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Cornelia Zangheri Bandi (66) was an Italian noblewoman whose death on 15 March 1731 may have been a possible case of spontaneous human combustion. [43] [44] But the case has never been proven, with the true cause of death remaining unknown. [43] [44] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (35), composer, died on 5 December 1791.
The death of Aeschylus, killed by a turtle dropped onto his head by a falcon, illustrated in the 15th-century Florentine Picture-Chronicle by Baccio Baldini. This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources.
Mary, Queen of Scots (1587) – Beheading by axe. The execution took three blows. Anne Greene (1650) – Hanging (attempted). She was found alive, in her coffin, a day after her hanging, having a faint pulse and weak breathing. Set free after failed execution. [citation needed] William Russell, Lord Russell (1683) – Beheading
Death by hanging. Ruth Ellis ( née Neilson; 9 October 1926 – 13 July 1955) was a British nightclub hostess and convicted murderer who became the last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom following the fatal shooting of her lover, David Blakely. In her teens, Ellis had entered the world of nightclub hostessing, which led to a chaotic ...
Helen Jewett was a prostitute in New York City who was allegedly murdered by Richard P. Robinson. He was tried and acquitted in 1836. John Lynch was nicknamed the "Berrima Axe Murderer" for his killing of the Mulligan family in 1841. The Smuttynose Island murders in 1873, in which Louis Wagner was tried, convicted, and hanged for the murder of ...
After his arrest, he was tortured to death; his remains were publicly displayed and later burned. Alice Kyteler: Ireland: 1302–1324 3–4 "The Witch of Kilkenny." Hiberno-Norman noblewoman prosecuted in the first modern witch trial in the British Isles for the alleged poisoning of her four husbands, heresy and witchcraft.
Moseley's frozen head was found wrapped up on the seat of a public toilet in the London district of Islington about six weeks after they were incarcerated. Continuing to protest their innocence, one of the men imprisoned for the killings was released in 1997 and the other in 2000, but their murder convictions stood until the Court of Appeal ...
The Gray's Inn Lane Hand Axe is a pointed flint hand axe, found buried in gravel under Gray's Inn Lane, London, England, by pioneering archaeologist John Conyers in 1679, and now in the British Museum. [1] The hand axe is a fine example from about 350,000 years ago, in the Lower Paleolithic period, but its main significance lies in the role it ...