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=== Middle Ages ===
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!scope="row" | [[Constans II]]
|[[File:Solidus Constans II (obverse).jpg|100px|center]]
|{{dts|15 July 668}}
| The [[Byzantine Emperor]] was assassinated with a [[bucket]] according to [[Theophilus of Edessa]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Ostrogosky |first=George |title=History of the Byzantine State |publisher=Blackwell|year=1956 |page=123}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Ragnar Lodbrok]]
| [[File:Ragnar Lodbroks död by Hugo Hamilton.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|865|format=hide}} {{c.}} 865
| The semi-legendary Viking leader whose exploits are narrated in the ''[[Tale of Ragnar Lodbrok|Ragnars saga loðbrókar]]'', a thirteenth-century Icelandic saga, is said to have been captured by [[Ælla of Northumbria]], who had him executed by throwing him into a [[Snakepit|pit of snakes]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Walter|first=James K.|date=2011|chapter=Ragnars saga loðbrókar |title=The Nibelungen Tradition: An Encyclopedia|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qfizAAAAQBAJ&q=Ragnar+Lodbrok+executed+snakes&pg=PA35|editor1-last=Gentry|editor1-first=Francis G.|editor2-last=McConnell|editor2-first=Winder|editor3-last=Müller|editor3-first=Ulrich|editor4-last=Wunderlich|editor4-first=Werner|location=New York and London|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-8153-1785-2}}</ref>
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! [[Louis III of France]]
| [[File:GrabLudwig III.jpg|center|133x133px]]
| {{dts|5 August 882}}
| The king of [[West Francia]], died aged around 18 at [[Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis|Saint-Denis]]. Whilst mounting his horse to pursue a girl who was running to seek refuge in her father's house, he hit his head on the lintel of a low door and fell, [[Skull fracture|fracturing his skull]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vw0sAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA339|title=L'Univers, histoire et description de tous les peuples – Dictionnaire encyclopédique de la France|last=Le Bas|first=Philippe|year=1843|volume=10|page=339}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Basil I]]
| [[File:Basil I in the Madrid Skylitzes.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|29 August 886}}
| The Byzantine emperor's belt was entangled between antlers of a [[deer]] during a hunt and the animal subsequently dragged him for {{convert|16|mi|km}} through the woods. Because of this accident Basil contracted [[fever]] and he died shortly afterwards.<ref>{{cite book|last=Treadgold |first=Warren |title=A History of the Byzantine State and Society |publisher=Stanford University Press|year=1997 |page=461}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Sigurd the Mighty]]<br />of [[Orkney]]
|
| {{dts|892}}
| The second [[Earl of Orkney]] strapped the head of his defeated foe [[Máel Brigte of Moray|Máel Brigte]] to his horse's saddle. Brigte's teeth rubbed against Sigurd's leg as he rode, causing a fatal infection, according to the Old Norse ''[[Heimskringla]]'' and ''[[Orkneyinga saga|Orkneyinga]]'' sagas.<ref>Translations of the ''Orkneyinga saga'' (chapters 4 and 5), which relates the story, can be read online at [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/ice/is3/is302.htm Sacred texts] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170329155036/http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/ice/is3/is302.htm |date=29 March 2017}} and [http://www.northvegr.org/lore/orkney/001.php Northvegr] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516081857/http://www.northvegr.org/lore/orkney/001.php |date=16 May 2008}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Edmund Ironside]]
| [[File:Edmund Ironside - MS Royal 14 B VI.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|30 November 1016}}
| The English king was allegedly stabbed whilst on a toilet by an assassin hiding underneath.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Richard|first=Huscroft|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L7JjDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT234|title=Making England, 796-1042|publisher=[[Routledge]]|year=2018|isbn=9780429893179|pages=234}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Béla I of Hungary]]
| [[File:Béla I (Chronica Hungarorum).jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|11 September 1063}}
| After the [[Holy Roman Empire]] decided to [[German invasion of Hungary (1063)|launch a military expedition]] against Hungary to restore young [[Solomon, King of Hungary|Solomon]] to the throne, the Hungarian king was seriously injured when "his throne broke beneath him" in his manor at [[Dömös]].<ref name="Turner2011">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781554536443 |url-access=registration |title=Dreadful Fates: What a Shocking Way to Go! |date=2011 |page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781554536443/page/8 8] |first1=Tracey |last1=Turner |first2=Sally |last2=Kindberg |publisher=Kids Can Press |isbn=978-1-55453-644-3}}</ref> The king—who was "half-dead", according to the ''[[Illuminated Chronicle]]''—was taken to the western borders of his kingdom, where he died at the creek Kanizsa on 11 September 1063.<ref>Kosztolnyik, Z. J. (1981).''Five Eleventh Century Hungarian Kings: Their Policies and their Relations with Rome''. Columbia University Press. pp. 80–81.</ref><ref name="Illuminated_Chronicle_68.96_117">''The Hungarian Illuminated Chronicle'' (ch. 68.96), p. 117.</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Philip of France (1116–1131)|Crown Prince<br />Philip of France]]
| [[File:Philip of France (1131).jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|13 October 1131}}
| Died while riding through Paris when his horse tripped over a black pig that was running out of a dung heap.<ref>Ordericus Vitalis, ''The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy'', v. 4, p. 129</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Henry I of England]]
| [[File:Henry1.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|1 December 1135}}
| While visiting relatives, he supposedly ate too many [[lamprey]]s against his physician's advice, causing a pain in his gut, and ultimately his death.<ref>{{harvnb|Hollister|2003|pp=467–468, 473}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[John II Komnenos]]
| [[File:Ioannes_II_Komnenos_chassant.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|1 April 1143}}
| Cut himself with a [[Arrow poison|poisoned arrow]] during a boar hunt, and subsequently died from an infection.<ref>{{cite book |last=Choniates |first=Niketas |editor-last=Magoulias |editor-first=Harry J. |title=O City of Byzantium: Annals of Niketas Choniatēs|location=Detroit|publisher=Wayne State University Press|year=1984|isbn=978-0-8143-1764-8|page=23}}</ref>
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!Victims of the [[Erfurt latrine disaster]]
|[[File:Henry VI (HRE).jpg|center|frameless|145x145px]]
|26 July 1184
|While [[Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor|Henry VI, the King of Germany]], was holding an informal assembly at the [[Petersberg Citadel|Petersburg Citadel]] in [[Erfurt]], the combined weight of the assembled nobles caused the wooden second story floor of the building to collapse. Most of the nobles fell through into the [[latrine]] [[cesspit]] below the ground floor, where about 60 of them drowned in liquid [[excrement]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-09-03 |title=Curio #1: The Erfurter Latrinensturz – The Fortweekly |url=http://www.thefortweekly.com/issues/issue-1/curio-1-the-erfurter-latrinensturz/ |access-date=2023-02-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190903042810/http://www.thefortweekly.com/issues/issue-1/curio-1-the-erfurter-latrinensturz/ |archive-date=3 September 2019 }}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Henry I of Castile]]
| [[File:Enrique I de Castilla (Ayuntamiento de León).jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|6 June 1217}}
| The 13-year-old king of Castile was killed by a tile that fell from a roof.<ref>{{cite book |last=Previté-Orton |first=Charles William |author-link=Charles William Previté-Orton |date=1952 |title=The shorter Cambridge Medieval History}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Al-Musta'sim]]
| [[File:HulaguInBagdad.JPG|100px|center]]
| {{dts|20 February 1258}}
| The last [[Abbasid]] [[Caliph]] of [[Baghdad]], was executed by his [[Mongols|Mongol]] captors by being rolled up in a rug and then trampled by horses.<ref>{{cite book|last=Frater|first=Jamie |title= Listverse.Com's Ultimate Book of Bizarre Lists|url=https://archive.org/details/listversecomsult0000frat|url-access=registration|year=2010|publisher=Ulysses Press|location=Canada|isbn= 978-1569758175|page=[https://archive.org/details/listversecomsult0000frat/page/400 400]}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Edward II of England]]
| [[File:Edward II - British Library Royal 20 A ii f10 (detail).jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|21 September 1327}}
| The English king was rumoured to have been murdered after being deposed and imprisoned by his [[Queen consort|wife]] [[Isabella of France|Isabella]] and her lover [[Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March|Roger Mortimer]], by having a [[Horn (anatomy)|horn]] pushed into his anus through which a red-hot iron was inserted, burning out his internal organs without marking his body.<ref>{{cite book |last=Schama |first=Simon |title=A History of Great Britain: 3000BC–AD1603|year=2000 |publisher=BBC Worldwide |location=London|page=220}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=A red-hot poker? It was just a red herring |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=176011 |work=Times Higher Education| date=11 April 2003 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120120002615/http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=176011 | archive-date=20 January 2012 }}</ref> However, there is no real academic consensus on the manner of Edward II's death, and it has been plausibly argued that the story is propaganda.<ref>Phillips, Seymour, ''Edward II'', Yale University Press, 2010. pp. 560–565. {{ISBN?}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[John of Bohemia]]
| [[File:John of Luxemburg.PNG|100px|center]]
| {{dts|26 August 1346}}
| After being blind for 10 years, the Bohemian king died in the [[Battle of Crécy]] when—at his command—his companions tied their horses' reins to his own and charged. He was slaughtered in the ensuing fight.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://historicalhoney.com/king-john-bohemia-battle-crecy |title=Historical Honey|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180127203114/http://historicalhoney.com/king-john-bohemia-battle-crecy |archive-date=27 January 2018|date=19 February 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=ER |title=Blind to His Fate – The Heroic Life and Death of John of Bohemia |url=http://www.historynaked.com/blind-fate-heroic-life-death-john-bohemia/ |website=Naked History |date=4 April 2016 |publisher=History Naked |access-date=28 April 2020}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Charles II of Navarre]]
| [[File:Charles II of Navarre.png|100px|center]]
| {{dts|1 January 1387}}
| The contemporary chronicler [[Froissart]] relates that the king of [[Navarre]], known as "Charles the Bad", suffering from illness in old age, was ordered by his physician to be tightly sewn into a linen sheet soaked in distilled spirits. The highly flammable sheet accidentally caught fire, and Charles later died of his injuries. Froissart considered the horrific death to be God's judgment upon the king.<ref name="Johnston1806b">{{cite book |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/wondersoflittlew00wanluoft#page/n111 |page=114|volume=1 |chapter=Chapter XXVIII: Of the different and unusual Ways by which some Men have come to their Deaths §{{nnbsp}}29 |date=1806 |first1=Nathaniel |last1=Wanley |first2=William |last2=Johnston |title=The Wonders of the Little World; Or, A General History of Man: Displaying the Various Faculties, Capacities, Powers and Defects of the Human Body and Mind, in Many Thousand Most Interesting Relations of Persons Remarkable for Bodily Perfections or Defects; Collected from the Writings of the Most Approved Historians, Philosophers, and Physicians, of All Ages and Countries - Book I: Which treats of the Perfections, Powers, Capacities, Defects, Imperfections, and Deformities of the Body of Man |location=London |edition=A new |asin=B001F3H1XA |lccn=07003035 |oclc=847968918 |ol=7188480M |quote=Charles II. King of Navarre, by a vicious life in his youth, fell into a paralytic distemper in his old age, that took away the use of his limbs. His physicians directed him to be sewed up in a sheet that had for a considerable time been steeped in strong distilled spirits, to recover the natural heat of his benumbed joints. The surgeon having sewed him up very close, and wanting a knife to cut off the thread, made use of a candle that was at hand to burn it off; but the flame from the thread reaching the sheet, the spirits wherewith it was wet immediately taking fire, burnt so vehemently, that no endeavours could extinguish the flame. Thus the miserable King lost his life in using the means to recover his health. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160829203137/https://archive.org/stream/wondersoflittlew00wanluoft#page/n111 |archive-date=29 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wJIIAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA5-PA27 |title=A collection of modern and contemporary voyages & travels|page=27|author=Collection|year=1805}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/sirjohnfroissar01froigoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/sirjohnfroissar01froigoog/page/n330 313] |title=Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the adjoining countries: from the latter part of the reign of Edward II. to the coronation of Henry IV|publisher=W. Smith, 1839 History – Europe – France|author=Froissart, Jean|translator=Smith, W.|year=1805}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Martin of Aragon]]
| [[File:Martín I de Aragón.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|31 May 1410}}
| The Aragonese king died from a combination of [[indigestion]] and [[Death from laughter|uncontrollable laughing]]. According to legend, Martin was suffering from indigestion, caused by eating an entire goose, when his favorite [[jester]], Borra, entered the king's bedroom. When Martin asked Borra where he had been, the jester replied with: "Out of the next vineyard, where I saw a young deer hanging by his tail from a tree, as if someone had so punished him for stealing figs." This joke caused the king to die from laughter.<ref name=doran>John Doran, ''The History of Court Fools'' (Boston: Francis A. Niccolls & Co., 1858), 377–378.</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Norris|first=Paul N. |title=Patronage and Piety|url=http://www.glossa.fi/mirator/pdf/Morris.pdf |publisher=Mirator Lokakuu|access-date=18 May 2011|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720181412/http://www.glossa.fi/mirator/pdf/Morris.pdf |archive-date=20 July 2011}}</ref>
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=== Renaissance ===
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!scope="row" | [[George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence|George Plantagenet]], [[Duke of Clarence]]
| [[File:George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|18 February 1478}}
| The 1st Duke of Clarence was allegedly executed by drowning in a barrel of [[Malvasia|Malmsey wine]], apparently his own choice once he accepted he was to be killed.<ref>{{cite book |last=Thompson |first=C. J. S. |title=Mysteries of History with Accounts of Some Remarkable Characters and Charlatans |pages=31 ''ff.'' |location=[[Kila, Montana]] |publisher=[[Kessinger Publishing]] |year=2004}}</ref>
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![[Charles VIII of France]]
|[[File:Portrait of King Charles VIII of France (1470–1498), by anonymous artist, 16th century (cropped).jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|7 April 1498}}
|The French king died as the result of striking his head on the lintel of a door while on his way to watch a game of [[real tennis]].<ref name="Marvin"/>{{Rp|105}}
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!Victims of the [[Dancing plague of 1518|1518 dancing plague]]
|[[File:Die Wallfahrt der Fallsuechtigen nach Meulebeeck.jpg|center|127x127px]]
| {{dts|July 1518}}
|Several people died of either [[Myocardial infarction|heart attacks]], [[stroke]]s or [[Fatigue|exhaustion]] during a [[dancing mania]] that occurred in [[Strasbourg]], [[Alsace]] ([[Holy Roman Empire]]).<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Waller|first=John C.|date=September 2008|title=In a spin: the mysterious dancing epidemic of 1518|journal=Endeavour|volume=32|issue=3|pages=117–121|doi=10.1016/j.endeavour.2008.05.001|pmid=18602695}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Clementz|first=Élisabeth|year=2016|title=Waller (John), Les danseurs fous de Strasbourg. Une épidémie de transe collective en 1518|url=https://journals.openedition.org/alsace/2457|journal=Revue d'Alsace – Fédération des Sociétés d'Histoire et d'Archéologie d'Alsace|volume=142|pages=451–453}}</ref>
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![[Pietro Aretino]]
|[[File:La muerte de Pietro Aretino, por Anselm Feuerbach.jpg|center|153x153px]]
| {{dts|21 October 1556}}
|The influential Italian author and [[libertine]] is said to have died of suffocation from [[Death from laughter|laughing too much]] at an obscene joke during a meal in [[Venice]]. Another version states that he fell from a chair from too much laughter, fracturing his skull.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Tiziano|last1=Caroli|first1=Flavio|last2=Zuffi|first2=Stefano|publisher=Rusconi|year=1990|isbn=978-8818230277|location=Milan|pages=199–200}}</ref>
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![[Henry II of France]]
|[[File:Tournament between Henry II and Lorges.jpg|center|100x100px]]
| {{dts|10 July 1559}}
|On 30 June 1559, a tournament was held near [[Place des Vosges]] to celebrate the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis with the French king's longtime enemies, the Habsburgs of Austria, and to celebrate the marriage of his daughter [[Elisabeth of Valois]] to King [[Philip II of Spain]]. During a jousting match, Henry, wearing the colors of his mistress [[Diane de Poitiers]],{{sfn|Wellman|2013|p=213}} was wounded in the eye by a fragment of the splintered lance of [[Gabriel, comte de Montgomery|Gabriel Montgomery]], captain of the King's [[Garde Écossaise|Scottish Guard]].{{sfn|Baumgartner|1988|p=250}} Despite the efforts of royal surgeons [[Ambroise Paré]] and [[Andreas Vesalius]], the court doctors ultimately "advocated a wait-and-see strategy";<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Zanello |first1=Marc |last2=Charlier |first2=Philippe |last3=Corns |first3=Robert |last4=Devaux |first4=Bertrand |last5=Berche |first5=Patrick |last6=Pallud |first6=Johan |date=Jan 2015 |title=The death of Henry II, King of France (1519-1559). From myth to medical and historical fact |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25421951/ |journal=Acta Neurochir (Wien) |volume=157 |issue=1 |pages=145–9 |doi=10.1007/s00701-014-2280-9 |pmid=25421951 |s2cid=24693363 |access-date=24 August 2022}}</ref> as a result, the king's untreated eye and brain damage led to his death by [[sepsis]] ten days later.{{sfn|Baumgartner|1988|p=252}} His death played a significant role in the decline of jousting as a sport, particularly in France.{{sfn|Barber|Barker|1989|p=134, 139}}
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!scope="row" | Hans Staininger
| [[File:Braunau am Inn 003.JPG|100px|center]]
| {{dts|1567}}
| The [[burgomaster]] of [[Braunau am Inn|Braunau]] (then [[Bavaria]], now [[Austria]]), died when he broke his neck by tripping over his own beard.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hall |first1= Charles Winslow |title=The Nobility of the Trades: Barbers and Hairdressers|journal= National Magazine|volume=32 |issue=1 |page=472 |date=April 1910}}</ref> The beard, which was {{convert|4.5|ft}} long at the time, was usually kept rolled up in a leather pouch.<ref>{{cite web |title=HowStuffWorks – 10 Bizarre Ways to Die|url=http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/human-biology/10-ways-to-die3.htm|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140217225516/http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/human-biology/10-ways-to-die3.htm |archive-date=17 February 2014|date=9 March 2009}}</ref>
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![[Marco Antonio Bragadin]]
|[[File:Брагадино.jpg|center|129x129px]]
| {{dts|17 August 1571}}
|The [[Republic of Venice|Venetian]] Captain-General of [[Famagusta]] in [[Cyprus]], was gruesomely killed after the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottomans]] took over the city. He was dragged around the walls with sacks of earth and stone on his back; next, he was tied to a chair and hoisted to the [[Yard (sailing)|yardarm]] of the Turkish flagship, where he was exposed to the taunts of the sailors. Finally, he was taken to his place of execution in the main square, tied naked to a column, and [[Flaying|flayed alive]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=A History of Venice|last=Norwich|first=John Julius|publisher=Vintage Books|year=1982|isbn=0679721975|location=New York|page=479}}</ref> Bragadin's skin was stuffed with straw and sewn, reinvested with his military insignia, and exhibited riding an ox in a mocking procession along the streets of Famagusta. The macabre trophy was hoisted upon the masthead pennant of the personal galley of the Ottoman commander, Amir al-bahr Mustafa Pasha, to be taken to [[Constantinople]] as a gift for [[List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire|Sultan]] [[Selim II]]. Bragadin's skin was stolen in 1580 by a Venetian seaman and brought back to Venice, where it was received as a returning hero.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Venice : A New History|last=Madden|first=Thomas F.|publisher=Viking|year=2012|isbn=978-0670025428|location=New York|page=334}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Tycho Brahe]]
| [[File:Tycho Brahe.JPG|100px|center]]
| {{dts|24 October 1601}}
| The astronomer contracted a bladder or kidney ailment after attending a banquet in Prague, and died eleven days later. According to [[Johannes Kepler]]'s first-hand account, Brahe had refused to leave the banquet to relieve himself, because it would have been a breach of etiquette.<ref>{{cite news |first=John |last=Tierney |title=Murder! Intrigue! Astronomers? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/science/30tierney.html |quote=At the time of Tycho's death, in 1601, the blame fell on his failure to relieve himself while drinking profusely at the banquet, supposedly injuring his bladder and making him unable to urinate. |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=29 November 2010 |access-date=30 November 2010 |author-link=John Tierney (journalist) |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219195755/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/science/30tierney.html |archive-date=19 December 2013}}</ref><ref>Thoren ([[#VET|1990]], p.[https://books.google.com/books?id=F5a83U4B8XkC&pg=PA468 468–69])</ref> After he had returned home, he was no longer able to urinate, except eventually in very small quantities and with excruciating pain.<ref>(Dreyer, ''Tycho Brahe: A Picture of Scientific Life and Work in the Sixteenth Century.'', p.[https://books.google.com/books?id=ywaut_U5q00C&pg=PA309 309]).</ref> Though initially ascribed to a kidney stone, and later still to potential [[mercury poisoning]], modern analyses indicate Brahe's death resulted from a fatal case of [[uremia]] caused by an inflamed [[prostate]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gotfredsen |first1=Edvard |date=January 1, 1955 |title=Tycho Brahes sidste sygdom og død |trans-title=The final illness and death of Tycho Brahe |journal=Fund og Forskning I Det Kongelige Biblioteks Samlinger |volume=2 |pages=33–38 |doi=10.7146/fof.v2i1.41115 |url=https://tidsskrift.dk/fundogforskning/article/view/41115|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wyner |first1=Lawrence M |date=5 November 2015 |title=Urologic Demise of Astronomer Tycho Brahe: A Cosmic Case of Urinary Retention |journal=Urology |volume=88 |pages=22–35 |doi=10.1016/j.urology.2015.10.006|pmid=26548950}}</ref>
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=== Early modern period ===
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!scope="row" | [[Safi of Persia]]
| [[File:Schah_Safi.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|1642}}
| The [[Safavid Persia|Safavid]] ruler of Iran allegedly died due to [[alcohol intoxication]] in a drinking contest against a [[Georgians|Georgia]]n nobleman, Scedan Chiladze, invited from [[Mingrelia]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Matthee |first1=Rudolph P. |title=The pursuit of pleasure: drugs and stimulants in Iranian history, 1500–1900 |date=2005 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=9780691118550}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Thomas Urquhart]]
| [[File:ThomasUrquhart.png|100px|center]]
| {{dts|1660}}
| The [[Scottish people|Scottish]] aristocrat, [[polymath]], and first translator of [[François Rabelais]]'s writings into English, is said to have died laughing upon hearing that [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] had taken the throne.<ref>{{cite book |title=Rabelais in English Literature |last=Brown |first=Huntington |isbn=978-0-7146-2051-0 |publisher=Routledge |page=126 |year=1968}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The History of Scottish Poetry |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofscotish00irvi |publisher=Edmonston & Douglas |year=1861 |page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofscotish00irvi/page/539 539]}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | James Betts
|
| {{dts|1667}}
| Died from [[asphyxiation]] after being sealed in a [[cupboard]] by Elizabeth Spencer, at [[Corpus Christi College, Cambridge]] in an attempt to hide him from her father, [[John Spencer (Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge)|John Spencer]].<ref name=Rackham>{{cite book|last=Rackham |first=Oliver |author-link = Oliver Rackham |title= Treasures of Silver at Corpus Christi College |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-521-81880-3}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Guiley|first=Rosemary Ellen|title=The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits|publisher=Checkmark books|edition=2nd|year=2000|isbn=978-0-8160-4086-5|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofgh00rose_0}}</ref>
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![[François Vatel]]
|[[File:Le suicide de François Vatel.jpg|center|152x152px]]
| {{dts|24 April 1671}}
|The [[majordomo]] of [[Louis, Grand Condé|Prince Louis II de Bourbon-Condè]], was responsible for a banquet for 2,000 people hosted in honour of King [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]] at the [[Château de Chantilly]], where he died. According to a letter by [[Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné|Madame de Sévigné]], Vatel was so distraught about the lateness of the seafood delivery and about other mishaps, that he committed suicide with his sword, and his body was discovered when someone came to tell him of the arrival of the fish.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cairn.info/revue-dix-septieme-siecle-2002-4-page-631.htm|title=Aux origines du suicide de Vatel : les difficultés de l'approvisionnement en marée au temps de Louis XIV}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Molière]]
| [[File:Pierre Mignard - Portrait de Jean-Baptiste Poquelin dit Molière (1622-1673) - Google Art Project (cropped).jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|17 February 1673}}<ref name="Burke2008"/>
| The French playwright suffered a [[pulmonary hemorrhage]] caused by [[tuberculosis]], while playing the part of a [[hypochondriac]] in his own play ''[[The Imaginary Invalid|Le malade imaginaire]]''.<ref name="Burke2008">{{cite book|last1=Burke|first1=David|chapter=The Literary Right Bank|title=Writers In Paris: Literary Lives in the City of Light|date=2008|publisher=Counterpoint|location=Berkeley, California|isbn=978-1-59376-157-8|page=171|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zwbOBPa7cPYC&q=Moliere+death+Le+malade+imaginaire+hemorrhage&pg=PA171}}{{Dead link|date=January 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="Walsh">{{cite book |last1=Walsh |first1=Kieran|chapter=38: The Characters (in Silhouette) from Molière's Play ''Le malade imaginaire'' |title=Medical Education: A History in 100 Images |date=2016 |publisher=CRC Press |location=Boca Raton, Florida |isbn=978-1-4987-5197-1|pages=83–84|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pO0bDAAAQBAJ&q=Moliere+death+Le+malade+imaginaire+hemorrhage&pg=PA84}}</ref> He disguised his convulsion as part of his performance and finished out the show,<ref name="Burke2008"/> which ends with his character dead in a chair. After the show, he was carried in the chair to his house, where he died.<ref name="Burke2008"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Scott |first1=Virginia |title=Molière: A Theatrical Life |date=2000 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, England |isbn=978-0-521-78281-4 |pages=242–243 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gLraAyhMePEC&q=Moliere+death+Le+malade+imaginaire+hemorrhage&pg=PA242}}</ref><ref name="Walsh"/>
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![[Bhai Mati Das]]<br>[[Bhai Sati Das]]<br>[[Bhai Dayala]]
| [[File:Bhai Mati Das.jpg|center|100x100px]]
| {{dts|1675}}
|The trio are revered as early [[Sikhs|Sikh]] [[martyr]]s. By order of the [[Mughal emperors|Mughal emperor]] [[Aurangzeb]], Bhai Mati Das was executed by being bound between two pillars and [[Death by sawing|sawn in half]],<ref>{{Cite book|title=History of the Sikhs: The Sikh Gurus, 1469–1708|last=Gupta|first=Hari Ram|publisher=Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers|year=1978|location=New Delhi|page=376}}</ref> while his younger brother Bhai Sati Das was wrapped in cotton wool soaked in oil and set on fire,<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Encyclopedia of Sikhism|last=Singh|first=H. S.|publisher=Hemkunt Press|year=2005|isbn=8170103010|location=New Delhi|page=180}}</ref> and Bhai Dayala was [[Death by boiling|boiled in a cauldron]] full of water and roasted over a block of charcoal.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Soul of Sikhism|last=Siṅgha|first=Guraprīta|publisher=Fusion Books|year=2003|isbn=978-8128800856|location=New Delhi|page=100}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Thomas Otway]]
| [[File:Thomas Otway, John Riley.jpg|center|100x100px]]
| {{dts|14 April 1685}}
| The English dramatist fell on hard times and was suffering from poverty in his later years, and was driven by starvation to beg for food. A gentleman who recognized him gave him a [[guinea (coin)|guinea]], with which he hastened to a baker's shop, purchased a roll, and choked to death on the first mouthful.<ref>Cibben, Theophilus. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. II. Printed for R. Griffths at the Dunciad in St. Paul's Church-Yard. 1753.</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Jean-Baptiste Lully]]
| [[File:Paul Mignard - Jean-Baptiste Lully.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|22 March 1687}}
| The French composer died of a [[gangrene|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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title = The New Grove French Baroque Masters: Lully, Charpentier, Lalande, Couperin, Rameau|last1 = Anthony|first1 = James R.|publisher = W. W. Norton & Company|year = 1986|isbn = 978-0393022865|page = [https://archive.org/details/newgrovefrenchba00anth/page/16 16]|last2 = Hitchcock|first2 = H. Wiley|last3 = Sadler|first3 = Graham|url = https://archive.org/details/newgrovefrenchba00anth/page/16}}</ref> He refused to have his leg amputated so he could still dance.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The New Grove French Baroque Masters: Lully, Charpentier, Lalande, Couperin, Rameau|last1=Anthony|first1=James R.|last2=Hitchcock|first2=H. Wiley|last3=Sadler|first3=Graham|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|year=1986|isbn=0393022862|page=[https://archive.org/details/newgrovefrenchba00anth/page/16 16]|url=https://archive.org/details/newgrovefrenchba00anth/page/16}}</ref>
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![[Frederick, Prince of Wales]]
|[[File:Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales by Philip Mercier.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|31 March 1751}}
|The son of [[George II of Great Britain]] and father of [[George III]] died of a [[pulmonary embolism]], but was commonly claimed to have been killed by being struck by a [[cricket ball]].<ref name="Marvin"/>{{Rp|105}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/41xVBDYmZgbmgwPNc9XlNY8/frederick-prince-of-wales |title=Frederick Prince of Wales |department=BBC Four - The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain |publisher=[[BBC]] |access-date=8 December 2021}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Henry Hall (lighthouse keeper)|Henry Hall]]
|
| {{dts|8 December 1755}}
| The 94-year-old British [[lighthouse keeper]] died several days after fighting a fire at [[Eddystone Lighthouse#Rudyard.27s lighthouse|Rudyerd's Tower]], during which molten lead from the roof fell down his throat. His autopsy revealed that "the diaphragmatic upper mouth of the stomach greatly inflamed and ulcerated, and the tuncia in the lower part of the stomach burnt; and from the great cavity of it took out a great piece of lead ... which weighed exactly seven ounces, five drachms and eighteen grains". The piece of lead is currently in the collection of the National Museum of Scotland.<ref>{{cite journal |date=1854 |title=Barbarous experiments at Plymouth |journal=[[The Zoist]] |publisher=H. Baillière |page=248 |volume=11 |via=Google Books |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DulXAAAAMAAJ&q=henry+hall+lighthouse+dr+spry&pg=PA248 |quote=The reality of this assertion seemed, however, then incredible to Dr. Spry, who could scarcely suppose it possible that any human being could exist after receiving melted lead into the stomach...}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://uslhs.org/rudyerds-tower-eddystone |title=Death of a Keeper on the Eddystone |publisher=United States Lighthouse Society |access-date=4 February 2022 |archive-date=4 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220204221037/https://uslhs.org/rudyerds-tower-eddystone |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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=== 19th century ===
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!scope="row" | John Cummings
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| {{dts|March 1809}}
| After seeing a circus [[sword swallowing|knife-swallower]], Seaman John Cummings began actually swallowing knives. On one occasion, he swallowed four knives, and quickly passed three with no ill-health. He later swallowed 14 knives, and after some days with abdominal pain, he passed all of them. He finally swallowed 20 knives and a clasp knife case, but after a few days, he had only passed the case; he died after four years in pain. On autopsy, a knife blade and spring were found in his intestines, and between 30 and 40 fragments of metal, wood, and horn in his stomach.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Goddard |first1=Jonathan Charles |title=A seaman's wager |journal=Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine |date=2003 |volume=96 |issue=7 |pages=359–360 |doi=10.1177/014107680309600718 |pmid=12835457 |pmc=539548}}</ref>
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!Victims of the [[London Beer Flood]]
|[[File:Horseshoe_Brewery,_London,_c._1800.jpg|center|100x100px]]
| {{dts|17 October 1814}}
|At Meux & Co's [[Horse Shoe Brewery]], a 22-foot-tall (6.7 m) wooden vat of fermenting [[Porter (beer)|porter]] burst, causing chain reactions and destroying several large beer barrels. The beer subsequently flooded the nearby slum and killed 8 people. Several people also subsequently died from [[alcohol poisoning]] as a result of vaporized liquor.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/friday-zak-ebrahim-stolen-cabin-sphinx-unearthed-and-more-1.2902846/a-real-beer-tsunami-remembering-the-big-british-beer-flood-of-october-1814-with-brewing-historian-martyn-cornell-1.2902838|title='A real beer tsunami'. Remembering the big British beer flood of October, 1814 with brewing historian Martyn Cornell|publisher = Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|date=17 October 2014|access-date=21 February 2022}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | William Snyder
|
| {{dts|11 January 1854}}
| The 13-year old died in [[San Francisco, California]], reportedly after a circus clown swung him around by his heels.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thedeadhistory.com/blog/killed-by-a-circus-clown|title='Killed by a circus clown'|date=8 March 2020 }}</ref>{{better source needed|date=April 2023}}
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![[Archduchess Mathilda of Austria|Mathilda of Austria]]
|[[File:Matilde de Áustria-Teschen.5.jpg|center|163x163px]]
| {{dts|6 June 1867}}
|The daughter of [[Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen]] set her dress on fire while trying to hide a cigarette from her father, who had forbidden her to smoke.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Twilight of the Habsburgs. The Life and Times of Emperor Francis Joseph |last=Palmer |first=Alan |publisher=Phoenix Giant |year=1997 |isbn=978-1857998696 |location=London |page=158}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://landesarchiv.hessen.de/sites/landesarchiv.hessen.de/files/Newsletter%20HessenArchiv%20aktuell%202020_09.pdf|language=German|title=Brandunfall der Erzherzogin Mathilde von Österreich|pages=5|trans-title=The Fire Death of Archduchess Mathilda of Austria|work=HessenArchiv aktuelle 9/2020|publisher=Hessisches Landesarchiv|access-date=24 October 2021|archive-date=24 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024094839/https://landesarchiv.hessen.de/sites/landesarchiv.hessen.de/files/Newsletter%20HessenArchiv%20aktuell%202020_09.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Clement Vallandigham]]
| [[File:Clement Vallandigham - Brady-Handy.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|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. His client was acquitted.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.civil-war-150.com/tag/clement-vallandigham |title=Fatal Accident to Mr. Vallandigham |journal=[[Western Reserve Chronicle]] |date=21 June 1871 |page=2 |access-date=21 February 2022 |via=The American Civil War @ 150 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103232217/http://www.civil-war-150.com/tag/clement-vallandigham |archive-date=3 November 2013 |quote=Here is a newspaper account of the unusual death of Clement Vallandigham, a leader of the Copperhead Democrats during the Civil War.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.historiclebanonohio.com/?q=vallandigham |title=Death of Clement Vallandigham |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151103215850/http://www.historiclebanonohio.com/?q=vallandigham |archive-date=3 November 2015}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Henry Taylor
|
| {{dts|November 1872}}
| The [[pallbearer]] at [[Kensal Green Cemetery]] in [[London]], was crushed by the coffin he was helping carry after he tripped on a stone. The widow of the man in it reportedly "nearly went into hysterics".<ref name="Clay2013">{{cite web|last=Clay|first=Jeremy|date=25 December 2013|title=10 truly bizarre Victorian deaths|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25340525|website=BBC News|publisher=British Broadcasting Company|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180519152935/http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25340525|archive-date=19 May 2018}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Sir William Payne-Gallwey, 2nd Baronet]]
|
| {{dts|19 December 1881}}
|The former British [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|MP]] died after sustaining severe internal injuries when he fell on a [[turnip]] while hunting.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/391692319 |title=Death of Sir William Gallway|newspaper=[[Northern Echo]]|date=20 December 1881|access-date=28 October 2018 |quote=Sir William, so late as Thursday, was out shooting in the parish of Bagby, and in crossing a turnip field fell with his body on to a turnip, sustaining severe internal injuries. All that medical aid could do was done, but with Sir William's failing health he gradually sank, and died, as stated above, about ten o'clock yesterday morning.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/andy-mcsmiths-diary-the-enemy-within-chequers-at-sam-cams-delayed-40th-9934549.html|title=Andy McSmith's Diary: The enemy within Chequers at Sam Cam's delayed 40th|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|date=18 December 2014|access-date=28 October 2018|quote=It was 133 years ago, on 19 December 1881, that the Tory MP Sir William Payne-Gallwey was out shooting in Bagby, North Yorkshire, when he fell over and landed on a turnip. The impact killed the poor man.}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Allan Pinkerton]]
| [[File:Allan Pinkerton-retouch.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|1 July 1884}}
| The founder of the [[Pinkerton (detective agency)|Pinkerton Detective Agency]] tripped on the pavement and severely bit his tongue, which became infected with [[gangrene]].<ref name="Lanis1949">{{cite book|last=Lanis|first=Edward Stanley|date=1949|title=Allan Pinkerton and the private detective institution|location=[[Madison, Wisconsin]]|publisher=[[University of Wisconsin, Madison]]|page=170}}</ref>
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!Unknown Iraqi male
|
| {{dts|22 August 1888}}
|At around 8:30{{nbsp}}pm, a shower of [[meteorite]]s fell "like rain" on a village in [[Sulaymaniyah]], [[Iraq]] (then part of the [[Ottoman Empire]]). One man died and another was paralyzed. His death is considered the only credible case of death-by-meteorite.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/meteor-man-death-first-person-killed-iraq-turkey-ottoman-empire-a9484231.html|last=Stubley|first=Peter|title=First credible evidence emerges of person being killed by meteor|date=25 April 2020|website=The Independent|department=Science|access-date=21 February 2022|quote=The odds of being struck and killed by a meteorite are said to be as low as one in 250,000.}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Death of Bridget Driscoll|Bridget Driscoll]]
| [[Image:BDriscoll.jpeg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|17 August 1896}}
|The 44-year-old, the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in Great Britain,<ref>{{cite news |title=Fatal crash with self-driving car was a first – like Bridget Driscoll's was 121 years ago with one of the first cars |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/tripping/wp/2018/03/22/fatal-crash-with-self-driving-car-was-a-first-like-bridget-driscolls-was-121-years-ago-with-one-of-the-first-cars/ |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=22 March 2018 |access-date=26 December 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name=beeb>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10987606 |title=How the UK's first fatal car accident unfolded |first=Andrew |last=McFarlane |work=BBC News |date=17 August 2010 |access-date=27 August 2013}}</ref> was struck on the grounds of [[the Crystal Palace]] in London, by a car belonging to the [[Anglo-French (automobile)|Anglo-French Motor Carriage Company]] while giving demonstration rides.<ref name=beeb/>

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![[Empress Elisabeth of Austria]]
|[[File:Assassinato luigi.jpg|center|100x100px]]
| {{dts|10 September 1898}}
|Stabbed with a thin file by Italian anarchist [[Luigi Lucheni]] while strolling through [[Geneva]] with her lady-in-waiting [[Countess Irma Sztáray de Sztára et Nagymihály|Irma Sztáray]]. The wound pierced her [[pericardium]] and a [[lung]]. Her extremely tight corset held the wound closed, so she did not realize what had happened (believing a passerby had struck her), and walked on for some time before collapsing.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Elizabeth, empress of Austria: a memoir|last=De Burgh|first=Edward Morgan Alborough|publisher=J.B. Lippencott & Co.|year=1899|location=Philadelphia|page=310}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=L'attentato. La morte dell'Imperatrice Elisabetta e il delitto dell'anarchico Lucheni|last1=Matray|first1=Maria|last2=Krüger|first2=Answald|publisher=Mgs Press|year=1998|isbn=978-8886424561|location=Trieste}}</ref>
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!Victims of the [[Thanksgiving Day Disaster]]
|
| {{dts|29 November 1900}}
|During the 1900 [[Big Game (American football)|''The Big Game'']] [[American football]] match between the [[California Golden Bears]] and the [[Stanford Cardinal]] in San Francisco. A large crowd of people who did not want to pay the $1 (equivalent of $40 today) admission fee gathered upon the roof of a glass blowing factory to watch for free. The roof collapsed, spilling many spectators onto a furnace. Of the hundreds of people on the roof, at least 100 people fell four stories to the factory floor. 60 to 100 more people fell directly on top of the furnace, the surface temperature of which was estimated to be around 500 °F (260 °C). Fuel pipes were severed as a result of the roof collapse, spraying many victims with scalding hot oil. The fuel also ignited, setting many bodies on fire.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Finacom|first=Steve|date=November 19, 2015|title=Big Game horror in 1900 was quickly forgotten|url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2015/11/19/big-game-horror-in-1900-was-quickly-forgotten/|access-date=December 19, 2023|website=The Mercury News|language=en-US|archive-date=February 25, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220225085342/https://www.mercurynews.com/2015/11/19/big-game-horror-in-1900-was-quickly-forgotten/|url-status=live}}</ref> Twenty-three people were killed, and over 100 more were injured. The disaster remains the deadliest accident at a sporting event in U.S. history.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Scott|first=Sam|date=November 1, 2015|title=The Big Game Disaster of 1900|url=https://stanfordmag.org/contents/the-big-game-disaster-of-1900|access-date=February 25, 2022|website=stanfordmag.org|language=en|archive-date=February 25, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220225085543/https://stanfordmag.org/contents/the-big-game-disaster-of-1900|url-status=live}}</ref>
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=== 20th century ===
==== 1901–1960 ====
{| class="wikitable"
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![[Adelbert S. Hay]]
|[[File:Studio_portrait_of_U._S._Consul_Adelbert_S._Hay_seated_holding_hat_and_cigarette.jpg|center|142x142px]]
|23 June 1901
|The 24-year-old American consul and politician died after falling {{convert|60|ft}} from a window in the New Haven House in [[New Haven, Connecticut]]. ''[[The San Francisco Call]]'' speculated that Hay had been sitting on the window for air and eventually fell asleep, causing him to fall to his death.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19010624.2.12&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1|title=ADELBERT S. HAY'S DEATH CASTS GLOOM OVER YALE|work=[[The San Francisco Call]]|location=[[New Haven, Connecticut]]|date=June 23, 1901|access-date=October 5, 2023|via=[[California Digital Newspaper Collection]]}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Stanton Walker
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| 25 October 1902
| The 20-year-old was watching an amateur baseball game in [[Morristown, Ohio]], with a friend on either side of him. One of the friends borrowed a knife from the other to sharpen his pencil as he was keeping score, and when he was finished passed the knife to Walker to pass to the other friend. As Walker was holding the knife, a foul ball struck him in the hand and drove the knife into his chest next to his heart. His friends asked if he was hurt and he said "not much", but the wound soon began to bleed heavily and he died within minutes.{{sfn|Weeks|Gorman|2015|p=155}}
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! Unknown Hawaiian male
|
| {{dts|1903|format=hide}} Early 1903
| An unidentified person was beaten to death with a [[Bible]] during a healing ceremony gone wrong in [[Honolulu|Honolulu, Hawai'i]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Tué à coups de Bible. |url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k561072w/f3.item.zoom |work=[[Le Petit Parisien]] |date=28 May 1903 |access-date=13 April 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160524090112/http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k561072w/f3.item.zoom |archive-date=24 May 2016}}</ref> He was being treated for [[malaria]] when his family summoned a [[Kahuna]], who decided he was possessed by devils and tried to exorcise the demons;<ref>{{cite news |title=Bible to Drive Out Devils |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1903-05-14/ed-1/seq-12/#date1=05%2F01%2F1903&index=16&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Kahuna&proxdistance=5&date2=06%2F01%2F1903&ortext=kahuna&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=&dateFilterType=range&page=1 |work=[[The Sun (New York City)|The Sun]] |date= 14 May 1903 |access-date=13 January 2019}}</ref> the Kahuna was charged with manslaughter.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82016339/1903-05-01/ed-1/seq-5/|title=Hilo tribune. (Hilo, Hawaii) 1895–1917, May 01, 1903, Image 5|first=National Endowment for the|last=Humanities|date=1 May 1903|access-date=13 February 2019|via=chroniclingamerica.loc.gov}}</ref>
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![[Benjamin Taylor A Bell]]
|
|1 March 1904
|On 18 February 1904, while taking his habitual shortcut to the ''Canadian Mining Review'' offices through an adjacent store, the Canadian journalist walked through the wrong door in the store and fell {{Convert|10|ft}} down an [[elevator shaft]]. He died of his injuries 12 days later.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |first=Angus D. |last=Gilbert |title=BELL, BENJAMIN TAYLOR A |dictionary=[[Dictionary of Canadian Biography]] |volume=13 |publisher=[[University of Toronto]]/[[Université Laval]] |year=1994 |access-date=20 February 2022 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/bell_benjamin_taylor_a_13E.html |quote=The circumstances of his death were somewhat bizarre.}}</ref>
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!John Mortensen
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|1 May 1904
|The 19-year-old [[Waterfowl hunting|duck hunter]] from [[Wairoa]], [[New Zealand]], drowned in about {{Convert|6|in|cm}} of water on the Whare-o-Maraenui reserve in [[Napier, New Zealand]], apparently having fallen while having a [[seizure]].<ref>{{cite news |title=DROWNED WHILE IN A FIT. |newspaper=Colonist |volume=XLVI |issue=11015 |date=2 May 1904 |page=4 |access-date=24 March 2022 |via=[[Papers Past]] |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TC19040502.2.18.7 |quote=A fatality of a very peculiar nature occurred early this morning.}}</ref>
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!Melissa M. Tiemann
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|7 July 1904
|The 50-year-old resident of [[Los Angeles]] fell from a streetcar and struck the back of her head on the ground, driving the teeth of an aluminum comb she was wearing into her skull.<ref>{{cite news |title=AGED LOS ANGELES WOMAN KILLED IN STRANGE WAY Falls From Street Car and Teeth of Heavy Comb Are Driven Into Skull. |newspaper=[[San Francisco Call]] |volume=XCVI |issue=38 |date=8 July 1904 |at=Page 7, column 5 |access-date=23 January 2023 |via=[[California Digital Newspaper Collection]] |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040708.2.60&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1}}</ref>
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![[Dietrich von Hülsen-Haeseler]]
|[[File:Dietrich von Hülsen-Haeseler (BerlLeben 1908-11).jpg|center|152x152px]]
|14 November 1908
|The Chief of the German Imperial Military Cabinet suffered a heart attack and died aged 56 after giving a ballet performance to [[Wilhelm II, German Emperor|Kaiser Wilhelm Il]] and other members of a hunting party staying at Donaueschingen Castle. Shortly after ending his recital with a bow, he collapsed and was pronounced dead at the scene.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Manchester |first=William |title=[[The Arms of Krupp]] |publisher=Michael Joseph |year=1969 |page=265}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=James |first=Harold |year=1989 |title=A German Identity: 1770–1990 |location=New York |publisher=Routledge |page=82}}</ref> The circumstances of his death were covered up by military officials so as not to further inflame public outrage over the [[Eulenburg affair]], a government scandal dealing with accusations of homosexual behavior against members of the Kaiser's cabinet and entourage.<ref name="Steakley">{{cite book |access-date=14 June 2023 |last=Steakley |first=James D. |chapter-url=https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1211&context=svc |chapter=Iconography of a Scandal: Political Cartoons and the Eulenburg Affair in Wilhelmin Germany |title=Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay & Lesbian Past |year=1990 |editor1-last=Duberman |display-editors=etal |location=New York |publisher=Meridian, New American Library |isbn=0-452-01067-5 |page=20 |quote=Like the bizarre death of Hülsen-Häseler, the entire Eulenburg Affair has been discreetly hushed up in all but the most recent historiography.}}</ref>
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!George Spencer Millet
|[[File:George Spencer Millet.jpg|alt=A black-and-white photograph of George Millet.|100px|center]]
|15 February 1909
|The American teenager who worked as an office boy at an insurance company at the [[Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower|Metropolitan Life Building]] in [[New York City]], was fleeing six young women stenographers at his workplace intent on giving him kisses for his 15th birthday while carrying an [[ink eraser]] in his breast pocket. As the women moved in for their kisses, he fell forward, and the eraser's point pierced his heart, killing him.<ref>{{cite web |last=Barbier |first=Laetitia |url=https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/morbid-monday-kissed-to-death |title=Morbid Monday: Kissed to Death |website=[[Atlas Obscura]] |department=Stories |date=18 February 2013 |access-date=3 April 2022 |quote=His gravestone, erected in the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, is a monument to bizarre death, with a story so unusual that it needed to be carved in stone for posterity.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Morton |first=Ella |date=3 October 2014 |title=George Spencer Millet: The Boy Who Was Kissed to Death |url=https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/10/george-spencer-millet-kissed-to-death-in-1909.html |access-date=3 April 2022 |website=[[Slate Magazine]] |department=Atlas Obscura |language=en}}</ref>
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![[Doc Powers]]
|[[File: Doc Powers.jpg|100px|center]]
|26 April 1909
|The 38-year-old baseball player ran into a wall while chasing a foul ball during a game at Philadelphia's [[Shibe Park]], on April 12, 1909. He died from internal injuries two weeks later.<ref>{{cite web |last=Merron |first=Jeff |date=June 22, 2002 |url=http://static.espn.go.com/mlb/s/2002/0622/1397956.html |title=Major Leaguers Who Died In-Season |website=[[espn.com]]}}</ref>
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![[Franz Reichelt]]
|[[File:Franz Reichelt 1912 -2.jpg|100px|center]]
|4 February 1912
|The tailor and inventor leaped from the [[Eiffel Tower]] and fell to his death wearing a [[parachute]] made from cloth, his own invention. He was asked by friends and authorities to use a dummy for the feat, but declined, saying "I intend to prove the worth of my invention". He was known as the Flying Tailor.<ref>"L'inventeur Reichelt s'est tué hier". ''[[Le Petit Journal (newspaper)|Le Petit Journal]]'' (in French). 5 February 1912. p. 1. Retrieved 26 November 2009.</ref>
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!Julian Carlton
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|7 October 1914
|The servant to American architect [[Frank Lloyd Wright]], committed a [[mass murder]] spree on August 15, 1914, at Wright's [[Taliesin (studio)|''Taliesin'' studio]], during which he killed seven people with a [[hatchet]] and set the studio ablaze. Carlton then attempted suicide by drinking [[hydrochloric acid]]. However, this failed to kill him. After nearly being [[lynching|lynched]], Carlton was arrested and brought to a jail in [[Dodgeville, Wisconsin]], where, having severely damaged his esophagus, he starved to death 47 days later.<ref name="bbccarlton">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/1110359.stm |work=[[BBC News]] |title=Mystery of the murders at Taliesin}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=McCrea |first=Ron |year=2012 |title=Building Taliesin: Frank Lloyd Wright's Home of Love and Loss |place=[[Madison, Wisconsin]] |publisher=[[Wisconsin Historical Society Press]] |isbn=978-0-87020-606-1 |pages=188–195}}</ref><!-- does McCrea (2012) describe Carlton's death as "unusual"? because BBC does not -->
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!scope="row" | [[Grigori Rasputin]]
| [[File:Rasputin PA.jpg|center|100px]]
| {{dts|30 December 1916|format=hide}} 30{{nbsp}}December [<nowiki/>[[Old Style and New Style dates|O.S.]]{{nbsp}}17{{nbsp}}December] 1916
| The Russian mystic died of three gunshot wounds, one of which was a close-range shot to his forehead. Little is certain about his death beyond this, and the circumstances of his death have been the subject of considerable speculation.<ref>{{cite book |author-first=Douglas |author-last=Smith |author-link=Douglas Smith (writer) |title=Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RhXyCwAAQBAJ |date=2016 |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |isbn=978-0-374-71123-8 |via=Google Books}}</ref> According to his murderer himself, Prince [[Felix Yusupov]], Grigori Rasputin consumed tea, cakes, and wine which had been laced with [[cyanide]] but he did not appear to be affected by it. He was then shot once in the chest and believed to be dead but, after a while, he leapt up and attacked Yusupov, who freed himself and fled. Rasputin followed and made it into the courtyard before being shot again, and collapsing into a snowbank. The conspirators then wrapped his body and dropped it into the [[Little Nevka River|Malaya Nevka River]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs |last=Smith |first=Douglas |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |year=2016 |isbn=978-0374711238 |pages=590–592}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Victims of the [[Great Molasses Flood]]
| [[File:BostonMolassesDisaster.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|15 January 1919}}
| 21 people were killed and 150 injured after a large tank of [[molasses]] burst in [[North End, Boston|Boston's North End]].<ref name="Smithsonian">{{cite journal| last = Park| first = Edwards| title = Without Warning, Molasses in January Surged Over Boston | journal = Smithsonian| volume = 14| issue = 8| pages = 213–230| date = November 1983| url = http://edp.org/molpark.htm| access-date =24 March 2013}} Reprinted at ''Eric Postpischil's Domain'', "Eric Postpischil's Molasses Disaster Pages, Smithsonian Article", 14 June 2009.</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Puleo |first=Stephen |title=Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 |publisher=[[Beacon Press]] |location=Boston |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-8070-5021-7 |quote=The substance itself gives the entire event an unusual, whimsical quality. |url=https://archive.org/details/darktide00step}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Ray Chapman]]
| [[File:Ray_Chapman_Baseball.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|17 August 1920}}
| On August 16, 1920, while he was up to bat, the 29-year-old [[Cleveland Indians]] baseball player was [[hit by pitch|struck in the head by a pitch]] thrown by New York Yankees' [[Carl Mays]] and died 12 hours later.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MiwDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA9 |title=Carl Mays: My Pitch That Killed Chapman Was A Strike! |last=Propert |first=Phyllis |work=Baseball Digest |date=July 1957 |volume=16 |number=6 |issn=0005-609X |via=Google Books}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Alexander of Greece]]
| [[File:King Alexander of Greece oval with signature.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|25 October 1920}}
| The 27-year old Greek king died of [[sepsis]] after being bitten by a palace steward's pet [[Barbary macaque]] in his garden, while trying to break up a fight between his German shepherd and another monkey.<ref>{{cite web |title=The King who was killed by a monkey |last=Aanmoen |first=Oskar |date=3 May 2017 |website=Royal Central |url=https://royalcentral.co.uk/features/the-king-who-was-killed-by-a-monkey-81478/|access-date=16 November 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Burke |first=Edmund |title=The Annual Register |volume=162 |publisher=Rivington & Co |location=London |year=1921 |isbn=978-1142328900 |quote=The King's death took place under the most tragic and unusual circumstances.}}</ref>
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![[Thomas Lynn Bradford]]
|[[File:The Ogden Standard-Examiner - Ruth Starkweather Doran and Professor Thomas Lynn Bradford - 21 February 1921.png|center|182x182px]]
|5 February 1921
|In an attempt to ascertain the existence of an afterlife, the [[Spiritualism|spiritualist]], committed suicide by sealing his [[Detroit]] apartment, blowing out the pilot of his heater, and turning on the gas, dying of [[carbon monoxide poisoning]]. Bradford had intended to communicate his findings to fellow spiritualist Ruth Starkweather Doran, but some weeks after his death, the New York Times ran the article "Dead Spiritualist Silent".
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!scope="row" | [[George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon]]
| [[File:George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, reading.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|5 April 1923}}
| The financier of [[Howard Carter]]'s search for [[Tutankhamun]] died after a mosquito bite, which he had cut while shaving, became infected. Some attributed his death to the so-called [[curse of the pharaohs]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/carnarvon.htm |title=The Life of Lord Carnarvon |publisher=Touregypt.net |access-date=11 December 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101208072623/http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/carnarvon.htm |archive-date=8 December 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Carnarvon Is Dead Of An Insect's Bite At Pharaoh's Tomb. Blood Poisoning and Ensuing Pneumonia Conquer Tut-ankh-Amen Discoverer in Egypt. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1923/04/05/archives/carnarvon-is-dead-of-an-insects-bite-at-pharaohs-tomb-blood.html |quote=The Earl of Carnarvon died peacefully at 2 o'clock this morning. He was conscious almost to the end. |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=5 April 1923 |access-date=12 August 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090202132202/http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20C11F7355416738DDDAC0894DC405B838EF1D3 |archive-date=2 February 2009}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Frank Hayes (jockey)|Frank Hayes]]
|[[File:Frank_Hayes_(jockey).jpg|alt=Portrait of Frank Hayes|center|194x194px]]
| {{dts|4 June 1923}}
| The 22-year old jockey from [[Elmont, New York]], died of a heart attack mid-race and collapsed on the horse, which nonetheless crossed the finish line first, still carrying his body.<ref>{{cite news |title=Jockey Dies as He Wins His First Race; Hayes Collapses Passing the Winning Post |newspaper=The New York Times |date=5 June 1923 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1923/06/05/archives/jockey-dies-as-he-wins-his-first-race-hayes-collapses-passing-the.html |access-date=18 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Unusual Death #9: A Stellar Finish |last=Alberswerth |first=Matt |date=2 November 2012 |magazine=Diabolique Magazine |url=http://diaboliquemagazine.com/unusual-death-9-a-stellar-finish/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://i.postimg.cc/Jzq9GGjs/4313501-00891.jpg|title=Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920–Population}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Martha Mansfield]]
| [[File:Martha Mansfield LCCN2014713103.jpg|100px|center]]
|{{dts|30 November 1923}}
| While the 24-year-old American film actress was on location in [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]] filming the [[American Civil War]] drama ''[[The Warrens of Virginia (1924 film)|The Warrens of Virginia]]'', a lit match was carelessly tossed by a crew member, which ignited the hoop skirts and ruffles of her Civil War costume. Mansfield had just finished filming her scenes and retired to a car when her clothing burst into flames. Co-star [[Wilfred Lytell]] and a chauffeur were able to extinguish the flames, and Mansfield was rushed to a hospital, where she died the following day from her injuries.<ref>{{cite news |title=Hollywood actress dies in freak accident while filming in San Antonio back in 1923 |url=https://news4sanantonio.com/news/our-city-our-history/hollywood-actress-dies-in-freak-accident-while-filming-in-san-antonio-back-in-1923 |work=News4SA |date=30 November 2020 |access-date=17 November 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=A Deadly Frilly Dress: The Cause of Hollywood Actor's Atypical Death On Set |url=https://medium.com/short-history/a-deadly-frilly-dress-the-cause-of-hollywood-actors-atypical-death-on-set-d68db7431458 |work=Medium |date=10 May 2021 |access-date=17 November 2021}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Thornton Jones
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| {{dts|1924}}
| The lawyer from [[Bangor, Gwynedd]], [[Wales]], woke up to find that he had his throat slit. Motioning for a paper and pencil, he wrote, "I dreamt that I had done it. I awoke to find it true", and died 80 minutes later. He had done it himself while unconscious.<ref>{{cite book |first=David |last=Wallechinsky |author-link=David Wallechinsky |title=The Book Of Lists |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bY4BD9E7-48C&pg=PT335 |year=2009 |publisher=Canongate Books |isbn=978-1-84767-667-2 |page=335 |via=Google Books}}</ref> An inquest at Bangor delivered a verdict of "suicide while [[Temporary insanity|temporarily insane]]".<ref>{{cite news |title=Sleeping Man A Suicide |newspaper=Evening Star |location=Washington, D.C. |page=34 |date=14 August 1924 |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1924-08-14/ed-1/seq-34/#date1=1924&index=0&date2=1924&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&lccn=&words=Jones+Thornton&proxdistance=5&state=&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=thornton+jones&andtext=&dateFilterType=range&page=1 |via=Chronicling America}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Calvin Coolidge#Marriage and family|Calvin Coolidge Jr.]]
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| {{dts|7 July 1924}}
| The 16-year-old younger son of [[Calvin Coolidge]] played tennis with his elder brother at the [[White House]] tennis courts, and neglected to wear socks. A blister on the third toe of his right foot resulted which quickly became infected, and he died just over one week later when sepsis set in.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Shapell |first1=Benjamin |last2=Willen |first2=Sara |title=The Death of Calvin Coolidge Jr. |url=https://www.shapell.org/historical-perspectives/between-the-lines/death-calvin-coolidge-jr/ |publisher=Shapell Manuscript Foundation |access-date=February 4, 2023 |date=July 6, 2017}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Bobby Leach]]
|[[File:BobbyLeachNiagaraFalls.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|26 April 1926}}
| The American stunt performer died after a botched amputation of the infected leg which he had broken after slipping on an orange peel.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://niagarafallsmuseums.ca/discover-our-history/history-notes/bobbyleach.aspx |title=Bobby Leach |publisher=Niagara Falls Museums |access-date=18 January 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180118064722/https://niagarafallsmuseums.ca/discover-our-history/history-notes/bobbyleach.aspx |archive-date=18 January 2018}}</ref> He had gone over [[Niagara Falls]] in a barrel fifteen years earlier.
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!scope="row" | Phillip McClean
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| {{dts|1926}}
| The 16-year-old and his brother were clubbing a [[cassowary]] on the family property in [[Mossman, Queensland]],<ref>{{cite book |last=Christensen |first=Liana |title=Deadly Beautiful: Vanishing Killers of the Animal Kingdom |year=2011 |publisher=Exisle Publishing |location=[[Wollombi, New South Wales]] |isbn=978-1-921497-22-3 |page=272}}</ref> when it knocked him down, kicked him in the neck, and opened a large cut, leading to death from loss of blood.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kofron |first1=Christopher P. |last2=Chapman |first2=Angela |year=2006 |title=Causes of mortality to the endangered Southern Cassowary Casuarius casuarius johnsonii in Queensland, Australia. |journal=[[Pacific Conservation Biology]] |volume=12 |issue=3 |pages=175–179|doi=10.1071/PC060175 }}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Isadora Duncan]]
| [[File:Isadora Duncan portrait.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|14 September 1927}}
| The American dancer broke her neck in [[Nice]], France when her long scarf became entangled in the open-spoked wheel and rear axle of the [[Amilcar CGSS]] automobile in which she was riding.<ref>{{cite news |last=Brown |first=Ismene |title=Isadora Duncan, Sublime or Ridiculous? |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/dance/4949201/Isadora-Duncan-sublime-or-ridiculous.html |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=6 March 2009 |access-date=7 January 2021 |location=London |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007094636/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/dance/4949201/Isadora-Duncan-sublime-or-ridiculous.html |archive-date=7 October 2014 |quote=Isadora Duncan's bizarre death was a brutal end to a controversial life.}}</ref>
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!scope="row" |[[Arnold Bennett]]
| [[File:Arnold Bennett's Photograph (cropped).jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|27 March 1931}}
| The British novelist was dining in Paris with his partner, Dorothy. He drank two glasses of tap water during the meal, scoffing at Dorothy's claims that the water in Paris was not properly treated to be safe to drink. Within two days, he contracted [[typhoid fever]] and died two months later.<ref>{{cite book |last=Pound |first=Reginald |author-link=Reginald Pound |title=Arnold Bennett: A Biography |location=New York |publisher=[[Harcourt Brace]] |year=1953}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Drabble |first=Margaret |author-link=Margaret Drabble |title=Arnold Bennett |location=London |publisher=[[Weidenfeld and Nicolson]] |year=1974}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Henthorn |first=Tom |title="Stench!" Arnold Bennett's End and the Beginning of "Finnegans Wake" |journal=Twentieth Century Literature |volume=54 |issue=1 |date=Spring 2008 |pages=31–46 |publisher=[[Duke University Press]]|doi=10.1215/0041462X-2008-2002}}</ref>
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!scope="row" |[[Eben Byers]]
| [[File:Golfer_Eben_M._Byers.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|31 March 1932}}
| The American socialite and industrialist died after drinking excessive quantities of [[radium]]. He had developed persistent pain after a fall in 1927, for which he was prescribed [[Radithor]], a [[patent medicine]] that contained 1 microcurie each of isotopes <sup>226</sup>Ra and <sup>228</sup>Ra. He drank a total of around 1400 doses, which concentrated in his bones, continually irradiating him. By 1931, his bones were reportedly disintegrating and his jaw had been removed; he died the next year.<ref name=wsj>{{cite news |newspaper=Wall Street Journal |date=August 1, 1990 |last=Winslow |first=Ron |title=The Radium Water Worked Fine until His Jaw Came Off |page=A1|url=https://case.edu/affil/MeMA/MCA/11-20/1991-Nov.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216124222/https://case.edu/affil/MeMA/MCA/11-20/1991-Nov.pdf |quote=Cancer Researcher Unearths A Bizarre Tale of Medicine And Roaring '20s Society|archive-date=February 16, 2017 }}</ref>
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!scope="row" |[[Nicholas Comper]]
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| {{dts|17 June 1939}}
| The [[aviator]] and aircraft designer was attempting to light a firework in [[Hythe, Kent]], when a passerby enquired what he was doing; Comper replied that he was an [[Irish Republican Army (1922–1969)|IRA man]] planning to blow up the town hall. The passerby knocked down Comper, who hit his head on the curb.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Riding|first=Richard|date=2003|title=Database [article]: Comper Swift|url=https://smg.koha-ptfs.co.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=105988&query_desc=(su:%7BAirplanes.%7D)|journal=Aeroplane Monthly |volume=31 |issue=3 |pages=73–90}} "Comper Swift/between 1924 and his bizarre death in 1939, he designed and built a series of light aircraft for the private flying market, the most successful of which was the Swift. Richard Riding profiles his life and traces the Swift's continuing career."</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Sherwood Anderson]]
| [[File:Sherwood Anderson (1933) (retouched).jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|8 March 1941}}
| The American writer died of [[peritonitis]] after accidentally swallowing a toothpick.<ref>{{cite web | url =https://listverse.com/2013/04/05/10-notably-weird-deaths-of-the-20th-century/ |title=10 Notably Weird Deaths of the 20th Century|date=5 April 2013|publisher=Listverse| access-date =30 July 2019}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Clarence Stagemyer
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| {{dts|29 September 1943}}
| The 32-year-old was watching a [[Cleveland Indians]]-[[Washington Senators (1901–1960)|Washington Senators]] doubleheader in [[Griffith Stadium]] when an errant throw by Senators' third baseman [[Sherry Robertson]] struck him in the forehead. Despite appearing uninjured afterwards, he heeded the Senators' team physician's entreaties to go to the hospital, where he died the next day of a fractured skull. Stagemyer was the first fan in Major League Baseball history killed by a ball leaving the field, and the only such fatality to date to have been struck by a thrown ball.{{sfn|Weeks|Gorman|2015|p=161}}
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!scope="row" | [[Thomas Midgley Jr.]]
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| {{dts|2 November 1944}}
| In 1940, the 51-year-old contracted [[polio]], which left him severely disabled. He devised an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys to lift himself out of bed. In 1944, [[List of inventors killed by their own invention|he became entangled in the device and died of strangulation]].<ref name=Milestones>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,801605,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081214232532/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,801605,00.html |archive-date=December 14, 2008 |title=Milestones, Nov. 13, 1944 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=November 13, 1944}}</ref><ref name="Bryson">{{cite book |last=Bryson |first=Bill |author-link=Bill Bryson |title=A Short History of Nearly Everything |publisher=[[Transworld Publishers]] |year=2004 |orig-year=First published 2003 |isbn=0-552-99704-8 |edition=Black Swan paperback |page=196 |title-link=A Short History of Nearly Everything}}</ref><ref name=Bellows2007>{{cite news |url=http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=932 |title=The Ethyl-Poisoned Earth |first=Alan |last=Bellows |date=December 8, 2007}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Mantell UFO Incident|Thomas Mantell]]
| [[File:Capt. Mantell Marker.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|7 January 1948}}
| The [[P-51 Mustang]] fighter pilot crashed while in pursuit of an [[unidentified flying object]] near [[Franklin, Kentucky]], thus becoming the first person known to have died as a result of a [[List of reported UFO sightings|UFO sighting]]. Officially, the object remains unidentified, though the most likely explanation is that it was a US Navy [[Skyhook balloon]].<ref name="Ruppelt, p. 56">Ruppelt, p. 56.</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Mary Reeser]]
| [[File:Mary Reeser.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|2 July 1951}}
| Found by the police in her [[St. Petersburg, Florida]] home almost totally [[Cremation|cremated]] where she sat, while her apartment was relatively damage-free. Some speculate that she [[Spontaneous human combustion|spontaneously combusted]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Jerry |last=Blizin |via=Google News |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sARZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lE8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3822,1539798 |title=No New Clues In Reeser Death; Debris Sent To Lab |newspaper=[[St. Petersburg Times]] |date=5 July 1951 |page=14}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Margaret Wise Brown]]
| [[File:Margaret Wise Brown by Consuelo Kanaga, 82.65.1833 01.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|13 November 1952}}
|The 42-year-old author of ''[[Goodnight Moon]]'' was hospitalized for an [[ovarian cyst]]. To prove how healthy she was after treatment, she kicked her foot in the air, dislodging a blood clot in her leg. The blood clot quickly travelled to her brain, and she died in emergency surgery.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Margaret Wise Brown {{!}} American writer |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Margaret-Wise-Brown|access-date=14 February 2022|website=www.britannica.com|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Strange, Sudden Death of the Author of Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny |url=https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/11/13/25560712/the-strange-sudden-death-of-the-author-of-goodnight-moon-and-the-runaway-bunny |access-date=14 February 2022 |website=The Stranger |language=en}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Gareth Jones (actor)|Gareth Jones]]
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| {{dts|30 November 1958}}
| The British actor died of a [[Cardiac arrest|heart attack]] between scenes of a live television play, ''[[Underground (1958 TV play)|Underground]]'' on the [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] network. Other members of the cast improvised lines, such as, "I'm sure if So‑and‑so were here he would say...", to compensate for his absence. Coincidentally, his character was scripted to die of a heart attack in a later scene of the play.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Live TV drama is resurrected as Sky shrugs off lessons of history |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/may/31/television-drama-theatre |work=The Guardian |date=31 May 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170410133156/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/may/31/television-drama-theatre |archive-date=10 April 2017 }}</ref><ref name="Murray2003">{{cite web|url=http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/story.jsp?story=426412 |title=''Do Not Adjust Your Set''{{nnbsp}} By Kate Dunn: Live television drama may have gone, but, says Matthew Sweet, this entertaining history ensures it won't be forgotten |website=The Independent |date=20 July 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030810022829/http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/story.jsp?story=426412 |archive-date=10 August 2003 |url-status=dead |first=John |last=Murray |location=London |issn=0951-9467 |quote=An incident on the set of a 1958 edition of Armchair Theatre illustrates the perverse extremes of professionalism that television actors were expected to exhibit. The ... cast included ... a young Welsh actor named Gareth Jones. 'During transmission', recalls {{bracket|Peter}} Bowles, 'a little group of us was talking on camera while awaiting the arrival of Gareth Jones's character [...] We could see him coming up towards us, and he was going to arrive on cue, but we saw him drop, we saw him fall. We had no idea what had happened, but he certainly wasn't coming our way. The actors, including me, started making up lines: "I'm sure if So‑and‑so were here he would say..."' Jones had suffered a fatal heart attack—but rather than informing the actors of their colleague's death and ceasing transmission of the play, the producers decided to let them stumble on to the end.}}</ref>
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==== 1960s ====
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!scope="row" | John A. Byrnes, Richard Leroy McKinley, and Richard C. Legg
| [[File:US AEC SL-1.JPG|100px|center]]
| {{dts|1961}}
| During the testing of [[SL-1|an experimental nuclear reactor design]], in [[Arco, Idaho]], two soldiers and a sailor were killed, but their deaths were not due to radiation poisoning. While trying to bring the reactor online, Byrnes, an [[U.S Army|army]] specialist, was supposed to pull a [[control rod]] part way out by hand, but he pulled the rod further than intended. The reactor instantly went critical, which flash-boiled the water around the reactor. The force of the steam expanding lifted the entire reactor into the air about {{convert|2.77|m}}, in what has been described as a [[water hammer]]-like effect. Many components were thrown out of the top, one of which impaled Legg, a [[U.S. Navy|navy]] electrician's mate, lifted him from a catwalk, and penetrated the ceiling, leaving him dangling. While the reactor was airborne the radioactive steam escaped, spraying the room. The steam was so hot that Byrnes instantly died of severe burns. McKinley suffered a head wound, from which he died later that day. The steam left the bodies of all three men radioactive, so they were buried in lead coffins. Officials feared that moving them would risk spreading contamination along public roadways, so a graveyard was established in the desert only {{convert|0.5|km}} from the explosion. The graveyard is still monitored by the [[United States Environmental Protection Agency|Environmental Protection Agency]]. The three remain the only human beings killed by a reactor explosion in the United States.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/gov.ntis.A13886VNB1 SL-1 The Accident: Phases I and II] U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Idaho Operations Office video ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIBQMkd96CA YouTube 1] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160619011318/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIBQMkd96CA |date=19 June 2016}}) ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVr6bD-z9hM YouTube 2] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160504024316/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVr6bD-z9hM |date=4 May 2016}})</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.inl.gov/proving-the-principle/chapter_15.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807212441/http://www.inl.gov/proving-the-principle/chapter_15.pdf|url-status=dead|title=Chapter 15 "The SL-1 Reactor" (p. 142)|archive-date=7 August 2011}}</ref><ref name="Tucker">{{cite book |last=Tucker |first=Todd |title=Atomic America: How a Deadly Explosion and a Feared Admiral Changed the Course of Nuclear History |isbn=978-1-4165-4433-3 |year=2009 |publisher=Free Press |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/atomicamericahow00todd}} See summary: {{cite web |url=http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0904/2008013842-s.html |title=Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2008013842 |access-date=20 March 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721044652/http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0904/2008013842-s.html |archive-date=21 July 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=McKeown |first=William |title=Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident |isbn=978-1-55022-562-4 |year=2003 |publisher=ECW Press |location=Toronto}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/04/business/media/04bingham.html |title=Barry Bingham Jr., Louisville Publisher, Is Dead at 72|work=The New York Times|date=4 April 2006|first=Robert D.|last=McFadden|access-date=11 May 2010|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530080731/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/04/business/media/04bingham.html |archive-date=30 May 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Patterson |first=Michael Robert |date=2023-05-16 |title=Richard Leroy McKinley - Specialist 4th Class, United States Army |url=https://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/rlmckinl.htm |access-date=2023-05-22 |website=Arlington National Cemetery |language=en-US}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Nick Piantanida]]
| [[File:Strato-Jump III gondola.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|29 August 1966}}
| The skydiver died four months after an attempt to break the record for the highest parachute jump near [[Joe Foss Field]], [[Sioux Falls]], [[South Dakota]]; his suit had [[Uncontrolled decompression|depressurized]], causing brain damage from lack of oxygen.<ref>{{cite book |title=Magnificent Failure: Free Fall from the Edge of Space |last1=Ryan |first1=Craig |publisher=Smithsonian Air and Space Museum Press |year=2003 |isbn=978-1-58834-141-9 |oclc=51059086 |url=https://archive.org/details/magnificentfailu00crai}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/article687679.ece |title=Dive Hard |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820224934/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/article687679.ece |archive-date=20 August 2016 |newspaper=[[The Globe and Mail]] |date=25 May 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Death of Echol Cole and Robert Walker|Echol Cole and Robert Walker]]
| [[File:MemphisSanitationTruckSouthernHollows.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|1 February 1968}}
| The two [[Memphis, Tennessee]] garbage collectors were crushed to death after the trash compactor of their garbage truck malfunctioned while they were taking refuge inside the back of the truck during a rainstorm. They were not allowed to take shelter inside a building due to segregation laws. As a result of their deaths, [[Memphis sanitation strike|sanitation workers in Memphis went on strike]]. During the strike, [[Martin Luther King Jr.]], who had come to Memphis to support the striking workers, [[Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.|was assassinated]].<ref name="Wapo1">{{cite news |title='I Am a Man': The ugly Memphis sanitation workers' strike that led to MLK's assassination |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/02/12/i-am-a-man-the-1968-memphis-sanitation-workers-strike-that-led-to-mlks-assassination/}}</ref>
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==== 1970s ====
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!scope="row" | Alan Fish
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| {{dts|20 May 1970}}
| The 14-year-old was struck in the head by a [[Manny Mota]] foul ball on May 16th while watching the [[Los Angeles Dodgers]] play against the [[San Francisco Giants]] at [[Dodger Stadium]], and was knocked unconscious for a minute. He appeared to recover and the Dodger Stadium infirmary gave him an ice pack, two aspirin and released him to watch the rest of the game, during which he behaved normally. The Giants ended up winning the game 5-4. Afterwards, he began shaking and crying uncontrollably during the bus ride to his nearby home; when he arrived, his parents sought medical attention but had to go to three hospitals, despite his worsening condition, before they found one that would accept him early the next morning. His condition required neurosurgery, but continued to worsen, and after a seizure led to apparent [[brain death]], he was taken off life support two days later; the autopsy showed that part of his fractured skull had become lodged in his brain, causing an [[intracerebral hemorrhage]]. He was the first fan in Major League Baseball history to die of injuries caused by a foul ball.{{sfn|Weeks|Gorman|2015|p=153}}
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!scope="row" |[[Georgy Dobrovolsky]], [[Vladislav Volkov]], and [[Viktor Patsayev]]
| [[File:Soyuz 11 crew.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|29 June 1971}}
| The Soviet cosmonauts died when their [[Soyuz 11]] spacecraft depressurized during preparations for re-entry. They are the only reported human deaths outside the Earth's atmosphere.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/n-s/space.html |title=Space disasters and near misses|work=[[Channel 4]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012062830/http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/n-s/space.html |access-date=7 January 2022|archive-date=12 October 2008 }}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Basil Brown
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| {{dts|1974}}
| The 48-year old health food advocate from [[Croydon]], [[England]], died from liver damage after he consumed 70 million [[International unit|units]] of [[Vitamin A]] and around {{convert|10|gal|L|abbr=off}} of [[carrot juice]] over ten days, [[Carotenemia|turning his skin bright yellow]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/17/archives/carrotjuice-addiction-cited-in-britons-death.html |title=Carrot-Juice Addiction Cited in Briton's Death |date=17 February 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=24 November 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201055854/http://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/17/archives/carrotjuice-addiction-cited-in-britons-death.html |archive-date=1 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yLQsAAAAIBAJ&pg=6515%2C4463628 |newspaper=[[Star-News]] |location=[[Wilmington, North Carolina]] |title=Unusual death |date=20 February 1974 |access-date=12 June 2010 |via=[[Google News]] |page=28}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Staub |first=Jack E. |title=Alluring Lettuces: And Other Seductive Vegetables for Your Garden |year=2005 |publisher=Gibbs Smith |location=[[Layton, Utah]] |isbn=978-1-4236-0829-5 |oclc=435711200 |page=[https://archive.org/details/alluringlettuces0000stau/page/230 230] |chapter=74. Yellowstone Carrot: Daucus carota savicus |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qbMz7YrTBMEC&pg=PA230 |url=https://archive.org/details/alluringlettuces0000stau/page/230}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Peter Kelly
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| {{dts|27 August 1974}}
| The British [[commercial diver]] died of [[Hypoxia (medical)|anoxia]] due to pure [[helium]] being fed through his breathing mask during a [[Diving bell|bell dive]] in the Norwegian Sector of the [[North Sea]]. The other diver in the bell pulled off his mask before losing consciousness and survived.<ref>{{cite book |title=North Sea Divers - a Requiem |last=Limbrick |first=Jim |pages=109–110 |location=Hertford |publisher=Authors OnLine |year=2001 |isbn=0-7552-0036-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lPp68NAoUF0C&pg=PA109 |access-date=1 November 2023 |via=Google Books |quote=I am sorry to say that I do not have the first name of this British diver who died on 27th August 1974, the result of a most unusual and rare unprofessional occurrence whilst working on an installation in the Norwegian Sector of the North Sea.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://the-norwegian.com/north-sea-diving-fatalities/ |title=North Sea Commercial Diving Fatalities |website=The Norwegian |access-date=5 December 2023}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Alex Mitchell
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| {{dts|1975}}
| After watching the "[[Kung Fu Kapers]]" episode of ''[[The Goodies (TV series)|The Goodies]]'', the resident of [[King's Lynn]], [[Norfolk]], England, laughed continuously for 25 minutes and then fell dead on his sofa from heart failure due to what doctors discovered years later, via his granddaughter, was a genetic condition called [[Long QT syndrome]].<!-- <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/laughing.asp |title=Death by Laughing |date=22 June 2012}}</ref> DOES NOT SEEM TO CLAIM IT WAS UNUSUAL? --><ref>{{cite news |title=A Goodies Way to Go – Laughing |newspaper=[[Eastern Daily Press]] |location=[[Norwich]] |date=29 March 1975}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Slapstick! The Illustrated Story of Knockabout Comedy |first=Tony |last=Staveacre |publisher=Angus & Robinson |year=1987}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Complete Goodies |first=Robert |last=Ross |publisher=[[B T Batsford]] |location=London |year=2000}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Man who died laughing at Goodies had Long QT syndrome |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/9344957/Man-who-died-laughing-at-Goodies-had-Long-QT-syndrome.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/9344957/Man-who-died-laughing-at-Goodies-had-Long-QT-syndrome.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |first=Anita |last=Singh |date=21 June 2012 |newspaper=The Telegraph |access-date=2 April 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Tina Christopherson
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| {{dts|1977}}
| Died after [[water intoxication|drinking 4 US gallons (15 litres) of water a day]] to combat stomach cancer.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/19470900 |title=The Naples Daily News from Naples, Florida|page=2|website=Newspapers.com|date=25 February 1977 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180624210129/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/19470900 |archive-date=24 June 2018}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Luciano Re Cecconi]]
| [[File:1975–76 SS Lazio preseason - Martini, Re Cecconi.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|18 January 1977}}
| The 28-year-old professional footballer for [[S.S. Lazio]] and the [[Italy national football team]], was shot while pretending to rob a jeweller as a practical joke.<ref>{{cite news |last1=West |first1=Rafael |title=The Bizarre Death of Luciano Re Cecconi |url=https://www.footballtalk.org/stories/the-bizarre-death-of-luciano-re-cecconi/ |access-date=7 July 2023 |publisher=Football Talk |date=3 March 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Camedda |first1=Paolo |title=Dallo Scudetto alla tragedia: l'assurda morte di Luciano Re Cecconi, 'L'angelo biondo' della Lazio|trans-title=From Championship to tragedy: the absurd death of Luciano Re Cecconi, Lazio's 'Blond Angel' |url=https://www.goal.com/it/notizie/dallo-scudetto-alla-tragedia-lassurda-morte-di-luciano-re/blt14025baa7bf1fc22 |access-date=7 July 2023 |publisher=Goal |date=23 February 2015 |language=Italian}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Tom Pryce]] and Frederick Jansen van Vuuren
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| {{dts|5 March 1977}}
| Pryce, a driver in the [[1977 South African Grand Prix]], struck and killed Van Vuuren at {{convert|170|mph}} as Van Vuuren ran across the [[Kyalami]] racetrack to extinguish a burning car. The [[fire extinguisher]] which Van Vuuren was carrying struck Pryce's head and killed him.<ref>{{citation |title=Thinning the Herd: Tales of the Weirdly Departed |first=Cynthia |last=Ceilán |publisher=[[Globe Pequot]] |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-59921-691-1 |page=185}}</ref><ref>{{citation |title=The tragedy of Tom Pryce, Wales' Formula One hero |date=4 March 2012 |first=James |last=Roberts |work=BBC Wales |quote=one of the most bizarre, tragic accidents in the sport's history}}</ref><ref>{{citation |title=Strange Deaths |isbn=978-0-09-941660-9 |first=John |last=Dunning |author-link=John Dunning (true crime author) |year=1995|publisher=Random House }}</ref><ref>{{citation |title=Strange Deaths: More Than 375 Freakish Fatalities |isbn=978-0-7607-1947-3 |year=2000 |last1=Stevenson |first1=Val |publisher=Barnes & Noble |url=https://archive.org/details/strangedeathsmor00ians}}</ref> [[Renzo Zorzi]], the driver of the burning car, was uninjured.
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!scope="row" | [[Kurt Gödel]]
| [[File:Kurt gödel.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|14 January 1978}}
| The Austrian-American logician and mathematician developed an obsessive fear of being poisoned and refused to eat food prepared by anyone but his wife.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Toates |first1=Frederick |first2=Olga Coschug |last2=Toates |year=2002 |title=Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Practical Tried-and-Tested Strategies to Overcome OCD |publisher=Class Publishing |page=221 |isbn=978-1-85959-069-0}}</ref> When she became ill and was hospitalized, he starved to death.
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!scope="row" | [[Georgi Markov]]
| [[File:Markov umbrella.svg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|7 September 1978}}
| The Bulgarian dissident writer was poisoned on a [[London]] street via a micro-engineered pellet containing [[ricin]], fired into his leg from an [[Bulgarian umbrella|umbrella]] wielded by an assassin associated with the [[Committee for State Security (Bulgaria)|Bulgarian Secret Service]]. At the time, this secret police force was affiliated with the [[KGB]]. Markov died four days later in hospital. No one was ever charged with the assassination.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rózsa |first1=L. |last2=Nixdorff |first2=K. |year=2006 |chapter=Biological Weapons in Non-Soviet Warsaw Pact Countries |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fj7aU0qzTLYC |pages=157–168 |editor1-last=Wheelis |editor1-first=M. |editor2-last=Rózsa |editor2-first=L. |editor3-last=Dando |editor3-first=M. |title=Deadly Cultures: Biological Weapons since 1945 |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=0-674-01699-8}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Robert Williams (robot fatality)|Robert Williams]]
| [[File:FORD MOTOR COMPANY'S NEW CASTING PLANT AT FLAT ROCK - NARA - 549726.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|25 January 1979}}
| The [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] plant worker became the first person known to be killed by a robot<ref name="rlid">{{cite news |title=Robot firm liable in death |first=Tim |last=Kiska |newspaper=[[The Oregonian]] |date=11 August 1983}}</ref> when a factory robot's arm struck him in the head.<ref name="a">{{cite news |last=Kiska |first=Tim |title=Death on the job: Jury awards $10 million to heirs of man killed by robot at auto plant |page=A10 |newspaper=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |date=11 August 1983 |url=http://docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/PI/lib00187,0EB295F7D995F801.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425083548/https://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB295F7D995F801&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |archive-date=25 April 2019 |access-date=7 January 2022}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | John Bowen
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| {{dts|13 December 1979}}
| The 20-year old resident of [[Nashua, New Hampshire]], was fatally injured at a halftime show at [[Shea Stadium]] when a {{convert|40|lb|adj=on}} model plane shaped like a lawnmower crashed into the stands. He died four days later.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/lawnmower.asp |last=Mikkelson |first=David |author-link=David Mikkelson |title=The True Story of the Flying Lawnmower Death [contains additional references] |date=8 August 2015 |publisher=[[Snopes Media Group Inc.]] |access-date=7 January 2022}}</ref><ref name="Gergen2008">{{cite news |url=http://www.newsday.com/sports/it-was-a-grand-stage-for-excitement-1.885658 |title=It was a grand stage for excitement |first=Joe |last=Gergen |website=[[Newsday]] |date=26 September 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160118012323/http://www.newsday.com/sports/it-was-a-grand-stage-for-excitement-1.885658 |archive-date=18 January 2016 |url-status=live |location=[[Long Island, New York]] |issn=0278-5587}}</ref>
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==== 1980s ====
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!scope="row" | Monica Myers
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| {{dts|20 March 1980}}
| The mayor of [[Betterton, Maryland]], was carrying out maintenance work around the sewage tanks at the town's largest municipal facility. According to the ''[[Lawrence Journal-World]]'', she fell {{Convert|4|ft}} from the catwalks into a {{Convert|15|foot|adj=on}} aeration tank, filled with human waste which a deputy in the town's police department described as having the consistency of "[[putty]]". Her body was found floating face down by the town engineer the next day.<ref name="Lawrence Myers">{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=19800321&id=5EMyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=T-cFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4727,3681374 |newspaper=[[Lawrence Journal-World]] |title=Sewage Claims Mayor |date=21 March 1980 |access-date=2 July 2022}}</ref><ref name="Facts4U">{{cite web |url=https://amazingfacts4u.com/weird-deaths/ |title=35 Amazing Weird Deaths |website=Amazing Facts 4U |date=2 July 2022 |access-date=7 July 2022}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Lourdes Maria da Silva
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| {{dts|August 1980}}
| The resident of [[Caxias do Sul]], Brazil, was walking upstairs carrying a [[Pyrex]] glass when she tripped, broke it, and fell on the shards, cutting an artery in her neck. She died on her way to the hospital.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://memoria.bn.br/DocReader/885959/44612 |title=Mulher cai sobre caco de prato e morre |trans-title=Woman falls on broken plate and dies |newspaper=[[O Pioneiro]] |quote=A mulher Lourdes Maria da Silva, residente na Rua Tronca 1148, residência de um seu irmão, morreu de forma inacreditável no fim de semana. ("The woman Lourdes Maria da Silva, resident at Rua Tronca 1148, the residence of her brother, died in an unbelievable way over the weekend.") |date=6 August 1980 |language=pt}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://memoria.bn.br/DocReader/885959/44668 |title=Parentes da senhora morta retificam notícia divulgada |trans-title=Relatives of dead woman correct released news |newspaper=O Pioneiro |date=9 August 1980 |language=pt}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Boris Sagal]]
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| {{dts|22 May 1981}}
| The Ukrainian-American film director died while shooting the TV miniseries ''[[World War III (miniseries)|World War III]]'' in [[Portland, Oregon]], after he walked into the [[tail rotor]] blades of a helicopter and was partially [[decapitate]]d.<ref name="nytsagal">{{cite news |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40911FE3E5C0C778EDDAC0894D9484D81 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |title=Boris Sagal, 58, Movie Director, Dies After A Helicopter Accident |date=24 May 1981 |access-date=11 May 2010 |first=Shawn G. |last=Kennedy}}</ref><ref name="salon1">{{cite web |url=http://open.salon.com/blog/jrobertg/2009/07/08/10_strange_celebrity_deaths |title=10 Strange Celebrity Deaths – J. Robert Godbout |publisher=[[Open Salon]] |date=8 July 2009 |access-date=27 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130407163600/http://open.salon.com/blog/jrobertg/2009/07/08/10_strange_celebrity_deaths |archive-date=7 April 2013}}</ref> He died five hours later at a hospital in Portland.<ref name="nytsagal"/>
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!scope="row" | David Grundman
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| {{dts|4 February 1982}}
| While [[Cactus plugging|shooting at cacti]] with his shotgun near [[Lake Pleasant Regional Park]], Arizona, he was crushed when a {{convert|4|ft|adj=on}} limb detached and fell on him.<ref name="salon1"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/saguaro.asp |title=Cactus Courageous – Death by Saguaro |website=[[Snopes.com]] |date=26 July 2000 |access-date=8 August 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/content/printVersion/160293 |title=When Cactus and Civilization collide – Trifling with Saguaros can be Hazardous to one's Health |publisher=Phoenixnewtimes.com |date=3 March 1993 |access-date=8 August 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810041817/http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/content/printVersion/160293/ |archive-date=10 August 2011}}</ref>
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!scope"row" | Michael Scaglione
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| {{dts|15 April 1982}}
| Died after smashing his golf club against a golf cart. The head broke off and impaled him in the throat, severing his jugular vein.<ref>{{cite book |first=David |last=Wallechinsky |title=The Book Of Lists |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bY4BD9E7-48C&pg=PT334 |date=2009 |publisher=[[Canongate Books]] |isbn=978-1-84767-667-2 |page=334 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Vic Morrow]], Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen
| [[File:Vic Morrow in 1971.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|23 July 1982}}
| During the filming of ''[[Twilight Zone: The Movie]]'', the 53-year-old Morrow, seven-year-old Le, and six-year-old Chen were performing a scene in which their characters are pursued by a helicopter. Heat from special-effects explosions<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR8414.pdf |title=Aircraft Accident Report: Western Helicopters, Inc. Bell UH-1B, N87701 |location=[[Washington, D.C.]] |publisher=[[National Transportation Safety Board]] |date=23 July 1982}}</ref> caused the helicopter to fall on them. Morrow and Le were decapitated and Chen was crushed.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/1995/5/03/ilustrada/9.html |title='O Corvo' transforma morte de ator em clipe |trans-title='The Crow' turns actor's death into a video |newspaper=[[Folha de S.Paulo]] |date=3 May 1995 |quote=Em Hollywood, apenas John Landis teve experiência semelhante -com Vic Morrow, morto num acidente bizarro no cenário de "No Limite da Realidade" (1983). ("In Hollywood, only John Landis has had a similar experience -with Vic Morrow, killed in a bizarre accident on the set of "Twilight Zone" (1983).") |language=pt}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Dick Wertheim]]
|
| {{dts|15 September 1983}}
| The tennis linesman died after a ball served by player [[Stefan Edberg]] at the [[1983 US Open (tennis)|US Open]] struck him in the groin and he fell out of his chair, striking his head on the hardcourt surface.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/jon_wertheim/10/19/mailbag/2.html |title=Czech yourself (pt. 3) |access-date= 17 January 2018 |last=Wertheim |first=Jon |author-link=Jon Wertheim |date=19 October 2005 |magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080130173951/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/jon_wertheim/10/19/mailbag/2.html |archive-date=30 January 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Odd mishap fells tennis official |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fwIMAAAAIBAJ&pg=7153,2693520 |newspaper=[[Evening Independent]] |location=[[St. Petersburg, Florida]] |page=3–C |date=12 September 1983 |access-date=17 January 2018 }}{{dead link|date=September 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Tennis serve kills official |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kXImAAAAIBAJ&pg=4816,1253853 |access-date=17 January 2018 |via=[[Google News]] |newspaper=[[The Afro American]] |date=24 September 1983}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Truls Hellevik
| [[File:Byford Dolphin Accident.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|5 November 1983}}
| The 34-year-old Norwegian diver was explosively dismembered in [[Byford Dolphin diving bell accident|a diving bell accident]] on the [[North Sea]] ''[[Byford Dolphin]]'' [[drilling rig]]. Three other divers, Edwin Arthur Coward, Roy P. Lucas and Bjørn Giæver Bergersen, and [[dive tender]] William Crammond, were also killed. Crammond opened the clamp before Hellevik could close the chamber door. The nine-[[atmosphere (unit)|atmosphere]] [[air pressure]] explosively decompressed, instantly forcing Hellevik's body through a {{convert|60|cm|in|adj=mid|-diameter}} opening, fragmenting it into numerous pieces. The other tender, Martin Saunders, was severely injured.<ref name="pmid3381801">{{cite journal |last1=Giertsen |first1=J C |last2=Sandstad |first2=E |last3=Morild |first3=I |last4=Bang |first4=G |last5=Bjersand |first5=A J |last6=Eidsvik |first6=S |title=An Explosive Decompression Accident |journal=The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology |date=June 1988 |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=94–101 |doi=10.1097/00000433-198806000-00002 |pmid=3381801 |s2cid=41095645}}{{subscription required}}</ref><ref name=AADreport>{{cite web |publisher=[[Norwegian Petroleum Directorate]] |date=27 August 2002 |title=Report to AAD regarding the Byford Dolphin accident |url=http://www.npd.no/English/Aktuelt/Nyheter/aad_redegjorelse.htm |access-date=24 March 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070212210351/http://www.npd.no/English/Aktuelt/Nyheter/aad_redegjorelse.htm |archive-date=12 February 2007}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Jimmy Ferrozzo]]
|
| {{dts|November 1983}}
| The bouncer at the [[Condor Club]] in [[San Francisco]] died while engaging in sexual intercourse with his girlfriend, Theresa Hill, on a [[grand piano]] that was lowered from the ceiling by a hydraulic motor. He accidentally activated the lifting mechanism which pinned him against the ceiling leading to his suffocation. Hill survived the accident.<ref name="nyt">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/us/15bcintel.html |title=Condor Club {{!}} North Beach, San Francisco |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |department=Local Intelligence |access-date=17 February 2022 |url-status=live |date=14 August 2010 |last=Pellissier |first=Hank |author-link=Hank Pellissier |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180118064649/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/us/15bcintel.html |archive-date=18 January 2018}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Reginald Tucker
|
| {{dts|4 July 1984}}
|The young lawyer, who raced along a [[Chicago]] skyscraper corridor without wearing his glasses, crashed through a window and plunged 39 stories to his death, during an early [[Fourth of July]] party. Police said portions of the man's body were scattered around the street near the 41-story [[One Prudential Plaza|Prudential Building]] in the city's downtown area. Several horrified onlookers attending holiday celebrations heard the glass shatter and saw him fall to his death. One witness said it was "like an explosion" when he impacted a car.<ref name="upi">{{cite news |title=Lawyer plunges to his death |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/07/05/Lawyer-plunges-to-his-death/3496457848000/ |date=5 July 1984 |publisher=[[United Press International, Inc.]] |access-date=17 February 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[Detroit Free Press]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24293637/reggie-tucker-death/ |last=Flanigan |first=Brian |title=600-FOOT PLUNGE FROM WINDOW: A promising career, shocking end |date=6 July 1984 |page=1 |access-date=17 February 2022 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |quote=Reggie Tucker, the bright kid who "had it all" — captain of the CC debate team, honors graduate of Yale University and the University of Michigan law school and a rising star in Chicago's legal community — was dead at 29 because of an almost unbelievable accident.}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Jon-Erik Hexum]]
| [[File:Jon-Erik arms.jpg|100px|centre]]
| {{dts|18 October 1984}}
| The 26-year-old American actor died after playing a simulated [[Russian roulette]] with a [[.44 Magnum]] pistol loaded with [[Blank (cartridge)|blanks]]. They contained paper [[wadding]] and when he pulled the trigger against his temple, the wadding was propelled with a force that broke his skull, causing massive [[brain bleed]]ing.<ref>{{cite book |first=Jerry |last=Roberts |title=The Hollywood Scandal Almanac: Twelve Months of Sinister, Salacious and Senseless History! |publisher=[[Arcadia Publishing]] |year=2012 |page=149 |isbn=978-1614237860}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Unknown male
|
| {{dts|1984}}
| An unidentified 25-year-old man was using submersion as an [[erotic asphyxia]] method. With a homemade plastic body suit, he tied himself to a boat and was using a homemade diving apparatus for air supply. He died from [[rebreathing]], caused by the faulty apparatus.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sauvageau |first1=Anny |last2=Racette |first2=Stephanie |title=Aqua-Eroticum: An Unusual Autoerotic Fatality in a Lake Involving a Home-Made Diving Apparatus |journal=[[Journal of Forensic Sciences]] |date=January 2006 |volume=51 |issue=1 |pages=137–139 |doi=10.1111/j.1556-4029.2005.00031.x |pmid=16423240 |s2cid=23673595|doi-access=free }}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Franco Brun
|
| {{dts|1987}}
| The 22-year-old inmate at the Metro [[Toronto East Detention Centre]] in [[Canada]], died trying to swallow a pocket-size Bible.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://nexter.org/strangest-cases-people-died-freak-accidents |title=When People DIED In Freak Accidents: Head Stuck Under Cinema Seat in Birmingham, Eating a Pocket-Size Bible + 2 More |author=Nexter.org |date=21 March 2018 |website=nexter.org |access-date=12 December 2019 |archive-date=12 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212200811/https://nexter.org/strangest-cases-people-died-freak-accidents |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.aintnowaytogo.com/bibleEat.htm |title=Aint No Way to Go: Food for Thought |website=www.aintnowaytogo.com |access-date=12 December 2019 |quote=A prisoner who died when he choked on a Bible shoved down his throat baffled a medical specialist who at first suspected murder because he couldn't believe someone could do that to themselves.}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Marc Aaronson]]
| [[File:Kittpeakteliscope.JPG|100px|center]]
| {{dts|30 April 1987}}
| The 36-year-old astronomer was crushed to death by a hatch and a revolving telescope dome at [[Kitt Peak National Observatory]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=MARC A. AARONSON, ASTRONOMER, KILLED BY REVOLVING DOME |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |agency=[[Associated Press|AP]] |date=2 May 1987 |page=35 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/02/us/marc-a-aaronson-astronomer-killed-by-revolving-dome.html |access-date=4 January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Strange Deaths: More Than 375 Freakish Fatalities |last1=Sieveking |first1=Paul |last2=Simmons |first2=Ian |last3=Stevenson |first3=Val |location=New York |publisher=[[Barnes & Noble Books]] |year=2000 |page=14 |isbn=0-7607-1947-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fijmTMOJrJcC |access-date=4 January 2022 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://people.tamu.edu/~kevinkrisciunas/strange.html |last=Krisciunas |first=Kevin |title=Strange Cases from the Files of Astronomical Sociology |publisher=[[Texas A&M University]] |date=27 June 2012 |access-date=4 January 2022 |quote=Most importantly, it does not help our present reputation that some very unusual stories are associated with astronomers of the past... In the strange death and near-death department... Marc Aaronson (1950-1987) was crushed to death in the dome of the 4-m telescope at Kitt Peak.}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Ivan Lester McGuire
|
| {{dts|2 April 1988}}
| The 35-year-old veteran skydiver was filming a jump by an instructor and student from the [[Franklin County, North Carolina|Franklin County]] Sports Parachute Center when he jumped from a plane without a parachute. Focused on the filming process, he apparently forgot to put one on, and his camera equipment may have been mistaken for one. The tape was recovered.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1988-04-05-0030130213-story.html |title=Police Say Excited Sky Diver Forgot to Put on His Parachute |agency=[[United Press International]] |newspaper=[[Orlando Sentinel]] |access-date=17 February 2022 |quote=Ivan Lester McGuire, 35, of Durham died in the bizarre accident Saturday.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-04-05-mn-690-story.html |title=Parachutist Dies When He Jumps Without a Chute |date=5 April 1988 |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=21 August 2019}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Cachy the Poodle, Marta Espina, Edith Solá, unidentified man
|
| {{dts|21 October 1988}}
| A [[poodle]] named Cachy, in [[Caballito, Buenos Aires]], fell 13 floors and hit 75-year-old Marta Espina, killing both instantly. In the course of events, 46-year-old Edith Solá came to see the incident and was fatally hit by a bus. An unidentified man who witnessed her death had a heart attack and also died on his way to the hospital.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.lanacion.com.ar/sociedad/cayo-caniche-piso-13-murieron-tres-personas-nid2184184 |title=Un perro cayó del piso 13 y hubo 3 muertos: a 30 años de un accidente insólito |date=22 October 2018 |trans-title=A poodle fell from a 13th floor and three people died: 30 years after the unusual accident that moved Caballito |newspaper=[[La Nación]] |language=es}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.diariodecuyo.com.ar/enlasredes/Crease-o-no-hace-30-anos-un-perrito-mato-a-tres-personas-al-caer-desde-el-piso-13-20181023-0023.html |title=Créase o no: hace 30 años un perrito mató a tres personas al caer desde el piso 13 |trans-title=Believe it or not: 30 years ago a puppy killed three people when it fell from the 13th floor |quote=Hace tres décadas atrás, un insólito y trágico suceso tuvo lugar en la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires ("Three decades ago, an unusual and tragic event took place in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires") |newspaper=[[Diario de Cuya]] |date=23 October 2018 |language=es}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Michael Godwin
|
| {{dts|March 1989}}
|The 28-year-old American criminal convicted of murder was initially given a [[Electric chair|death sentence by electrocution]] before being reduced to life imprisonment. Godwin died from electrocution when he bit into wires while attempting to fix a broken television set, at the same time sitting on a metal toilet in his prison cell at the [[South Carolina Penitentiary|Central Correctional Institute]] in South Carolina.<ref>{{cite news |date=27 August 2018 |last=Harris |first=Marea |title=Convicted Criminal Escaped Electric Chair, Then Electrocuted Himself in his Toilet |url=https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/08/27/electric-chair/ |access-date=17 February 2022 |website=The Vintage News |language=en |quote="It was a strange accident," said State Corrections spokesman Francis Archibald. "He was sitting naked on a metal commode."}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=8 March 1989 |title=Convicted Killer Dies in His Own Electric Chair |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-03-08-mn-277-story.html |access-date=17 February 2022 |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |agency=[[United Press International]] |language=en-US}}</ref>
|}

==== 1990s ====
{| class="wikitable"
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!scope="col" | Image
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!scope="row" | Daniel John O'Brien
|
| {{dts|14 January 1990}}
| The 31-year old committed suicide by jumping into one of the engines of a [[British Airways]] [[Boeing 747]] at [[Piarco International Airport]], [[Trinidad]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://calvinshields.com/bizarre-death-at-piarco-visitor-minced-to-bits-by-jet-engine/ |title=Bizarre death at Piarco |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191127204429/https://calvinshields.com/bizarre-death-at-piarco-visitor-minced-to-bits-by-jet-engine/ |archive-date=27 November 2019 |newspaper=[[Trinidad Guardian]] |date=16 January 1990}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-01-17-mn-118-story.html |title=American Killed When He Jumps Into Jet's Engine |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=17 January 1990 |quote=Airports Authority chief Winston Suite said the bizarre death Sunday night was an apparent suicide.}}</ref> He is said to have scaled an airport wall in the nude, attacked four security guards and stolen their four-wheel-drive vehicle, driven the vehicle into the jet, then clambered out of the wreckage, smeared grease on his bleeding shoulder and hurled himself into one of the plane's engines.<ref>{{cite news |title=Man Killed by a Jet Engine Lacked Medicine, Friend Says |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1990-01-18-9001050483-story.html |first=Mike |last=Nichols |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=18 January 1990 |access-date=13 May 2020}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Lori Mae Matthew
|
| {{dts|27 October 1991}}
| A 485 pound (220 kg) umbrella, [[The Umbrellas (Christo and Jeanne-Claude)|one of thousands]] installed in the [[Tejon Pass]] of southern [[California]] by environmental artists [[Christo and Jeanne-Claude]], was swept across a road by strong winds and crushed the 33-year old against a boulder. The remaining umbrellas were all closed "out of respect".<ref>{{Cite news |agency=The Associated Press |title=Christo Umbrella Crushes Woman |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=1991-10-28 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/28/us/christo-umbrella-crushes-woman.html |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Greg Austin Gingrich
|
| {{dts|28 November 1992}}
| While the 38-year old was vacationing at the [[Grand Canyon]] in [[Coconino County]], Arizona, with his teenaged daughter, he began to play-act losing his balance to frighten her. Gingrich leaped atop a guard wall and began wind-milling his arms in an exaggerated manner, then "comically" fell from the wall on the canyon side onto a short slope where he assumed he would land safely. His daughter, unimpressed with his antics, walked on. Gingrich, however, missed his footing and fell approximately {{Convert|400|ft}} into the canyon to his death.<ref>{{cite web |title=Arizona: At the Grand Canyon, 683 scary stories, all true |url=https://www.latimes.com/travel/la-xpm-2012-mar-19-la-trb-death-grand-canyon-20120315-story.html |first=Christopher |last=Reynolds |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=19 March 2012 |access-date=16 November 2021}}</ref><!-- NOTE: this source does not describe death as "unusual" --><ref>{{cite web |title=Trying to fake a near death|url=https://www.stltoday.com/news/national/be-careful-out-there-7-unusual-ways-people-have-died-on-vacation/collection_3f835cbf-1537-514b-8c3c-559652aa8a8e.html#6 |work=[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]] |date=10 June 2016 |access-date=16 November 2021}}"451: Unavailable due to legal reasons" in Europe</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Brandon Lee]]
|
| {{dts|31 March 1993}}
| The 28-year old film actor, martial artist, and son of [[Bruce Lee]] was killed by a [[squib load|squib load]]ed prop gun while filming ''[[The Crow (1994 film)|The Crow]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/15/movies/bruce-lee-s-brief-life-being-brought-to-screen.html |title=Bruce Lee's Brief Life Being Brought to Screen |first=Bernard |last=Weinraub |newspaper=The New York Times |date=15 April 1993 |access-date=19 August 2016 |quote="Referring to the bizarre death of Brandon Lee, he said: 'This latest tragedy is almost too much. I don't know what to make of it. It's almost like something unseen is taking place that's more than a coincidence.'" |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160827060836/http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/15/movies/bruce-lee-s-brief-life-being-brought-to-screen.html |archive-date=27 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1993/04/01/the-reliable-source/8493d280-e88c-427a-aa9b-634b170fe626/ |title=The Reliable Source |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=1 April 1993 |access-date=19 August 2016 |quote=Hollywood was aghast yesterday over the sudden and bizarre death of 27-year-old actor Brandon Lee, who was filming in Wilmington, N.C. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914202229/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1993/04/01/the-reliable-source/8493d280-e88c-427a-aa9b-634b170fe626/ |archive-date=14 September 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/the-crow/brandon-lee-death-shooting-truth |title=Brandon Lee and the 'curse' of The Crow|first=Tim|last=Robey|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=30 October 2015|access-date=19 August 2016|quote=The accident that had just occurred may be the unluckiest in the history of Hollywood production, for a bleak variety of logistical reasons that only came to light afterwards. It was also among the eeriest and most tragic in a whole set of other ways.|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808100440/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/the-crow/brandon-lee-death-shooting-truth |archive-date=8 August 2016}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Garry Hoy]]
|
| {{dts|9 July 1993}}
| The 38-year old lawyer from [[Toronto]] fell from the 24th floor of the [[Toronto-Dominion Centre]] while demonstrating that its windows were "unbreakable". He threw himself against one, which, true to his assertion, did not break, but instead popped out of its frame.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/window.asp |title=Window Test Death – Through a Glass, Quickly |work=Snopes.com|date=3 November 2000 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Goodman and Carr falls prey to rivals |url=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/goodman-and-carr-falls-prey-to-rivals/article17993183/ |first=Jacquie |last=McNish |work=The Globe and Mail |date=15 March 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161211122916/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/goodman-and-carr-falls-prey-to-rivals/article17993183/ |archive-date=11 December 2016 }}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Death of Gloria Ramirez|Gloria Ramirez]]
|
| {{dts|19 February 1994}}
| The 31-year old died from [[kidney failure]] related to her [[cervical cancer]] at the emergency room of [[Riverside University Health System Medical Center|Riverside General Hospital]] in [[Riverside, California]]. While treating her, several of the hospital staff became ill, suffering from loss of consciousness, shortness of breath, and muscle spasms. Shortly before dying, she was allegedly covered with an oily sheen, which smelled of fruit and garlic. When drawing her blood with a syringe, nurses noticed it had a smell similar to [[ammonia]] and there were unusual particles floating in it.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Stone|first1=Richard |title=Analysis of a Toxic Death|url=http://discovermagazine.com/1995/apr/analysisofatoxic493|access-date=7 April 2018|work=Discover Magazine|date=April 1995|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180429152718/http://discovermagazine.com/1995/apr/analysisofatoxic493 |archive-date=29 April 2018}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Jeremy Brenno
|
| {{dts|9 July 1994}}
| The 16-year old from New York was playing golf when he hit a bench out of frustration with his club. This caused the club shaft to break, bounce back, and pierce his heart, killing him.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Youth Killed as Club's Shaft Pierces Heart|work= The New York Times|date= 11 July 1994|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/11/nyregion/youth-killed-as-club-s-shaft-pierces-heart.html|access-date=19 August 2022|language=en}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Mark Gleeson
|
| {{dts|23 January 1996}}
| The 26-year old from [[Headley Down]], [[Hampshire]], attempted to cure his snoring by inserting [[tampon]]s into his nostrils. He died from suffocation, with sleeping pills adding to his breathing difficulties.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Man dies in bid to stop his snoring|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12117183.man-dies-in-bid-to-stop-his-snoring/|access-date=6 April 2021|website=HeraldScotland|date=9 March 1996 |language=en}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Karen Wetterhahn]]
|
| {{dts|8 June 1997}}
|The chemistry professor at [[Dartmouth College]] died ten months after a few drops of [[dimethylmercury]] (an [[organomercury compound]] and one of the strongest-known [[neurotoxin]]s) landed on her protective gloves. Although she had been following the required procedures, it permeated the gloves and her skin within seconds.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/dimethylmercury/dmmh.htm |title=Dimethylmercury and Mercury Poisoning |publisher=Chm.bris.ac.uk |access-date=16 November 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219084140/http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/dimethylmercury/dmmh.htm |archive-date=19 February 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iaomt.org/testfoundation/dimethylmercury.htm |title=The Trembling Edge of Science |publisher=Iaomt.org |access-date=16 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111114004559/http://www.iaomt.org/testfoundation/dimethylmercury.htm |archive-date=14 November 2011}}</ref><ref name="Loback1997">{{cite web |url=http://thedartmouth.com/1997/02/24/accident-hospitalizes-wetterhahn/ |title=Accident hospitalizes Wetterhahn |website=The Dartmouth |date=24 February 1997 |archive-date=7 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107144442/http://thedartmouth.com/1997/02/24/accident-hospitalizes-wetterhahn/ |url-status=dead |first=Erin |last=Loback |location=Hanover, New Hampshire |issn=0199-9931 |access-date=9 February 2015}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Alberto Fargo
|
| {{dts|1998}}
| The resident of [[Lisbon]] died from falling out of a 5-story window whilst performing a [[tango]]. According to witnesses, he was demonstrating to students how to keep their head high by looking at the ceiling, and failed to notice the open window beside him.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LsKeBAAAQBAJ |title=The Mammoth Book of Weird News|last=Tibballs |first=Geoff |date=2011|publisher=Little, Brown Book|isbn=9781849019590}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Jonathan Capewell
|
| {{dts|1998}}
| The 16-year old from [[Oldham]], England, died from a heart attack brought on by the buildup of [[butane]] and [[propane]] in his blood after excessive use of [[deodorant]] sprays.<ref name="capewell">{{cite news| url =http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/203730.stm| title =Health Deodorant obsession killed boy| publisher =BBC| date =29 October 1998| access-date =18 January 2018| url-status =live| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20180118070357/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/203730.stm| archive-date =18 January 2018| df =dmy-all}}</ref> He was reported to have been obsessed with personal hygiene.<ref name="capewell"/>
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!scope="row" | John Lewis
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| {{dts|12 April 1999}}
| The 64-year old businessman from [[Minsterworth]], [[England]], attempted to light a bonfire with gasoline, but inadvertently set his clothes on fire. He then ran to the [[River Severn]], jumped in, and eventually drowned. Although the incident occurred on 12 April 1999, his body was not found until 30 April 1999.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC News {{!}} UK {{!}} Police find body of mower man |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/332057.stm |access-date=2024-01-05 |website=news.bbc.co.uk |quote=After the bizarre accident police found scorched items of clothing in the garden.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC News {{!}} UK {{!}} Freak accident kills gardener |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/371004.stm |access-date=2024-01-05 |website=news.bbc.co.uk |quote=A businessman drowned in a river after a freak gardening accident, an inquest has heard.}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Owen Hart]]
| [[file:Owen_Hart_with_a_fan.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|23 May 1999}}
| The professional wrestler fell to his death during the [[Over the Edge (1999)|Over the Edge]] pay-per-view event. He was supposed to be lowered into the ring from the rafters as part of his Blue Blazer persona's entrance, but the equipment lowering him into the ring malfunctioned, causing him to fall 78 feet (24 m) and land chest-first on the top rope. The impact severed his [[aorta]], causing death within minutes.<ref>{{Cite magazine| url=https://www.si.com/wrestling/2019/05/23/wwe-owen-hart-death-20th-anniversary| title=The Owen Hart Tragedy Was the Moment We Came to See Wrestlers as Human| date=23 May 2019| magazine=Sports Illustrated|quote=...the combination of Hart's status, the unusual nature of his death, and wrestling's white-hot popularity at perhaps the peak of its late-90s boom produced a wholly distinct context for the proceedings.}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Hisashi Ouchi
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| {{dts|21 December 1999}}
| On 30 September 1999, Ouchi and two other technicians, Masato Shinohara and Yutaka Yokokawa, were improperly preparing reactor fuel for the [[Jōyō (nuclear reactor)|''Jōyō'' reactor]] at the [[Tokai Nuclear Power Plant]], leading to [[Tokaimura nuclear accident#1999 accident|a criticality accident]]. The technicians' desire to quicken the process led to numerous safety protocols being bypassed, resulting in {{convert|16|kg}} of dissolved [[enriched uranium]] being contained in the precipitation tank, as opposed to the safe limit of {{convert|2.4|kg}}. Ouchi, who was holding a funnel through which [[uranyl nitrate]] was being poured into the feeder tank, was dosed with approximately seventeen [[sievert]]s of radiation and received the highest dose of the three. After being transferred to the hospital, his condition rapidly deteriorated, though doctors were instructed to repeatedly revive him whenever his heart stopped, at the wishes of his family. Attempts at treatment, including an early use of [[peripheral stem cell transplantation]], were carried out over the course of almost 3 months, but they ultimately failed, and he died nearly three months later following a cardiac arrest.<ref name=":92">{{Cite web|title=Japanese Nuclear Accident Timeline of Events|url=https://www.isis-online.org/publications/tokai.html|website=www.isis-online.org|access-date=5 September 2020}}</ref> Shinohara died of [[multiple organ failure]] complicated by infections following numerous attempts at treatment on 27 April 2000, while Yokokawa, who received the smallest dose, survived following three months of hospitalization.

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=== 21st century ===
==== 2000s ====
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!scope="col" | Name of person
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!scope="row" | Bliss Scott
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| {{dts|4 June 2000}}
| The seven-year-old died after touching an [[Achatina|African snail]], from which she contracted [[meningoencephalitis]] caused by ''[[Angiostrongylus cantonensis]]''. This is the first reported case of a human fatality linked to the African snail.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2000/06/11/national/doctors-confirm-parasite-killed-girl/|title=Doctors confirm parasite killed girl|date=11 June 2000|website=Japan Times |quote=One or two cases of the disease are reported annually in Okinawa, but it is the first death linked to the parasite.}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Bernd Brandes
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| {{dts|9 March 2001}}
| Voluntarily slaughtered and eaten by [[Armin Meiwes]] following an appointment via internet. At his request, Meiwes first amputated his penis and they unsuccessfully tried to eat it. Meiwes taped the entire amputation, killing, conserving, and eating Brandes' meat. Meiwes was eventually arrested and sentenced to life in prison.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.dw.com/en/german-cannibal-back-on-trial/a-1853189 |title=German Cannibal Back on Trial |work=[[Deutsche Welle]] |date=12 January 2006 |access-date=12 January 2023 |language=en |quote="This unprecedented act in German legal history should be judged as killing on demand," defense attorney Joachim Bremer said, a crime that is punishable by a maximum five years in prison.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/armin-meiwes-interview-with-a-cannibal-documentary-sheds-new-light-on-one-of-germany-s-most-infamous-murderers-a6863201.html |last=O'Connor |first=Roisin |title=Armin Meiwes: Interview with a Cannibal documentary sheds new light on one of Germany's most infamous murderers |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |department=Europe |date=9 February 2016 |access-date=12 January 2023}}</ref> Meiwes became a [[vegetarian]] during his prison sentence.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jewkes |first1=Yvonne |last2=Yar |first2=Majid |title=Handbook of Internet Crime |year=2013 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=9781134030590 |page=376 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GSPhAQAAQBAJ&q=meiwes+vegetarian&pg=PA376 |access-date=12 January 2023 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Michael Colombini
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| {{dts|28 July 2001}}
|The six-year-old died during an [[MRI]] scan at the [[Westchester Medical Center]] in [[Valhalla, New York]], after an oxygen tank was magnetically pulled into the machine and fractured his skull.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Chen |first1=David W. |title=Small Town Reels From Boy's M.R.I. Death |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/01/nyregion/small-town-reels-from-boy-s-mri-death.html |work=The New York Times |date=1 August 2001}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92745&page=1#:~:text=He%20died%20of%20the%20injuries,time%20of%20the%20deadly%20accident.|title = Boy, 6, Killed in Freak MRI Accident|website = [[ABC News]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.psqh.com/analysis/mri-safety-10-years-later/|title=MRI Safety 10 Years Later|first1=Tobias|last1=Gilk|first2=M. Arch|last2=HSDQ|first3=Robert J.|last3=Latino|website=Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare|date=14 October 2011 }}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Gilbert Tinoso
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| {{dts|22 December 2001}}
|The 38-year-old died in [[Burbank, California]] after the spare wheel from an oncoming [[Mack Trucks|Mack]] cement truck in the opposite stretch of the freeway broke loose and struck the cab of his [[Toyota Tacoma]]. The other passenger in the Tacoma received minor chest injuries from the crash, and the Mack driver had no injuries.<ref>{{Cite news| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-dec-28-me-18473-story.html| title=11 Died in Car Wrecks Over Holiday Weekend| date=28 December 2001| work=L.A Times|quote=Among those killed on county roads was Gilbert A. Tinoso, 38, of Norwalk, who died Saturday in a freak accident on the Golden State Freeway in Burbank.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://crashviewer.nhtsa.dot.gov/nass-LTCCS/CaseForm.aspx?xsl=main.xsl&CaseID=821004612| title=Large Truck Crash Causation Study Database Entry |website=[[NHTSA]]}}</ref>
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![[Death of Brittanie Cecil|Brittanie Cecil]]
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|18 March 2002
|The 13-year-old died from her injuries at an [[NHL]] hockey game after a deflected puck struck her in the left temple. She was the first and only fan fatality in the league's history.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Taylor |first=Phil |date=1 April 2002 |title=Death of a Fan The deflected puck that felled Brittanie Cecil left her small Ohio town reeling and has the rest of us wondering about an accident that didn't have to happen |url=https://vault.si.com/vault/2002/04/01/death-of-a-fan-the-deflected-puck-that-felled-brittanie-cecil-left-her-small-ohio-town-reeling-and-has-the-rest-of-us-wondering-about-an-accident-that-didnt-have-to-happen |access-date=2022-12-17 |website=Sports Illustrated Vault |language=en-us}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Roger Wallace
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| {{dts|May 2002}}
| The 60-year-old was flying his {{Convert|5|foot|adj=on}} wingspan toy in [[Tucson, Arizona]], when he lost sight of it in the bright sun. It struck him in the chest, killing him.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bletchly |first=Rachael |date=2015-06-04 |title=19 bizarre ways to meet your maker |url=http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/freaky-deaths-19-bizarre-ways-5815592 |access-date=2022-12-17 |website=mirror |language=en}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Virginia Graeme Baker]]
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| {{dts|June 2002}}
| The seven-year-old was entrapped underwater due to the suction from a hot tub drain and drowned.<ref>{{cite news|title='She Died in My Arms': A Mother's Mission for Safe Pools
|newspaper=[[ABC News]]|date=2008-07-23|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5428982&page=1}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Kyle McGarity
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| {{dts|14 December 2002}}
|After a drunken scuffle, the 25-year-old fell about {{convert|15|ft}} into a manhole flooded with scalding hot water and filled with steam in [[Lower Manhattan]]. McGarity survived the fall without major injuries but was steamed alive, with emergency services unable to recover his body for several hours.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/16/nyregion/man-is-charged-with-murder-in-friend-s-fall-into-manhole.html|title=Man Is Charged With Murder In Friend's Fall Into Manhole|first=Lydia|last=Polgreen|work=The New York Times |date=16 December 2002|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | Hitoshi Nikaidoh
|
| {{dts|16 August 2003}}
| The doctor from [[Houston]], Texas, was killed after his head was trapped in elevator doors at the hospital where he worked. He was partially [[decapitate]]d as the elevator ascended, and he also sustained injuries to his ribs and spine.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.chron.com/news/article/Autopsy-of-doctor-killed-in-elevator-accident-2131468.php |title=Autopsy of doctor killed in elevator accident finds alcohol |last=Peabody |first=Zanto |date=29 August 2003 |newspaper=[[Houston Chronicle]] |department=News |access-date=1 February 2022 |quote=The doctor killed by an elevator at the hospital where he worked had alcohol in his system when the freak accident happened, a county report said.}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Death of Brian Wells|Brian Wells]]
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| {{dts|28 August 2003}}
| The pizza delivery man from [[Erie, Pennsylvania]], was killed after a [[collar bomb]] around his neck exploded as part of a bank robbery scheme.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pizza-bomb-update-marjorie-diehl-armstrong-sentenced-to-life-for-bizarre-pa-collar-bomb-killing| title='Pizza Bomb' Update: Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong sentenced to life for bizarre Pa. collar-bomb killing| date=2 March 2011| work=CBS News| url-status=live| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823204124/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pizza-bomb-update-marjorie-diehl-armstrong-sentenced-to-life-for-bizarre-pa-collar-bomb-killing| archive-date=23 August 2017| df=dmy-all}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Phillip Quinn
|
| {{dts|2004}}
| The 24-year-old from [[Kent, Washington]], was killed when a [[lava lamp]] he was heating on a stove exploded, and a shard pierced his heart.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/lavalamp.asp | title=Lava Lamp Death | website=[[Snopes]] | date=12 May 2008 | access-date=20 December 2021 |quote=Sooner or later, the Grim Reaper comes for us all, but sometimes his mode of operation almost defies explanation.}}</ref>
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!Unknown female
|
|2004
|In an attempt to protect herself from SARS during the [[2002–2004 SARS outbreak]], a 45-year-old woman in Taiwan bathed in 40.5% ethanol. She laid down in the fluid at 11. p.m. and was found dead at 11 a.m. by her family the next day. Her [[Blood alcohol content|BAC]] was 1.35% and she most likely absorbed the alcohol through the skin.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wu |first=Yen-Liang |last2=Guo |first2=How-Ran |last3=Lin |first3=Hung-Jung |date=2005-05-10 |title=Fatal alcohol immersion during the SARS epidemic in Taiwan |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0379073804003895 |journal=Forensic Science International |volume=149 |issue=2 |pages=287 |doi=10.1016/j.forsciint.2004.06.014 |issn=0379-0738|pmc=7131152 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-03-23 |title=A Woman Died After Bathing In Alcohol During The Taiwan SARS Outbreak In The Early 2000s |url=https://www.iflscience.com/a-woman-died-after-bathing-in-alcohol-during-the-taiwan-sars-outbreak-in-the-early-2000s-59130 |access-date=2024-01-16 |website=IFLScience |language=en|quote=Unfortunately, a 45-year-old woman in Taiwan died due to an unusual effort to ward off the virus.}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Francis Daniel Brohm
|
| {{dts|2 September 2004}}
| 21-year-old John Hutcherson drove home drunk with his 23-year-old friend who was hanging out the passenger window while vomiting due to [[Motion sickness|carsickness]]. Hutcherson drove off the road and sideswiped a telephone pole [[guy-wire|support wire]], decapitating Brohm. He continued the final {{Convert|12|mi}} to his [[Atlanta]], home, parked in the driveway, and went to bed. A neighbor found Brohm's headless body in the truck the next morning.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://accesswdun.com/article/2004/9/161830 |title=Family of decapitated passenger pleads mercy for driver |website=AccessWDUN |date=2 September 2004 |quote=The family of a man decapitated in a bizarre car accident is pleading with authorities to free his best friend, who was behind the wheel and apparently didn't notice that his passenger had been beheaded.}}</ref><ref>{{ cite web |title=DUI-Decapitation Horror |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dui-decapitation-horror/ |work=[[CBS News]] |date=2 September 2004 |access-date=14 May 2020}}</ref>

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!scope="row" | [[Enumclaw horse sex case|Kenneth Pinyan]]
|
| {{dts|2 July 2005}}
| Died from injuries caused by [[anal sex]] with a [[stallion]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sokol |first1=Zach |title=The Strange, Sad Story of the Man Named Mr. Hands Who Died from Having Sex with a Horse |url=https://www.vice.com/read/ten-years-ago-mr-hands-got-fucked-to-death-by-a-horse-716 |website=Vice |publisher=Vice.com |access-date=25 March 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160208050707/http://www.vice.com/read/ten-years-ago-mr-hands-got-fucked-to-death-by-a-horse-716 |archive-date=8 February 2016 |date=16 July 2015}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Mildred Bowman and Alice Wardle
|
| {{dts|August 2005}}
| The two sisters, aged 62 and 68 respectively, died in [[Benidorm]], Spain, after becoming trapped for four days when their fold-up [[Murphy bed]] collapsed.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sisters died after folding bed collapsed entombing them for four days |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/6840415/Sisters-died-after-folding-bed-collapsed-entombing-them-for-four-days.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/6840415/Sisters-died-after-folding-bed-collapsed-entombing-them-for-four-days.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=The Telegraph |date=18 December 2009}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Death of Steve Irwin|Steve Irwin]]
| [[File:Steve Irwin.jpg#file|100px|center]]
| {{dts|4 September 2006}}
|The Australian wildlife expert and television personality was pierced in the chest by a [[short-tail stingray]]'s barb while filming in shallow water in the [[Great Barrier Reef]].<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/steve-irwins-final-words-cameraman-present-at-death-opens-up-about-deadly-stingray-attack-for-the-first-time-9181077.html|title=Steve Irwin's final words: Cameraman present at death opens up about deadly stingray attack for the first time |journal= The Independent|date=10 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140310154552/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/steve-irwins-final-words-cameraman-present-at-death-opens-up-about-deadly-stingray-attack-for-the-first-time-9181077.html |archive-date=10 March 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/09/04/australia.irwin.stingray.reut/index.html|title=CNN.com – Stingray deaths rare and agonizing |website=[[CNN]] |date=21 September 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060921002229/http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/09/04/australia.irwin.stingray.reut/index.html |archive-date=21 September 2006}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Alexander Litvinenko]]
| [[File:Grave of Alexander Litvinyenko.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|23 November 2006}}
|The 44-year-old, a naturalised [[United Kingdom|British]] citizen, former Russian [[Federal Security Service|FSB]] officer, and defector, was [[Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko|assassinated by poisoning with polonium-210]], which caused acute and irreversible [[Acute radiation syndrome|radiation sickness]].<ref name=BBC20150728>{{cite news|title=Litvinenko: A deadly trail of polonium|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33678717|access-date=27 August 2021|work=[[BBC News]]|date=28 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)00144-6/fulltext|last=Nathwani |first=Amit C. |title=Polonium-210 poisoning: a first-hand account |journal=[[The Lancet]] |volume=388 |issue=10049 |pages=1075–1080 |date=10 September 2016 |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00144-6 |pmid=27461439 |s2cid=892003 |access-date=27 August 2021}}</ref> One of just a handful of recorded deaths attributed specifically to [[polonium]] exposure,<ref name="PoAlJazeera">{{cite news |first=David |last=Poort |title=Polonium: a silent killer |work=Al Jazeera News |date=6 November 2013 |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2013/11/6/polonium-a-silent-killer |access-date=28 August 2021}}</ref> Litvinenko was the first-known fatality from malicious polonium poisoning,<ref>{{cite news |first=Steve |last=Boggan |title=Who else was poisoned by polonium? |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=5 June 2007 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jun/05/russia.science |access-date=28 August 2021}}</ref> and remains the only confirmed such case as of 2023.<ref name="PoAlJazeera" /><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Froidevaux |first1=Pascal |last2=Bochud |first2=François |last3=Baechler |first3=Sébastien |last4=Castella |first4=Vincent |last5=Augsburger |first5=Marc |last6=Bailat |first6=Claude |last7=Michaud |first7=Katarzyna |last8=Straub |first8=Marietta |last9=Pecchia |first9=Marco |last10=Jenk |first10=Theo M. |last11=Uldin |first11=Tanya |last12=Mangin |first12=Patrice |date=February 2016 |title=²¹⁰Po poisoning as possible cause of death: forensic investigations and toxicological analysis of the remains of Yasser Arafat |journal=Forensic Science International |volume=259 |pages=1–9 |doi=10.1016/j.forsciint.2015.09.019 |pmid=26707208 |s2cid=207751390 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Humberto Hernandez
|
| {{dts|21 June 2007}}
| The 24-year-old [[Oakland, California]] resident was struck in the back of the head by an airborne [[fire hydrant]] when a passing car struck it, and the water pressure shot it at him with great force.<ref name="Harris2007">{{cite web|url=http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_6212632 |title=Flying fire hydrant kills man |website=Oakland Tribune |date=23 June 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150709193834/http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_6212632 |archive-date=9 July 2015 |url-status=dead |first=Harry |last=Harris |issn=1068-5936 |access-date=17 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2007-06-23-fire-hydrant_N.htm |title=Flying fire hydrant kills Calif. man |work=USA Today |date=23 June 2007 |access-date=17 August 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110819081915/http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2007-06-23-fire-hydrant_N.htm |archive-date=19 August 2011}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Death of Abigail Taylor|Abigail Taylor]]
|
| {{dts|June 2007}}
| The six-year-old girl from [[Edina, Minnesota]] died from medical complications as a result of her evisceration caused by powerful suction from a pool drain at the [[Minneapolis Golf Club]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.wsbtv.com/news/13626279/detail.html|title=Wading Pool Drain Sucks Out Girl's Organ|date=5 Jul 2007|work=WSB Atlanta|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070708224236/http://www.wsbtv.com/news/13626279/detail.html|archive-date=2007-07-08|location=Minneapolis}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Lydia Tsekova
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| {{dts|2 February 2008}}
|The Bulgarian teacher, with her husband Georgi and colleague Nadezhda Lyubenova, poured chemical waste into a drain cover in [[Sofia]]. The chemicals reacted with the gases in the sewers and caused an explosion. The drain cover decapitated Tsekova, and the blast injured her husband and Lyubenova.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Woman Dies, 2 Injured in Sofia Blast |url=https://www.novinite.com/articles/89991/Woman+Dies%2C+2+Injured+in+Sofia+Blast|access-date=6 April 2021|website=www.novinite.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=2008 Darwin Award: Chemistry Went To Her Head|url=https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2008-06.html|access-date=6 April 2021|website=darwinawards.com}}</ref>{{verify source|date=September 2021}}<!-- it's also unclear how they were able to pour the chemicals into the drain without first removing the cover. Suspect it may have been a slotted drain grating rather than a solid manhole cover. -->
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!scope="row" | Judy Kay Zagorski
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| {{dts|20 March 2008}}
| The 57-year-old from [[Pigeon, Michigan]], died of blunt force [[Traumatic brain injury|craniocerebral trauma]] when a {{convert|75|lb|adj=on}} [[spotted eagle ray]] leaped out of the water and knocked her over off of the coast of [[Marathon, Florida|Marathon Key]], [[Florida]]. The ray also died.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7308839.stm |title=Leaping ray kills Florida boater|work=BBC News|date=21 March 2008|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080325073745/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7308839.stm |archive-date=25 March 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/03/21/eagleray/index.html |title=Blunt force trauma killed woman struck by ray|publisher=CNN|date=21 March 2008|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107144442/http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/03/21/eagleray/index.html |archive-date=7 January 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/23727914/ns/us_news-life/t/stingray-kills-woman-boat-florida-keys |title=Stingray kills woman on boat|work=NBC News|date=20 March 2008|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160202015025/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/23727914/ns/us_news-life/t/stingray-kills-woman-boat-florida-keys |archive-date=2 February 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.champagnefuneralchapel.com/obituary/802268|title=Judy Kay Zagorski (1953–2008) Obituary|access-date=23 November 2021}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Adelir Antônio de Carli]]
| [[File:Adelir de Carli flight.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|21 April 2008}}
|The Brazilian Catholic priest and [[sky diver]] undertook a [[cluster balloon]] flight. The intention was to break the previous endurance records for ballooning, and to raise funds for charity. However, contact was lost part-way through. The lower part of his body was found floating in the sea eleven weeks later on 4 July.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-priest-lost-idUSN2228192120080422|title=Brazil priest flying party balloons lost at sea|date=22 April 2008|work=Reuters}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-priest-idUSN2934853220080730|title=Body of ballooning Brazilian priest found at sea|date=30 July 2008|work=Reuters}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tnonline.uol.com.br/noticias/cotidiano/67,476195,23,04,morte-de-padre-do-balao-completa-11-anos|title=- Morte de 'padre do balão' completa 11 anos {{pipe}} TNOnline|date=23 April 2019|website=tnonline.uol.com.br}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Isaiah Otieno
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| {{dts|13 May 2008}}
| The student from [[Cranbrook, British Columbia|Cranbrook]], [[British Columbia]], was struck and killed by a [[helicopter]] that plunged into a residential street he was walking in. The pilot and two other passengers of the helicopter were also instantly killed.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2008/05/14/falling_helicopter_killed_student_from_kenya.html |title= Falling helicopter killed student from Kenya |last=Stevenson |first=James |date=14 May 2008 |work=Toronto Star |quote="I've never, ever heard of a helicopter falling out of the sky," said Isaac Hockley, a close friend." ... "We're all absolutely stunned by the randomness of fate," said college president Nick Rubidge}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | David Phyall
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| {{dts|5 July 2008}}
| The 50-year-old last resident in a block of flats due to be demolished in [[Bishopstoke]], near [[Southampton]], England, decapitated himself with a [[chainsaw]] to highlight the injustice of being forced to move out of it.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/death-was-carefully-thought-through-suicide-1025503.html |title=Chainsaw death was 'carefully thought through suicide'|last=Halfpenny|first=Martin|date=19 November 2008|work=The Independent|access-date=22 November 2008|location=London|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081230040547/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/death-was-carefully-thought-through-suicide-1025503.html |archive-date=30 December 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/7737721.stm |work=BBC News | title=Man cut off head in flat protest | date=19 November 2008}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Unknown female
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| {{dts|7 October 2008}}
| A 43-year-old Irish woman died of an [[anaphylactic]] allergic reaction after having sex with a [[German Shepherd]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/08/woman-dies-allergic-sex-with-dog_n_893509.html |title=Woman Died From Sex With Dog, Sean McDonnell Arrested In Limerick, Ireland|work=HuffPost|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160721052858/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/08/woman-dies-allergic-sex-with-dog_n_893509.html |archive-date=21 July 2016}}</ref> Its owner, Seán McDonnell, and the woman met in an Internet chat room for [[Zoophilia|bestiality]]. McDonnell was prosecuted and added to a sex offender list.<ref>{{ cite web |title=Bus driver avoids prison in bestiality case |url=https://www.limerickpost.ie/2012/12/19/bus-driver-avoids-prison-in-bestiality-case/ |work=[[Limerick Post]] |date=19 December 2012 |access-date=14 May 2020|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230929161626/https://www.limerickpost.ie/2012/12/19/bus-driver-avoids-prison-in-bestiality-case/|archive-date=September 29, 2023}}</ref> The dog was later euthanized.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dog sex case Irishman goes free after woman dies |date=15 December 2012 |url=https://www.irishcentral.com/news/dog-sex-case-irishman-goes-free-after-woman-dies|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230813131056/https://www.irishcentral.com/news/dog-sex-case-irishman-goes-free-after-woman-dies|archive-date=August 13, 2023}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Unknown male
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| {{dts|3 March 2009}}
| A 14-year-old boy from [[Jiaozhou, Shandong]], China, was killed when the [[pneumatic cylinder]] in his office chair exploded.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aboluowang.com/2009/0306/121736.html|title=转椅又爆炸！少年被碎片从臀部击穿胸腔亡|date=6 March 2009|website=阿波罗新闻网|trans-title=Swivel chair explodes! Male youth killed by piece that pierced his thoracic cavity through his buttocks.|lang=zh|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230813130935/https://www.aboluowang.com/2009/0306/121736.html|archive-date=August 13, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-10-09 |title=Woman badly injured by exploding computer chair |url=https://www.asiaone.com/woman-badly-injured-exploding-computer-chair |access-date=2024-01-05 |website=AsiaOne |language=en}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Diane Durre
|
| {{dts|3 April 2009}}
| The 49-year-old was killed in [[North Platte, Nebraska]], by a falling [[Taco Bell]] sign. The sign was knocked over by high winds, and landed on a pickup truck, killing her and injuring her husband, Mark.<ref>{{cite web | url =https://norfolkdailynews.com/news/chambers-woman-killed-in-freak-accident/article_74ce1ae8-356a-516c-86ca-174934a64c8e.html |title=Chambers woman killed in freak accident |work=[[Norfolk Daily News]]| first=Diane |last=Wetzel |date=3 April 2009 |access-date =4 February 2022}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Mark Fidrych]]
| [[File:Mark Fidrych.JPG|100px|center]]
| {{dts|13 April 2009}}
| The 54-year-old former [[Major League Baseball]] pitcher of the [[Detroit Tigers]], died while working underneath his [[dump truck]]. His clothes became entangled with the [[power take-off]] drive shaft, suffocating him.<ref>{{cite web | url =http://tulsabeacon.com/watching-shows-about-the-bird-fidrych-billy-martin/ |title=Watching shows about 'The Bird' Fidrych, Billy Martin|work=[[Tulsa Beacon]]| first=Jeff |last=Brucculeri|date=16 April 2020 |quote=Fidrych died at the age of 54, as a result of a freak accident on his farm in Northborough, Mass |access-date =23 May 2020}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Taylor Mitchell]]
|
| {{dts|28 October 2009}}
| The 19-year-old Canadian [[folk singer]] was killed by a pair of [[coyote]]s while hiking in [[Cape Breton Highlands National Park]], in the only known fatal coyote attack on an adult.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/coyotes-kill-toronto-singer-in-cape-breton-1.779304 |title=Coyotes kill Toronto singer in Cape Breton|publisher=CBC News|date=29 October 2009|access-date=22 August 2016|quote=Bob Bancroft, a retired biologist with the Department of Natural Resources, said this kind of attack is extremely rare...|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818213000/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/coyotes-kill-toronto-singer-in-cape-breton-1.779304 |archive-date=18 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.explore-mag.com/when-coyotes-attack |title=When coyotes attack |publisher=Explore |date=22 February 2010 |access-date=22 August 2016 |quote=As headline writers across the continent tried to marry some unfamiliar words—fatal, coyote, mauling—most people who spend time outdoors found it hard to believe that coyotes had actually killed a human. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160811062752/http://www.explore-mag.com/when-coyotes-attack |archive-date=11 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/oct/30/taylor-mitchell-coyote-death-rare |title=Coyote killings are rare and shocking|first=Colin|last=Horgan|newspaper=The Guardian|date=30 October 2009|access-date=22 August 2016|quote="Singer Taylor Mitchell's death was highly unusual ... [D]espite the frequency of coyote encounters, attacks are rarely very serious, and deaths as a result are virtually unheard of."|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130908034410/http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/oct/30/taylor-mitchell-coyote-death-rare |archive-date=8 September 2013}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Vladimir Likhonos
|
| {{dts|2 December 2009}}
| The 25-year-old student of [[Kyiv Polytechnic Institute]] from [[Konotop]] was killed when his chewing gum exploded. He had a habit of dipping his chewing gum in [[citric acid]] to increase the gum's sour taste. On his work table police found about {{Convert|100|g}} of unidentified explosive powder which he used for chemistry studies at home. It resembled citric acid, and it is thought that he confused the two, having accidentally coated his gum in the explosive powder before chewing it. The explosive was found to be four times stronger than [[TNT]], and the explosion was possibly triggered either by reacting with Likhonos's [[saliva]], or the pressure exerted by him chewing on the gum and explosive powder.<ref>{{cite web |url =https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-20107572.html |title=Exploding bubble gum kills student |work=[[Irish Examiner]] |date=11 December 2009 |access-date =8 February 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.zhitomir.info/news_50877.html |title=Нелепая смерть из-за жвачки. Фото, подробности |trans-title=Bizarre death due to chewing gum. Photos, details |publisher=Zhitomir.info |date=9 December 2009 |language=ru |access-date =8 February 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.kyivpost.com/article/content/ukraine-politics/exploding-gum-kills-kyiv-polytech-student-54589.html|title=Exploding gum kills Kyiv Polytech student|date=9 December 2009 }}</ref>

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==== 2010s ====
{| class="wikitable"
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!Muraka Jenny Vearncombe
|
| {{dts|3 March 2010}}
|The 42-year old was struck in the head by a piece of a metal pipe flung by a tractor-pulled [[lawnmower]] as she walked to work in [[Townsville]], Australia.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hough |first1=Andrew |last2=Irvine |first2=Chris |title=Woman killed 'in freak lawnmower accident' named |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/7367191/Woman-killed-in-freak-lawnmower-accident-named.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/7367191/Woman-killed-in-freak-lawnmower-accident-named.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=The Telegraph |date=4 March 2010}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Priestly |first=Kevin |date=28 March 2013 |title=OFFICE OF THE STATE CORONER FINDINGS OF INQUEST |url=https://www.courts.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/178230/cif-Vearncombe-mj-20130328.pdf |access-date=24 October 2022 |website=QLD Courts}}</ref>
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![[Death of Gareth Williams|Gareth Williams]]
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|{{dts|16 August 2010}}
|The 31-year old Welsh mathematician and [[GCHQ]] analyst was found dead and naked in a bag that had been padlocked from the outside, in the bath of his home in Central London.<ref>{{Cite web|date=28 August 2010|title=Spy last seen alive eight days before body was found in bag|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/aug/28/spy-alive-eight-days-body|access-date=11 October 2021|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> The inquest found his death was likely criminal, although a [[Metropolitan Police]] investigation later found that it was likely an accident.<ref name="AP 2013">{{Cite news |title=Gareth Williams, British Spy, Likely Died in Bag By Accident, opposite of what the coroner had stated |first=Raphael |last=Satter |date=13 November 2013 |agency=AP |newspaper=Huffington Post |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/13/gareth-williams-accident-died-in-bag_n_4266397.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113172525/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/13/gareth-williams-accident-died-in-bag_n_4266397.html |archive-date=13 November 2013}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[2010 Filair Let L-410 crash|The 20 passengers and crew of a plane crash]]
| [[File:Crash-avion-FIL-AIR1.jpg|100px|center]]
|{{dts|25 August 2010}}
|The 20 passengers and crew of a [[Let L-410 Turbolet]] were killed in a crash resulting from an escaped crocodile in the [[Democratic Republic of Congo]]. The animal was smuggled aboard by a passenger, but escaped mid-flight. Panicked passengers surged forward, unbalancing the plane and causing a loss of control.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/democraticrepublicofcongo/8078612/Aircraft-crashes-after-crocodile-on-board-escapes-and-sparks-panic.html |title=Aircraft crashes after crocodile on board escapes and sparks panic |work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |date=21 October 2010 |access-date=22 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101022104719/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/democraticrepublicofcongo/8078612/Aircraft-crashes-after-crocodile-on-board-escapes-and-sparks-panic.html |archive-date=22 October 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref> The crocodile survived the crash, but was promptly killed by a blow from a machete.<ref name=MSNBC>{{cite web|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39781214 |title=Crocodile blamed for Congo air crash |work=NBC News |access-date=22 October 2010}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Mike Edwards (musician)|Mike Edwards]]
|
| {{dts|3 September 2010}}
| The 62-year old [[Cello|cellist]] and founding member of the band [[Electric Light Orchestra]] died when a large, round bale of hay rolled down a hill and collided with the van he was driving.<ref name=cfk>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/celebritynews/7984944/Mike-Edwards-hay-bale-death-celebrities-in-freak-killings.html |title=Mike Edwards hay bale death: celebrities in freak killings |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=6 September 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913014323/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/celebritynews/7984944/Mike-Edwards-hay-bale-death-celebrities-in-freak-killings.html |archive-date=13 September 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-20259274 |title=ELO cellist Mike Edwards's hay bale death 'preventable' |work=BBC News |date=8 November 2012 |access-date=7 August 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220170217/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-20259274 |archive-date=20 December 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ultimateclassicrock.com/mike-edwards-strange-rock-deaths |title=Mike Edwards – Killed by a Hay Bale|author=sterlingwit|date=2 November 2012|website=Ultimate Classic Rock|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170804082836/http://ultimateclassicrock.com/mike-edwards-strange-rock-deaths |archive-date=4 August 2017}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Jimi Heselden]]
|
| {{dts|26 September 2010}}
| The 62-year old owner of [[Segway Inc.]], died after apparently riding a Segway Personal Transport System off a cliff in [[Thorp Arch]], England.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.inquisitr.com/86002/owner-of-segway-dies-in-segway-accident |title=Owner of Segway pilots Segway off cliff, dies|website=The Inquisitr News|date=27 September 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201131226/https://www.inquisitr.com/86002/owner-of-segway-dies-in-segway-accident |archive-date=1 December 2017}}</ref> The [[coroner]] came to the conclusion that Heselden had likely fallen from the cliff with the Segway after "getting into difficulty" reversing to allow a man walking his dog to pass him.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-11465512|title=Inquest into Segway head's death|work=BBC News|date=4 October 2010}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Jose Luis Ochoa
|
| {{dts|30 January 2011}}
| The 35-year old died after being stabbed in the leg at an illegal [[cockfight]] in [[Tulare County, California]], by a bird with a knife-like spur strapped to its leg.<ref>{{cite news |title=Man stabbed to death by cockfighting bird |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12393125 |work=BBC News |date=8 February 2011 |access-date=19 March 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110316074814/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12393125 |archive-date=16 March 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Peralta |first=Eyder |url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/02/07/133565050/weird-news-california-man-fatally-stabbed-by-rooster |title=Weird News: California Man Fatally Stabbed By Rooster : The Two-Way |publisher=NPR |date=7 February 2011 |access-date=26 September 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928175648/http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/02/07/133565050/weird-news-california-man-fatally-stabbed-by-rooster |archive-date=28 September 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=First man killed during a cockerel fight |date=30 January 2011 |url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/first-man-to-be-killed-during-a-cockerel-fight |publisher=[[Guinness World Records Limited]] |access-date=20 January 2022}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Unknown man and woman
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| {{dts|6 June 2011}}
|Two unnamed people were killed in an accident on a rural [[Quebec]] road when a "flying bear" collided with their SUV. The {{convert|200|kg|adj=on}} [[American black bear|black bear]] was sent airborne by a car in front of the SUV after it had stepped into the path of traffic on [[Quebec Route 148|Highway 148]]. The bear passed through the windshield, hitting the driver and the passenger sitting behind her before passing through the rear window. The driver's boyfriend was in the front passenger seat and received injuries to his upper body which were described as "not life-threatening". The bear also died.<ref>{{cite news|title=Flying bear kills two in SUV |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2011/06/07/flying_bear_kills_two_in_suv.html|work=[[Toronto Star]]|date=7 June 2011|access-date=10 June 2022|quote=Two people were killed Monday after a freak series of collisions}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Flying bear kills two Canadians in freak accident|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/canada-us-bear-idCATRE7573RN20110608|work=[[Reuters]]|date=8 June 2011|access-date=10 June 2022|quote=Two Canadians died instantly in a freak accident...}}</ref>
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!Brian Depledge
|
|10 September 2011
|The 38-year old was home alone placing wet laundry on a [[clothes horse]], a type of drying rack, when he accidentally tripped over a small stool and fell backwards into the rack, trapping himself. Authorities state it appears he attempted to free himself, but the struggle only caused the rungs to tighten around his chest and neck even more. A coroner remarked his death was "probably rarer than being struck by lightning or struck by a meteorite".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Thornton |first=Lucy |date=2011-09-09 |title=Dad of two killed in bizarre clothes dryer accident |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dad-of-two-killed-in-bizarre-clothes-152878 |access-date=2023-03-14 |website=mirror |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Man dies after falling into plastic clothes horse - 9News |url=https://www.9news.com.au/world/man-dies-after-falling-into-plastic-clothes-horse/0217100f-e8de-4d4e-b948-22c3d885152a |access-date=2023-03-14 |website=www.9news.com.au|date=10 September 2011 }}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Erica Marshall
|
| {{dts|10 February 2012}}
| The 28-year old British [[veterinarian]] in [[Ocala, Florida]], died when the horse she was treating in a [[hyperbaric oxygen]] chamber kicked the wall, releasing a spark from its [[horseshoe]], causing a fire and explosion. The horse was also killed and another worker was seriously injured.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/9079168/Equine-expert-killed-as-horse-shoe-sparks-explosion-heard-30-miles-away.html | work=The Daily Telegraph | title=Equine expert killed as horse shoe sparks explosion heard 30 miles away | date=13 February 2012 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140513152933/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/9079168/Equine-expert-killed-as-horse-shoe-sparks-explosion-heard-30-miles-away.html | archive-date=13 May 2014 | df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/17/10434135-officials-horses-metal-shoes-sparked-fatal-blast-in-oxygen-chamber?lite |title=Officials: Horse's metal shoes sparked fatal blast in oxygen chamber|date=17 February 2012|work=NBC News|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130104015140/http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/17/10434135-officials-horses-metal-shoes-sparked-fatal-blast-in-oxygen-chamber?lite |archive-date=4 January 2013}}</ref>
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!Anthony Hensley
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| {{dts|14 April 2012}}
|The 37-year old was killed by a [[swan]] while kayaking across a pond at a residential complex in Des Plaines, Illinois. After getting too close to the bird's nest, the swan attacked him, threw him out of the kayak and prevented him from surfacing; he ultimately drowned.<ref>{{Cite news|date=17 April 2012|title=Who, What, Why: How dangerous are swans?|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17736292|access-date=5 November 2021|quote=Anthony Hensley, 37, worked for a company that provided swans to keep geese away from property. On Saturday morning, the married father of two set out in a kayak across a pond at a residential complex in Des Plaines, just outside Chicago, where he was tending the birds. One of the swans charged his boat, capsizing it, says Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, whose deputies investigated the death. Mr Hensley tried to swim to shore but eyewitnesses told the sheriff's investigators the swan appeared to have actively blocked him. In April 2010, a swan on the River Cam in England made the news after repeatedly attacking rowers. It was nicknamed Mr Asbo, named after the Anti-Social Behaviour Orders issued by UK courts at the time. Two years later, there are still calls for it to be removed from the river, as the seasonal attacks go on. But such incidents are very rare, says John Huston of the Abbotsbury Swannery in Dorset, where there are 1,000 swans but no recorded attacks on humans in the colony's 600-year history.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|author1=Jennifer Delgado |author2=Joseph Ruzich |title=Man caring for swans drowns after one attacks him near Chicago|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2012-04-17-ct-met-kayak-swan-death-20120417-story.html|access-date=5 November 2021|website=chicagotribune.com|date=17 April 2012 |language=en-US |quote=Witnesses told police that Hensley, a Villa Park father with two young daughters, drowned after he was attacked by a nesting swan Saturday morning, causing his kayak to topple. The bird continued to lunge at him aggressively as he struggled to make it to shore before disappearing under the water, authorities said... Though swans may seem serene and are pretty to look at, most people don't realize how strong and aggressive they can be, said Doug Stotz, a senior conservation ecologist with the Field Museum. He said he has heard tales of people being attacked or injured from swans but has never heard of someone dying after a bad encounter.}}</ref>

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!Elizabeth Nass and Rose Mayr
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| {{dts|21 August 2012}}
| The 19-year olds died after more than 20 coal cars (out of 90) from a [[CSX]] freight train derailed in [[Ellicott City, Maryland]] while they were walking alongside the train tracks late at night. Reports said that the two women were found buried in a pile of coal. The derailment was possibly caused by a broken rail according to the [[NTSB]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Possible deaths after CSX derailment |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/in-maryland-train-deaths-more-questions-than-answers/2012/08/21/b752a362-ebbc-11e1-9ddc-340d5efb1e9c_story.html |access-date=21 August 2012 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=21 August 2012 |quote=Days before they were due back at college, two friends on a midnight stroll across a train trestle in Ellicott City died in a freak accident in which a passing freight train derailed, dumping thousands of tons of coal down from the raised tracks.}}</ref>
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!Ilda Vitor Maciel
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| {{dts|28 September 2012}}
| The 88-year old died in a hospital in [[Barra Mansa]], [[Rio de Janeiro (state)|Rio de Janeiro]], allegedly as a result of nursing technicians injecting soup through her [[intravenous drip]] instead of her feeding tube.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/15/ilda-vitor-maciel-dies-soup-injection_n_1967495.html|title=Ilda Vitor Maciel, 88, Dies After Allegedly Being Injected With Soup|last=Moye|first=David|date=16 October 2012|work=HuffPost|access-date=18 December 2019}}</ref>
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!Palmerina Pires Ribeiro
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|October 2012
|The 80-year old died in a [[Rio de Janeiro]] clinic when an untrained nurse injected coffee in her intravenous drip. The nurse reported the incident had occurred because the blood drip and feed drip were directly next to one another.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-10-23 |title='Anyone Can Get Confused': Nurse Allegedly Injects Patient With Coffee |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rejane-moreira-telles-nurse-injects-patient-coffee_n_2006821 |access-date=2023-09-11 |website=HuffPost |language=en}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Kendrick Johnson]]
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| {{dts|10 January 2013}}
| The 17-year old was discovered trapped upside down in a rolled-up gym mat in his high school gymnasium. Police originally concluded he had climbed in it to retrieve a shoe and became trapped, but the case was later reopened as a possible homicide.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/d6fa9fa6da444646b81a0daa7d44431c/us-justice-department-no-criminal-charges-gym-mat-death |title=US Justice Department: No criminal charges in gym mat death|last=Dandron|first=Jennifer|agency=Associated Press|access-date=2 September 2016|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160924071217/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/d6fa9fa6da444646b81a0daa7d44431c/us-justice-department-no-criminal-charges-gym-mat-death |archive-date=24 September 2016}}</ref><ref name="FBI">{{cite news |title=Federal prosecutor will look into Kendrick Johnson case|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/31/justice/georgia-gym-mat-death/index.html|publisher=CNN|access-date=31 October 2013|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102110608/http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/31/justice/georgia-gym-mat-death/index.html |archive-date=2 November 2013}}</ref><ref name=surveillance>{{cite news|last=Tinuoye|first=Kunbi |title=Kendrick Johnson family makes emotional plea for surveillance to be released|url=http://thegrio.com/2013/10/10/kendrick-johnson-family-makes-emotional-plea-for-surveillance-to-be-released|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517122030/http://thegrio.com/2013/10/10/kendrick-johnson-family-makes-emotional-plea-for-surveillance-to-be-released |archive-date=17 May 2014}}</ref><ref name=CNN>{{cite news|last=Zdanowicz|first=Christina |title=Family demands answers in Kendrick Johnson's death|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/10/us/kendrick-johnson-death-irpt|publisher=CNN|date=10 May 2013|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517123547/http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/10/us/kendrick-johnson-death-irpt |archive-date=17 May 2014}}</ref><ref name=gutierrez>{{cite news|last=Gutierrez|first=Gabe |title=Feds to investigate mysterious death of Georgia teen Kendrick Johnson|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/other/feds-investigate-mysterious-death-georgia-teen-kendrick-johnson-f8C11506328|work=NBC News|date=31 October 2013|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517122309/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/other/feds-investigate-mysterious-death-georgia-teen-kendrick-johnson-f8C11506328 |archive-date=17 May 2014}}</ref> The homicide case was dismissed, and Kendrick's parents were accused of fabricating evidence. In 2016, they were sentenced to pay more than US$292,000 in legal fees.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-parents-owe-292-000-153245007.html |title=Judge: Parents owe $292,000 for suit in son's gym mat death |date=10 August 2017 |website=Yahoo News |access-date=24 October 2021}}</ref> The case was reopened again in 2021, but closed again in January 2022, with the Lowndes County Sheriff finding his death to be an accident when re-reviewing some 17 boxes of evidence and the Federal Bureau of Investigation's findings.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Blackwell |first1=Victor |last2=Sayers |first2=Devon |date=10 March 2021 |title=Investigation into death of Georgia teen found in a rolled-up gym mat 8 years ago will be reopened |website=[[CNN]] |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/09/us/kendrick-johnson-georgia-gym-mat-death-investigation/index.html |access-date=24 October 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Adams |first=Biba |date=2022-01-27 |title=Kendrick Johnson's case closed after authorities say no crime found |url=https://thegrio.com/2022/01/27/kendrick-johnson-case-closed-authorities-say-no-crime/ |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=TheGrio |language=en-US}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | James Campbell
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| 14 {{dts|January 2013}}
| When the 68-year old left his van to open a gate, his dog stepped on the van's gas pedal and ran him over.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://fox4kc.com/news/offbeat/troopers-dog-runs-over-kills-man-with-van/ |title=Troopers: Dog Runs Over, Kills Man with Van |publisher=[[WDAF-TV]] |date=17 January 2013 |quote=Investigators say that a dog appears to be to blame in the death of a Florida man in a bizarre accident in the man's driveway.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-man-dies-after-dog-runs-him-over-2013-1 |title=Dog Runs Over Man In Deadly Freak Accident |work=[[Business Insider]] |date=18 January 2013}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | Takuya Nagaya
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| 18 January {{dts|2013}}
| The 23-year old from Japan, started to slither on the floor and claimed he had become a snake. He died after his father spent the next two days head-butting and biting him "to drive [out] the snake that had possessed him".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Billones |first1=Cherrie Lou |title=Father bites his own son to death for being 'possessed by a snake' |url=http://japandailypress.com/father-bites-his-own-son-to-death-for-being-possessed-by-a-snake-2121879/ |access-date=3 July 2014 |work=Japan Daily Press |date=21 January 2013 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714132353/http://japandailypress.com/father-bites-his-own-son-to-death-for-being-possessed-by-a-snake-2121879/ |archive-date=14 July 2014}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Elisa Lam]]
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| {{dts|February 2013}}
| Lam, from [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]], Canada, was missing for several weeks before being found dead in a large water tank on the roof of the [[Cecil Hotel (Los Angeles)|Cecil Hotel]] in Los Angeles, after guests complained about low pressure and foul smell of the water.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/death-of-elisa-lam |last=Mikkelson |first=David |author-link=David Mikkelson |title=The Strange Death of Elisa Lam |date=14 August 2016 |publisher=[[Snopes Media Group Inc.]] |access-date=17 August 2021}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Jeffery Bush
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| {{dts|28 February 2013}}
|The 37-year old from the [[Tampa, Florida|Tampa]] area, was killed while he slept in his bedroom when a giant [[sinkhole]] measuring {{Convert|15|ft}} wide and {{Convert|20|ft}} deep opened below and swallowed his entire bedroom. His body was never recovered.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Florida sinkhole reopens two years after it swallowed a sleeping man and killed him |language=en-US |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/19/florida-sinkhole-reopens-two-years-after-it-swallowed-a-sleeping-man-and-killed-him/ |access-date=2022-07-31 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Brandon |first=Associated Press in |date=2013-03-02 |title=Florida man swallowed by sinkhole under bedroom feared dead |url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/01/man-disappears-sinkhole-florida |access-date=2022-07-31 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Roger Mirro
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| {{dts|30 July 2013}}
| Crushed by a [[trash compactor]] while looking through a dumpster for his phone.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/02/13/65349.htm |title=Widow Sues for Her Husband's Horrible Death in a Dumpster|work=Courthouse News Service|date=13 February 2014|access-date=4 April 2016|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418123517/http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/02/13/65349.htm |archive-date=18 April 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/arlington-heights/chi-police-man-crushed-to-death-while-looking-for-cell-phone-20130731-story.html|title=Man crushed to death while looking for cell phone|date=1 August 2013|access-date=24 March 2022}}</ref>

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!scope="row" | Unknown Belarusian man
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| {{dts|2013}}
| An unnamed 60-year old Belarusian fisherman bled to death after being bitten by a [[beaver]] which he had tried to grab in order to have his picture taken with it.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/29/beaver-kills-man-belarus |title=Beaver kills man in Belarus |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=29 May 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130911095943/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/29/beaver-kills-man-belarus |archive-date=11 September 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Jones |first=Simon |date=31 May 2013 |title=Beavers are born to bite wood, not people |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23625-beavers-are-born-to-bite-wood-not-people.html |newspaper=New Scientist |access-date=22 January 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202135747/http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23625-beavers-are-born-to-bite-wood-not-people.html |archive-date=2 February 2014}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | João Maria de Souza
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| {{dts|2013}}
| The 45-year old was crushed in his bed by a cow falling through the roof of his home in [[Caratinga]], [[Minas Gerais]], Brazil. It had climbed on top of the house from a steep hillside behind it. Both the cow and his wife (who was in the bed next to him) were unharmed.<ref>{{cite news|last=Roper|first=Matt |title=Brazilian man dies after cow falls through his roof on top of him|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/10177786/Brazilian-man-dies-after-cow-falls-through-his-roof-on-top-of-him.html|work=The Daily Telegraph|issn=0307-1235|access-date=20 February 2014|location=London|date=13 July 2013|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140318204550/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/10177786/Brazilian-man-dies-after-cow-falls-through-his-roof-on-top-of-him.html |archive-date=18 March 2014}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[2013 New Brunswick python attack|Noah Barthe, Connor Barthe]]
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| {{dts|5 August 2013}}
| The brothers, aged four and six respectively, were [[2013 New Brunswick python attack|killed by an African rock python]] during a sleepover at their friend's apartment in [[New Brunswick]], Canada. The snake had escaped from its inadequate enclosure, and moved through ducts that were easily accessible to the reptile, where the snake then fell through the ceiling where the boys slept three meters away. Though the snake suffocated them, it did not attempt to eat them. However, an African rock python would not constrict unless they planned on eating, therefore it is likely that the owners of the python also failed to feed their pet. The python was euthanized.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Python's strangling of 2 boys in Canada investigated |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57597127/pythons-strangling-of-2-boys-in-canada-investigated/ |date=6 August 2013 |work=CBS News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130809071832/http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57597127/pythons-strangling-of-2-boys-in-canada-investigated/ |archive-date=9 August 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Python enclosure in N.B. boys' deaths had 'flaw'|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2013/08/14/nb-python-campbellton-boys-escaped.html |date=14 August 2013 |work=CBC News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829033701/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2013/08/14/nb-python-campbellton-boys-escaped.html |archive-date=29 August 2013 }}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Denver Lee St. Clair
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| {{dts|21 December 2013}}
| The 58-year old was asphyxiated by an "atomic [[wedgie]]" administered by his stepson during a fight. After he had been knocked unconscious, the elastic band from his torn underwear was pulled over his head and stretched around his neck, strangling him. The stepson was sentenced to 30 years in prison.<ref>{{cite news |title=Oklahoma Man Sentenced To 30 Years In 'Atomic Wedgie' Death Case|url=http://www.swtimes.com/news/state-news/oklahoma-man-sentenced-30-years-atomic-wedgie-death-case|date=17 July 2015|work=South Western Times|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160606140911/http://swtimes.com/news/state-news/oklahoma-man-sentenced-30-years-atomic-wedgie-death-case |archive-date=6 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Atomic Wedgie Killer Sentenced: Brad Lee Davis Gets 30 Years for Unusual M.O.|url=http://www.inquisitr.com/2260866/atomic-wedgie-killer-sentenced-brad-lee-davis-gets-30-years-for-unusual-m-o|first=Aric|last=Mitchell|date=17 July 2015|work=Inquistr|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161105104113/http://www.inquisitr.com/2260866/atomic-wedgie-killer-sentenced-brad-lee-davis-gets-30-years-for-unusual-m-o |archive-date=5 November 2016}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | J.R.N.
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| {{dts|18 January 2014}}
| A 52-year old Brazilian man, identified only as J.R.N., attempted to commit [[bestiality]] with a sow in [[Tapurah]], [[Mato Grosso]], but was attacked by the animals and wounded in the genitals. He died from a cardiac arrest. His arms and face were also mutilated by the animals. Initially police believed that the man had been murdered and disposed of at the farm, but this was disproven as numerous pieces of evidence showed that the man had drunk [[Alcohol (drug)|alcohol]], used a condom and had been wearing only underwear. The man had worked at the farm for two years.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://br.noticias.yahoo.com/blogs/eita/suspeito-de-zoofilia-morre-e-%C3%A9-devorado-por-porcos-180707260.html?pt=tad4sct8p7 |title=Suspeito de zoofilia morre e é devorado por porcos |trans-title=Zoophilia suspect dies and is devoured by pigs |language=pt |website=[[Yahoo! News]] |date=21 January 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.realdeodorense.com.br/noticias/brasilmundo/porcos-matam-tarado-que-estuprava-leitoa/6195 |title=Porcos matam tarado que estuprava leitoa |trans-title=Pigs kill pervert who raped piglet |website=Real Deodorense |date=21 January 2014 |language=pt |quote=Bizarro. Polícia Civil informou que vítima estava embriagada; homem era caseiro do local ("Bizarre. Civil Police reported that the victim was drunk; man was housekeeper of the place")}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.showdenoticias.com.br/noticia/policia/homem-suspeito-de-zoofilia-e-encontrado-morto-dentro-de-chiqueiro-de-fazenda-em-tapurah |title=Homem suspeito de Zoofilia é encontrado morto dentro de chiqueiro de fazenda em Tapurah |trans-title=Man suspected of Zoophilia is found dead inside a farm sty in Tapurah |website=Show de Notícias |date=20 January 2014 |language=pt |quote=J.R.N., de 52 anos, foi encontrado pelo proprietário da fazenda, que resolveu levar outro funcionário até a propriedade e ao chegar no local deparou com a cena inusitada, o funcionário estava sem vida e completamente nu ("J.R.N., 52 years old, was found by the owner of the farm, who decided to take another employee and when he arrived at the place he came across the unusual scene, the employee was lifeless and completely naked")}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://agorarn.com.br/brasil/homem-morre-ao-tentar-praticar-zoofilia-com-uma-porca-no-mato-grosso/ |title=Homem morre ao tentar praticar zoofilia com uma porca no Mato Grosso |trans-title=Man dies trying to practice zoophilia with a sow in Mato Grosso |publisher=AgoraRN |quote=Um caso extremamente bizarro e com final trágico foi registrado na cidade de Sorriso-MT ("An extremely bizarre case with a tragic end was recorded in the city of Sorriso-MT") |date=21 May 2017 |access-date=27 June 2022 |language=pt}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Heval Yıldırım
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| 3 October {{dts|2014}}
| The 13-year old from Turkey was killed when a [[Animal sacrifice|sacrificial goat]] bought for [[Eid al-Adha]] jumped off the roof, over a protective fence, and fell onto him. His father had placed it on the roof of the building where he lived because he could not find another suitable place to keep it.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/13-year-old-killed-after-goat-falls-from-roof-of-building-in-turkey-72553 |title=13-year-old killed after goat falls from roof of building in Turkey|website=[[Hürriyet Daily News]]|date=5 October 2014|access-date=3 February 2018|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203065217/http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/13-year-old-killed-after-goat-falls-from-roof-of-building-in-turkey-72553 |archive-date=3 February 2018}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | Peter Biaksangzuala
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| 19 October {{dts|2014}}
| The Indian [[association football|football]] player from [[Mizoram]] state, died after sustaining spinal cord injuries while awkwardly landing a somersault, celebrating a goal.<ref name="Goal celebration">{{cite news |last1=Augustine |first1=Bernie |title=Indian soccer player dies after goal celebration goes awry |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/soccer/indian-soccer-player-dies-goal-celebration-awry-article-1.1980354 |access-date=23 March 2019 |work=Daily News|location=New York |date=20 October 2014}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Christophe de Margerie]]
| [[File:Christophe Jacquin de Margerie (besoindair) 2009-09-04.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|20 October 2014}}
| The French oil executive was killed when his corporate jet collided during take-off with an airport snowplow reportedly driven by a drunk driver in Moscow.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rankin |first1=Jennifer |last2=Penketh |first2=Anne |title=Total boss killed in plane crash: investigators blame drunk driver |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/oct/21/total-boss-killed-plane-crash-christophe-de-margerie-drunk-driver |work=The Guardian |date=21 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title = The legacy of oil executive Christophe de Margerie, dead in freak Moscow plane crash| newspaper = The Washington Post| access-date = 23 May 2017| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/10/21/the-legacy-of-oil-executive-christophe-de-margerie-killed-in-freak-moscow-crash-of-his-corporate-jet | url-status = live| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170912012655/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/10/21/the-legacy-of-oil-executive-christophe-de-margerie-killed-in-freak-moscow-crash-of-his-corporate-jet| archive-date = 12 September 2017| df = dmy-all}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Peng Fan
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| {{dts|2014}}
| The chef in [[Foshan]], China, was bitten by a [[cobra]]'s severed head, which he had cut off 20 minutes earlier while preparing soup.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://nypost.com/2014/08/24/chinese-chef-dies-after-severed-cobra-head-bites-him |title=Chinese chef dies after severed cobra head bites him|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171205094542/https://nypost.com/2014/08/24/chinese-chef-dies-after-severed-cobra-head-bites-him |archive-date=5 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/chef-cooking-snake-dies-after-4088634 |title=Chef cooking snake dies after... |website=Mirror |date=22 August 2014 |access-date=29 July 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150801130911/http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/chef-cooking-snake-dies-after-4088634 |archive-date=1 August 2015}}</ref>
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!Gary Anderson
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|3 November 2014
|The 58-year old from [[New Jersey]] was delivering drywall to a construction site and leaned his head into the car of a co-worker while having a conversation. As he pulled his head out, a worker accidentally dropped a {{convert|1|lb|adj=on}} [[tape measure]] which plummeted 50 stories, or approximately {{convert|500|ft}}, when it ricocheted off a piece of metal {{convert|10|ft}} off the ground and smashed into Anderson's head. He was rushed to [[Jersey City Medical Center]] where he suffered cardiac arrest and was pronounced dead at 9:52&nbsp;a.m. [[Hard hat]]s were mandatory at the site, and it is unclear why Anderson was not wearing one when he was killed.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Sauchelli |first1=Dana |last2=Valentine |first2=Leonica |last3=Fears |first3=Danika |date=3 November 2014 |title=Tape measure falls 50 stories, killing worker |url=https://nypost.com/2014/11/03/worker-dies-after-being-hit-by-falling-tape-measure/ |access-date=11 March 2023 |newspaper=New York Post |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Santora |first=Marc |date=4 November 2014 |title=Falling Tape Measure Kills Man at Jersey City Construction Site |language=en-US |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/04/nyregion/falling-tape-measure-kills-man-at-jersey-city-construction-site.html |access-date=11 March 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Phillip Hughes]]
| [[File:Phil Hughes cropped.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|27 November 2014}}
| The 25-year old Australian [[Test cricket|Test]] and [[One Day International|ODI]] cricketer, was killed by a [[Bouncer (cricket)|bouncer]] striking his neck during a cricket match, causing a [[vertebral artery dissection]].<ref>{{cite news|title=South Australian batsman Phil Hughes in critical condition after being hit by bouncer in Shield game at the SCG|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-25/test-aspirant-phil-hughes-knocked-out-in-shield-match/5916844|access-date=25 November 2014|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|date=25 November 2014|quote=NSW assistant coach Geoff Lawson said the incident was the most confronting thing he had seen on a cricket field..."But I've never seen in all my days in the game a consequence like this where somebody's life may be in jeopardy."}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/phillip-hughes-dead-australian-cricketer-dies-after-bouncer-at-scg-20141127-11vcpt.html|title=Phillip Hughes dead: Australian cricketer dies after bouncer at SCG|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=27 November 2014|access-date=9 December 2014|quote=Cricket Australia boss James Sutherland delivered a statement after Clarke. This freak accident is now real life tragedy ... Our grief runs deep and the impact of Phillip's loss is enormous.}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Stephen Whinfrey
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| {{dts|January 2015}}
| The 50-year old became trapped and asphyxiated when [[rabbiting]] near [[Doncaster]], England, after his head became stuck down a rabbit hole.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/11645276/Rabbit-hunter-died-in-freak-accident-after-getting-his-head-stuck-in-a-hole.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/11645276/Rabbit-hunter-died-in-freak-accident-after-getting-his-head-stuck-in-a-hole.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Rabbit hunter died in freak accident after getting his head stuck in a hole on New Year's Day|last=Agency|journal=Daily Telegraph|date=2 June 2015|access-date=26 April 2019|issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Charmayne Maxwell]]
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| {{dts|28 February 2015}}
| The member of American [[R&B]] group [[Brownstone (group)|Brownstone]], died after falling backward while holding a wine glass. During the fall, the glass shattered on the ground behind her head, and the shards pierced her neck, causing profuse bleeding.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.tmz.com/2015/03/02/brownstones-charmayne-maxwell-death-dies-bleeding-broken-glass/|title=Death by Wine Glass Was Freaky But No Signs of a Crime|work=[[TMZ]]| access-date =10 August 2019}}</ref>
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!scope="row" |Stephen Woytack
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| {{dts|30 March 2015}}
|The 74-year old was decorating his family's grave plot at St. Joseph's Cemetery in [[Throop, Pennsylvania]], for [[Easter]] with his wife when the tombstone of his mother-in-law toppled over, pinning him underneath and crushing him to death. The stone had supposedly been dislodged when the previously frozen ground was thawed by the early spring temperatures. Woytack was buried in a plot directly in front of the tombstone that killed him.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lackawanna-county/man-killed-by-falling-headstone-in-throop-cemetery/523-50da6813-8d28-4337-aff8-18f4a350c74a#:~:text=THROOP%20%2D%2D%20A%20man%20decorating,us%20shortly%20after%20the%20incident/|title=Man Killed by Falling Headstone While Decorating Family Grave|work=[[WNEP-TV]]| access-date =10 June 2022}}</ref>
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!scope="row" |Randy Llanes
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| {{dts|29 May 2015}}
|The 47-year old fisherman from [[Kailua-Kona, Hawaii]], was killed by a [[swordfish]]. He had harpooned the fish and jumped into the water to retrieve it, but the swordfish impaled him in the chest.<ref>{{Cite web|date=1 June 2015|title=Randy Llanes, killed by a swordfish off Kona, known for his Aloha spirit|url=https://www.mensjournal.com/adventure/randy-llanes-killed-by-a-swordfish-off-kona-known-for-his-aloha-spirit/|access-date=6 November 2021|website=Men's Journal|language=en-US |quote=As the tight-knit sportfishing community in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, mourns the bizarre death of Capt. Randy Llanes, who on Friday was impaled by a swordfish that he had speared, more is revealed about the man, the incident, and the type of fish that killed him... The extraordinary incident occurred inside Honokohau Small Boat Harbor. A swordfish measuring between 4 and 6 feet, with a 3-foot bill, had been spotted deep inside the harbor–a rare occasion because swordfish typically roam deep, pelagic waters... This type of incident, as far as we know, is unprecedented.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=30 May 2015|title=Autopsy shows Kona man struck by swordfish died of internal injuries|url=https://www.khon2.com/news/autopsy-shows-kona-man-struck-by-swordfish-died-of-internal-injuries/|access-date=6 November 2021|website=KHON2|language=en-US|quote=The medical examiner says Randy Llanes, 47, a local fisherman, died from internal injuries caused by being struck by the bill of a swordfish. His death was ruled an accident. Llanes jumped into the water with a spear gun on Friday, May 29, after the swordfish was spotted in Honokohau Harbor... While there have been incidents between humans and swordfish in the past, Dr. Rossiter says an incident like this one is rare. "This is very, very unusual," he said. "There have been a couple of cases documented in the past, but almost always it can be attributed to an unfortunate accident or the fish being injured."}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Jaylon Rippy
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| {{dts|2 July 2015}}
| The five-year old was killed by a leaping [[sturgeon]] while she was boating with her family near [[Fanning Springs, Florida]]. Her mother and brother were also injured and needed [[Oral and maxillofacial surgery|facial reconstruction]] surgery.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jumping sturgeon kills 5-year-old girl boating with family|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/07/04/jumping-sturgeon-kills-5-year-old-girl-on-suwanee-river/29693981/|access-date=29 June 2020|website=USA TODAY|language=en-US}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Chelsea Ake-Salvacion
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| October {{dts|2015}}
| The 24-year old [[beauty salon]] employee in [[Henderson, Nevada]], was suffocated while using a [[cryotherapy]] machine set to the wrong level, which eliminated the oxygen in the chamber.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.refinery29.com/2015/10/96417/cryotherapy-chamber-death |title=Chelsea Ake-Salvacion Death Cryotherapy Chamber Spa|first=Sara|last=Coughlin|date=26 October 2015|website=Refinery29|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171205042038/http://www.refinery29.com/2015/10/96417/cryotherapy-chamber-death |archive-date=5 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/news/a48276/chelsea-ake-salvacion-cryotherapy-chamber-death |title=24-Year-Old Salon Worker Found Dead Inside Cryotherapy Chamber|first=Tess|last=Koman|date=26 October 2015|website=Cosmopolitan|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171204223011/http://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/news/a48276/chelsea-ake-salvacion-cryotherapy-chamber-death |archive-date=4 December 2017}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Ravi Subramanian
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| {{dts|5 December 2015}}
| The [[Air India]] technician was sucked into an aircraft's jet engine.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/627531/man-died-sucked-jet-engine |title=Airline horror as airport worker is killed by being sucked into plane engine|first=Katie|last=Mansfield|newspaper=[[Daily Express]]|department=World|date=17 December 2015|access-date=6 March 2022|quote=A MAN died after being sucked into a jet engine in a freak accident after a misunderstanding saw the pilot turn on the controls.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/12/16/a-ground-crew-member-is-sucked-into-the-aircraft-engine-at-mumbai-airport |title=A ground crew member is sucked into the aircraft engine at Mumbai airport|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=16 December 2015|first=Rama|last=Lakshmi|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160810040655/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/12/16/a-ground-crew-member-is-sucked-into-the-aircraft-engine-at-mumbai-airport |archive-date=10 August 2016}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | V. Kamaraj
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| {{dts|2016}}
| The 40-year old Indian bus driver was claimed by local newspapers to have been killed by a [[meteorite]] which left a {{convert|2|ft|cm|-1|spell=in|adj=on}} crater, although officials from [[NASA]] oppose that view, saying that the most likely explanation was a land-based explosion. According to a preliminary report by the National College Instrumentation Facility (NCIF) in [[Tiruchirappalli|Trichy]], a [[scanning electron microscope]] (SEM) study on the evidence of the samples retrieved from the campus in [[Vellore]], from where the blast occurred, showed "the presence of [[carbonaceous chondrite]]s".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/10/world/asia/that-wasnt-a-meteorite-that-killed-a-man-in-india-nasa-says.html |title=That Wasn't a Meteorite That Killed a Man in India, NASA Says|work=The New York Times |date=9 February 2016 |access-date=22 June 2018|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311175641/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/10/world/asia/that-wasnt-a-meteorite-that-killed-a-man-in-india-nasa-says.html |archive-date=11 March 2018|last1=Hauser |first1=Christine}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/12146928/Indian-bus-driver-killed-by-meteorite-strike.html |title=Indian bus driver 'killed by meteorite strike'|work=The Telegraph|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180426125915/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/12146928/Indian-bus-driver-killed-by-meteorite-strike.html |archive-date=26 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2016/02/08/meteorite-killed-man-at-indian-college-says-chief-minister |title= Meteorite Killed Man at Indian College, Says Chief Minister|work=The Wall Street Journal}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/vellore-blast-tamil-nadu-blast-samples-from-vellore-college-are-meteorite-parts-says-trichy-lab-report |title= Blast samples from Vellore college are meteorite parts, says Trichy lab report|work=The Indian Express}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Irma Bule
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| {{dts|4 April 2016}}
| The 29-year old Indonesian [[dangdut]] singer who performed with live snakes, died during a concert after being bitten by a [[king cobra]] and refusing treatment.<ref name="The Age">{{cite news |title=Indonesian pop star Irma Bule bitten by cobra on stage, continues for 45 minutes before fatal collapse |access-date=1 February 2022 |url=http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/indonesian-pop-star-irma-bule-bitten-by-cobra-on-stage-continues-for-45-minutes-before-fatal-collapse-20160408-go1wqi.html |newspaper=The Age |date=8 April 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |first=Yenni |last=Kwok |url=http://time.com/4286323/irma-bule-snake-bite-cobra-singer-dangdut-indonesia/ |title=Here's the Real Story Behind the Indonesian Singer Irma Bule, Who Died From a Cobra Bite |magazine=Time.com |department=World |date=8 April 2016 |access-date=1 February 2022 |quote=The bizarre death of a singer in Indonesia became international headlines in recent days.}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | Lottie Michelle Belk
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| 6 June {{dts|2016}}
| The 55-year old was fatally stabbed in the chest by a beach umbrella blown by a strong wind in [[Virginia Beach, Virginia]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/virginia-beach-umbrella-death-lottie-belk-a7073526.html |last=Garcia |first=Feliks |title=Woman dies after being stabbed by beach umbrella while celebrating her birthday at Virginia Beach |work=[[The Independent]] |department=Americas |date=9 June 2016 |access-date=1 February 2022}}</ref> Wind speeds at the time reached {{convert|20–25|mph}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lottie-michelle-belk-umbrella-impaled_us_5759c20fe4b00f97fba7a97a |last=Hanson |first=Hilary |title=Woman Impaled By Umbrella While Celebrating Birthday At The Beach |website=[[HuffPost]] |department=Crime |date=9 June 2016 |access-date=1 February 2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161205214529/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lottie-michelle-belk-umbrella-impaled_us_5759c20fe4b00f97fba7a97a |archive-date=5 December 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://wtkr.com/2016/06/08/death-investigation-underway-at-virginia-beach-oceanfront |title=Woman dies after being stabbed in chest with umbrella at Virginia Beach Oceanfront |website=[[WTKR]] |department=News |date=10 June 2016 |publisher=Scripps Media |access-date=1 February 2022 |quote=According to Tom Gill, Captain of the Virginia Beach Lifesaving Service, this is the first time he has ever heard of someone being killed by an umbrella in the Resort City. Gill says he has heard of people being injured by an umbrella that gets loose, but considers Belk's death, a freak accident.}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Lane Graves
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| 14 June {{dts|2016}}
| The two-year-old boy from Nebraska was on vacation and playing on the beach in [[Seven Seas Lagoon]] about 9pm at [[Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa]] just outside of [[Orlando, Florida]] when an alligator approached and dragged him under the water. Graves's body was found nearby the next day, intact and apparently drowned.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/06/15/child-reportedly-dragged-into-lagoon-by-alligator-near-disney-resort.html|title=Florida police search for child who was attacked by alligator at Disney resort|date=June 15, 2016|website=Fox News|language=en-US|access-date=June 15, 2016|quote=Demings said there had been no other recent reports of similar alligator attacks on the lake. "Disney has operated here now for 45 years and they've never had this type of thing happen here before," he said.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wesh.com/news/so-child-dragged-into-water-by-alligator-near-disneys-grand-floridian-resort-spa/40058064|title=Child dragged into water by alligator near Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa|website=WESH|access-date=June 15, 2016|quote=Wiley said it's very rare for people to be attacked by alligators.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=McLaughlin |first=Eliott C. |url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/15/us/alligator-attacks-child-disney-florida/ |title=Disney gator attack: 2-year-old Nebraska boy found dead |website=CNN.com |date=2016-06-16 |access-date=2016-07-07|quote=In Florida, alligators may be a common sight, but attacks are rare.}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Anton Yelchin]]
| [[File:Anton Yelchin Deauville 2011.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|19 June 2016}}
| The 27-year old American actor known for portraying [[Pavel Chekov]] in the ''[[Star Trek]]'' reboot movie series, was found pinned between his car and a brick wall. His driveway was on an incline and his car was found running and in neutral.<ref>{{cite web |last=Visser |first=Steve |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/19/entertainment/actor-anton-yelchin-killed/index.html |title=Anton Yelchin, 'Star Trek' actor, dies |publisher=CNN |date=19 June 2016 |access-date=19 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/video/anton-yelchin-s-bizarre-death-spurs-investigation-of-jeep-suv-709590595856 |title=Anton Yelchin's bizarre death spurs investigation of Jeep SUV |work=[[NBC News]] |date=21 June 2016 |access-date=23 August 2016}}</ref> The manufacturer had [[product recall|recalled]] the car make in April 2016, for concerns about its [[gearshift]] design that could cause rollaway incidents, but the software patch to repair the vehicles did not reach dealers until the week of Yelchin's death.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2016/6/22/12007862/fca-jeep-grand-cherokee-gear-lever-recall-anton-yelchin|title=FCA accelerates recall of confusing gear lever that may have contributed to Anton Yelchin's death|first=Chris|last=Ziegler|date=22 June 2016|website=The Verge}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Kristopher Moules and Timothy Gilliam Jr.
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| {{dts|18 July 2016}}
| Moules, a 25-year old [[correctional officer]], and Gilliam, a 27-year old out-of-county inmate being housed at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility in [[Luzerne County, Pennsylvania|Luzerne County]], [[Pennsylvania]], fell to their deaths after an altercation between them caused them to slam into the exterior of the fifth floor elevator doors. Despite the elevator having its up-to-date working credentials, the door popped open on impact, causing the men to fall five flights down the shaft to their deaths. The county declared Moules' death a homicide and declared Gilliam's an accident.<ref>{{cite news |last=Buynovsky |first=Sarah |title=County: Corrections Officer and Inmate Fell into Elevator Shaft |url=https://wnep.com/2016/07/19/county-corrections-officer-and-inmate-fell-into-elevator-shaft/ |access-date=1 February 2022 |publisher=[[WNEP-TV|WNEP 16 News]] |department=Luzerne County |date=19 July 2016 |quote=County officials, state police, and a special engineering firm are investigating what went wrong. They are calling it a freak accident.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.odmp.org/officer/22911-corrections-officer-kristopher-david-moules |title=Corrections Officer Kristopher David Moules, Luzerne County Correctional Facility, Pennsylvania |publisher=[[The Officer Down Memorial Page, Inc]] |access-date=1 February 2022}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Unknown girl
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| {{dts|26 July 2016}}
| A seven-year-old girl died after being struck by a stone thrown by an elephant from its enclosure at the zoo in [[Rabat]], Morocco.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-36914884 |work=BBC News |department=Africa |date=28 July 2016 |title=Girl dies after elephant throws stone in Morocco zoo |access-date=1 February 2022 |quote=The zoo statement said the enclosure met international standards and said "this kind of accident is rare, unpredictable and unusual"... Phyllis Lee, scientific director of the Amboseli Trust for Elephants, says that targeted throwing of stones and branches by elephants is very unusual.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/28/girl-dies-rabat-zoo-elephant-morocco |work=The Guardian |date=28 July 2016 |title=Girl, 7, dies after being hit by rock thrown by elephant in Morocco zoo |first=Chris |last=Johnston}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Verrückt (water slide)#Fatal incident|Caleb Schwab]]
| [[File:Verrückt (water slide) (32137294436) (cropped).jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|7 August 2016}}
| The 10-year old was decapitated when he was ejected from his raft on [[Verrückt (water slide)|Verrückt]], a {{convert|168|ft|m|adj=mid|-tall}} [[water slide]] at [[Schlitterbahn Kansas City]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article185464243.html |title=A year after a promise that Verruckt will come down, fatal water slide still stands|work=kansascity|access-date=11 December 2017}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Julio Macías González
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|{{dts|26 August 2016}}
|The 17-year old from [[Mexico City]], died from a [[Stroke|cerebrovascular accident]] caused by [[embolism|embolus]] formed on a [[hickey|neck hickey]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Bowerman|first=Mary|title=Can a hickey actually result in death? We asked a doctor|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/08/31/can-a-hickey-kill-you-mexican-teen-reportedly-dies-hickey-blood-clot-stoke/89647568/|access-date=3 November 2021|website=USA TODAY|language=en-US|quote=Julio Macias Gonzalez, who was 17, reportedly died after the suction from a hickey his girlfriend gave him caused a blood clot, which traveled to his brain and caused a stroke, the Huffington Post reported, citing Mexican outlets... according to Robert Glatter, an emergency room physician at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. "It's possible this could happen, but it's very rare, and parents should be reassured it's not something that happens in a routine way," he said.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|title=17-Year-Old Dies After Hickey From Girlfriend Causes Stroke|url=https://time.com/4471274/teenager-dies-hickey-love-bite/|access-date=3 November 2021|magazine=Time|language=en|quote=A 17-year-old boy in Mexico City has reportedly died after a hickey he received from his girlfriend caused a stroke... This is at least the second reported incident of a hickey causing a stroke...}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Ten people
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| {{dts|21 November 2016}}
| A powerful [[Southerly buster|southerly change]] in [[Melbourne]], Australia, resulted in the death of 10 [[asthmatic]] people who died from [[respiratory failure]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-26/thunderstorm-asthma-inquest-triple-zero/9909718 |title=Melbourne thunderstorm asthma victims left waiting for ambulances which had not been despatched |first=Karen |last=Percy |publisher=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]] |date=26 June 2018 |access-date=1 February 2022 |quote=Emergency operations manager at Ambulance Victoria, Michael Stephenson, told the court that before the incident thunderstorm asthma was "not a term I had ever heard of, not a term I'd heard anyone in the organisation use ever."}}</ref> This was due to a stark {{convert|60|km/h|mph|adj=on}} wind that distributed [[ryegrass]] [[pollen]] into the moist air, rupturing them into very fine specks small enough to enter people's lungs.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/nov/09/thunderstorm-asthma-deaths-ambulance-dispatch-time-unlikely-factor-coroner |title=Thunderstorm asthma deaths: ambulance dispatch 'unlikely' factor – coroner |first=Melissa |last=Davey |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |department=Health |date=9 November 2018 |access-date=1 February 2022 |quote=The scale of the event "can be fairly described as unprecedented globally, both in terms of demands on first-line responders and the public health system, and in the nature and extent of the impact on individuals", [Coroner Paresa Spanos] said, although thunderstorm asthma was a known phenomenon among public health researchers and doctors.}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Charlie Holt
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| {{dts|2017}}
| The five-year old was killed at the Sun Dial, a rotating restaurant at the top of [[Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel]] in [[Atlanta]], Georgia, when his head was caught in a small space between the rotating and non-rotating sections.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/family-friends-identify-5-year-old-boy-killed-in-freak-accident-at-atlanta-rotating-restaurant/|title=Family friends identify 5-year-old boy killed in freak accident at Atlanta rotating restaurant|work=CBS News|date=15 April 2017 }}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[Death of Akbar Salubiro|Akbar Salubiro]]
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| March {{dts|2017}}
| The 25-year old was killed and swallowed by a [[reticulated python]] in [[West Sulawesi]], Indonesia, in the first fully confirmed case of a snake swallowing an adult human.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://torontosun.com/2017/03/29/missing-man-killed-swallowed-whole-by-python/wcm/0247d384-0c8a-4a37-880e-57fc8bcf10b1 |title=Missing man killed, swallowed whole by python |newspaper=[[Toronto Sun]] |agency=The Associated Press |date=29 March 2017 |access-date=1 February 2022 |quote=Reports of humans being killed by pythons are extremely rare.}}</ref> A second case happened there the following year, when another reticulated python killed and swallowed a woman in her garden.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/7-meter-long-python-swallows-indonesian-woman |title=7-meter-long python swallows Indonesian woman |agency=[[Associated Press]] |via=[[National Post]] |date=16 June 2018}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Robert Dreyer
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| {{dts|10 May 2017}}
| The Florida resident drowned on his 89th birthday after he crashed his car into a [[fire hydrant]] and was then swallowed by the sinkhole created by the broken water line which had fed the hydrant.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-man-crashes-fire-hydrant-drowns-89th-birthday-n758216|last=Johnson|first=Alex|title=Florida Man Crashes Into Fire Hydrant and Drowns on 89th Birthday|date=11 May 2017|work=NBC News|access-date=1 February 2022|quote="This is probably the first time I've heard of something like this happen, where somebody hits a fire hydrant and drowns," said Lt. Channing Taylor, commander of the Highway Patrol's Brevard County office.}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Debra Bedard
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| 2 June {{dts|2017}}
| The 58-year old died after falling from a [[golf cart]] onto shards of wine glasses that had broken in her hands in [[Calaveras County, California]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article154823404.html |title=Woman dies after falling from golf cart onto wine glasses|website=[[The Sacramento Bee]]|first=Bill|last=Lindelof|access-date=1 July 2017|quote=Co-workers of Debra Bedard of San Jose, Calif., expressed condolences after she died in a freak golf cart accident in an olive orchard Friday night.|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713115645/http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article154823404.html |archive-date=13 July 2017}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Rebecca Burger
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| {{dts|18 June 2017}}
| The 33-year old fitness [[blog]]ger and model, died after a [[Whipped-cream charger]] exploded and struck her in the chest. The injury caused her to go into [[cardiac arrest]] as a result of [[commotio cordis]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.self.com/story/rebecca-burger-whipped-cream-dispenser-death|title=Fitness Blogger Rebecca Burger Died After a Whipped Cream Dispenser Exploded|first=Zahra|last=Barnes|website=SELF|date=23 June 2017|quote= The freak accident and resulting injury caused Burger to go into cardiac arrest, according to the French newspaper 20 Minutes.}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | Jasmine Beever
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| {{dts|7 September 2017}}
| The 16-year old from [[Skegness]], England, died of [[peritonitis]] brought about by [[Rapunzel syndrome]]. She had a long-time habit of chewing and swallowing her own hair ([[trichophagia]]) which formed a hairball in her stomach, leading to an infection in her abdomen damaging her vital organs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.seventeen.com/health/a12274449/16-year-dies-rare-condition-hairball-in-stomach/|title=16-Year-Old Girl Dies From A Rare Condition After A Hairball Is Found Inside Her Stomach|first=Eileen|last=Reslen|date=19 September 2017|website=Seventeen|access-date=1 February 2022}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Elizabeth Isherwood
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| September {{dts|2017}}
| The 60-year old walked naked into an [[Cupboard#Airing cupboard|airing cupboard]] at the villa she was renting and shut the door. When she tried to leave, part of the door handle broke off in her hand. She dug into the wall in an attempt to escape, but struck and burst a pipe, which sprayed water into the cupboard and caused her eventual death by [[hypothermia]]. She was found several days later.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/airing-cupboard-death-welsh-holiday-home-woman-naked-trapped-inquest-a8408081.html|title=Naked care worker trapped in airing cupboard dies trying to dig herself out, inquest hears|date=20 June 2018|website=The Independent}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | Raildo Matias Santos
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| {{dts|22 October 2017}}
| The 49-year old drowned in a bucket of water in [[Jaguaquara]], Brazil. Santos, who was intoxicated, attempted to fetch a {{convert|20|L|adj=on}} bucket of water, tripped, and fell in a kneeling position. He was [[epileptic]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://midiabahia.com.br/homem-embriagado-morre-afogado-em-balde-de-agua-no-entroncamento-de-jaguaquara/ |title=Homem embriagado morre afogado em balde de água no Entroncamento de Jaguaquara |trans-title=Drunk man dies drowned in water bucket at Entroncamento de Jaguaquara |quote= A man identified as Raildo Matias Santos, 49, "Bigode" died in an unusual way at Entroncamento de Jaguaquara this Sunday (22)|publisher=MídiaBahia |date=22 October 2017 |access-date=21 January 2021 |language=pt}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://itirucuonline.com/homem-embriagado-morre-afogado-em-balde-de-agua-no-entroncamento-de-jaguaquara |title=Homem embriagado morre afogado em balde de água no Entroncamento de Jaguaquara |trans-title=Drunk man dies drowned in water bucket at Entroncamento de Jaguaquara |quote= Raildo Matias Santos, 49, died in an unusual way at Entroncamento de Jaguaquara this Sunday (22)|publisher=Itiruçu online |date=22 October 2017 |access-date=21 January 2021 |language=pt}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Hidr Korkmaz
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| {{dts|12 November 2017}}
| The 42-year old Turkish-Dutch drug dealer and informant, died when he threw his fishhook into an [[electrical cable]] while fishing somewhere in Eastern Europe. Though he was a witness in the case against Dutch criminal [[Willem Holleeder]], he was not considered a crucial asset by authorities, who treated his death as an accident.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.at5.nl/artikelen/175247/belangrijke-getuige-in-zaak-holleeder-komt-om-tijdens-bizar-visongeluk |title=Belangrijke getuige in zaak Holleeder komt om tijdens bizar visongeluk |language=nl |trans-title=Important witness in Holleeder case dies in bizarre fishing accident |work=[[AT5]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://nltimes.nl/2017/11/15/unusual-accident-kills-witness-set-testify-organised-crime-leader |title=Unusual accident kills witness set to testify against organised crime leader |work=NL Times |date=15 November 2017}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | Rajesh Maru
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| {{dts|28 January 2018}}
| The 32-year old died at Nair Hospital in [[Mumbai]] after carrying a metal [[oxygen tank]] into a room housing an [[MRI scanner]]. The [[magnetic field]] pulled him in with the tank which pinned his hand and released [[liquid oxygen]]. He died of [[pneumothorax]] from inhaling liquid oxygen.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.theweek.co.uk/91265/man-dies-after-being-sucked-into-mri-machine |title=Man dies after being sucked into MRI machine |website=[[The Week]] |department=South and Central Asia |date=29 January 2018 |access-date=1 February 2022 |url-status=live |quote=A man has died after being sucked into an MRI machine in a freak accident at a Mumbai hospital. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129175347/http://www.theweek.co.uk/91265/man-dies-after-being-sucked-into-mri-machine |archive-date=29 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/mumbai-news/mumbai-mri-accident-ward-boy-told-us-machine-was-switched-off-said-relative-of-deceased/story-icsycAJsy2DIxvTC3hqCZL.html |title=Mumbai MRI accident: Ward boy told us machine was switched off, said relative of deceased |date=29 January 2018 |work=[[Hindustan Times]] |access-date=1 February 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/indian-man-killed-being-sucked-mri-machine-075255842.html |title=Indian man killed after being sucked into MRI machine|access-date=30 January 2018|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130002218/https://www.yahoo.com/news/indian-man-killed-being-sucked-mri-machine-075255842.html |archive-date=30 January 2018}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | Ateef Rafiq
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| 16 March {{dts|2018}}
| The 24-year old died from [[cardiac arrest]] in a movie theater in [[Birmingham]], England, while looking for his dropped mobile phone. His head became wedged under the electronic footrest of a seat.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/mar/20/man-dies-after-getting-trapped-in-cinema-seat-birmingham |title=Man who died after getting trapped in cinema seat named as Ateef Rafiq |newspaper=The Guardian |department=Movies |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180320223812/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/mar/20/man-dies-after-getting-trapped-in-cinema-seat-birmingham |archive-date=20 March 2018 |url-status=live |date=21 March 2018 |access-date=1 February 2022 |quote=Sources quoted in the Birmingham Mail described how the "freak" accident happened after Rafiq bent down to retrieve a phone, dropped between Gold Class seats, at the end of a movie.}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[Death of Elaine Herzberg|Elaine Herzberg]]
| [[File:Uber Self Driving Car - postcrash.png|100px|center]]
| {{dts|18 March 2018}}
| The 49-year old from [[Tempe, Arizona]], died after being hit by a [[Autonomous car|self-driving car]] operated by [[Uber]], as she crossed the road, in what was reported to be the first death of a pedestrian struck by a self-driving car on public roads. In response to the fatal accident, Uber suspended self-driving car tests in all U.S. cities.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/19/uber-self-driving-car-kills-woman-arizona-tempe |title=Self-driving Uber kills Arizona woman in first fatal crash involving pedestrian|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43459156 |title=Uber halts self-driving car tests after death|publisher=BBC|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180328013839/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43459156 |archive-date=28 March 2018}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | Kyle Plush
| [[File:2018 Honda Odyssey EX-L 3.5L, front 8.23.19.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|10 April 2018}}
| The 16-year old died from [[asphyxia]] after becoming trapped in his [[Honda Odyssey (North America)|Honda Odyssey]], which was in his school's parking lot in [[Cincinnati, Ohio]]. Attempting to reach his tennis equipment, he leaned over the third row of seats into the trunk. When the seats "squashed his chest", he became pinned and later died. During the incident, he called [[9-1-1]] twice, by using his smartphone's voice assistant. Responding to the calls, the police were not able to find him; he was eventually discovered dead in the vehicle by his father about six hours later.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amberjamieson/ohio-teen-van-died-seat-accident-police-911-kyle-plush|title=An Ohio 16-Year-Old Died In A Freak Accident In A Van Despite Calling Police Twice|website=BuzzFeed News|date=14 April 2018 }}</ref>
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! scope="row" | Jennifer Riordan
| [[File:NTSB update May 3 2018 - Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 - N772SW - Figure 4 - Picture of window 14 with portion of engine inboard fan cowl.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|17 April 2018}}
| The 43-year old passenger aboard [[Southwest Airlines Flight 1380]], died after debris from an [[Turbine engine failure|engine failure]] destroyed a window near her seat and she was partially blown out through it.<ref>{{cite web |title=Southwest sends apology, $US5,000, to passengers on damaged jet|url=https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/southwest-sends-apology-us5-000-to-passengers-on-damaged-jet-20180421-p4zavr.html|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=20 April 2018|access-date=1 February 2022|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421074141/https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/southwest-sends-apology-us5-000-to-passengers-on-damaged-jet-20180421-p4zavr.html |archive-date=21 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=First picture of mum killed after being 'sucked out of Southwest plane' during mid-air engine explosion|url=https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/first-picture-of-mum-killed-after-being-sucked-out-of-southwest-plane-during-mid-air-engine-explosion/ar-AAvZI9A?li=BBoPWjQ|access-date=1 February 2022|publisher=MSN|quote=Jennifer Riordan, a banking executive with Wells Fargo, suffered fatal injuries as a result of the bizarre incident on Southwest flight 1380.|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421232901/https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/first-picture-of-mum-killed-after-being-sucked-out-of-southwest-plane-during-mid-air-engine-explosion/ar-AAvZI9A?li=BBoPWjQ|archive-date=21 April 2018}}</ref>
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!Samen Kondorura
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|15 June 2018
|The 40-year old from the [[North Toraja Regency]] of [[South Sulawesi]], Indonesia, was killed after the coffin of his mother fell on him during her funeral. As is tradition, Kondorura and the other [[pallbearer]]s were carrying the coffin up a bamboo ladder into a temple, when the ladder collapsed beneath them. As everyone fell off, the coffin hit Kondorura in the head. He died on the way to hospital and was buried next to his mother.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-06-18 |title=Man crushed to death by his own mother's coffin |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/man-crushed-death-mother-s-coffin-indonesia-a8404366.html |access-date=2022-06-19 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | Hildegard Whiting
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| 27 July {{dts|2018}}
| The 77-year old died of asphyxiation from the [[carbon dioxide]] vapors produced by four [[dry ice]] coolers in a [[Dippin' Dots]] delivery car. The deliveryman's wife had borrowed the car to take Whiting home.<ref name="abcnews">{{cite web |url =https://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-dies-dry-ice-back-car-seattle/story?id=56937163 |title=1 dead, 1 in critical condition from dry ice in Seattle car |work=[[ABC News]] |date=31 July 2018 |access-date=1 February 2022 |quote=In a bizarre incident linked to dry ice, one woman died and another is in critical condition in Washington state, authorities said.}}</ref><ref name="usatoday">{{cite news | url =https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/07/31/dry-ice-washington-death-dippin-dots-delivery-car/870007002/ |title=Dry ice linked to death of Washington woman traveling in Dippin' Dots' deliveryman's car |work=[[USA Today]]| date=31 July 2018| access-date =1 August 2018|first=Ashley|last=May}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | [[2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident|Richard Russell]]
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| {{dts|10 August 2018}}
| The 29-year old stole a [[De Havilland Canada Dash 8#Series 400|Bombardier Q400]] owned by [[Horizon Air]] and operating for [[Alaska Airlines]] from [[Seattle–Tacoma International Airport]]. After an unauthorized takeoff, he flew the plane for just over an hour and performed aerial maneuvers including a [[barrel roll]] before intentionally crashing on [[Ketron Island]], killing himself. No one else was injured.<ref>{{cite web |title='Just a broken guy': Suicidal plane crashes exceedingly rare |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/08/11/seattle-tacoma-international-airport-plane-crash-rare-suicide/965984002/ |quote=[T]he event was "very unusual... It's not like we get this every day."|work=[[USA Today]] |date=11 August 2018 |access-date=30 June 2023}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | Linda Goldbloom
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| 29 August {{dts|2018}}
| The 79-year old died four days after being hit by a [[foul ball]] at [[Dodger Stadium]]. Her death, the second such fatality in [[Major League Baseball]] history, was the first in nearly 50 years.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/02/05/make-nets-higher-woman-killed-by-foul-ball-dodger-stadium-family-says | newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]| title=A baseball killed a woman at Dodger Stadium, MLB's first foul-ball death in nearly 50 years|date=28 August 2018}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | Sam Ballard
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| October {{dts|2018}}
| The 29-year old from [[Sydney]], [[Australia]], died from [[angiostrongyliasis]] after eating a garden [[slug]] as a dare eight years earlier.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3bg9y/why-it-took-eating-a-slug-8-years-to-kill-an-australian-man-sam-ballard-rat-lungworm-disease |title=Why an Australian Man Died 8 Years After Eating a Slug|date=5 November 2018|work=Vice|access-date=1 February 2022|first=Sarah|last=Emerson|quote=The strange and tragic death of a 29-year-old Australian man last week has underscored the seriousness of a rare parasitic infection called "rat lungworm disease".}}</ref>
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!Unknown man
| [[File:Liquorice wheels.jpg|100px|center]]
| January {{dts|2019}}
|An unknown 54-year-old man from [[Massachusetts]] died after eating a bag and a half of [[liquorice (confectionery)|black liquorice]] every day for a few weeks, which caused such [[Hypokalemia|low potassium levels]] in his body that his [[Cardiac arrest|heart stopped]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/24/man-licorice-dies-massachusetts|title=Man dies after eating bag of licorice every day for a few weeks|agency=Associated Press|date=24 September 2020 |work=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/26/health/black-licorice-death-boston.html|title=A Man Died After Eating a Bag of Black Licorice Every Day|date=26 September 2020 |work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Edelman |first1=Elazer R. |last2=Butala |first2=Neel M. |last3=Avery |first3=Laura L. |last4=Lundquist |first4=Andrew L. |last5=Dighe |first5=Anand S. |title=Case 30-2020: A 54-Year-Old Man with Sudden Cardiac Arrest |journal=New England Journal of Medicine |date=24 September 2020 |volume=383 |issue=13 |pages=1263–1275 |doi=10.1056/NEJMcpc2002420|pmid=32966726 |pmc=8568064 |s2cid=221885500}}</ref> Liquorice contains [[glycyrrhizinic acid]], which along with its metabolite [[Enoxolone|glycyrrhetinic acid]] interferes with the body's potassium levels by mimicking the hormone [[aldosterone]],<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Omar|first1=Hesham R.|last2=Komarova|first2=Irina|last3=El-Ghonemi|first3=Mohamed|last4=Fathy|first4=Ahmed|last5=Rashad|first5=Rania|last6=Abdelmalak|first6=Hany D.|last7=Yerramadha|first7=Muralidhar Reddy|last8=Ali|first8=Yaseen|last9=Helal|first9=Engy|last10=Camporesi|first10=Enrico M.|date=August 2012|title=Licorice abuse: time to send a warning message|journal=Therapeutic Advances in Endocrinology and Metabolism|volume=3|issue=4|pages=125–138|doi=10.1177/2042018812454322|issn=2042-0188|pmc=3498851|pmid=23185686}}</ref> resulting in excessive excretion of the nutrient in cases of [[overeating|overconsumption]], a condition referred to as [[pseudohyperaldosteronism]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Sontia|first1=Bruno|last2=Mooney|first2=Jan|last3=Gaudet|first3=Lise|last4=Touyz|first4=Rhian M.|date=2008|title=Pseudohyperaldosteronism, Liquorice, and Hypertension|journal=The Journal of Clinical Hypertension|language=en|volume=10|issue=2|pages=153–157|doi=10.1111/j.1751-7176.2008.07470.x|pmid=18256580|pmc=8109973|s2cid=20098685|issn=1751-7176}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | Salvator Disi
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| 10 January {{dts|2019}}
|The 62-year old was decapitated while using a [[Ground support equipment#Ground power units|power cart]] to [[Jump start (vehicle)|jump start]] a helicopter in [[Hernando County, Florida]]. Its unexpected up-and-down motion caused the [[rotor blade]]s to strike him.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/authorities-id-florida-man-decapitated-in-freak-helicopter-accident|title=Florida man decapitated in freak helicopter accident identified, authorities say|first=Barnini|last=Chakraborty|date=11 January 2019|publisher=Fox News Channel|access-date=13 February 2019}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Margaret Maurer
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|{{dts|5 March 2019}}
|The 21-year old [[Tulane University]] fourth-year student from [[Forest Lake, Minnesota]], died at a highway rest stop in [[Mississippi]] when she was struck by a pair of tires that came loose from a passing [[tractor-trailer]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Winsor|first=Morgan|title=Freak tire accident kills college student at highway rest stop: 'It's heartbreaking for everybody'|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/freak-tire-accident-kills-college-student-highway-rest/story?id=61526234|access-date=9 November 2021|date=7 March 2019|website=ABC News|language=en-US|quote=A 21-year-old woman was killed at a highway rest stop in Mississippi on Tuesday when she was struck by a pair of tires that came loose from a passing tractor-trailer, authorities said.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Shannon|first=Joel|title='Gifted' college student killed by flying tires in freak roadside accident in Mississippi|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/03/07/tulane-university-senior-killed-flying-tires-freak-accident/3098901002/|date=7 March 2019|access-date=9 November 2021|website=USA Today|language=en|quote=A college student was killed at a Mississippi rest stop on Tuesday when two tires came loose from a passing tractor trailer and struck the 21-year-old woman.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|agency=Associated Press|title=Official: Missing $3 part may have led to student's death|url=https://apnews.com/article/9e86c1868abb4b3f8a305c5ad0b021c3|date=15 March 2019|access-date=9 November 2021|website=[[Associated Press]]|language=en}}</ref>
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!scope="row" | Patrick McGuire
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| {{dts|April 2019}}
| The 67-year old American tourist died from [[positional asphyxia]] in Scotland when a {{convert|72|kg|lb|adj=on}} metal [[Bench (furniture)#Types|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 becoming unstable and there were no appropriate checks to provide a stable hard surface for the benches.<ref>{{cite web | url =https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/american-tourist-died-after-bizarre-29516883 |title=American tourist died after bizarre garden bench accident at historic Scottish Highlands hotel|author=David Love|work=[[Scottish Daily Express]]| date=21 March 2023| accessdate =4 May 2023}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | Darren Hickey
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| {{dts|5 April 2019}}
|The 51-year old [[wedding planner]] from [[Horwich]], England, died after eating a scalding-hot [[fishcake]] at a wedding. The cake had burned his throat, [[Asphyxia|restricting his ability to breathe]]. The [[pathologist]] who performed the autopsy called the case "extremely rare" and likened it to those of victims who have inhaled smoke during house fires.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/10/11/man-dies-after-eating-fishcake-so-hot-it-burned-his-throat-left-him-unable-to-breathe/23834444/|title=Man dies after eating fishcake so hot it burned his throat, left him unable to breathe: Coroner|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|website=AOL.com|date=18 October 2020 }}</ref>
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! scope="row" | Paul McDonald
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| {{dts|17 April 2019}}
| The 47-year old was attacked and killed by a pet deer, said to be a [[Wapiti]], on his property in north-east [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], Australia.<ref>{{cite web |title=Deer kills man, injures woman near Wangaratta in north-east Victoria |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-17/deer-kills-man-and-critically-injuries-woman-near-wangaratta/11024706 |website=ABC News |date=17 April 2019 |access-date=22 April 2019 |quote=Steve Garlick, the chairman of the deer management committee at the Australian Deer Association, said it was very unusual for a deer to kill a person.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Father dead, mother fights for life after pet deer attack near Wangaratta |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/victoria/man-dead-woman-fighting-for-life-after-deer-attack-near-wangaratta-20190417-p51ez5.html?ref=rss |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |date = 17 April 2019|access-date=22 April 2019 |quote=Mr Howlett said that deer can become a danger to humans in domesticated scenarios. It's not an everyday occurrence, but it's not unheard of for deer to kill people in that situation... "}}</ref>
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!Joemar Jungco
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| {{dts|22 June 2019}}
|The 18-year old worker at a meat processing facility in [[Iloilo City]], [[Philippines]], died after half his body from the head down to the waist was pulled into a meat grinder.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.panaynews.net/freak-accident-meat-grinder-kills-18-year-old-lad/|title=FREAK ACCIDENT: Meat grinder kills 18-year-old lad|website=Panay News|date=23 June 2019 |access-date=12 April 2023}}</ref>
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!Elena Struthers-Gardner
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| {{dts|July 2019}}
|The 60-year old from [[Broadstone, Dorset]], England, was carrying a [[mason jar]]-style drinking glass when she collapsed. Its {{Convert|10|in|adj=on}} stainless steel straw entered her left eye socket and pierced her brain.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/07/09/metal-drinking-straw-fatally-impales-woman-england/1684768001/|title=Metal drinking straw fatally impales woman through her eye after fall|website=USA Today|access-date=1 February 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Coroner's warning after retired jockey died when she fell on metal drinking straw which impaled her eye|url=https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/17756360.metal-drinking-straw-caused-death-woman-impaled-eye/|access-date=15 September 2020|website=Bournemouth Echo|date=9 July 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=9 July 2019|title=Woman dies after being impaled through the eye by a metal straw|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/woman-dies-metal-straw-elena-struthers-gardner-inquest-coroner-a8996431.html|access-date=1 February 2022|website=The Independent|language=en|quote=Medical workers "had never seen an injury like that", said Detective Inspector Wayne Seymour of Dorset Police.}}</ref>
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!Zafer Kuzu
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| {{dts|4 July 2019}}
|The 24-year old from [[Erzurum]], Turkey, attempted to escape a community service sentence for inflicting injury by getting himself hospitalized. He asked a friend to shoot him in the back through two pillows to reduce the shot's power. He was killed and the friend arrested.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Services|first=Compiled from Wire|date=4 July 2019|title=Man dies in bizarre plot to ditch job|url=https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/2019/07/04/man-dies-in-bizarre-plot-to-ditch-job|access-date=6 April 2021|website=Daily Sabah|language=en-US}}</ref>
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!Samuela Cirivakayawa
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| {{dts|8 September 2019}}
|The 40-year old [[Fiji]]an emigrant to [[Australia]] was killed while working as an [[arborist]] at [[Lindfield, New South Wales|Lindfield]] in the north of [[Sydney]]. When his two co-workers left briefly to ask a motorist to move their car, Cirivakayawa, then working alone, was sucked through a [[woodchipper]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Brook |first1=Benedict |last2=Scanlan |first2=Rebekah |date=8 September 2019 |title=Man, 40, dead on Sydney's north shore after being dragged into woodchipper |url=https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/news/man-dead-on-sydneys-north-shore-after-being-dragged-into-woodchipper/news-story/f83cfbf7c3d3bc9a223007d3b78281b9 |work=News.com.au |access-date=1 February 2022 |language=en-AUS}}</ref> Although Cirivakayawa's ex-wife in Fiji later suggested the incident may have been a complication of [[Mood disorder|depression]],<ref>{{cite news |last=Piotrowski |first=Daniel |date=2 November 2019 |title='How could he have fallen in?' |url=https://www.pressreader.com/fiji/fiji-sun/20191102/281728386318524 |work=Fiji Sun |access-date=1 February 2022 |language=en-AUS}}</ref> a coronial report has not yet been released to the public.
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!Yulia Sharko
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| {{dts|8 September 2019}}
|The 21-year old from [[Zhabinka|Žabinka]], Belarus, was celebrating her birthday with friends when she tried to pull her two-year-old daughter out through the window of her car. Her daughter activated the window control button, closing the window and strangling Sharko.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.news.com.au/world/europe/twoyearold-child-kills-mum-after-pressing-switch-to-close-car-window-on-her-parents-neck/news-story/50ee85ff0a48baf96cd3d819f9937f00|last=Stewart|first=Will|title=Two-year-old child 'kills mum after pressing switch to close car window on her parent's neck'|date=13 September 2019|access-date=7 January 2022|language=en-AUS|quote=Yulia was reaching inside the family car when the freak accident happened in Belarus.}}</ref>
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!Pamela Kreimeyer
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| {{dts|27 October 2019}}
|The 56-year old from [[Marion County, Iowa]], was killed during an explosion at a [[gender reveal party]]. In an attempt to film a gender reveal worthy of posting online, members of her family filled a steel umbrella stand with gunpowder. Instead of emitting a shower of sparks as intended, the metal pipe failed to contain the overpressure, and the device acted as a [[pipe bomb]] instead. Kreimeyer was struck in the head by a metal fragment and was killed instantly.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Griffith|first=Janelle|date=28 October 2019|title=Family 'inadvertently' created a pipe bomb at fatal gender reveal|work=NBC News|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/family-inadvertently-created-pipe-bomb-fatal-gender-reveal-n1072856|access-date=1 February 2022}}</ref>
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!Michael Kosanovich
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| {{dts|7 December 2019}}
|The 21-year old was crushed by a 2002 [[Lexus IS|Lexus IS300s]], in [[South Jamaica, Queens]], New York City, after its owner started it by remote control. It rolled forward, and he was pinned between two vehicles.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://queenseagle.com/all/freak-remote-start-car-accident-kills-man-in-south-jamaica|title=Freak remote-start car accident kills man in South Jamaica|date=12 December 2019|access-date=12 December 2019}}</ref> Bystanders tried to push them apart but as they did so, the car rolled forward and crushed him again. Kosanovich was taken to hospital with severe trauma to his torso and legs and died of his injuries on 7 December.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50756243|title=Man killed by car being remotely started|date=12 December 2019|access-date=12 December 2019}}</ref>
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==== 2020s ====
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!Sergio Millán
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| {{dts|14 January 2020}}
|The 59-year-old was alone in his apartment in Torreforta, [[Tarragona]], Spain, when [[Chemical Industries of Ethylene Oxide explosion|an explosion in a petrochemical plant]] {{convert|3|km|0}} away launched a one-ton iron plate into the apartment above him, causing the ceiling to collapse, killing him.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.elespanol.com/reportajes/20200115/plancha-tonelada-volo-matar-frutero-sergio-tarragona/459954981_0.html |title=La plancha de una tonelada que voló 3 km antes de matar al frutero Sergio en Tarragona |last=Palomo |first=David |date=15 January 2020 |access-date=1 February 2022 |language=es |trans-title=The 1 ton plate that flew 3 km before killing fruit seller Sergio in Tarragona |quote=Porque, ¿qué probabilidades había de que se produjera una '''explosión en la planta petroquímica de IQOXE?''' ¿Y de que una chapa de hierro (conocida como una plancha) de una tonelada volara tres kilómetros y matara a alguien?... '''"Es un caso inverosímil"''' –tanto como que es el único fallecido que no trabajaba en la planta–, reconocía '''Pau Ricomà''', alcalde de '''Tarragona.''' Pero, sin duda, es "la principal hipótesis" que mantiene la investigación. Surrealista, sí, pero cierto. ("Because how likely was there to be an '''explosion at the IQOXE petrochemical plant''', and that a one-ton sheet of iron (known as a plate) would fly three kilometers and kill someone?... '''"It is an implausible case"''' – as much as he is the only deceased who did not work at the plant – acknowledged '''Pau Ricomà''', mayor of '''Tarragona.''' But, without a doubt, it is "the main hypothesis" that maintains the research. Surreal, yes, but true.")}}</ref>
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!Valentin Didenko, Natalia Monakova and Yuri Alferov
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|28 February 2020
|The trio died while celebrating Didenko's wife's birthday in [[Moscow]]. During the party, a guest dumped {{convert|25|kg}} of [[dry ice]] into the sauna pool, which resulted in a large amount of [[carbon dioxide]] being released. Didenko, Monakova and Alferov, along with several others jumped into the pool, only to quickly lose consciousness from [[hypercapnia]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2020-02-29 |title=Three die in dry-ice incident at Moscow pool party |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51680049 |access-date=2023-09-20}}</ref> The three deaths came as a result of [[asphyxia]] due to lack of oxygen.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Тихонова |first=Саглара |title=Муж блогера Екатерины Диденко скончался в реанимации после вечеринки с сухим льдом |trans-title=Blogger Ekaterina Didenko's husband dies in intensive care after dry ice party |url=https://www.starhit.ru/novosti/muj-blogera-ekaterinyi-didenko-skonchalsya-v-reanimatsii-posle-vecherinki-s-suhim-ldom-203505/ |access-date=11 March 2023 |website=www.starhit.ru |language=ru}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=АБРАМОВ |first=Андрей |date=29 February 2020 |title=На вечеринке блогера Екатерины Диденко из-за сухого льда погибли три человека: что известно на данный момент |trans-title=At the party of blogger Ekaterina Didenko, three people died due to dry ice: what is known at the moment |url=https://www.kp.ru/daily/27098.5/4171606/ |access-date=11 March 2023 |website=kp.ru |language=ru}}</ref>
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!Yohanis Budi Santoso
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| {{dts|11 June 2020}}
|The 21-year-old was strangled in the middle of the road while riding his motorcycle in [[Surakarta]], Indonesia. A {{Convert|5|m|adj=on}} long, very thin glass [[kite line]] that had been stuck on a nearby electrical pole struck his neck and cut his [[carotid artery]]. He managed to get up and untangle himself. He was brought to hospital by a passer-by but later pronounced dead on arrival of [[exsanguination]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Widyastuti |first=Pravitri Retno |title=Pengendara Motor Tewas karena Leher Terlilit Benang Layangan, Kronologi hingga Kalimat Terakhir |trans-title=Motorcyclist dies because his neck is wrapped in kite thread, chronology to the last sentence |date=12 June 2020 |language=id |url=https://www.tribunnews.com/regional/2020/06/12/pengendara-motor-tewas-karena-leher-terlilit-benang-layangan-kronologi-hingga-kalimat-terakhir |publisher=Tribun News |access-date=23 July 2022}}</ref>
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!Agus Syaiful Rochmad
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| {{dts|20 October 2020}}
|The 58-year-old died while he was jogging around his neighbourhood in [[Trenggalek]], Indonesia. A homemade kite spool made of a block of wood slipped and catapulted from a child's hand during an attempt to retrieve a stuck kite, hitting Rochmad's right temple and killing him instantly.<ref>{{cite web |title=Detik-detik Seorang Pria Tewas Terbentur Gulungan Benang Layangan Milik Bocah SD |trans-title=The Seconds A Man Dies When He Hits A Roll Of Kite Of An Elementary School Boy |date=21 October 2020 |url=https://regional.kompas.com/read/2020/10/21/11150281/detik-detik-seorang-pria-tewas-terbentur-gulungan-benang-layangan-milik?page=all |publisher=Kompas |language=id |access-date=23 July 2022}}</ref>
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!Christian Bolok
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| {{dts|26 October 2020}}
|The lieutenant, who was the [[Philippine National Police|police]] chief of [[San Jose, Northern Samar]], [[Philippines]], died during an anti-gambling raid. He was trying to grab a [[cockfighting]] rooster when the razor-sharp metal blade attached to the rooster's leg to kill its opponent cut a gaping hole in his leg and sliced his [[femoral artery]], causing him to bleed to death.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rooster Kills Philippine Police Chief in Freak Accident |date=29 October 2020 |url=https://www.voanews.com/a/east-asia-pacific_rooster-kills-philippine-police-chief-freak-accident/6197718.html#:~:text=Lieutenant%20Christian%20Bolok%2C%20the%20chief,him%20to%20bleed%20to%20death.|publisher=VOA|language=en |access-date=18 April 2023}}</ref>
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!Luke Ramone Harper
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|2 April 2021
|The eight-year-old from [[Ringsend]], [[Dublin]], died after inhaling [[helium]] from a balloon that he placed over his head. The balloon had been bought for his birthday a week prior.<ref>{{cite news |last=McCárthaigh |first=Seán |title=Boy (8) died after inhaling helium from a balloon he had placed over his head, inquest hears |url=https://www.thejournal.ie/inquest-luke-ramone-harper-5782411-Jun2022/ |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=TheJournal.ie |quote=The coroner said she was reluctant to make any recommendations in the case as it would suggest the accident might have been predictable. "This case could not have been predicted. It was so unusual and so unfortunate," she remarked.}}</ref>
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!Unknown man
|[[File:Santa Coloma de Gramanet - Complex La Pallaresa.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|May 2021}}
|The body of a 39-year-old man was found wedged inside the hind leg of a [[papier-mâché]] statue of a [[stegosaurus]] in [[Santa Coloma de Gramenet]], [[Catalonia]], Spain. Initial police reports did not suspect foul play. A police representative hypothesised that the individual may have crawled inside headfirst to retrieve a lost mobile phone before his leg became stuck, trapping him inside. Firefighters had to cut the statue apart to extract the body; police observers believed that he may have been trapped in there for "a couple of days". Local media claimed that the family of the victim had reported him missing only hours prior to the discovery. The body was discovered when a man and his son noticed an unusual smell from the statue, and saw the body through a crack in the statue.<ref>{{cite news |date=24 May 2021 |title=Missing man found dead inside Spanish dinosaur statue |url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/24/missing-man-found-dead-inside-spanish-dinosaur-statue |access-date=29 May 2021 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Body of a Missing Man Was Found Inside a Stegosaurus Statue |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3dp5k/spain-dinosaur-statue-the-body-of-a-missing-man-was-found-inside-a-stegosaurus-statue |quote=As of now, a number of questions regarding the bizarre and tragic incident remain unanswered. |website=VICE |date=24 May 2021 |access-date=1 June 2021}}</ref>
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!Eleanor Skerritt
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| {{dts|24 July 2021}}
|The 50-year-old from [[Margam]], Wales, accidentally became stuck in a decking well after apparently slipping or losing her balance while cleaning. Her "loose and ill-fitting" footwear left her "unable to regain her footing" after losing her balance. Her autopsy revealed she died of "positional [[asphyxia]]" and "died through misfortune" according to the coroner.<ref>{{cite web |last=Williams |first=Nino |title=Woman died in bizarre accident after slipping and wedging head against a wall |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/bizarre-accident-trapped-decking-wall-22946100 |website=www.walesonline.co.uk|date=February 2022}}</ref>
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!Salman Mirza
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| {{dts|August 2021}}
|The resident of [[Ahmedabad]], [[Gujarat]], India, died after using [[epoxy|epoxy resin]] as a contraceptive instead of a condom, while intoxicated from using the same resin as an [[inhalant]]. The man was found unconscious outside a hotel the following morning, but died of [[Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome|multiple organ failure]] after being hospitalised.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Santora |first1=Sara |title=Man Uses Adhesive Instead of Condom, Dies |url=https://www.newsweek.com/man-uses-adhesive-instead-condom-dies-1623090 |website=Newsweek |date=25 August 2021 |access-date=26 August 2021 |quote=In a bizarre turn of events, an Indian man died after using epoxy resin in lieu of a condom during intercourse with his former fiancée. His family is now asking for police to conduct a more thorough investigation into their son's death.}}</ref>
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!Tony Eyles
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| {{dts|9 September 2021}}
|The 42-year-old died at a [[McDonald's]] [[drive-through]] in [[Vancouver]], Canada, after partially opening his car door to retrieve a dropped payment card. His car rolled forward and collided with the restaurant's structure, pinning him between the car door and the vehicle's frame. Despite attempts to revive the victim, he died on scene.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hollan |first1=Michael |title=McDonald's customer dies in drive-thru after 'freak accident' |website=[[Fox News]] |url=https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/mcdonalds-customer-dies-drive-thru-freak-accident |quote=A bizarre accident occurred at a McDonald's in Vancouver that resulted in the death of a customer |date=10 September 2021 |access-date=15 September 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Gleeson |first1=Scott |title=Man reaching for card crushed to death by his own car in McDonald's drive-thru |url=https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/09/15/man-mcdonalds-drive-thru-crushed-death-his-own-car-canada/8346011002/ |quote=The Vancouver Police Department confirmed Tuesday that a Canadian man was crushed to death by his own car in a McDonald's drive-thru last week. |newspaper=USA Today |date=15 September 2021 |access-date=12 October 2021}}</ref>
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![[Halyna Hutchins]]
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| {{dts|21 October 2021}}
|The 42-year-old [[cinematographer]] was working near [[La Cienega, New Mexico]], on the set of the Western film ''[[Rust (upcoming film)|Rust]]'', when actor [[Alec Baldwin]] discharged a Pietta [[.45 Colt]] revolver<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cardinale |first1=John |title=A look at the type of gun used in the deadly movie set shooting |website=[[KOAT-TV]] |url=https://www.koat.com/article/gun-used-rust-movie-santa-fe-alec-baldwin-safety-halyna-hutchins-deadly-shooting-tragic-albuquerque/38085703# |access-date=15 January 2022}}</ref> used as a prop, [[Rust shooting incident|fatally wounding her and injuring the film's director]]. She died later that day in flight to the hospital in [[Albuquerque]].<ref name="deadline_ICG">{{Cite news |last1=D'Alessandro |first1=Anthony |last2=Patten |first2=Dominic |date=October 22, 2021 |title=Alec Baldwin "Discharged" Prop Gun That Killed 'Rust' Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins & Injured Director On Set; Actor Questioned And Released – Update |website=[[Deadline Hollywood|Deadline]] |url=https://deadline.com/2021/10/alec-baldwin-movie-fatal-shooting-director-crew-member-dead-rust-1234860500/ |access-date=October 22, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{multiref2|{{Cite news|last1=Maddaus|first1=Gene|last2=Saperstein|first2=Pat|date=October 21, 2021|title=Alec Baldwin Fired Prop Gun That Killed Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, Injured Director|url=https://variety.com/2021/film/news/alec-baldwin-rust-incident-santa-fe-1235094931/|access-date=October 22, 2021|website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}|{{Cite news|last1=James|first1=Meg|last2=Anousha|first2=Sakoui|date=October 22, 2021|title=Alec Baldwin discharged prop gun that killed woman on movie set, sheriff says|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-10-21/woman-fatally-shot-by-prop-firearm-on-a-new-mexico-movie-set|access-date=October 22, 2021|website=Los Angeles Times}}|{{Cite news|last1=Lee|first1=Morgan|last2=Berry|first2=Walter|date=October 22, 2021|title=Sheriff: Baldwin fired shot on movie set that killed woman|url=https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-arts-and-entertainment-new-mexico-movies-santa-fe-915b39db68b559f03103171fdaecca79|access-date=October 22, 2021|publisher=[[Associated Press]]}}|{{Cite news|date=October 22, 2021|title=Police say Alec Baldwin fired a gun. One person is dead, another is in hospital. What happened?|publisher=ABC News|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-22/alec-baldwin-halyna-hutchins-shooting-prop-gun-rust/100560714|access-date=October 22, 2021}}|{{Cite news|date=October 22, 2021|title=Alec Baldwin fired prop gun that killed one crewmember and injured director on 'Rust' movie set, officials say|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/21/alec-baldwin-shot-prop-gun-rust/|access-date=October 22, 2021}}|{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-59007724|title=Halyna Hutchins: Rising star of film industry was 'an incredible artist'|date=October 22, 2021|publisher=BBC News}}
}}</ref>
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!Unknown man
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| {{dts|31 October 2021}}
|A 30-year-old man was fishing with two friends at a lake in [[Brasilândia de Minas]], [[Brazil]], when the group was attacked by bees. He and his friends jumped into the lake to escape the bees, but the man drowned and was partially eaten by [[piranha]]s; his friends survived.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://au.news.yahoo.com/man-eaten-by-piranhas-after-jumping-into-lake-to-escape-bees-084441642.html |last=Tolj |first=Brianne |title=Man eaten by piranhas after jumping into lake to escape bees |date=4 November 2021 |publisher=[[Yahoo! News|Yahoo News Australia]] |access-date=14 December 2021 |quote=A bizarre turn of events has led to the death of a 30-year-old man in Brazil.}}</ref>
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! Thomas Anthony Mansfield
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| {{dts|5 January 2022}}
| The 29-year-old [[personal trainer]] from [[Colwyn Bay]], Wales, died after consuming a drink with too much [[caffeine powder]]. His scale, which he was using to measure the powder, could only weigh between 2 and 500 grams, amounts well in excess of the recommended dose of {{Convert|60 to 300|mg|g}}, causing him to miscalculate and ingest an equivalent of two hundred cups of coffee. Shortly after consuming the drink, he reportedly complained that his [[Tachycardia|heart was beating too fast]] and began foaming at the mouth minutes later. Paramedics could not save him.<ref>{{cite news |title=Colwyn Bay man died after 200-coffee caffeine overdose |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-60570470 |date=1 March 2022 |publisher=BBC News |department=Wales |access-date=9 March 2022}}</ref>
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! Teddy Balkind
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| {{dts|6 January 2022}}
|The 16-year-old high school student for [[St. Luke's School (Connecticut)|St. Luke's School]], Connecticut died after suffering an injury to his neck during a junior varsity ice hockey game. He died after he fell during a game and was accidentally hit by another player, who was unable to stop in time. The other player's skate blade cut Balkind's neck, and he died following an emergency operation.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.foxnews.com/sports/nhl-tributes-connecticut-high-school-hockey-died-freak-accident |last=Gaydos |first=Ryan |title=NHL leads tributes to Connecticut high school hockey player who died in freak accident |publisher=[[Fox News]] |department=NHL |date=8 January 2022 |access-date=17 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://people.com/human-interest/connecticut-high-schooler-dies-in-ice-hockey-accident/ |last=Hahn |first=Jason Duaine |title=Connecticut High Schooler Student Dies in Freak Ice Hockey Accident: 'We Have Heavy Hearts' |magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]] |department=Human Interest |date=10 January 2022 |access-date=17 March 2022}}</ref>
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! Laila Zahrul Maisaroh
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| {{dts|14 January 2022}}
| The 20-year-old late pregnant woman from [[Banjarmasin]], Indonesia, was killed instantly when a concrete barrier from an elevated parking lot fell onto her. A car in the parking lot had collided with the barrier.<ref>{{cite news |last=Masrida |first=Noor |title=Kronologi Calon Ibu Muda Meninggal Tertimpa Beton Pembatas Parkiran Pasar Antasari Banjarmasin |trans-title=Chronology of Young Mother-to-be Dies Crushed by Concrete Barrier parking at Antasari Banjarmasin Market |language=id |url=https://banjarmasin.tribunnews.com/2022/01/14/kronologi-calon-ibu-muda-meninggal-tertimpa-beton-pembatas-parkiran-pasar-antasari-banjarmasin |date=14 January 2022 |publisher=Tribun News |access-date=23 July 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Kurniawan |first=Endra |title=Ibu Hamil 8 Bulan di Banjarmasin Tewas Tertimpa Beton, Berawal Mobil Box Tabrak Pembatas Parkir |trans-title=8-Month Pregnant Woman in Banjarmasin Killed by Concrete, Starting with Box Car Crashing into Parking Barrier |date=15 January 2022 |language=id |url=https://www.tribunnews.com/regional/2022/01/15/ibu-hamil-8-bulan-di-banjarmasin-tewas-tertimpa-beton-berawal-mobil-box-tabrak-pembatas-parkir?page=all |publisher=Tribun News |access-date=23 July 2022}}</ref>
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! Unknown man
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| {{dts|20 February 2022}}
| A 28-year-old man in [[Rancho Bernardo, San Diego]], [[California]] is believed to have been using a knife to mix protein powder into a container of water while driving. The man lost control and crashed his [[Lexus RX|2000 Lexus RX300]] into a parked car. When he struck the parked car, his car's airbag propelled the knife into his neck, fatally injuring him. In addition to the two vehicles, four other cars were involved in the accident, with the stabbed man being the only casualty.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/news/story/2022-02-20/six-injured-in-rancho-bernardo-crash|title=Bizarre fatal accident in Rancho Bernardo causes six-car crash|date=20 February 2022|website=Pomerado News}}</ref>
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! Jean Langam
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| {{dts|4 March 2022}}
| The 87-year-old British woman died after being blown over by an [[HM Coast Guard]] helicopter landing at [[Derriford Hospital]] in [[Plymouth]]. According to the police, while the woman was on a nearby footpath of the landing site, the [[downdraft]] caused her to be blown over, suffering a fatal head injury from striking the pavement. Another woman, also in her 80s, was injured after her car door was blown shut during the incident.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/05/helicopter-landing-at-derriford-hospital-kills-87-year-old-woman-in-plymouth |last=Thomas |first=Tobi |title=Woman dies after being blown over by helicopter in Plymouth, say police |date=5 March 2022 |newspaper=The Guardian |department=UK news |access-date=23 July 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=2022-03-15 |title=Inquest into Derriford Hospital helicopter death opened |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |department=Devon |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-60748942 |access-date=2022-07-23}}</ref>
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! Klil Kimhi
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| {{dts|21 July 2022}}
| The 32-year-old died after he was sucked to his death when a sinkhole opened under a swimming pool he was in at a house party in [[Israel]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Berg |first=Raffi |title=Man killed as sink hole opens under swimming pool in Israel |date=22 July 2022 |website=BBC News |department=Middle East |access-date=22 July 2022 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-62265898}}</ref>
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!Muthukumar
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|2 August 2022
|A 54-year-old man in [[Tamil Nadu]], India died 4 days after falling into a pot of porridge, suffering 65% burn injuries in the process. The man had lost his balance and leaned against the pot, toppling backwards into the pot. His wife claimed he suffered from [[epilepsy]] which may have triggered the fall.<ref>{{Cite news |date=5 August 2022 |title=Man dies after accidentally falling into vat of hot porridge |url=https://nypost.com/2022/08/05/man-dies-after-accidentally-falling-into-vat-of-hot-porridge/ |newspaper=New York Post |access-date=2023-10-09 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Man dies of burn injuries after falling into pot of boiling porridge in Tamil Nadu's Madurai |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/man-dies-burn-injuries-after-falling-boiling-porridge-tamil-nadu-madurai-watch-1982799-2022-08-02 |access-date=2023-10-09 |website=India Today |language=en}}</ref>
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! Unknown man
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| {{dts|7 August 2022}}
| A 65-year-old man was hit in the head by a [[Scottish hammer throw|hammer throw]] used at a [[Highland games]] event in the Netherlands. The thrower lost his balance and the hammer, a metal ball with a stick attached to it, flew over a hedge and struck the man in the head, killing him instantly.<ref>{{Cite web |date=7 August 2022 |title=Man (65) komt om bij bizar ongeval Highland Games in Geldrop: 'Atleet struikelde en verloor evenwicht' |trans-title=Man (65) dies in a bizarre accident Highland Games in Geldrop: 'Athlete stumbled and lost balance' |website=[[Brabants Dagblad]] |url=https://www.bd.nl/brabant/man-65-komt-om-bij-bizar-ongeval-highland-games-in-geldrop-atleet-struikelde-en-verloor-evenwicht~a2872aa3 |language=nl |access-date=25 January 2023}}</ref>
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! Joseph Austin Smith
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| {{dts|21 January 2023}}
| The 30-year-old from [[Wichita, Kansas]], was killed in his pickup truck during a hunting trip, when his dog discharged a rifle from the back seat. Smith was sitting in the front passenger seat of his vehicle when his dog "stepped on the rifle", which pulled the trigger and shot him.<ref>{{Cite web |last=ROGERS |first=ZACHARY |date=2023-01-25 |title=Kansas hunter fatally shot by dog in tragic accident: 'He was loved by all of us' |url=https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/kansas-hunter-fatally-shot-by-dog-in-tragic-accident-remembered-as-a-very-funny-loving-goofball-wichita-joseph-austin-smith-plumber-plumbing-hunting-shooting-kill-killed-dead-gofundme-sumner-county |access-date=2023-02-02 |website=WCIV |language=en}}</ref>
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! Leandro Mathias de Novaes
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| {{dts|6 February 2023}}
| The 40-year-old activist for the [[right to keep and bear arms]] in [[Brazil]], was assisting his mother in the [[Magnetic resonance imaging|MRI]] suite of Cura Laboratory in the central region of [[São Paulo]] on 16 January while wearing a registered firearm on his waistband. The gun, affected by the magnet, was pulled away from him and subsequently discharged, shooting him in the stomach. He remained in intensive care for 21 days before dying of his injuries.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Murphy |first=Hannah |date=2023-02-09 |title=Lawyer accidentally shot by own gun in MRI suite dies of his injuries |url=https://healthimaging.com/topics/medical-imaging/magnetic-resonance-imaging-mri/lawyer-who-was-shot-his-own-gun-mri-suite |access-date=2023-02-10 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=21 January 2023 |last=Cost |first=Ben |title=Lawyer dies after gun triggered by hospital MRI scanner |newspaper=[[New York Post]] |department=Weird But True |access-date=2023-02-10 |url=https://nypost.com/2023/02/09/lawyer-dead-after-mri-discharges-gun/}}</ref>
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! Shivdayal Sharma
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| {{dts|19 April 2023}}
| The 82-year-old was reportedly urinating next to a train track in the region of [[Alwar]], India, when a cow was hit by the [[Vande Bharat (trainset)|Vande Bharat]] express train. The animal was launched {{convert|100|ft}} into the air before landing on Sharma, killing him instantly.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Samuel |first=Chris |date=2023-04-24 |title=Pensioner urinating on train tracks killed by flying cow launched 100ft into the air by carriage |url=https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/pensioner-killed-flying-cow-launched-100ft-air-express-train-alwar-india/ |access-date=2023-04-24 |language=en}}</ref>
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!Unknown woman
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|12 May 2023
|An 83-year-old woman in New Zealand died just after having been discharged from hospital; she was dropped from a stretcher in the ambulance loading dock, and thereafter proceeded to fall from a ledge, landing face-first. The stretcher subsequently landed on top of her.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Davidson |first=Isaac |date=8 August 2023 |title=Elderly woman dies after being dropped from stretcher at Whangarei Hospital, multiple investigations under way |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/elderly-woman-dies-after-being-dropped-from-stretcher-at-whangarei-hospital-multiple-investigations-under-way/5RM2BRYI6VHJJDFOTKHL4KCP6I/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230807190741/https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/elderly-woman-dies-after-being-dropped-from-stretcher-at-whangarei-hospital-multiple-investigations-under-way/5RM2BRYI6VHJJDFOTKHL4KCP6I/ |archive-date=7 August 2023 |access-date=11 September 2023 |website=The New Zealand Herald}}</ref>
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! Norbert Tóth
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| {{dts|29 May 2023}}
| The 53-year-old association football player-manager from [[Somogy County]], Hungary, died shortly after having scored a goal himself during a game, likely caused by a heart attack from excitement.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2023-05-29 |title=Gólt lőtt, majd meghalt a magyar focista |url=https://www.origo.hu/sport/futball/20230529-foci-a-golja-utan-meghalt-a-magyar-focista-somogy-juta-toth-norbert-jatekosedzo.html |access-date=2023-05-30 |website=origo.hu |language=hu}}</ref>
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! Mikala Jones
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| {{dts|9 July 2023}}
| The 44-year-old was killed in a surfing accident in North Sipora, Indonesia after the [[Surfboard fin|fin]] of his surfboard severed his [[femoral artery]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Alexis |date=11 July 2023 |title=Surfer Mikala Jones Dead at 44: 'Life Will Never Be the Same Without You' |url=https://people.com/surfer-mikala-jones-dead-44-freak-accident-7558915 |quote=Surfing pro Mikala Jones died in a freak surfing accident Sunday morning. |access-date=2023-07-11 |website=People.com |language=en-us}}</ref>
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! Giacomo Chiapparini
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|{{dts|6 August 2023}}
| The 74-year-old died when a shelf in his warehouse in [[Romano di Lombardia]], Italy, broke and crushed him under thousands of wheels of [[Grana Padano]] cheese, with each wheel weighing approximately {{convert|40|kg}}.<ref>{{Cite news |agency=Agence France-Presse |date=2023-08-07 |title=Italian man crushed to death under falling cheese wheels |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/07/italian-man-crushed-to-death-under-falling-cheese-wheels |access-date=2023-08-07 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> His body was recovered from the wreckage after 12 hours.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2023-08-07 |title=Italian man crushed to death under falling cheese wheels |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66429342 |access-date=2023-08-07 |website=[[BBC News]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Squires |first=Nick |date=2023-08-07 |title=Italian man crushed to death under thousands of falling cheese wheels |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/07/giacomo-chiapparini-crushed-death-falling-cheese-italy/ |access-date=2023-08-07 |website=Telegraph |language=en |quote=He was working alone and no one saw the freak accident or was able to help him.}}</ref>
|-
![[Adam Johnson (ice hockey)|Adam Johnson]]
|
| {{dts|28 October 2023}}
| The 29-year-old member of the [[Nottingham Panthers]] professional ice hockey team in England died after his neck was cut by a skate during a game between the Panthers and the [[Sheffield Steelers]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=29 October 2023 |title=Adam Johnson: Nottingham Panthers forward dies after neck cut in Challenge Cup match |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/ice-hockey/67253892 |quote=The Panthers said on Sunday they were "devastated" Johnson had died following a "freak accident". |access-date=2023-10-29 |website=[[BBC Sport]] |department=Ice Hockey |publisher=BBC |language=en-UK}}</ref>
|-
!Unnamed male
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| {{dts|8 November 2023}}
| A robotics company employee was killed by a robotic arm at a pepper sorting plant in [[South Gyeongsang]] province, South Korea. The man was checking the robot's sensor operations ahead of a test run when the arm, mistaking him for a box of peppers it was programmed to handle, grabbed and pushed him against a conveyor belt, crushing his face and chest.<ref>{{Cite news |date=8 November 2023 |title=Man crushed to death by robot in South Korea |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67354709 |access-date=8 November 2023 |publisher=BBC |language=en-UK}}</ref>
|-
! Dorothy Louise Downey
|
| {{dts|27 November 2023}}
| The 83-year-old woman arrived at her daughter's house in [[Salem, South Carolina]], to visit and assist with a move. As she was walking in the kitchen, Downey broke through a weakened patch of floor, falling {{cvt|48|ft}} into a hidden well shaft. She was extricated by rescue services, but died from her injuries.<ref>{{Cite news |date=27 November 2023 |title=Woman dies after falling 48 feet through floor of home into hidden well shaft |url=https://www.live5news.com/2023/11/28/woman-dies-after-falling-48-feet-through-floor-home-into-hidden-well-shaft/ |access-date=27 November 2023 |publisher=Live5news |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=27 November 2023 |title=Freak accident leads to death of 83-year-old South Carolina woman, coroner says |url=https://www.wyff4.com/article/freak-fall-accidental-death-south-carolina-woman/45964384 |access-date=27 November 2023 |publisher=WYFF4 |language=en |quote="An 83-year-old Oconee County, South Carolina, woman died Sunday afternoon from injuries secondary to a fall in an apparent freak accident, officials said Monday. "I have not had a death like this occur in my 31-year career as Oconee County coroner," coroner Karl Addis said."}}</ref>
|-
! Sanjay Shah
|
| {{dts|20 January 2024}}
| The 55-year-old CEO of Vistex was celebrating his company's 25th anniversary at a movie studio stage in India. As part of the celebration, Shah and company president Raju Datla were being lowered from the ceiling to the stage in a cage or basket, when a cable broke and both men fell {{convert|20|ft}}, killing Shah and leaving Datla in critical condition.<ref>{{Cite news |date=20 January 2024 |title=Indian CEO of US-based firm falls to death at Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/business/indian-ceo-of-us-based-firm-falls-to-death-at-ramoji-film-city-in-hyderabad-101705719359337.html |access-date=22 January 2024 |publisher=Hindustan Times |language=en |quote="Private firm Vistex CEO Sanjay Singh dies in freak accident during the company's silver jubilee celebrations at Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad."}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=21 January 2024 |title=Chicago area CEO killed in freak accident at party for Vistex employees |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/barrington-vistex-ceo-sanjay-shah-india-fall/ |access-date=22 January 2024 |publisher=CBS |language=en}}</ref>
|}

=== Animal deaths ===
This section is for the deaths of animals, for whom there are several sources mentioning the deaths as unusual.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!scope="col" | Name of animal
!scope="col" | Image
!scope="col" | Date of death
!scope="col" | Details
|-
!scope="row" | Three cows, three sheep, two sows
|
| {{dts|1662}}
| [[Cotton Mather]] writes how one William Potter was hanged for bestiality, as were the animals involved.<ref>{{Cite web |date=12 April 2009 |title=7 Ridiculous Cases Where Animals Were Put On Trial |url=https://www.cracked.com/article_17217_7-ridiculous-cases-where-animals-were-put-trial.html |website=Cracked.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Wallace |first1=Amy |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8907200 |title=The Book of Lists 3 |last2=Wallace |first2=Irving |last3=Wallechinsky |first3=David |publisher=Morrow |year=1983 |isbn=0-688-01647-2 |location=New York |oclc=8907200}}</ref>
|-
!scope="row" | Female goat
|
|{{dts|1758}}
| John Blake, a Royal Marine, was convicted of "buggery upon the body of a she-goat" and both were [[Animal trial|sentenced to death]]. Blake, however, was pardoned on grounds of being "next to an idiot". Only the goat was put to death.<ref>{{cite book |title=Boys at Sea: Sodomy, Indecency, and Courts Martial in Nelson's Navy |page=29 |last=Burg |first=B. R. |date=2007 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan}}</ref>
|-
!scope="row" | [[Topsy (elephant)|Topsy the elephant]]
| [[File:Topsy the elephant.png|100px|center]]
| {{dts|4 January 1903}}
| Executed by poisoning, electrocution, and strangulation. A [[Electrocuting an Elephant|74-second film]] of the electrocution was recorded and preserved. It may have been the first time death was ever captured in a motion picture film.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Daly |first=Michael |url=https://archive.org/details/topsystartlingst0000daly |title=Topsy: The Startling Story of the Crooked-tailed Elephant, P.T. Barnum, and the American Wizard, Thomas Edison |publisher=[[Atlantic Monthly Press]] |year=2013 |isbn=978-0802119049 |location=New York |page=[https://archive.org/details/topsystartlingst0000daly/page/333 333] |url-access=registration}}</ref>{{better source needed|it's hard to judge without further corroboration that that source describes the death as "unusual"|date=April 2018}}
|-
!scope="row" | [[Mary (elephant)|Mary the elephant]]
| [[File:Elephantmary.jpg|100px|center]]
| {{dts|13 September 1916}}
| The day after the five-ton cow elephant killed a trainer for the ''Sparks World Famous Shows'' circus in [[Sullivan County, Tennessee|Sullivan County]], Tennessee, she was [[hanged]] by the neck from a railcar-mounted industrial crane.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Olson |first=Ted |title=The Hanging of Mary, a Circus Elephant |date=2009 |publisher=University of Tennessee Press |location=Knoxville, Tennessee |pages=219–227}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Krajicek |first=David J. |date=14 March 2015 |title='Fed up' circus elephant lynched for 'murder' in 1916 |work=Daily News |location=New York |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/fed-circus-elephant-lynched-murder-1916-article-1.2149605 |url-status=live |access-date=15 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160912132944/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/fed-circus-elephant-lynched-murder-1916-article-1.2149605 |archive-date=12 September 2016}}</ref>
|-
!scope="row" | Cow
|
| {{dts|January 1932}}
| The ''[[Townsville Bulletin|Townsville Daily Bulletin]]'', an Australian newspaper, reported an incident where a [[Dairy cattle|dairy cow]] was partially blown up and killed on a farm at Kennedy Creek (near [[Cardwell, Queensland|Cardwell]], [[North Queensland]]). The cow had reputedly picked up a detonator in her mouth while grazing in a paddock. This was only triggered later, when the cow began to chew her cud, at a time when she was in the process of being milked. The cow had its head blown off by the resulting explosion, and the farmer milking the cow was knocked unconscious.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article61348469 |title=WAS IT SUICIDE? |newspaper=[[Townsville Daily Bulletin]] |volume=LIV |issue=13 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=15 January 1932 |accessdate=30 May 2023 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
|-
!scope="row" | Sparrow
|
| {{dts|3 July 1936}}
| In what has been described as the most famous incident of its kind,<ref name="Llodra"/> cricketer [[Jahangir Khan (cricketer)|Jahangir Khan]] hit a [[Old World sparrow|sparrow]] with a ball while playing against [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] at [[Lord's]]. The animal was [[taxidermy|taxidermied]] after the incident, and mounted with the ball that killed it before being placed on display at Lord's.<ref>{{Cite web |title=1936: A ball strikes a sparrow which is later stuffed and displayed in the MCC Museum |url=https://www.lords.org/lords/our-history/father-time-wall/1936-a-ball-strikes-a-sparrow-which-is-later-stuff |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220227135557/https://www.lords.org/lords/our-history/father-time-wall/1936-a-ball-strikes-a-sparrow-which-is-later-stuff |archive-date=27 February 2022 |access-date=27 February 2022 |website=Lord's}}</ref>
|-
!Cow
|
|22 May 1957
|In New Mexico, approximately {{cvt|4.5|mi}} south of [[Kirtland Air Force Base]], a grazing cow was killed by a [[Mark 17 nuclear bomb|Mark 17 hydrogen bomb]] accidentally jettisoned from a USAF [[Convair B-36 Peacemaker|B-36 strategic bomber aircraft]]. The bomb was not equipped with components necessary for nuclear detonation at the time, but the conventional high explosives in the bomb detonated on impact, killing the cow and causing a crater about {{cvt|12|ft}} deep and {{cvt|25|ft}} wide.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Haynes |first1=Elizabeth |title=9 Tales of Broken Arrows: Thermonuclear Near Misses Throughout History |url=https://nuclearweaponsedproj.mit.edu/9-tales-broken-arrows-thermonuclear-near-misses-throughout-history |website=Nuclear Weapons Education Project logo Nuclear Weapons Education Project |publisher=MIT |access-date=14 September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Conley |first1=Jim |title=1986: H-bombing New Mexico |url=https://elpasotimes.typepad.com/morgue/2013/07/1986-h-bombing-new-mexico.html |website=Tales from the Morgue |publisher=The El Paso Times |access-date=14 September 2023}}</ref>
|-
!Swallow
|
|23 November 1969
|During a [[Sheffield Shield]] cricket match between [[Western Australia cricket team|Western Australia]] and [[South Australia cricket team|South Australia]] in the [[1969–70 Sheffield Shield season|1969–70 season]], a ball bowled by South Australian [[Greg Chappell]] struck a swooping [[swallow]]. Batsman [[John Inverarity]] described the ball to "change direction mid-air" before hitting his [[wicket]]. Inverarity was given out and the next batsman was about to take the crease but the swallow was found dead behind the stumps. The umpire signalled the ball [[Dead ball|dead]] and Inverarity was called back to bat. He went on to make 89 runs in the innings. The bird is now [[Taxidermy|stuffed]] and rests inside the [[Adelaide Oval]] Museum.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bowled by a bird, and retiring on 99 |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/bowled-by-a-bird-and-retiring-on-99-278903 |access-date=2022-07-12 |website=ESPNcricinfo}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=July 2022}}
|-
!Seagull
|
|4 August 1983
| During a [[Major League Baseball]] Yankees-Blue Jays game at Toronto's Exhibition Stadium, Yankees right fielder [[Dave Winfield]] threw a warm-up ball which hit a seagull, killing it. After the game, Toronto police charged Winfield with causing "unnecessary suffering of an animal". The charges were dropped the following day.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hunter |first=Ian |url=http://www.bluejayhunter.com/2011/09/acid-flashback-friday-dave-winfield.html |title=Acid Flashback Friday: Dave Winfield Hits a Seagull |publisher=The Blue Jay Hunter |date=September 9, 2011 |access-date=March 26, 2014}}</ref>
|-
!Three hippopotami
|
|16 July 1984
|Three [[Hippopotamus|hippopotami]] were killed by an elephant at the [[Karlsruhe Zoo]] in [[Karlsruhe]], [[West Germany]]. The elephant used its trunk to open a valve, which sent scalding hot water (55&nbsp;°C / 150&nbsp;°F) into their pool. The water generated steam that interfered with their breathing, and the hippos (two adults and one baby) died of shock.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Three hippos die in German zoo; elephant culprit |pages=4 |work=The Desert Sun |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19840716.2.32&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------- |access-date=7 October 2023}}</ref>
|-
![[Cocaine Bear (bear)|Cocaine Bear]]
| [[File:Cocaine_Bear,_Kentucky_for_Kentucky_Fun_Mall.jpg|100px|center]]
|1985
|A 175-kilogram [[American black bear]] died in Georgia in 1985 after overdosing on [[cocaine]]. The cocaine had been dumped from an airplane piloted by [[Andrew C. Thornton II]], a former narcotics officer turned convicted drug smuggler.<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 2, 2022 |title=What's the real 'Cocaine Bear' story? |url=https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/whats-the-real-cocaine-bear-story |access-date=December 3, 2022 |publisher=FOX 5 Atlanta |language=en-US}}</ref> It inspired the 2023 film ''[[Cocaine Bear]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 1, 2022 |title=True story of bear who consumed duffel bag of cocaine and got Hollywood treatment |language=en |newspaper=The Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cocaine-bear-based-on-true-story-elizabeth-banks-b2236692.html |access-date=December 3, 2022}}</ref>
|-
!scope="row" | Deer
|
| {{dts|14 August 1987}}
| [[Stefan Johansson]] hit a [[roe deer]] with his [[McLaren MP4/3]] after it wandered onto the circuit during Friday practice for the [[1987 Austrian Grand Prix|Austrian Grand Prix]]. The terrified deer was crossing the track to seek refuge from the noise of the cars when it was struck by Johansson traveling at close to {{cvt|140|mph}}, killing it instantly.<ref>{{Cite news |date=15 August 1987 |title=Johansson atropela e mata um veado na pista |language=pt-br |pages=6 |work=Jornal dos Sports |url=http://memoria.bn.br/docreader/112518_05/43890 |access-date=27 February 2022 |quote=The incident that most called the attention of spectators of the first official training for the Austrian Grand pix was, perhaps, the most unexpected documented in the history of [[Formula 1]].}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=12 July 2020 |title=F1 car hits deer: Bizzare {{sic|nolink=yes}} incident when Stefan Johannson's car hit a deer at the 1987 Austrian GP |url=https://thesportsrush.com/f1-news-f1-car-hits-deer-bizzare-incident-when-stefan-johannsons-car-hit-a-deer-at-the-1987-austrian-gp/}}</ref> Johansson survived.
|-
!scope="row" | Olympic doves
|
| {{dts|17 September 1988}}
| During the opening ceremony of the [[1988 Summer Olympics]] in [[Seoul]], South Korea, hundreds of live [[Columbidae|doves]] were released as a symbol of world peace. Many of the doves landed on the Olympic cauldron just prior to it being lit. When the cauldron was lit, over a dozen of the doves resting on the rim of the cauldron and flying directly above it were burned alive by the [[Olympic flame]]. The death of the birds marked the last time that live doves were used in the ceremonies.<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 August 2016 |title=10 of the most bizarre endings in Summer Olympics history |url=https://www.secsports.com/article/17323714/10-most-bizarre-endings-summer-olympics-history|website=Southeastern Conference|access-date=11 June 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=23 July 2021 |title=Olympic opening ceremonies: A history of controversies and embarrassments |url=https://www.news9live.com/olympics-2021/olympic-opening-ceremonies-a-history-of-controversies-and-embarrassments-21484 |website=News Nine|access-date=11 June 2023}}</ref>
|-
!scope="row" | Dove
|
| {{dts|24 March 2001}}
| During a [[Major League Baseball]] spring training game, pitcher [[Randy Johnson]] threw a fastball just as a bird flew through the pitch's path, killing it instantly.<ref>{{Cite web |last=NowThis News |date=10 June 2018 |title=Remember When: Randy Johnson Hit a Bird With His Fastball |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sIiajEEETw |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211123230436/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sIiajEEETw |archive-date=23 November 2021 |via=YouTube |access-date=23 November 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=Maury |date=24 March 2018 |title=17 Years Ago: Randy Johnson Makes Bird Explode In Spring Training Game |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybrown/2018/03/24/17-years-ago-randy-johnson-makes-bird-explode-in-spring-training-game/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180324210107/https://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybrown/2018/03/24/17-years-ago-randy-johnson-makes-bird-explode-in-spring-training-game/ |archive-date=24 March 2018 |access-date=27 February 2022 |website=Forbes |language=en |quote=It wasn't on purpose; it would have been impossible to do. The timing was too perfect, and in the end, well... shocking, tragic, crazy... you pick the superlative, history was made.}}</ref>
|-
!scope="row" | Bird
|
| {{dts|24 January 2002}}
| During a [[Tennis doubles]] match at the [[Australian Open (tennis)|Australian Open]], a powerfully struck forehand by French player [[Michael Llodra]] hit a small bird that crossed the path of the ball. In response, the players threw down their racquets and knelt down around the bird, in an impromptu funeral. The ceremony had to be ended by a court official, who asked the players to resume the match.<ref name="Llodra">{{Cite web |date=24 January 2002 |title=Llodra gets the bird |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/tennis/australian_open/1779136.stm |access-date=23 October 2021 |website=BBC Sport |publisher=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Mcrichy Lz |date=2 March 2009 |title=Bird Hit by Tennis Ball |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQZmlD_DndY |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/fQZmlD_DndY |archive-date=21 December 2021 |access-date=23 November 2021 |website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
|-
!scope="row" | Pigeon
|
| {{dts|29 May 2009}}
| During a [[Twenty20]] cricket match at [[Headingley Cricket Ground]], [[Leeds]], England, between Yorkshire and Lancashire, [[Jacques Rudolph]] of Yorkshire fielded a ball close to the midwicket boundary and threw it to the wicket keeper. The return throw struck and killed a [[Columbidae|pigeon]] in flight across the ground.<ref>{{Cite web |last=DesiLink4ever |date=1 June 2009 |title=Jacques Rudolph Kills A Pigeon - Cricket Ball Air Strike (High Quality) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44-D-zJvw1c |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220323093510/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44-D-zJvw1c |archive-date=23 March 2022 |access-date=27 February 2022 |website=[[YouTube]] |url-status=live }}<!-- unlikely that "DesiLink4ever" is the copyright holder of this clip? --></ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Pigeon killed by cricket star Jacques Rudolph during match |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/5426972/Pigeon-killed-by-cricket-star-Jacques-Rudolph-during-match.html |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |access-date=9 March 2020 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/5426972/Pigeon-killed-by-cricket-star-Jacques-Rudolph-during-match.html |archive-date=11 January 2022}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
|-
!scope="row" | Alan the dachshund
|
| {{dts|14 January 2013}}
| ''[[Tatler]]'' magazine's "office dog" saw a man approaching the revolving doors of Vogue House, London, and walked after the man. As Alan tried to rush through the revolving doors, his neck got caught in it, also getting the worker stuck in the door. Two fire engines rushed to the scene, where they freed the man, but could not free Alan, who died at the scene.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sherwin |first=Adam |date=15 January 2013 |title=RIP Alan the dachshund: Tatler magazine's 'office dog' killed in grisly revolving door accident |language=en |work=[[The Independent]] |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rip-alan-the-dachshund-tatler-magazine-s-office-dog-killed-in-grisly-revolving-door-accident-8452751.html |access-date=27 February 2022 |quote=Staff at the high-society magazine Tatler are in mourning after their in-house dachshund came to a grisly end, killed by the office revolving doors.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Quinn |first=Ben |date=15 January 2013 |title=Tatler's dog, Alan, dies in bizarre revolving door accident |language=en |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/15/tatler-alan-dies-revolving-door |access-date=27 February 2022}}</ref>
|-
|}

== Տես նաև ==
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* [[Autoerotic fatality]]
* [[Darwin Awards]]
* [[Death by coconut]]
* [[Death from laughter]]
* [[Execution by elephant]]
* [[Spontaneous human combustion]]
* ''[[1000 Ways to Die]]''
* [[Death during consensual sex]]
{{div col end}}

=== Ցուցակներ ===
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* [[List of association footballers who died while playing]]
* [[List of causes of death by rate]]
* [[List of racing cyclists and pacemakers with a cycling-related death]]
* [[List of entertainers who died during a performance]]
* [[List of inventors killed by their own invention]]
* [[List of last words]]
* [[Lists of people by cause of death]]
* [[List of people who died on the toilet]]
* [[List of people executed for witchcraft]]
* [[Lists of people who disappeared]]
* [[List of political self-immolations]]
* [[List of selfie-related injuries and deaths]]
* [[Toilet-related injuries and deaths]]
* [[List of deaths due to injuries sustained in boxing]]
* {{Section link|Wheel-well stowaway|List of wheel-well stowaways}}
{{div col end}}


== Ծանոթագրություններ ==
== Ծանոթագրություններ ==

08:34, 26 հունվարի 2024-ի տարբերակ

Պատկեր:Death of Aeschylus in Florentine Picture Chronicle.jpg
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[1]

Անսովոր մահերի այս ցանկը ներառում է մահվան եզակի կամ չափազանց հազվադեպ հանգամանքներ, որոնք գրանցվել են պատմության ընթացքում և նշվում են որպես անսովոր բազմաթիվ աղբյուրների կողմից:

Անսովոր մահեր

Անտիկ դարաշրջան

Այս պատմություններից շատերը հավանաբար ապոկրիֆ են:
Անձի անունը Պատկեր Մահվան ամսաթիվ Մանրամասներ
Մենես 3200 Ք․ա․ (3200 Ք․ա․) Եգիպտական փարավոնը և Վերին և Ստորին Եգիպտոսի միավորողը առևանգվել է, այնուհետև սպանվել գետաձիի կողմից[2][3]։
Աթենքի Դրակոն 620 Ք․ա Հաղորդվում է, որ աթենացի օրենսդիրը խեղդվել է Հունաստանի Էգինա քաղաքի թատրոններից մեկում, երբ երախտագետ քաղաքացիները որպես նվերներ նրան ողողել են թիկնոցներով և գլխարկներով[4][5]։
Խարոնդաս
700 Ք․ա․ Ըստ Դիոդորոս Սիկիլացու՝ Սիցիլիայից ժամանած հույն օրենսդիրը օրենք է ընդունել, ըստ որի՝ յուրաքանչյուր ոք, ով զենք է մտցնում Համագումար, պետք է մահապատժի ենթարկվի։ Մի օր նա ժամանել է Համագումար՝ օգնություն խնդրելով գյուղում մի քանի ավազակների հետ կռվելու համար, բայց դանակը դեռ ամրացված էր իր գոտուն: Սեփական օրենքը պահպանելու համար նա ինքնասպան է եղել[6][7][8]։
Ֆիգալիայի Արրիխիոն
564 Ք․ա․ Հույն պանկրատիստը Օլիմպիական խաղերի եզրափակչի ժամանակ սեփական մահվան պատճառ է դարձել։ Բռնվելով իր անհայտ հակառակորդի կողմից խեղդամահի մեջ և չկարողանալով ազատվել՝ Արրիխիոնը ոտքով հարվածել է մրցակցին՝ ոտնաթաթի/կոճի վնասվածքից այնքան ցավ պատճառելով նրան, որ մրցակիցը պարտության նշան է արել մրցավարներին, բայց միևնույն ժամանակ կոտրել է Արիխիոնի վիզը։ Քանի որ հակառակորդը ընդունել էր պարտությունը, Արրիխիոնը հետմահու հաղթող է հռչակվել[9][10]։
Կրոտոնի Միլո
600՝ Ք․ա․ 6-րդ դար Հաղորդվում է, որ օլիմպիական չեմպիոն ըմբիշի ձեռքերը հայտնվել են թակարդում, երբ նա փորձել է երկու կես անել ծառը. այնուհետև նրան խժռել են գայլերը (կամ, ավելի ուշ տարբերակներում, առյուծները)[11]։
Զևքսիս
500՝ Ք․ա․ 5-րդ դար Հույն նկարիչը մահացել է ծիծաղից նկարելիս տարեց կնոջ[12][13]։
Սամոսի Պյութագորաս
495 Ք․ա․ Անտիկ աղբյուրները համաձայն չեն, թե ինչպես է հույն փիլիսոփան մահացել[14][15], բայց մեկ ուշ և, հավանաբար, ապոկրիֆ լեգենդ, որը հաղորդում է և՛ Դիոգենես Լայերտացին՝ մ.թ.ա․ երրորդ դարի հայտնի փիլիսոփաների կենսագիր, և՛ Յամբլիքոսը՝ նեոպլատոնիստ փիլիսոփա, ասում է, որ Պյութագորասը սպանվել է իր քաղաքական թշնամիների կողմից: Ենթադրաբար, նա գրեթե կարողացել է փախչել նրանցից, բայց նա հասել է լոբու դաշտ և հրաժարվել վազել այնտեղով, քանի որ արգելել էր լոբիները որպես ծիսական անմաքուր[15][16]: Քանի որ դաշտով վազելը կխախտեր իր իսկ ուսմունքները, Պյութագորասը պարզապես դադարեց վազել և սպանվեց: Այս պատմությունը կարող է հորինված լինել Կիզիկոսի Նեանտեսի կողմից, որի վրա և՛ Դիոգենեսը, և՛ Յամբլիքոսը հիմնվում են որպես աղբյուր[15]։
Անակրեոն
485 Ք․ա․ Բանաստեղծը, որը հայտնի է գինին փառաբանող գործերով, ըստ Պլինիոս Ավագի, խեղդվել է խաղողի կորիզից: 1911 թվականի «Բրիտանական հանրագիտարանը» առաջարկում է, որ «պատմությունն առասպելական հարմարեցման մթնոլորտ ունի բանաստեղծի սովորություններին»[12][17]։
Հերակլիտոս Եփեսացի
475 Ք․ա․ Համաձայն Դիոգենես Լայերտացու կողմից տրված մի պատմության՝ ասվում էր, որ հույն փիլիսոփային հոշոտել են շները այն բանից հետո, երբ նա իր ջրգողությունը բուժելու համար իր վրա կովի գոմաղբ է քսել[18][19]։
Թեմիոստոկլես
459 Ք․ա․ Աթենացի գեներալը, ով հաղթել է Սալամինի ճակատամարտում, իրականում մահացել է աքսորում՝ բնական պատճառներով[20][21], սակայն լայնորեն խոսվում էր, որ նա ինքնասպան է եղել՝ խմելով մանրացված հանքանյութերի լուծույթ, որը հայտնի է որպես ցլի արյուն[20][21][22][23]։ Լեգենդը լայնորեն վերապատմվում է դասական աղբյուրներում։ 20-րդ դարի սկզբերի անգլիացի կլասիցիստ Պերսի Գարդներն առաջարկել է, որ Թեմիստոկլեսի՝ ցլի արյուն խմելու մասին պատմությունը կարող էր հիմնված լինել նրա արձանի անտեղյակ թյուրըմբռնման վրա, որը ցույց էր տալիս Թեմիստոկլեսին հերոսական դիրքով, ով բարձրացրել է գավաթը որպես ընծա աստվածներին: Կատակերգական դրամատուրգ Արիստոֆանեսն իր «Ասպետները» կատակերգության մեջ (կատարված մ.թ.ա. 424 թվականին) նշում է Թեմիստոկլեսի ցլի արյուն խմելը որպես մարդու մահվան ամենահերոսական միջոց[21][24]։
Էքսիլես
455 Ք․ա․ Ըստ Վալերիուս Մաքսիմուսի՝ աթենացի երեք մեծ ողբերգականներից ավագը, սպանվել է կրիայի կողմից, որը իր վրա է նետել արծիվը, որը նրա ճաղատ գլուխը շփոթել էր քարի հետ, որը հարմար էր սողունի պատյանը կոտրելու համար: Պլինիոս Ավագն իր «Բնական պատմության» մեջ ավելացնում է, որ Էսքիլեսը դրսում էր մնում՝ կանխելու այն մարգարեությունը, որ նա սպանվելու էր այդ օրը «տան ընկնելու պատճառով»[12][25][26][27]։
Ակրիջենտոյի Էմպեդոկլես
430 Ք․ա․ Ըստ Դիոգենես Լայերտացու՝ Սիցիլիայից Նախասոկրատական փիլիսոփա, Էմպեդոկլեսը իր պապանված բանաստեղծություններից մեկում հայտարարել է, որ ինքը «աստվածային էակ է... այլևս մահկանացու չէ»[28], փորձել է ապացուցել, որ անմահ աստված է՝ ցատկելով դեպի Էթնա լեռ, գործող հրաբուխ[29][30]։ Այս լեգենդին հղվում է նաև հռոմեացի բանաստեղծ Հորացիոսը[31]։
Սոֆոկլես
406 Ք․ա․ Մի շարք «ուշագրավ» լեգենդներ երեք մեծ աթենացի ողբերգականներից ևս մեկի մահվան վերաբերյալ արձանագրված են ուշ անտիկ Սոֆոկլեսի կյանքում: Համաձայն լեգենդներից մեկի՝ նա խեղդվել է չհասած խաղողով։ Մեկ ուրիշն ասում է, որ նա մահացել է ուրախությունից այն բանից հետո, երբ լսել է, որ իր վերջին պիեսը հաջողությամբ է պսակվել։ Երրորդ պատմությունը հայտնում է, որ նա մահացել է շնչահեղձությունից՝ բարձրաձայն կարդալով երկարատև մենախոսություն իր «Անտիգոնե» պիեսի վերջից՝ առանց կետադրական նշանների համար շունչ քաշելու[27]։
Միտրիդատ 401 Ք․ա․ Պարսիկ զինվորը, ով խայտառակել է իր թագավոր Արտաքսերքսես II-ին, պարծենալով, որ սպանել է իր հակառակորդ Կյուրոս Կրտսերին (ով Արտաքսերքսես II-ի եղբայրն էր), մահապատժի է ենթարկվել սկաֆիզմի միջոցով։ Թագավորի բժիշկ Կտեսիասը հայտնում է, որ Միտրիդատը 17 օր դիմացել է միջատների տանջանքներին[32][33]։
Դեմոկրիտես Աբդերացի
370 Ք․ա․ Ըստ Դիոգենես Լաեյրտացու՝ հույն ատոմիստ փիլիսոփան մահացել է 109 տարեկանում. քանի որ նա իր մահվան անկողնում էր, նրա քույրը խիստ անհանգստացած էր, քանի որ վերջինս պետք է կատարեր իր կրոնական պարտավորությունները աստվածուհի Արտեմիսի հանդեպ մոտալուտ Թեսմոֆորիայի եռօրյա փառատոնում: Դեմոկրիտեսը խնդրել էր իր քրոջը, որ նա իր քթի տակ մի կտոր տաք հաց դնի, և փառատոնի երեք օրերը Դեմոկրիտեսը կարողացել է գոյատևել՝ հոտոտելով այդ հացի կտորը: Նա մահացել է փառատոնի ավարտից անմիջապես հետո[34][35]։
Անտիֆանես 310 Ք․ա․ Ըստ Սուդայի, միջին ատտիկյան կատակերգության հայտնի կատակերգական բանաստեղծը մահացել է տանձի հարվածից հետո[36][37]։
Ագաթոկելս Սիրաքյուսցի
289 Ք․ա․ Սիրաքյուսցի հույն բռնակալին սպանել են թունավոր ատամի չոփով[12][38]։
Կոսի Ֆիլիթաս
270 Ք․ա․ Ըստ Աթենաոսի՝ հույն մտավորականն այնքան ինտենսիվ է ուսումնասիրել փաստարկները և սխալ բառերի օգտագործումը, որ նա վատնվել է և սովամահ է եղել[39]: Բրիտանացի կլասիցիստ Ալան Քեմերոնը ենթադրում է, որ Ֆիլիթասը մահացել է վատնման հիվանդությունից, ում ժամանակակիցները կատակում էին, որ պայմանավորված էր նրա պեդանտիզմով[40]։
Զենոն Կիտիոնացի
270 Ք․ա․ Հույն փիլիսոփան Կիպրոսի Կիտիումից (Կիտիոն) դպրոցից դուրս գալու ժամանակ սայթաքել է և ընկել՝ կոտրելով ոտքի մատը։ Բռունցքով հարվածելով գետնին, նա մեջբերել է տող «Նիոբե»-ից. «Ես գալիս եմ, գալիս եմ, ինչո՞ւ ես ինձ կանչում»: Շունչը պահելով՝ տեղում մահացել է[41]։
Ցին Շի Հուանդի
Օգոստոս, 210 Ք․ա․ Չինաստանի առաջին կայսրը, ում արտեֆակտներն ու գանձերը ներառում են տերակոտե բանակը, մահացել է սնդիկի մի քանի հաբ ընդունելուց հետո՝ հավատալով, որ դա իրեն հավերժական կյանք կպարգևի[42][43][44]։
Սոլիի Քրիսիպոս
206 Ք․ա․ Մ.թ.ա. երրորդ դարի հույն ստոիկ փիլիսոփայի մահվան մասին հին պատմություններից մեկը պատմում է, որ նա մահացել է ծիծաղից այն բանից հետո, երբ տեսել է, թե ինչպես է էշը ուտում իր թուզերը. նա մի ստրուկի հրամայել է, որ էշին խմեցնի մաքուր գինի, որպեսզի հարբեցնի դրան, և հետո «...այնքան ծիծաղաց, որ մահացավ» (Դիոգենես Լաեյրտացի 7.185)[45]։
Եղիազար Ավարան
163 Ք․ա․ Համաձայն 1 Մակավեյ 6։46-ի՝ Հուդա Մակավեյի եղբայրը մարտում իր նիզակը խրել է թագավորի մարտական ​​փղի փորը, որը ստակել է և ընկել Եղիազարի վրա՝ նրան անմիջապես սպանելով[46]։
Մանիուս Ակվիլիուս և Մարկոս Կրասսոս
Ք․ա․ 1-ին դար The late Roman Republic-era consul was sent as ambassador to Asia Minor in 90 BC to restore Nicomedes IV of Bithynia to his kingdom after the latter was expelled by Mithridates VI of Pontus. But Aquillius encouraged Nicomedes to raid part of Mithridates' territory, which started the First Mithridatic War. Aquillius was captured and brought to Mithridates, who in 88 BC had him executed by pouring molten gold down his throat. According to one story, Marcus Licinius Crassus, a Roman general and statesman, who was very greedy despite being called "the richest man in Rome," was executed in the same manner by the Parthians after they defeated him in the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC, in symbolic mockery of his thirst for wealth. However, it has been disputed as to whether this is how Crassus met his end.[47]
Porcia Catonis
Հունիսի -43 (-43-06) June 43 BC to October 42 BC The daughter of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis and second wife of Marcus Junius Brutus, according to ancient historians such as Cassius Dio and Appian, killed herself by swallowing hot coals.[48] Modern historians find this tale implausible.[49]
Claudius Drusus
20 (20) Կաղապար:C. According to Suetonius, the eldest son of the future Roman emperor Claudius, died while playing with a pear. Having tossed the pear high in the air, he caught it in his mouth when it came back, but he choked on it, dying of asphyxia.[50]
Tiberius
Մարտի 16, 37 (37-03-16) The Roman emperor died in Misenum aged 78. According to Tacitus, the emperor appeared to have died and Caligula, who was at Tiberius' villa, was being congratulated on his succession to the empire, when news arrived that the emperor had revived and was recovering his faculties. Those who had moments before recognized Caligula as Augustus fled in fear of the emperor's wrath, while Macro, a prefect of the Praetorian Guard, took advantage of the chaos to have Tiberius smothered with his own bedclothes, definitively killing him.[51]
Simon Peter
1 (1) Between 64 and 68 AD The apostle of Jesus was crucified upside-down in Rome, based on his claim of being unworthy to die in the same way as his Saviour.[52][53]
Simon the Zealot
1 (1) 1st century AD According to an ancient tradition, the apostle of Jesus, was sawn in half in Persia.[54]
Saint Lawrence
Պատկեր:Martyrdom of Lawrence - Edited.jpg
 258 (258) The deacon was roasted alive on a giant grill during the persecution of Valerian.[55][56] Prudentius tells that he joked with his tormentors, "Turn me over—I'm done on this side".[57] He is now the patron saint of cooks, chefs, and comedians.[58]
Marcus of Arethusa
362 (362) The Christian bishop and martyr was hung up in a honey-smeared basket for bees to sting him to death.[12]:104
Valentinian I
17 November 375 (17 November 375) The Roman emperor suffered a stroke which was provoked by yelling at foreign envoys in anger.[59]


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