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The French king died as a result of striking his head on the lintel of a door while on his way to watch a game of real tennis. [4]: 105 [5] [6] Victims of the 1518 dancing plague: July 1518: Several people died of either heart attacks, strokes or exhaustion during a dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (Holy Roman Empire). [2] [7] [8]
French municipal cemetery and chapel: Mondement-Montgivroux; French national cemetery: the prisoners of war: Sarrebourg; French national necropolis and chapel: le Souvenir Français of Rancourt; French national necropolis and German military cemetery: la Crouée; French national necropolis: La Grande Tombe de Villeroy
State funeral of Victor Hugo: June 1, 1885 French Third Republic: Paris: 2,000,000–3,000,000 [6] Funeral of August Spies, George Engel, Adolph Fischer, and Albert Parsons: November 13, 1887 United States: Chicago ~500,000 [7] Funeral of Wilhelm I: March 12–16, 1888 German Empire: Berlin: 200,000 [8] State funeral of Pedro II of Brazil ...
This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout the Middle Ages, noted as being unusual by multiple sources. John II Komnenos on a boar hunt Frederick Barbarossa 's strange drowning gave rise to legends that he was still alive
The inscriptions on some cippi show that they were occasionally used as funeral memorials. [6] Coins for the dead is a form of respect for the dead or bereavement. The practice began in ancient Greece Roman times when people thought the dead needed coins to pay ferryman to cross the river Styx. In modern times the practice has been observed in ...
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Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
A Honduras gang member who was illegally in the US “giggled” as he admitted kidnapping a young Texas woman at gunpoint and threatening to pimp her out and sell her organs, according to cops.