian tablets record rations for a captive king of JudahJerusalem, Israel; Babylon, Iraq
  127. Bian Zhongyun: Bian zhongyun690 BCEThe Han Feizi says two kings cut off Bian He's feet for calling a stone jade, and the Shiji says Qin later offered 15 cities for the discState of Chu, Hubei, China; Handan (Zhao), Hebei, China
  128. Geoffrey Leicester Gray: Geoffrey Leicester Gray, British colonial administrator and his wife in 1953750 BCEGeoffrey of Monmouth says King Leir split Britain between two flattering daughters, who took all of it and cut his household from 60 knights to oneLeicester, England
  129. Alone, Bharat worships the sandals: Bharat reverently accepts Rama's sandal, which he will place on the throne during his regency (bazaar art, mid-1900's); *another view of the sce750 BCEThe Ramayana says a queen used two old promises to disinherit the heir, and his brother ruled for 14 years in the name of his sandalsAyodhya and Nandigrama, Uttar Pradesh, India
  130. Isaac blesses Jacob-Lorenzo Ghiberti-The Gates of Paradise-Replica-Neues Museum-Berlin: Isaac blesses Jacob, Rebecca, esau by Lorenzo Ghiberti, The Gates of Paradise-Replica-Neues 750 BCEGenesis says Jacob bought Esau's birthright for a bowl of stew and took his blind father's blessing in disguiseBeersheba, Israel (Genesis 26:23; 28:10)
  131. Hevron e Ma'arat HaMachpela (14524916927): סיור בחברון העתיקה ובמערת המכפלה Hevron e Ma'arat HaMachpela750 BCEGenesis says Abraham paid 400 shekels for a family tomb at Hebron; the Talmud says Esau blocked Jacob's burial there and was killed at the caveCave of Machpelah, Hebron, West Bank
  132. Map of Israel, marked on the globe750 BCEGenesis says the dying Jacob took the firstborn's double share from Reuben and gave it to Joseph's sons, putting the younger firstEgypt; burial at Hebron, West Bank
  133. Numitor, after the Death of Amulius, is Restored to the Throne of Alba, pl.6 from the series The Story of Romulus and Re: Numitor, after the Death of Amulius, is Restored to the Th753 BCELivy says Amulius broke his father's will, took the throne of Alba Longa, and made his niece a Vestal virgin so his brother would have no heirsAlba Longa (Alban Hills, near Rome), Italy
  134. Dido building Carthage - JMW Turner: Dido building Carthage - JMW Turner (1815) oil painting814 BCEKing Pygmalion of Tyre killed his sister's husband for his buried gold, and she sailed away with it after dumping sacks of sand into the seaTyre, Lebanon, and Carthage, Tunisia
  135. Naboth in his Vineyard title QS:P1476,en:"Naboth in his Vineyard "label QS:Len,"Naboth in his Vineyard ": Naboth in his Vineyard title QS:P1476,en:"Naboth in his Vineyard "label QS860 BCEKings says Naboth refused to sell King Ahab "the inheritance of my fathers," and Queen Jezebel had him and his sons killed for itJezreel, Israel
  136. De ontmoeting tussen Solomon en Sheba: De betekenis van de Amhaarse tekst: Koningin Azeb en Koning Solomon Koningin Azeb is Sheba950 BCEThe Kebra Nagast says Menelik I, son of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, took the Ark to Aksum and that only his male line may rule EthiopiaJerusalem and Aksum, Ethiopia
  137. Map of Israel, marked on the globe970 BCEKings says Solomon's mother and the prophet Nathan had the dying David name Solomon over his elder brother Adonijah, who was later executedJerusalem
  138. DB320 Mummies 1881: Photograph by Émile Brugsch of the Royal Cache of mummies found in DB320 by Gaston Maspero in 1881. Taken before the mummies were unwrapped.1000 BCEThe Abd el-Rassul brothers sold royal mummies from a hidden tomb for a decade, until the eldest confessed in 1881Deir el-Bahari, Luxor, Egypt
  139. Map of Egypt, marked on the globe1090 BCEThe Adoption Papyrus says an Egyptian stable master adopted his wife as his daughter to keep his estate from his siblings, and the widow freed and adopted their slave's childrenSepermeru, south of Herakleopolis (near Beni Suef), Egypt
  140. Tel Dan - Canaanite Gate: Tel Dan-Canaanite Gate1100 BCEThe tribe of Dan lost the coastal land the lot gave it, stole a household's gods and priest, and burned the town of Laish to take a new inheritanceTel Dan (biblical Laish), Israel
  141. De Historie van Iephtah (titel op object) Den Grooten Figuer-Bibel (serietitel), RP-P-1982-306-123: IdentificatieTitel(s): De Historie van Iephtah (titel op object). Den Grooten Fi1100 BCEJudges says Gilead's sons drove their half-brother Jephthah out of the inheritance, then made him their chief, and his vow cost him his only daughterMizpah, Gilead, Jordan
  142. AbbottPapyrus-BritishMuseum-August21-08: The Abbott Papyrus, which is a record of an official inspection of royal tombs in the Theban necropolis-(in hieratic; note red ink, as well1110 BCEEight thieves confessed to stripping the gold from the mummies of king Sobekemsaf and queen Nubkhas, and an inquiry under Ramesses IX recorded itTheban necropolis, west bank of Thebes (Luxor), Egypt
  143. Deir el-Medina, Luxor, Egipto, 2022-04-03, DD 18: Deir el-Medina, Luxor, Egypt1144 BCENaunakhte of Deir el-Medina cut the children who did not support her out of her willDeir el-Medina, Thebes (Luxor), Egypt
  144. Horus and Seth crowning Ramesses III: Statue of Horus and Seth placing the crown of Upper Egypt on the head of Ramesses III. Twentieth Dynasty, early 12th century BC.1147 BCEAn Egyptian papyrus says the gods argued for 80 years over whether the dead king Osiris's throne went to his son Horus or his brother SethDeir el-Medina, Thebes (Luxor), Egypt (where the papyrus was kept)
  145. Papyrus judicial Turin: The complete Judicial Papyrus of Turin, the main source for the events of the Harem conspiracy which led to the assassination of pharaoh Ramesses III of the1157 BCEQueen Tiye plotted to put her son Pentawere on the throne of Ramesses III, and a 2012 CT scan found the king's throat had been cutThebes (Luxor), Egypt
  146. Odysseus slays the suitors of his wife Penelope (Skyphos pot): Scanned B&W Images. Both vessels are fully scanned and include an Attic red-figure skyphos ca. 440 BCE from Tarqu1180 BCEThe Odyssey says 108 suitors ate through Odysseus's estate while he was away, and planned to kill his son and divide his propertyIthaca, Greece
  147. KV 13 Bay: Isometric, plan and elevation images of KV13 taken from a 3d model1192 BCEChancellor Bay put a boy king on the throne and was given a tomb among the kings, and a potsherd records that the king had him killedThebes (Luxor), Egypt
  148. Fu Hao: Fu Hao Tomb and Statue, c. 1200 BC, Reign of King Wu Ding, Shang Dynasty (10197821303)1200 BCEFu Hao led the Shang king's armies, the oracle said her childbirth was "not good" because she had a girl, and hers is the only Shang royal tomb found intactYinxu, Anyang, Henan, China
  149. Joseph's Tomb in Shechem: This is supposedly the location of where Joseph was buried when the Israelites brought his bones back from Egypt.1200 BCEJoseph made Israel swear to carry his bones out of Egypt; Exodus says Moses took them, and his reputed tomb in Nablus was smashed in 2022Joseph's Tomb, Nablus (Shechem), West Bank
  150. Entrance of Tomb KV5 of Ramesses II's sons: This is a view of entrance of the closed Tomb KV5 of the sons of Ramesses II in the Valley of the Kings.1213 BCERamesses II outlived his first three crown princes, his thirteenth son succeeded him, and his sons' tomb KV5 has more than 130 roomsValley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt
  151. Themis Aigeus Antikensammlung Berlin F2538: Themis and Aegeus. Attic red-figure kylix, 440–430 BC. From Vulci.1250 BCETheseus forgot to change his black sail, his father Aegeus threw himself down from the Acropolis, and Theseus became king of AthensAthens, Greece
  152. Antigone Gives Token Burial to the Body of Her Brother Polyniceslabel QS:Len,"Antigone Gives Token Burial to the Body of: Drawing; Drawings1250 BCEThe plays say Oedipus's sons agreed to rule Thebes in alternate years, then killed each other, and the new king forbade burial of one of themThebes (Thiva), Greece
  153. Text of Law in Akkadian by King Niqmepa with dynastic seal Ras Shamra Louvre Museum: Text of Law in Akkadian by King Niqmepa with dynastic seal Ras Shamra Louvre Museum1250 BCEA king of Ugarit divorced his Hittite-born queen, made their son choose between his mother and the throne, then had her killedUgarit (Ras Shamra), Syria
  154. Map of Egypt, marked on the globe1261 BCEMes sued to recover land granted to his ancestor Neshi under Ahmose I, after a court ruled against his mother on a false registerSaqqara and Memphis, Egypt
  155. Sarcophagus of Seti I 2023-02-17d: London, United Kingdom: Sir John Soane's Museum, sarcophagus of Pharao Seti I., showing the Book of Gates1279 BCESeti I's empty sarcophagus was sold to the architect John Soane in 1824, and Soane obtained an Act of Parliament so his son could not inherit itValley of the Kings, Egypt, and London, England
  156. Ramses I Mummy, caudal view: This work was uploaded within an activity of Egypt Wikimedians User Group. Feel free to drop your question on the workshop discussion page.1291 BCEA mummy sold in Luxor around 1860 spent over a century in a Niagara Falls curiosity museum before it was identified as Ramesses I and sent homeValley of the Kings, Egypt; Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada; Atlanta, Georgia, US
  157. Opening of the Mouth - Tutankhamun and Aja: Ay performing the Opening of the Mouth ceremony at Tutankhamun. Wall painting from Tutankhamun's tomb (KV 62)1319 BCEAy had himself painted burying Tutankhamun and took the throne, and Horemheb then erased Ay and dated his own reign from Amenhotep IIIThebes (Luxor), Egypt
  158. TheYoungerLady-61072-FrontView-PlateXCIX-TheRoyalMummies-1912: Front view of the "Younger Lady Mummy" found in tomb KV35. This image clearly displays the damage thought to be done 1323 BCEDNA tests in 2010 found that Tutankhamun's parents were brother and sister, and that the two stillborn girls buried in his tomb were his daughtersValley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt
  159. Howard Carter: Howard carter1323 BCEHoward Carter's team cut Tutankhamun's body apart to free it from his coffin in 1925, and Carter's published account left it outValley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt
  160. Deckel einer Truhe aus Elfenbein: Deckel einer Truhe aus Elfenbein1327 BCEThe Deeds of Suppiluliuma say a widowed Egyptian queen asked the Hittite king for a son to marry, and the prince Zannanza died on the wayThebes (Luxor), Egypt, and Hattusa (Boğazkale), Turkey
  161. KV55 defaced coffin: Gilded and inlaid wooden coffin from KV55 in the Valley of the Kings, now in the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities in Cairo. The face and the cartouche containing1336 BCEA king's coffin in tomb KV55 had its gold face hacked off and its names cut out, and the gold from its base turned up in a Munich museumValley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt
  162. Nefertiti Bust Neues Museum Berlin: The iconic painted limestone bust of Queen Nefertiti, the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten. Crafted by the sculptor Thutmose c1340 BCEThe Nefertiti bust left Egypt in 1913 listed as a plaster princess, and Berlin has kept it through a century of Egyptian demandsAmarna, Egypt, and Berlin, Germany
  163. Amarna letter fragment, from King Tushratta of Mitanni to Queen Tiy (Teye) of Egypt, matching fragment in British Museum: Exhibit in the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Ch1353 BCEAmenhotep III promised the king of Mittani solid-gold statues for his daughter, and after Amenhotep died his son sent gold-plated woodThebes (Luxor), Egypt, and Mittani (northern Syria and Iraq)
  164. Egtved Girl: Egtvedpigen1370 BCEThe Egtved girl was buried at 16 to 18 with a child's cremated bones, and scientists still disagree on whether she came from Germany or from EgtvedEgtved, Vejle Municipality, Jutland, Denmark
  165. Achan Stoned to Death (89397053): Achan Is Stoned to Death. Portrait done over Joshua 7:24-26 by Gustave Dore'.1400 BCEThe Book of Joshua says Achan hid silver and gold from Jericho in his tent, and Israel stoned him in the Valley of Achor with his sons and daughters presentValley of Achor, near Jericho, West Bank
  166. 114278 rachels tomb - north of bethlehem PikiWiki Israel: Name: Rachel's Tomb - north of BethlehemDescription: A domed stone structure - on a tombstone - was built at the i1400 BCEGenesis says Rachel stole her father's household gods as Jacob fled, and Jacob unknowingly swore death on the thiefRachel's Tomb, Bethlehem, West Bank
  167. Legal dispute over land - Nuzi: Clay tablet from Yorghan Tepe, ancien Nuzi. Report of a trial relating to the possession of a land and the "tower" (dimtu) which stands at its cente1450 BCENuzi law kept land inside the family, so the landowner Tehip-tilla had himself adopted by seller after sellerNuzi (Yorghan Tepe), near Kirkuk, Iraq
  168. Hatshepsut: Seated Statue of Hatshepsut1458 BCEHatshepsut took the throne from her stepson Thutmose III, who had her statues smashed and her images erased two decades after her deathThebes (Luxor), Egypt
  169. Boğazköy panorama: Boğazköy panorama 20241500 BCEAfter four reigns of Hittite princes killing each other, King Telipinu wrote the order of succession into law and spared the men who had plotted against himHattusa (Boğazkale), Turkey
  170. Reconstruction of face from the Grave Circle B, AM Mycenae, 090994: Reconstructions of faces from the Mycenaean Grave Circle B. Arachaeological Museum of Mycenae. Skull Zeta 59 fro1550 BCEDNA showed a woman in Mycenae's royal Grave Circle B was buried beside her brother, by right of birth, not as a wifeGrave Circle B, Mycenae, Argolis, Greece
  171. Seqenenre Tao-mummy-head: Mummified head of Seqenenre Tao1555 BCEKing Seqenenre Tao died with his hands tied and his skull broken by Hyksos weapons, and his sons finished his warThebes (Luxor), Egypt
  172. Himmelsscheibe von Nebra - Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte in Halle - HD: Nebra Sky Disc - State Museum of Prehistory in Halle1600 BCETreasure hunters sold the Nebra sky disc for 32,000 marks, and the museum director who posed as a buyer had the dealers arrested in a Basel hotelMittelberg near Nebra, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
  173. Almoloya Diadema: Diadema de plata. Ajuar de enterramiento. Almoloya. Descubren un palacio y un rico ajuar funerario de la Edad del Bronce en un yacimiento de Murcia. (2014)1650 BCEA woman in a silver diadem was buried under the council hall of La Almoloya, and most of the grave's wealth was hers, not the man's buried with herLa Almoloya, Pliego, Murcia, Spain
  174. Tel Be'er Sheva Overview 2007041: Tel Be'er Sheva excavations, view towards south.1750 BCEGenesis says the Philistines filled Abraham's wells with earth after he died, and Isaac dug them out and gave them back his father's namesGerar and Beersheba, Israel
  175. Map of Saudi Arabia, marked on the globe1750 BCEGenesis says Sarah demanded that Hagar's son "shall not be heir with my son," and Abraham sent mother and child into the desertBeersheba, Israel; Mecca, Saudi Arabia (Islamic tradition)
  176. Map of Serbia, marked on the globe1800 BCEAt Mokrin a rich mother's teenage son was buried with nothing, and a poor mother's son was buried with an axeMokrin, Kikinda, Vojvodina, Serbia
  177. F.L. Griffith, Hieratic papyri from Kahun and Gurob.: Veterinary papyrus, LV.2. General Collections Keywords: gurob; hieratic papyri; kahun; petrie papyri; veterinary papyrus; Fran1800 BCEAround 1800 BC an Egyptian priest left everything to his wife and named a guardian for his son, in one of the oldest wills knownLahun (Kahun), Faiyum, Egypt
  178. Amenemhat IV: Amenemhat IV upclose1962 BCEAmenemhat I was attacked by his own guards after supper, and his son raced back from a war in Libya to take the thronethe royal residence, Egypt
  179. Map of Germany, marked on the globe2000 BCEBronze Age farmsteads in Germany's Lech valley kept a rich core family and poor unrelated dependants side by side for 700 yearsLech valley, south of Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany
  180. Italian: Il Papiro dei Re The so-called “Turin King List”, with a list of kings written on the verso and an administrati: Italian: Il Papiro dei Re The so-called “Turin King List”,2180 BCEHerodotus says Queen Nitocris drowned the men who killed her brother the king at a banquet, and a modern scholar argues she never existedMemphis, Egypt
  181. Amesbury Archer - Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum: The Amesbury Archer. An early Bronze Age man whose grave was discovered during excavations at the site of a new housing deve2300 BCEA man from the Alps was buried near Stonehenge with Britain's oldest gold; the younger man beside him shared a rare foot bone, but DNA rules out father and sonAmesbury, Wiltshire, England
  182. Puabi: Queen Puabi with attendants2550 BCEQueen Puabi of Ur was buried in gold, and the attendants Woolley said drank poison were killed with blows to the headRoyal Cemetery, Ur (Tell el-Muqayyar), Dhi Qar, Iraq
  183. Khufu: Statue of Khufu in the Cairo Egyptian Museum2580 BCEThe hidden tomb of Khufu's mother Hetepheres held her organs in a sealed chest, but her sealed sarcophagus was empty when it was opened in 1927Giza, Egypt
  184. Map of Germany, marked on the globe2600 BCEAt Eulau a mother, father and two sons killed in a raid were buried facing each other, the oldest family proven by DNAEulau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
  185. Globular amphora burial 1: Globular Amphora culture tomb - stone cist grave2776 BCEFifteen members of one family were killed with blows to the head at Koszyce, and the fathers who were missing from the grave appear to have buried themKoszyce, southern Poland
  186. Merneith stele: Detail of one of the two stelae erected in front of the tomb of Queen Mer-Neith at Abydos, Umm el Qaab, tomb Y (Tomb of Queen Mer-Neith). Now in the Egyptian Museum2950 BCEMerneith ruled for her young son Den, was buried at Abydos in a king's tomb ringed by servants' graves, and later king lists left her outUmm el-Qa'ab, Abydos, Egypt
  187. Passage leading from chamber of Newgrange passage tomb in Ireland: A section of the passage leading out from the chamber of Newgrange passage tomb in Ireland.3000 BCEThe man buried in the inner chamber of Newgrange was the son of a brother and sister or a parent and childNewgrange (Brú na Bóinne), County Meath, Ireland
  188. Ricostruzione di Ötzi - Particolare del volto: Ricostruzione di come doveva essere l'aspetto di Ötzi3300 BCETwo hikers found Ötzi in 1991, a survey put him 92 metres inside Italy, and the finders fought South Tyrol in court until 2010 over the rewardTisenjoch (Giogo di Tisa), Ötztal Alps, South Tyrol, Italy
  189. Map of United Kingdom, marked on the globe3700 BCEAncient DNA from a Cotswold tomb shows five generations of one man's family, buried by father's line, with his sons by four women in separate halvesHazleton North long cairn, Hazleton, Gloucestershire, England
  190. Face and funeral golden jewelry, 4600-4200 BC, AM Varna, Varm21: Imprint of the face and funeral golden jewelry. Predecessor of gold funerary mask? Burial place near Varna. Chalcol4340 BCEAt Varna on the Black Sea, one old man was buried with a third of all the gold in a 6,000-year-old cemetery, and the richest graves held no bodiesVarna, Bulgaria
  191. Gurgy les noisats S6 Fig: Map featuring the frequency distribution of informative haplotypes shared between Gurgy and modern populations4500 BCEOne founding father's bones were carried to Gurgy and reburied, and his descendants over seven generations lie around him, with almost no adult daughtersGurgy "Les Noisats", Yonne, France
  192. Çatalhöyük, 7400 BC, Konya, Turkey - UNESCO World Heritage Site, 02: Population 5,000 - 7,000. Large numbers of buildings clustered together. The inhabitants lived in mudbrick hous5950 BCEÇatalhöyük buried its dead under the house floor along the mother's line, and baby girls got five times the grave gifts of boysÇatalhöyük East Mound, Konya, Turkey
  193. Map of Germany, marked on the globe6800 BCEThe infant buried with the shaman of Bad Dürrenberg was not her son but a descendant four or five generations down, added to her grave decades laterKurpark, Bad Dürrenberg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
  194. Kennewick Man: Fossil - Took the picture at Natural History Museum, Karlsruhe7000 BCEScientists and five tribes fought for 20 years over a skeleton about 9,000 years old, a court gave it to the scientists, and Congress gave it to the tribesKennewick, Washington, USA
  195. Spirit Cave Mummy: Remains of the Spirit Cave mummy still in the wrapping and cloth it was buried in. Spirit Cave is located in Fallon, Nevada. Discovered in 1940. This image was p8600 BCENevada held Spirit Cave Man for decades against his tribe, a judge called it arbitrary, and the tribe agreed to DNA to prove he was theirsSpirit Cave, near Fallon, Nevada, USA
  196. Anzick Site 12iv15 03a: Information as for above entry, but without the arrow.10700 BCEConstruction workers found the Clovis child on the Anzick family ranch in 1968, the family's geneticist sequenced him, and six tribes reburied him in 2014Anzick site, Shields River valley near Wilsall, Montana, USA
  197. Cueva del miron: Hallados restos humanos en la cueva del Mirón (Cantabria, España) que podrían corresponder al primer enterramiento del Magdaleniense encontrado en la Península Ibé16700 BCEThe Red Lady of El Mirón was buried behind an engraved rock, then her skull and long bones were taken away and the rest re-painted redEl Mirón Cave, Cantabria, Spain
  198. Twin burial model - Sungir - Vladimir Palaty: Twin burial model. Sungir 2, 3.The building of the formet provincial administration – Palaty. Vladimir.32000 BCETwo disabled boys at Sungir were buried head to head with 10,000 ivory beads, and DNA showed they were not brothersSungir, near Vladimir, Russia
  199. Lake Mungo lunette: A section of Lake Mungo's lunette40000 BCEMungo Man and Mungo Lady, Australia's oldest known people, came home after decades in Canberra, and their reburial split the three nations who own themLake Mungo, Willandra Lakes, New South Wales, Australia