Death of the Twelve Apostles

According to Christian tradition (not to be confused with "myth," for this same tradition gives us the name of our Gospels and the authorship of other anonymous documents in the NT):

• Peter, crucified upside-down in Rome circa AD 64.
• James, son of Zebedee was beheaded in AD 44, first of the twelve to die (since the addition of Matthias)
• John, son of Zebedee, no biblical record of death, he is believed to have died of natural causes due to old age.
• Andrew, Peter's brother, was crucified upon a diagonal or X-shaped cross.
• Philip was crucified in AD 54.
• Bartholomew (also known as Nathaniel) was flayed alive (skinned) and then beheaded; some sources locate his death at Derbend on the Caspian Sea.
• Matthew killed by a halberd in AD 60.
• Thomas was killed by a spear in Mylapore, Madras, India in AD 72.
• James, son of Alphaeus, beaten to death with a club after being crucified and stoned.
• Jude was crucified.
• Simon the Zealot was crucified in AD 74.
• Judas Iscariot, according to the gospels, hanged himself after betraying Jesus.

Replacement picked by the surviving eleven:

• Matthias, Judas' replacement, was stoned and beheaded.

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Obviously, we can't always take Early Church tradition at face value but we should recall that tradition (again, not "myth") almost always comes from elements of truth (if not true its very self). I think Bartholomew got it worst of all the 12 (13).