List of unusual deaths Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
This is a list of unusual deaths.
- Aeschylus, Greek dramatist, in 456 BC, when a vulture, mistaking his bald head for a stone, dropped a tortoise on it.
- Attila the Hun, in 453, suffered a severe nosebleed and choked to death on his wedding night.
- Allan Pinkerton, detective, in 1884, of gangrene resulting from having bitten his tongue after stumbling on the sidewalk.
- Frank Hayes, jockey, in 1923, suffered a heart attack during a horse race. The horse, Sweet Kiss, went on to finish first, making Hayes the only deceased jockey to win a race.
- Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic, in 1916, died of hypothermia while swimming to shore after having been poisoned, shot multiple times in the head and torso, bludgeoned, mutilated (severed penis), wrapped in a sheet and dropped into the river Neva through a hole in the winter ice.
- Isadora Duncan, actress, in 1927, accidental strangulation and broken neck when her scarf caught on car wheel.
- Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer, in 1687, died of a gangrenous abscess after piercing his foot with a staff while he was vigorously conducting a Te Deum.
- Pope John XXI was killed in the collapse of his scientific laboratory in May 20 1277.
- Michael Malloy, a homeless man in New York City who was the victim of multiple attempted murders by the same group of people in the early 1930s. After many failed poisonings and exposure he was eventually gassed to death.
- Owen Hart, WWF wrestler, in 1999, when he fell 78 feet while being lowered into the ring by a cable from the stadium rafters before an upcoming match, snapping his neck.
- Sherwood Anderson, writer, in 1941, swallowed a toothpick at a party and then died of peritonitis.
- Vic Morrow, actor, in 1982, decapitated by helicopter blade during filming of the Twilight Zone movie.
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