270 BC The poet Philetas (Philetas of Cos) died of insomnia while trying to deduce the Liara paradox.
207 BC e. The Greek philosopher Chrysippus died of laughter as he watched his drunken donkey try to eat figs.
121 BC Gaius Gracchus, a Roman military leader, according to Plutarch, during the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans, was killed for a gold award in the weight of his head. One of the conspirators in his murder, Septimuleius, beheaded Gaius, cleansed his skull of brains and filled the skull cavity with molten lead. Once the lead had solidified, the head was taken to the Roman Senate and weighed. Septimuleius received seventeen pounds of gold.
260 BC e. The Roman emperor Valerian, after being defeated in battle, was captured by the Persians, then used as a footstool at the feet of King Shapur I. After prolonged humiliation in this way, he offered a huge ransom for his release. In response, Shapur poured molten gold down his throat. Then he removed the skin from the unfortunate Valerian and stuffed his stuffed animal with straw and dung, and put everyone on display in the Persian temple. And only after the defeat of Persia in their last war with Rome, three and a half centuries later, his remains were buried..
668 year. Constans II in the Byzantine Empire was killed in the Daphne baths by the eunuch, Andreas. He smashed his head with a marble soap dish.
1277 year. Pope John XXI died in the collapsed building of his scientific laboratory.
1327 year. Edward II was executed after defeat. A piece of hot iron was inserted into his anus.
1478 year. George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, was executed. He was drowned in a barrel of table wine.
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1514 year. Gyorgy Dozsa, the leader of a peasant uprising in Hungary, was roasted alive on a white-hot metal chair. His associates were forced to eat his meat.
1559 year. King Henry II of France was killed in a knightly duel when his visor, covered with a soft lattice of gold, pierced a spear, entered his eye and entered his brain.
1573 Matija Gubec, leader of a peasant uprising in the Kingdom of Croatia, was crowned with a crown of red-hot iron.
1671. François Vatel, the chef of Louis XIV, committed suicide out of shame because he was late in receiving the fish ordered for the royal table. His body was discovered by his assistant, who was sent to report the arrival of the order.
1791 or 1793. Frantisek Kotzwara, double bass player and composer, died of suffocation while having sex with a prostitute.
1834 year. David Douglas, a Scottish botanist, fell into a trap pit with a bull chasing him. The bull gored him to death and most likely trampled him.
1850 Zachary Taylor, the twelfth president of the United States, ate too much ice cream after a ceremony on a particularly hot day on July 4th. He then fell ill with indigestion and passed away five days later, after only 16 months in office. Many said he might have been poisoned, but after being exhumed in 1991, doctors ruled that he had not been poisoned.
1884 year. Allan Pinkerton, a detective, died of gangrene after he bit his tongue while stumbling on the sidewalk.
1899 year. French President Felix Faure died of a stroke during a blowjob in his office.
1911 year. Jack Daniel, founder of Jack Daniel's whiskey, died of blood poisoning six years after sustaining a leg injury when he kicked him in anger that he had forgotten the combination of the code to the safe.
1916 year. Grigory Rasputin, drowned in a hole under the ice. Although the details of his murder are controversial, he was allegedly drowned in an ice hole after being poisoned, beaten, castrated, and sustained multiple gunshot wounds to the head, lungs and liver. Strange, but he died precisely from the fact that he suffocated under water.
1927 year. Parry - Thomas (JG Parry-Thomas) English racing driver, was decapitated by a chain flying from his own car. He tried to break his own record from last year. Despite the fact that he was already dead, he still managed to set a new record - 171 miles per hour.
1927 year. Isadora Duncan, a dancer, died of accidental suffocation and a broken neck when her headscarf hit the wheel of the car she was driving.
The year is 1928. Alexander Bogdanov, a doctor in Russia, died after one of his experiments, in which the blood of students with malaria and tuberculosis was transfused to him.
1941 year. Sherwood Anderson, a writer, swallowed a toothpick at a party and later died of peritoneal inflammation.
1943 year. “Lady be Good,” a US Air Force bomber went off course and landed in the Libyan desert. The mummified remains of his crew, which survived a week without water, were found in 1960.
1943 year. Critic Alexander Woollcott died of heart attack while discussing Adolf Hitler.
1944 year. Chemist and inventor Thomas Midgley, Jr., accidentally strangled himself in his own mechanical bed design.
1960 year. Renowned baritone Leonard Warren died onstage in New York from a stroke while performing La forza del destino. His last words were: “Morir? Tremenda cosa. " ("Die? Great honor.")
1978 year. Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian dissident, was poisoned in London by an unknown person who shot him from an umbrella with a special small bullet-ball full of poison - ricin.
1978 year. Claude Francois, French pop singer, died of an electric shock when he tried to change a light bulb while standing in a full bathroom.
1981 year. A 25-year-old Dutch woman studying in Paris, Rene Hartevelt, was killed and eaten by a classmate, Issei Sagawa, after he invited her to dinner. The killer was sent back to Japan, after which he was released from custody.
1993 year. Bruce Lee's son Brandon Lee was killed during the filming of The Crow. No one knew that instead of blank cartridges, the pistol had one real one.
2003 year. Brandon Vedas died of a drug overdose in front of everyone. During an Internet chat, his death was broadcast live on webcams.
2003 year. Timothy Treadwell, an American zoologist who lived in Alaska alone with bears for thirteen years, was eaten alive by one of the shaggy, apparently in a bad mood.
2005 year. Lee Seung Seop, a 28-year-old Korean video game fan, fell and died in the Internet Cafe after playing Starcraft for 50 hours non-stop.
2006 year. Steve Irwin, a television star and nature lover fearless crocodile hunter, died by accident after being stabbed by a stingray with his tail.
2006 year. Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB spy who was investigating the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, was poisoned with polonium-210, an extremely rare radioactive material.
2007 year. Jennifer Strange, a 28-year-old woman from Sacramento, died of water intoxication while trying to win a Nintendo Wii in a local radio station competition. At the competition, it was necessary to drink the most water and not go to the toilet on a small one.