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This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources. The death of Aeschylus , killed by a tortoise dropped onto his head by an eagle , illustrated in the 15th-century Florentine Picture-Chronicle by Baccio Baldini [ 1 ]
The 39-year-old American cave diver died in the partial collapse of an underwater cave during a dive at Indian Springs, Florida. Of the several hundred cave diving deaths in Florida between 1960 and 2010, Turner's was the only one caused by a partial cave collapse. [235] [236] Greg Austin Gingrich 28 November 1992
The 67-year-old American tourist died from positional asphyxia in Scotland when a 72-kilogram (159 lb) metal garden bench he was sitting on toppled backwards, pinning him against a wall which had knocked him unconscious. It was later found that such benches had a risk of sinking into the grass and there were no appropriate checks to provide a ...
A woman in Gayton le Marsh, Lincolnshire, England, became severely ill and later died after consuming her own hair for 12 years. [20] [21] Clement Vallandigham: 17 June 1871: The American politician and lawyer, who was defending a man accused of murder, accidentally shot himself while demonstrating how the victim might have done so.
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The king of England was riding his horse when it stumbled on a molehill. William fell and broke his collarbone , then contracted pneumonia and died several days later. After he died, Jacobites were said to have toasted in the mole's honour, calling it "the little gentleman in the black velvet waistcoat".
In Oxford, England, at least 300 people, including Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer Sir Robert Bell and Serjeant Nicholas Barham, died in the aftermath of the trial of Rowland Jenkes, a Catholic bookseller convicted of distributing pamphlets defaming Queen Elizabeth I, at the assize at Oxford. The dead reportedly included no women or children.
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