DEATHS WITHIN CHILDBIRTH - by year Henhenet (21st century BC ~ 2015 BC) 21 y died in childbirth when she was 21 mw.t-nḏm.t (14th century BC) ~45 premature stillbirth Julia Caesaris (-76--54) 22 y parturition; premature labor Empress Yujiulü (525–540) 15 y grew depressed and died either during or shortly after childbirth Benedikta Ebbesdatter Hvide (1170–1199) 29 y succumbed in childbirth Kristín Sverrisdóttir (1190-1213) 23 y died in labour giving birth Mary de Bohun Plantagenet (1369–1394) 26 y died giving birth Catherine Poděbrady (1449-1464) 14 y parturition; miscarriage Isabel Neville Plantagenet (1451-1476) 25 y consumption worsened by childbed fever Jane Seymour (1509-1537) 29 y postnatal complications less than two weeks after birth; retained placenta; bacterial infection contracted during the birth Isabel de Avis (1503–1539) 35 y antenatal complications; fever vía consumption; pneumonia two weeks later María Manuela de Portugal (1527-1545) 17 y bleeding; died four days later vía hemorrhaging Jane Radcliffe Browne (1532-1552) 20 y died in childbed while giving birth to twins Agnes von Hessen (1527-1555) 28 y miscarriage, six months gestation Élisabeth de Valois (1545–1568) 22 y pyelonephritis; died the same day Joannah von Österreich (1547-1578) 31 y breech; dystocia Gabrielle d'Estrées de Cœuvres (1573-1599) 26 y an attack of eclampsia, dying the next day Joan Apsley (1578–1599) 21 y during stillbirth Anne Sutton (1589–1615) 33 y fever after giving birth Jane Savage Paulet (1608-1631) 23 y stillbirth during an intervention for a fever Louise of Anhalt-Dessau (1709–1732) 22 y health complications after childbirth within the month Mary Drummond Bellenden (1685–1736) 51 y in childbirth Pauline-Felicité (1712-1741) 29 y convulsions while giving birth Ánna Leopoldovna (1718–1746) 27 y nine days after of puerperal fever Hãn Quý phi (1737-1764) 26 y Obstructed labour or miscarriage at eight months gestation Luise Albertine von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön (1748-1769) 20 y of measles a week after giving birth Eva Catharina König (1736-1778) 41 y of neonatal sepsis soon after the birth Juliane Reichardt (1752-1783) 30 y after childbed fever María Amalia of Spain (1779–1798) 19 y contracted an infection when baby got stuck by the shoulders Charlotta Slottsberg (1760 29 May 1800) on her own birthday in a heart attack after a miscarriage Sophie Mereau (1770-1806) 36 y from a hemorrhage after delivery Hannah Wilkinson Slater (1774-1812) 37 y two weeks after the birth vía complications Isabel Joannna de Bragança (1797-1818) 21 y breech; erroneous caesarean bleeding heavily vía medical error Maria Christina of Savoy (1812-1836) 23 y having given birth five days before Alexandra Nikolaevna (1825–1844) 19 y tuberculosis complicated pregnancy Mary Letitia Martin (1815–1850) 35 y ten days after giving birth prematurely Susannah Lattin (1848-1868) 20 y by metroperitonitis; postpartum fever Ade!a Ricci (1850-1871) 21 y internal bleeding vía abortion Hattie Shepparde (1846-1874) 28 y of peritonitis following childbirth Gurun Rong'an (1855-1875) 19 y emotional stress caused miscarriage Harriet Marian (1840-1875) 35 y eclampsia; convulsions, unconsciousness Hesya Helfman (1855–1882) 26 y torn perineum Marie-Félix Blanc (1859–1882) 22 y from an embolism vía tuberculosis‎ a month after giving birth Laura Lyttelton (1862-1886) 24 y eight days after suffering from tuberculosis Alexandra Georgievna (1870-1891) 21 y Seven months into her second pregnancy collapsed with violent labor pains, lapsed into a fatal coma, dying six days later Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson (1864-1901) 37 y dysentery during childbirth Bessie MacNicol (1869–1904) 34 y complications of pre-eclampsia in the late stages of a pregnancy when she died of eclampsia Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) 31 y postpartum pulmonary embolism; deep venous thrombosis (DVT) thrombus broke off within hours Sumner Locke (1881-1917) 36 y complications of eclampsia arising from the birth a day later Gwyneth Bebb (1889-1921) 31 y pregnancy affected by placenta praevia Sakiko Kaya-no-miya Yamashina-no-miya (1903-1923) 20 y crushed to death in the Great Kanto Earthquake during pregnancy Marjorie (Frost) Fraser (1905-1934) 29 y puerperal infections after childbirth Ruth Judith Klee Goslar (1901-1942) 41 y day after stillbirth Betty Jardine (1903-1945) 41 y few days after vía pulmonary embolism Sisowath Monikessan (1929-1946) 16 y postnatal complications Kim Jong Suk (1917-1949) 31 y ectopic pregnancy Mattie Cordell Cunningham Ashe (1922-1950) 27 y toxemic pregnancy; complications from surgery Martina (Von Trapp) Dupire (1921-1951) 30 y complications resulting from a caesarean section Sharon Ann Grimes Corrales (1942-1969) 27 y died from a blood clot soon after giving birth Maria de Lourdes Ribeiro da Silva (1949-1971) 21 y died of hepatitis in the eighth month of pregnancy cesarean section Lê Vũ Anh (1950-1981) 31 y postpartum hemorrhage Becky Bell (1971-1988) 17 y complications vía septic abortion Kathleen M Kerr (1960-1990) 30 y to a fast-spreading infection ten days after the birth sudden cardiopulmonary complication Simmi Kahlon (1982-2009) 27 y after complications from her last pregnancy Savitā Hālappanavar (1981–2012) 31 y Inappropriately managed second trimester septic miscarriage; prolonged and unavoidable miscarriage; gestational sac was protruding; cardiac arrest; inadequacy Maya K. Peterson (1980–2021) 41 y complications vía amniotic fluid embolism Tori Bowie (1990-2023) 32 y eclampsia, respiratory distress and high blood pressure vía obstetric labor complication