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The Death of a Government Clerk
The Death of a Government Clerk («Смерть чиновника») is an 1883 humorous story by Anton Chekhov about a clerk who dies after apologizing for sneezing on a general.
The Death of Artemio Cruz
The Death of Artemio Cruz (La muerte de Artemio Cruz) is a 1962 novel by Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, a landmark work of the Latin American Boom.
The Death of Bunny Munro (TV series)
Sky Original six-part 2025 limited series adapting Nick Cave's 2009 novel, starring Matt Smith as sex-addict salesman Bunny Munro opposite newcomer Rafael Mathé as his son; directed by Isabella Eklöf, scored by Cave and Warren Ellis, released 20 November 2025.
The Death of Captain America
The Death of Captain America is the Marvel Comics storyline (Captain America #25-42, 2007-2008) by Ed Brubaker in which Steve Rogers is assassinated after Civil War and Bucky Barnes becomes the new Captain America.
The Death of Captain Marvel
The Death of Captain Marvel, Marvel Graphic Novel #1 (1982) by Jim Starlin, Steve Oliff, and Jim Novak, is the story in which the Kree hero Mar-Vell, the original Captain Marvel, dies permanently of cancer caused by the villain Nitro's nerve toxin.
The Death of Dick Long
The Death of Dick Long (2019) is Daniel Scheinert's solo directorial debut, an A24 dark comedy written by Billy Chew, in which Alabama bandmates Zeke and Earl cover up how their drummer died; 75% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Death of General Mercer at the Battle of Princeton, January 3, 1777
The Death of General Mercer is an oil painting by John Trumbull depicting General Hugh Mercer bayoneted at Princeton while George Washington rallies the Continental Army, at Yale.
The Death of General Wolfe
The Death of General Wolfe is a 1770 oil painting by Benjamin West showing the mortally wounded general at his 1759 victory over the French outside Quebec.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Смерть Ивана Ильича)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Смерть Ивана Ильича, Smert' Ivana Il'icha) is Leo Tolstoy's 1886 novella about a St. Petersburg judge dying of a mysterious illness after a fall, his terror, and final acceptance of death.
The Death of Ivan the Terrible
The Death of Ivan the Terrible (Смерть Иоанна Грозного) is a five-act verse tragedy by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, published in 1866 and dramatizing Tsar Ivan IV's final days.
The Death of Jane McCrea
The Death of Jane McCrea is an 1804 oil painting by John Vanderlyn depicting the 1777 killing of Jane McCrea, held at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford.
The Death of Major Peirson
The Death of Major Peirson is an 1783 oil painting by John Singleton Copley showing Major Francis Peirson's death at the Battle of Jersey, held by the Tate Gallery.
The Death of Marat
The Death of Marat (La Mort de Marat) is Jacques-Louis David's 1793 oil painting of the revolutionary journalist Marat stabbed in his bath by Charlotte Corday; the Brussels original turned him into a martyred, Pietà-like icon of the Revolution.
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Moartea domnului Lăzărescu), Cristi Puiu's 2005 Romanian New Wave drama, follows a dying 63-year-old through Bucharest hospitals; it won Cannes' Un Certain Regard Prize.
The Death of Robin Hood
The Death of Robin Hood is a 2026 A24 adventure drama written and directed by Michael Sarnoski, starring Hugh Jackman as a gravely wounded, guilt-stricken Robin Hood, based on the Middle English ballad Robin Hood's Death, released June 19, 2026.
The Death of Sherlock Holmes
The Death of Sherlock Holmes: six-part Swiss-led European TV crime drama (Sky, SRF, ARD Degeto, Silver Reel, Umedia) starring Rafe Spall and Deleila Piasko, filling the untold 1891–1894 Reichenbach gap, premiering 2027.
The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)
The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), Eminem's 12th studio album, released July 12, 2024 on Shady/Aftermath/Interscope; a concept album killing off his Slim Shady alter ego, 19 tracks, debuted No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 281,000 units, his 11th chart-topper.
The Death of Smail-aga Čengić
The Death of Smail-aga Čengić (Smrt Smail-age Čengića) is an 1846 epic poem by Ivan Mažuranić, telling of the Ottoman commander Smail-aga Čengić's death at Montenegrin hands.
The Death of Snow White
The Death of Snow White is a 2025 American dark fantasy horror film directed by Jason Brooks, starring Sanae Loutsis, Chelsea Edmundson, and Tristan Nokes, a violent Grimm retelling with murderous dwarves, released May 2, 2025.
The Death of Socrates
The Death of Socrates (La Mort de Socrate) is Jacques-Louis David's 1787 neoclassical oil painting, 129.5 x 196.2 cm, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, showing Socrates reaching for hemlock per Plato's Phaedo, commissioned by Trudaine and shown at the 1787 Salon.
The Death of Stalin
The Death of Stalin (2017) is Armando Iannucci's satirical black comedy, adapted from Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin's French graphic novel, about the power struggle after Stalin's 1953 death; starring Buscemi, Beale, Tambor; banned in Russia; Metascore 88.
The Death of Superman
The Death of Superman: 1992 DC Comics story arc across four Superman titles in which Superman dies fighting Doomsday in Superman #75 (2.5–3 million copies shipped), followed by Funeral for a Friend and Reign of the Supermen; repeatedly adapted in animation and film.
The Death of Superman (film)
The Death of Superman (2018) is a Warner Bros. Animation direct-to-video animated film adapting DC's 1992–93 comic storyline, directed by Sam Liu and Jake Castorena, and the first half of a two-part saga with Reign of the Supermen.
The Death of Tarelkin
The Death of Tarelkin (Смерть Тарелкина) is a dark satirical play by Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin, completed in 1869 as the final part of his trilogy Pictures of the Past.
The Death of the Author
The Death of the Author (La mort de l'auteur) is Roland Barthes's essay, first published in English in Aspen in 1967, rejecting authorial intention as the source of a text's meaning and making the reader the site of interpretation; companion to Foucault's author-function.
The Death of the Bird
"The Death of the Bird" is a lyric poem by the Australian poet A. D. Hope about a migratory bird's final journey, dying in an indifferent universe.
The Death of the Heart
The Death of the Heart, a 1938 novel by Irish-born writer Elizabeth Bowen, follows sixteen-year-old orphan Portia Quayne in her half-brother's emotionally sterile London home; her innocent love for Eddie ends in betrayal.
The Death of the Hired Man
"The Death of the Hired Man" is a 1914 narrative poem in blank verse dialogue by Robert Frost, about a farm couple arguing over Silas, a dying former hired laborer.
The Death of the Lion
The Death of the Lion (A morte do leão) is an 1894 short story by Henry James, first published in the London journal The Yellow Book.
The Death of the Mother of the Jugovićes
The Death of the Mother of the Jugovićes (Смрт мајке Југовића) is a Serbian folk ballad in which a mother dies of grief after the Battle of Kosovo.