List of women who died in childbirth

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This is a list of notable women, either famous themselves or closely associated with someone well known, who suffered maternal death as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO):

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"the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental causes."

Note that this wording includes abortion, miscarriage, stillbirth, and ectopic pregnancy. Generally, there is a distinction between a direct maternal death that is the result of a complication of the pregnancy, delivery, or management of the two, and an indirect maternal death that is a pregnancy-related death in a woman with a pre-existing or newly developed health problem unrelated to pregnancy. Fatalities during but unrelated to a pregnancy are termed accidental, incidental, or non-obstetrical maternal deaths.

However, the WHO definition is only one of many; other definitions may include accidental and incidental causes. Cases with "incidental causes" include deaths secondary to violence against women that may be related to the pregnancy and be affected by the socioeconomic and cultural environment. Also, it has been reported [ by whom? ]that about 10% of maternal deaths may occur late, that is after 42 days after a termination or delivery; thus, some definitions extend the period of observation to one year after the end of gestation.

Women by country

Angola

Argentina

Australia

Austria

Belarus

Belgium

Bohemia

Bolivia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Brazil

Bulgaria

Burma

Byzantine Empire

Cambodia

Canada

China

Croatia

Cuba

Czechia

Denmark

Dominican Republic

East Timor

Egypt

Ethiopia

Finland

France

Georgia

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

India

Indonesia

Ireland

Kingdom of Jerusalem (now Israel or Palestine)

Italy

Japan

Kazakhstan

Kenya

Korea

Liberia

Madagascar

Malaysia

Mexico

Montenegro

The Netherlands

Nepal

New Zealand

Nigeria

Norway

Ottoman Empire

Papua New Guinea

Persia

Peru

The Philippines

Poland

Portugal

Raj of Sarawak

Romania

Russia

Serbia

Singapore

Slovenia

Somalia

South Africa

Spain

Sudan

Sweden

Switzerland

Syria

Taiwan

Thailand

Tunisia

Uganda

United Kingdom

United States

Venezuela

Vietnam

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