While, fortunately, few have died from the results of bad teeth ("Plaque"), we can comfort ourselves in the fact that during the "Black Plague" [1348-50], obviously enough people survived to produce descendants. Thus, we are here.

It is impossible to gain an accurate assessment of the numbers of people who died, though most accounts give about a 1/3 mortality rate for the European population alone.

As far as comprehensive lists of the victims of the plague, one will not find these as they were never compiled. Parish registers, which don't commence on any large scale until the mid-1550s, cannot help us name the lesser folk. However, royality and nobility who perished are often named among the victims, including Joan, "The Fair Maid of Kent's," mother.