List of unusual deaths

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This is a list of unusual deaths. This list includes only unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources. Oxford Dictionaries defines the word "unusual" as "not habitually or commonly occurring or done" and "remarkable or interesting because different from or better than others."

Some other articles also cover deaths that might be considered unusual or ironic, including list of entertainers who died during a performance, list of inventors killed by their own inventions, list of association footballers who died while playing, list of professional cyclists who died during a race and the list of political self-immolations.

Antiquity

Note: Many of these stories are likely to be apocryphal.

The death of Aeschylus illustrated in the 15th century Florentine Picture Chronicle by Maso Finiguerra.

• c. 620 BC: Draco, an Athenian lawmaker, was smothered to death by gifts of cloaks and hats showered upon him by appreciative citizens at a theatre on Aegina.
• 564 BC: Arrhichion of Phigalia, Greek pankratiast, caused his own death during the Olympic finals. Held by his unidentified opponent in a stranglehold and unable to free himself, Arrichion kicked his opponent, causing him so much pain that the opponent made the sign of defeat to the umpires, but at the same time breaking Arrichion's neck. Since the opponent had conceded defeat, Arrichion was proclaimed the victor posthumously.
• c. 475 BC: Heraclitus, the Greek philosopher, in one account given by Diogenes Laërtius, was said to have been devoured by dogs after smearing himself with cow manure in an attempt to cure his dropsy.
• 455 BC: Aeschylus, the Athenian author of tragedies. According to Valerius Maximus, he was killed by a tortoise dropped by an eagle that had mistaken his bald head for a rock suitable for shattering the shell of the reptile. Pliny, in his Naturalis Historiæ, adds that Aeschylus had been staying outdoors to avert a prophecy that he would be killed by a falling object.
• 430 BC: Empedocles, a Greek philosopher. According to Diogenes Laërtius, he tried to prove he was a god by leaping into Mount Etna, an active volcano.
• 401 BC: Mithridates, a Persian soldier who embarrassed his king, Artaxerxes II, by boasting of killing his rival, Cyrus the Younger (who was the brother of Artaxerxes II), was executed by scaphism. The king's physician, Ctesias, reported that Mithridates survived the insect torture for 17 days.
• 288 BC: Agathocles, Greek tyrant, was murdered by a poisoned toothpick.
• 270 BC: Philitas of Cos, Greek intellectual, is said by Athenaeus to have studied arguments and erroneous word usage so intensely that he wasted away and starved to death. British classicist Alan Cameron speculates that Philitas died from a wasting disease which his contemporaries joked was caused by his pedantry.
• 210 BC: Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China, whose artifacts and treasures include the Terracotta Army, died after ingesting several pills of mercury in the belief that it would grant him eternal life.
• 206 BC: One ancient account of the death of Chrysippus, the 3rd century BC Greek Stoic philosopher, tells that he died of laughter after he saw a donkey eating his figs; he told a slave to give the donkey neat wine to drink to wash them down with, and then, "...having laughed too much, he died" (Diogenes Laërtius 7.185).
• 163 BC: Eleazar Avaran, a biblical hero, rushed into a battle by thrusting his spear into the belly of a king's elephant, which collapsed and fell on top of Avaran, killing him instantly.
• 258 AD: The deacon Saint Lawrence was roasted alive on a giant grill during the persecution of Valerian. Prudentius tells that he joked with his tormentors, "Turn me over—I'm done on this side". He is now the patron saint of cooks, chefs and comedians.

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  The stoic Chrysippus who is said to have died of laughter when a donkey ate his figs.
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  Greek intellectual Philitas of Cos, said to have studied arguments and erroneous word usage so intensely that he wasted away and starved to death.
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  Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China who sought immortality through ingesting poisonous mercury.
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  The martyrdom of Saint Lawrence by Titian shows Lawrence over the fire.

Middle Ages

Edward II of England is rumoured to have been executed by a red-hot poker inserted into his anus, although scholarly consensus disputes the manner of his death and considers this as propaganda.

• 865: Ragnar Lodbrok, the semi-legendary Viking leader, was supposedly captured by Ælla of Northumbria who had him executed by having him thrown into a pit of snakes.
• 892: Sigurd the Mighty of Orkney strapped the head of his defeated foe, Máel Brigte, to his horse's saddle. Brigte's teeth rubbed against Sigurd's leg as he rode, causing a fatal infection.
• 1016: Edmund Ironside was stabbed whilst on a toilet, by an assassin hiding underneath.
• 1063: Béla I of Hungary, when the Holy Roman Empire decided to launch a military expedition against Hungary to restore young Solomon to the throne, was seriously injured when "his throne broke beneath him" in his manor at Dömös. 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 Kanizsva on 11 September 1063.
• 1131: Crown Prince Philip of France died while riding through Paris, when his horse tripped over a black pig running out of a dung heap.
• 1258: Al-Musta'sim, the last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad, was executed by his Mongol captors by being rolled up in a rug and then trampled by horses.
• 1327: Edward II of England, after being deposed and imprisoned by his wife Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer, was rumoured to have been murdered by having a horn pushed into his anus through which a red-hot iron was inserted, burning out his internal organs without marking his body. 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.
• 1346: John of Bohemia, after being blind for 10 years, died in the Battle of Crecy when he tied his army's horse reins to his own and charged. He was slaughtered in the ensuing fight.
• 1387: Charles II of Navarre, known as "Charles the Bad". The contemporary chronicler Froissart relates that the king, 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.
• 1410: Martin of Aragon died from a combination of indigestion and uncontrollable laughing. According to tradition, Martin was suffering from indigestion on account of eating an entire goose when his favorite jester, Borra, entered the king's bedroom. When Martin asked Borra where the jester 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.
• 1478: George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, was allegedly executed by drowning in a barrel of Malmsey wine at his own request.

Renaissance

• 1567: Hans Staininger, the burgomaster of Braunau (then Bavaria, now Austria), died when he broke his neck by tripping over his own beard. The beard, which was 4.5 feet (1.4 m) long at the time, was usually kept rolled up in a leather pouch.
• 1601: Tycho Brahe contracted a bladder or kidney ailment after attending a banquet in Prague, and died eleven days later. According to Kepler's first-hand account, Brahe had refused to leave the banquet to relieve himself because it would have been a breach of etiquette. After he had returned home he was no longer able to urinate, except eventually in very small quantities and with excruciating pain.
• 1660: Thomas Urquhart, the Scottish aristocrat, polymath and first translator of François Rabelais's writings into English, is said to have died laughing upon hearing that Charles II had taken the throne.
• 1667: James Betts 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.
• 1687: Jean-Baptiste Lully, the French composer, died of a gangrenous abscess after accidentally piercing his foot with a staff while he was vigorously conducting a Te Deum. It was customary at that time to conduct by banging a staff on the floor.

18th century

• 1771: Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden, died of digestion problems on 12 February 1771 after having consumed a meal of lobster, caviar, sauerkraut, smoked herring, and champagne, topped off with 14 servings of his favourite dessert: semla served in a bowl of hot milk, called "hetvägg". He is thus remembered by Swedish schoolchildren as "the king who ate himself to death."

19th century

• 1854: William Snyder, a 13 year old, died when a circus clown swung him around by his heels.
• 1871: Clement Vallandigham, a lawyer and Ohio politician defending a man accused of murder, accidentally shot himself while demonstrating how the victim might have accidentally shot himself. His client was cleared.
• 1884: Allan Pinkerton, the founder of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, was in Chicago, Illinois when he tripped on the pavement and severely bit on his tongue. His tongue became infected with gangrene, ultimately leading to his death.

20th century

Mary hanged in Erwin, Tennessee.

Aftermath of The Great Molasses Flood

1900s

• 1903: An unnamed person was beaten to death with a Bible during a healing ceremony gone wrong in Honolulu.

1910s

• 1911: Jack Daniel, a distiller and businessman, was said to have died from an infected toe after angrily kicking a safe he could not get open.
• 1916: The day after Mary, a five-ton cow elephant, killed a trainer for the Sparks World Famous Shows circus in Sullivan County, Tennessee, she was hanged by the neck from a railcar-mounted industrial crane.
• 1919: A large storage tank burst in Boston's North End, releasing a wave of molasses which killed 21 people and injured 150. This event was later dubbed the Great Molasses Flood.

1920s

Isadora Duncan’s scarf caught on the wheel of a car.

• 1923: George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, who financed 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.
• 1926: Bobby Leach, an American stunt performer, died after botched amputation of the infected leg which he had broke after slipping on an orange peel.

• 1926: While Phillip McClean, 16, and his brother were clubbing a cassowary on the family property in Mossman, Queensland, the bird knocked him down and kicked him in the neck, opening a large cut; McClean died of hemorrhage.
• 1927: Isadora Duncan, a dancer, broke her neck when her long scarf caught on the wheel of a car in which she was a passenger.

1930s

• 1930: William Kogut, an inmate of San Quentin State Prison, committed suicide by a self-made pipe bomb filled with torn bits of playing cards. Kogut made the pipe from a hollow steel leg from his bed and filled it with torn cards and water. The pipe was then put on the heater in his room and Kogut placed his head nearby. The buildup of steam pressure ruptured the pipe, shooting the card bits with enough force to penetrate Kogut's skull.

1940s

• 1941: Sherwood Anderson, an American novelist and short story writer, died from peritonitis brought on by an accidentally swallowed toothpick, which had damaged his internal organs.

1950s

• 1951: Mary Hardy Reeser, 67, was found "virtually cremated" in her otherwise relatively unharmed apartment in St. Petersburg, Florida, leaving a left foot in an undamaged black satin slipper, a shrunken portion of her skull and part of her spine. The FBI report at the time stated that she had apparently fallen asleep while smoking, setting fire to her acetate nightgown, housecoat, and chair.
• 1958: Gareth Jones, an actor, died between scenes of a live television play, Underground. Other members of the cast improvised lines, such as "I'm sure if So‑and‑so were here he would say..." to compensate for Jones's absence.

1960s

• 1961: U.S. Army specialists John A. Byrnes and Richard Leroy McKinley and Navy electrician's mate Richard C. Legg were killed by a water hammer explosion during maintenance on the SL-1 nuclear reactor in Idaho.
• 1966: Nick Piantanida, a skydiver, died four months after an attempt to break the record for the highest parachute jump; his suit had depressurized causing brain damage.

1970s

• 1971: Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Patsayev, Soviet cosmonauts, died when their Soyuz-11 spacecraft depressurized during preparations for re-entry. These are the only known human deaths outside the Earth's atmosphere.
• 1974: Basil Brown, a 48-year-old health food advocate from Croydon, England, died from liver damage after he consumed 7 million units of Vitamin A and around 10 gallons (38 litres) of carrot juice over ten days, turning his skin bright yellow.
• 1975: After watching the "Kung Fu Kapers" episode of The Goodies, a man named Alex Mitchell laughed continuously for 25 minutes and then fell dead on his sofa from heart failure.
• 1977: Tina Christopherson died when she fanatically drank 4 gallons (15 litres) of water a day to combat stomach cancer.
• 1977: Tom Pryce, a driver in the 1977 South African Grand Prix, was killed alongside fire marshal Frederick Jansen Van Vuuren after being struck on the head by a fire extinguisher when his car, travelling at 170 mph (270 km/h), hit Jansen Van Vuuren as he was running across the Kyalami race track to extinguish a burning car.
• 1978: Kurt Gödel, the Austrian–American logician and mathematician, died of starvation when his wife was hospitalized. Gödel refused to eat food prepared by anyone else.
• 1979: Robert Williams, a worker at a Ford Motor Co. plant, became the first person known to be killed by a robot when the arm of a factory robot struck him in the head.
• 1979: John Bowen, a 20-year-old from Nashua, New Hampshire, was killed at a half-time show at Shea Stadium when a 40-pound (18 kg) model plane shaped like a lawnmower crashed into the stands.

1980s

Tennessee Williams

• 1981: Boris Sagal, a Ukrainian-American film director, died while shooting the TV miniseries World War III in Portland, Oregon, when he walked into the tail rotor blade of a helicopter and was partially decapitated.
• 1982: David Grundman, shooting at cacti with his shotgun near Lake Pleasant, Arizona, was crushed when a 4 ft (1.2 m) limb of the cactus detached and fell on him.
• 1983: Tennessee Williams, an American playwright, died after accidentally choking on a plastic bottle cap which he was using to ingest barbiturates. Reports at the time of his death indicated he had died applying eyedrops while holding the cap between his teeth, but this was corrected in the official medical examiner's report 6 months later.
• 1983: Truls Hellevik, a diver, exploded into many small parts when accidentally exposed to an eight-atmosphere change in air pressure.
• 1983: Dick Wertheim, a tennis linesman, died after a ball struck him in the groin and he fell out of his chair.
• 1983: Jimmy Ferrozzo, a bouncer, died in Condor Club, San Francisco while engaging in sexual intercourse with his girlfriend Theresa Hill on a grand piano that was lowered from the ceiling by a hydraulic motor. Ferrozzo accidentally activated the lifting mechanism which pinned him against the ceiling leading to his suffocation. Hill survived the accident.

1990s

• 1993: Brandon Lee, 28-year-old film actor, martial artist, and son of Bruce Lee, was accidentally shot to death by co-star Michael Massee while filming a scene for The Crow, as the result of an improperly-loaded prop gun.
• 1993: Garry Hoy, a lawyer in Toronto, Ontario, fell to his death from the 24th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Centre while demonstrating to a group of visitors that the building's windows were "unbreakable". Hoy threw himself against the glass, which indeed did not break; instead the window popped out of its frame.
• 1994: Jeremy Brenno, 16, was killed on a golf course when, frustrated, he struck a bench with a 3-wood golf club. The shaft broke, bounced back at him, and pierced his heart.
• 1995: Race driver Russell Phillips was killed when his vehicle was forced onto its side, the roof pressed against the fence separating the track from the stands. The cabin of the vehicle, and Phillips' body inside it, were grated away, so that body parts and metal debris littered the track. The race was completed after a cleanup.
• 1997: Karen Wetterhahn, a professor of chemistry at Dartmouth College, died ten months after a few drops of dimethylmercury landed on her protective gloves. Although Wetterhahn had been following the required procedures, the material permeated the gloves and her skin within seconds.
• 1998: Jonathan Capewell, 16, died from a heart attack brought on by the buildup of butane and propane in the blood after excessive use of deodorant sprays. Capewell was reported to have an obsession with personal hygiene. An autopsy showed that Capewell had 0.37 mg of butane per litre in his blood, and the same amount of propane, whereas 0.1 mg per litre can be fatal.
• 1999: Kemistry, a drum and bass DJ, died after a cat's eye road safety device, dislodged by a preceding vehicle, flew through the windscreen of a car in which she was a passenger and struck her in the head.
• 1999: Jon Desborough, a PE teacher, died after falling onto the blunt end of a javelin, which then passed through his eye socket and into his brain.

21st century

2000s

• 2001: Bernd Brandes, a Berlin engineer, was willingly slaughtered so that he could be butchered and eaten by aspiring cannibal Armin Meiwes. Brandes had responded to an internet advertisement which Meiwes had placed for this purpose. In prison Meiwes became a vegetarian.
• 2001: Peter Robinson slipped on ice and drowned in his cat's water bowl.
• 2003: Brian Douglas Wells, from Erie, Pennsylvania, was killed by an explosive collar around his neck.
• 2004: Phillip Quinn, 24, from Kent, Washington, was killed when a lava lamp he was heating on a stove exploded, with a shard piercing his heart.
• 2005: Kenneth Pinyan died from injuries caused by anal sex with a stallion.
• 2007: Humberto Hernandez, a 24-year-old Oakland, California, resident, was killed after being struck in the face by an airborne fire hydrant while walking. A passing car had struck the fire hydrant and the water pressure shot the hydrant at Hernandez with enough force to kill him.
• 2008: Judy Kay Zagorski was killed when a 75-pound (34 kg) spotted eagle ray leapt out of the water and knocked her over. The ray also died.
• 2008: David Phyall, 50, the last resident in a block of flats due to be demolished in Bishopstoke, near Southampton, Hampshire, England, decapitated himself with a chainsaw to highlight the injustice of being forced to move out.
• 2008: A 43-year-old Irish mother of four died of an allergic reaction after having sex with a German Shepherd dog.
• 2009: Taylor Mitchell, 19-year-old Canadian folk singer, was killed by a pair of coyotes while hiking in Cape Breton Highlands National Park, in the only known fatal coyote attack on an adult.

2010s

• 2010: Mike Edwards, 62, cellist and a 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.
• 2010: Jimi Heselden, owner of Segway Inc., died after apparently riding his own product off a cliff.
• 2011: Jose Luis Ochoa, 35, 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.
• 2012: Edward Archbold, 32, of West Palm Beach, Florida, choked on "arthropod body parts" during a cockroach-eating contest.
• 2012: Erica Marshall, a 28-year-old British veterinarian in Ocala, Florida, died when the horse she was treating in a hyperbaric chamber kicked the wall, released a spark from its horseshoes and triggered an explosion.
• 2013: Elisa Lam, from Vancouver, British Columbia, was missing for several weeks before being found dead in a large water tank on the roof of the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles, after guests complained about the taste of the water.
• 2013: Takuya Nagaya, 23, from Japan, started to slither on the floor and claim he had become a snake. Takuya died after his father spent the next two days head-butting and biting him "to drive [out] the snake that had possessed him."
• 2013: Roger Mirro was crushed by a trash compactor while looking through a dumpster for his phone.
• 2013: An unnamed Belarusian fisherman, 60, bled to death after being bitten by a beaver which he had tried to grab in order to have his picture taken with it.
• 2013: João Maria de Souza, 45, was crushed by a cow falling through the roof of his home in Caratinga, Brazil. The cow was unharmed.
• 2013: Denver Lee St. Clair was asphyxiated by a wedgie administered by his stepson during a fight. After St. Clair had been knocked unconscious the elastic band from his torn underwear was pulled over his head and stretched around his neck, strangling him.
• 2013: Kendrick Johnson, 17, was discovered trapped upside down in a rolled-up gym mat in his high school gymnasium. Police originally concluded he had climbed in to retrieve a shoe and became trapped, but the case was later reopened as a possible homicide.
• 2013: Miguel Martinez, 14, from Lubbock, Texas, was impaled through the chest by the horn of a bull statue while playing hide-and-seek at night in front of the National Ranching Heritage Center.
• 2013: Two young boys were killed by an African rock python during a sleepover in New Brunswick, Canada. The large snake had escaped a pet store and slithered up through ducts into the apartment where they slept. It suffocated the children but did not attempt to eat them.
• 2014: Heval Yıldırım, 13, was killed when a sacrificial goat bought for Eid al-Adha jumped off the roof over a protective fence and fell onto him. Yıldırım's father placed the goat on the roof of the building where he lived because he could not find another suitable place to keep it.
• 2014: Christophe de Margerie, an oil executive, was killed when his corporate jet collided with a snowplow reportedly driven by a drunk driver.
• 2014: Peng Fan, a chef in Foshan, China, was bitten by a cobra's severed head, which he had cut off 20 minutes earlier while preparing a soup.
• 2015: Chelsea Ake-Salvacion, 24, an employee of a Henderson, Nevada salon, was suffocated while using a cryotherapy machine set to the wrong level, which eliminated the oxygen in the chamber.
• 2015: Ravi Subramanian, an Air India technician, was sucked into an aircraft's jet engines.
• 2016: V. Kamaraj, a 40-year old Indian bus driver, was killed by a meteorite which left a 2-foot (61 cm) crater.
• 2016: Caleb Schwab, 10, was decapitated when he was ejected from his raft on Verruckt, a 168-foot-tall water slide.
• 2016: Irma Bule, 29, an Indonesian dangdut singer who performed with live snakes, died during a concert after being bitten by a king cobra and refusing treatment.
• 2016: Anton Yelchin, 27, a Los Angeles actor known for portraying Pavel Chekov in the Star Trek reboot series, was found pinned between his car and a brick wall. His driveway is on an incline and his car was found running and in neutral.
• 2016: A seven-year-old girl died after being struck by a stone thrown by an elephant from its enclosure at the zoo at Rabat, Morocco.
• 2017: Charlie Holt, 5, was killed in Sun Dial Restaurant, a rotating restaurant at the top of Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia; his head was caught in a small space between the rotating and non-rotating sections.
• 2017: Robert Dreyer, 89, drowned on his birthday after crashing his car into a fire hydrant.
• 2017: Debra Bedard, 58, died after falling from a golf cart onto shards of wine glasses that had broken in her hands in Calaveras County, California.
• 2017: Rebecca Burger, 33, a fitness blogger and model, died after a pressurized canister of whipped cream exploded and struck her in the chest.
• 2017: Hidr Korkmaz, 42, a Turkish-Dutch drug dealer and informant, died while fishing when he threw his fish hook into an electric wire. Though he was a witness in the case against infamous Dutch criminal Willem Holleeder, he was not important to the case and authorities treated it as an accident.
• 2018: Rajesh Maru, 32, died at Nair Hospital in Mumbai after carrying a metallic oxygen tank into a room housing an MRI scanner; the machine's magnetic field pulled Maru in, pinning his hand and breaching the tank, releasing liquid oxygen. A hospital employee had asked Maru to transport the tank, as Maru's hospitalized relative would need it during her scan. An autopsy showed that Maru died instantly from pneumothorax brought on by exposure to very high levels of leaked oxygen. Conflicting reports state two or three hospital employees were arrested for negligence. The Maharashtra state government compensated Maru's family 500,000 rupees.

See also

• Autoerotic fatality
• Dancing Plague of 1518
• Darwin Awards
• Death by coconut
• Death from laughter
• Execution by elephant
• List of causes of death by rate
• List of inventors killed by their own inventions
• List of people executed for witchcraft
• List of people who disappeared mysteriously
• List of wheel-well stowaway flights
• Spontaneous human combustion
• 1000 Ways to Die
• Toilet-related injuries and deaths

Further reading

• Russell R. Winterbotham (1929). "Curious and Unusual Deaths". Haldeman-Julius, Girard, Kansas. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• Michael Powell (5 August 2008). "Curious Events in History". Sterling Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4027-6307-6. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• Nick Daws (2005). Daft Deaths and Famous Last Words. Lagoon Books. ISBN 978-1-9047-9715-9.
• Dale Dreher, ebook Death by Misadventure: 210 Dumb Ways to Die.
• David Southwell and Sean Twist (1 September 2007). "Mysterious Deaths and Disappearances". The Rosen Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-4042-1081-3. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• John Dunning Strange Deaths (true crime)
• Strange Deaths: More Than 375 Freakish Fatalities. 1 January 2000. ISBN 978-0-7607-1947-3.
• Bellamy, John G (1 December 2008). Strange Inhuman Deaths. ISBN 978-0-7509-3864-8.
• The Fortean Times Book of Strange Deaths. 2011. ISBN 978-1-907779-97-8.
• The Fortean Times Book of More Strange Deaths. October 1998. ISBN 978-1-902212-02-9.

External links

• Curious and Unusual Deaths Pictures. Discovery Channel.
• Freakish Fatalities Snopes.com