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Zeuxis, a 5th-century BC Greek painter, is said to have died laughing at the humorous way in which he painted an old woman. [9]Chrysippus, also known as "the man who died from laughing at his joke", an influential 3rd-century BC Greek Stoic philosopher, reportedly died of laughter after he saw a donkey eating his fermented figs; he told a slave to give the donkey undiluted wine to wash them ...
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He died of "ossification of the heart" (aortic stenosis) on 20 June having uttered his final words from the play "May such befall me at my latest hour ...". [4] 1820: Madame Delinsky, the female half of a magic act, was accidentally shot and killed while performing the "bullet catch" trick. One of the six marksmen had mistakenly loaded his ...
The TV star died ‘unexpectedly but peacefully’ on Tuesday evening, a statement shared with the PA news agency through a representative said. Paul O’Grady was ‘laughing, smiling, full of ...
27 years ago, comedian Chris Farley’s life came to a tragic end.. The Wisconsin-born star was discovered dead in his Chicago apartment from an apparent drug overdose on Dec. 18, 1997. He was 33 ...
Jennifer Lawrence recently told Entertainment Weekly that she “died laughing” when reading the real-life Craigslist ad that inspired her upcoming raunchy R-rated comedy “No Hard Feelings.”
The French composer died of a gangrenous abscess after accidentally piercing his foot with a staff while he was vigorously conducting a Te Deum. It was customary at that time to conduct by banging a staff on the floor. He refused to have his leg amputated so he could still dance. [13] [14] William III of England: 8 March 1702
Ernest Scribbler (Michael Palin), a British "manufacturer of jokes", writes the joke on a piece of paper only to die laughing. His mother also immediately dies laughing after reading it, as do the first constables on the scene. Eventually the joke is contained, weaponized, and deployed against Germany during World War II.