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|Could only find a reprint in ''The Advertiser'' [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/35595960] [[User:ZionniThePeruser|ZionniThePeruser]] ([[User talk:ZionniThePeruser|talk]]) 07:38, 15 October 2024 (UTC) |
|Could only find a reprint in ''The Advertiser'' [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/35595960] [[User:ZionniThePeruser|ZionniThePeruser]] ([[User talk:ZionniThePeruser|talk]]) 07:38, 15 October 2024 (UTC) |
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![[Mantell UFO incident|Thomas Mantell]] |
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|[[File:Kentucky National Guard portrait of Captain Thomas F. Mantell Jr.jpg|100px|center]] |
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|The 23-year-old from [[North Braddock, Pennsylvania]], died after locking herself inside a [[cedar chest]] while attempting to prank her sister. An autopsy later found that she died from suffocation.<ref>{{cite news|date=1945-05-22|page=1|title=Dead person in locked chest questioning authorities|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/147876599/|newspaper=[[The Pittsburgh Press]]|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>{{vs}} |
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|The 25-year-old [[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 U.S. Navy [[Skyhook balloon]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ruppelt|first=Edward J.|author-link=Edward J. Ruppelt|title=The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/17346/pg17346-images.html|location=[[Garden City, New York]]|publisher=[[Doubleday & Company, Inc.]]|year=1956|access-date=11 October 2024|via=[[Project Gutenberg]]}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=October 2024|reason=Source does not describe death as unusual.}}<ref>{{cite book|page=19|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=chD8HUd5uXcC&pg=PA19|title=Smokin' Rockets: The Romance of Technology in American Film, Radio and Television, 1945-1962|date=2002-06-25|isbn=978-0-7864-1233-4|last1=Lucanio|first1=Patrick|last2=Coville|first2=Gary|location=[[Jefferson, North Carolina]], and London|publisher=[[McFarland & Company, Inc.]]|access-date=2024-10-11|via=[[Google Books]]|quote=Mantell's death was sensational fodder for sensational media.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Ridge|first=Francis|title=The Mantell Incident: Anatomy of a Re-Investigation|others=With Jean Waskiewicz and Dan Wilson|chapter=Part 2 - 1: March 2006: The Re-Investigation Begins|chapter-url=https://www.nicap.org/mantell/mantell_part_2_1.htm|publisher=[[National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena]]|year=2010|access-date=2024-10-11|quote=The Mantell incident was more regional than local, of course, but it had a sensational twist to it, something the media loves, and apparently the viewers too... For over 58 years the case had been written about in about every book and mentioned on numerous TV shows, and had finally been written off as a mistaken balloon, with the pilot killed in either a freak accident or misgauging his ability to fly at certain altitudes without oxygen.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/50393/20240528/murdered-ufos-expert-explains-bizarre-fatality-cases-linked-unidentified-flying.htm|quote=UFO researcher Nigel Watson has explained such bizarre cases in some of his write-ups, shedding light on their odd nature... One of these bizarre cases was the death of Thomas Mantell, a captain of the US Air Force.|title=Murdered by UFOs? Expert Explains Bizarre Fatality Cases Linked to These Unidentified Flying Objects|access-date=2024-09-06|date=2024-05-28|department=Space|website=The Science Times|last=Stacy|first=Kendra}}</ref> |
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|The 11-year-old girl from [[Indianapolis, Indiana]], suffered burns to her legs and lower body after a jar of flaming gasoline was tossed from a stalled car in front of the girl while she was roller-skating back to her home. She was taken to a nearby hospital where she died from her injuries a few hours later.<ref>{{cite news|date=1949-10-31|page=1|title=Gas tossed from car caused death of Indianapolis girl|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1045326261/|newspaper=[[The Indianapolis Star]]|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>{{vs}} |
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|The 32-year-old patrolman of the [[New York City Police Department]] died during a traffic stop on the [[Queens, New York City|Queens]] side of the [[Kosciuszko Bridge]] when a truck struck his parked patrol car, which struck and killed him.<ref>{{cite news|title=FREAKISH MISHAP FATAL; Policeman Hit by Car That Was Struck by Truck|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=1957-12-01|at=Page 63, column 2|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/01/archives/freakish-mishap-fatal-policeman-hit-by-car-that-was-struck-by-truck.html|access-date=2023-05-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Patrolman Joseph L. Rauchut, New York City Police Department, New York|url=https://www.odmp.org/officer/11030-patrolman-joseph-l-rauchut|publisher=The Officer Down Memorial Page, Inc|access-date=2023-05-23}}</ref>{{fv}} |
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Revision as of 07:59, 17 October 2024
This is a holding tank for content requiring additional sourcing, either because the given sources do not refer to the death as "unusual" (or some synonym thereof), or because the death has only one source and requires a second. Per WP:STALEDRAFT, any content not sourced within 6 months from addition should be removed. If proper sourcing can be found, please add to the main page and remove from the holding tank.
When adding to this page, please place the death under the appropriate header for ease of sorting.
Antiquity
Name of person/s | Image | Date | Details | Notes |
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Menes | c. 3200 BC | According to Manetho, the Egyptian pharaoh and unifier of Upper and Lower Egypt was carried off and then killed by a hippopotamus.[1][2][failed verification] | ||
Teti | c. 2323 BC | According to Manetho, the first king of the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt was mysteriously killed when he was assassinated by one of his own bodyguards. Other sources say he was killed by Userkare, who would then succeed him. His odd death is the earliest-known assassination but is still the subject of speculation.[3][4][failed verification] | Per discussion on talk page, being the first person to die by a certain method is not enough for inclusion. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 05:40, 27 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Tiberinus Silvius | c. 914 BC | It is said that the legendary king of Alba Longa drowned while crossing the Albula river, which became known as the Tiber. This is usually known as the earliest case of someone drowning.[5][failed verification] | I mean, really? Drowning? If anyone finds enough sources for this one, I'll eat my own shoes. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 05:40, 27 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Terpander | 7th century BC | The Greek poet and citharode, considered the father of Greek music and lyric poetry, reportedly choked to death on a fig thrown at him during one of his performances.[6] | ||
Charondas | c. 612 BC | According to Diodorus Siculus, the Greek lawgiver from Sicily issued a law that anyone who brought weapons into the Assembly must be put to death. One day, he arrived at the Assembly seeking help to defeat some brigands in the countryside, but with a knife still attached to his belt. In order to uphold his own law, he committed suicide.[7][8][9][failed verification][10] | ||
Pythagoras of Samos | c. 495 BC | Ancient sources disagree on how the Greek philosopher died,[11][12][failed verification] but one late and probably apocryphal legend reported by both Diogenes Laërtius, a third-century AD biographer of famous philosophers, and Iamblichus, a Neoplatonist philosopher, states that Pythagoras was murdered by his political enemies. Supposedly, he almost managed to outrun them, but he came to a bean field and refused to run through it, as he had prohibited beans as ritually unclean.[12][13][failed verification] Since cutting through the field would violate his own teachings, Pythagoras simply stopped running and was killed. This story may have been fabricated by Neanthes of Cyzicus, on whom both Diogenes and Iamblichus rely as a source.[12][failed verification] | Most of the sources which clepe his death unusual (that I've found so far, anyway) are low-effort listicles from probably unreliable websites. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 05:40, 27 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Themistocles | c. 459 BC | The Athenian general who won the Battle of Salamis actually died of natural causes in exile,[14][15][failed verification] but was widely rumored to have committed suicide by drinking a solution of crushed minerals known as bull's blood.[14][15][16][17][failed verification] The legend is widely retold in classical sources. The early twentieth-century English classicist Percy Gardner proposed that the story about him drinking bull's blood may have been based on an ignorant misunderstanding of a statue showing Themistocles in a heroic pose, holding a cup as an offering to the gods. The comedic playwright Aristophanes references Themistocles drinking bull's blood in his comedy The Knights (performed in 424 BC) as the most heroic way for a man to die.[15][18][failed verification] | Same as above. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 07:46, 29 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Democritus of Abdera | c. 370 BC | According to Diogenes Laertius, the Greek Atomist philosopher died aged 109; as he was on his deathbed, his sister was greatly worried because she needed to fulfill her religious obligations to the goddess Artemis in the approaching three-day Thesmophoria festival. Democritus told her to place a loaf of warm bread under his nose and was able to survive for the three days of the festival by sniffing it. He died immediately after the festival was over.[19][20][failed verification] | ||
Diogenes of Sinope | c. 323 BC | According to 3rd century biographer, Diogenes Laërtius, he died by consuming raw octopus. His contemporaries, however, claimed he died by holding his breath.[21] | ||
Susima | 3rd century BC | The crown prince of the Maurya Empire died when he fell into a pit of "hot embers". The trap had been made by Ashoka when he found out his rival was en route.[22] | ||
Philitas of Cos | c. 270 BC | The Greek intellectual is said by Athenaeus to have studied arguments and erroneous word usage so intensely that he wasted away and starved to death.[23][failed verification] British classicist Alan Cameron speculates that Philitas died from a wasting disease which his contemporaries joked was caused by his pedantry.[24] | ||
Manius Aquillius and Marcus Licinius Crassus | 1st century BC | 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.[25][26][failed verification] | ||
Licinius Macer | 66 BC | At the end of his trial by Cicero for extortion, the Roman annalist and politician suffocated himself with a handkerchief, thus nullifying his conviction.[27] | ||
Porcia Catonis | 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.[28][failed verification] Modern historians find this tale implausible.[29][failed verification] | So far, could only find one that contains the magic words which already happens to be cited on the list (#12 if y'all wondering), but their description of her death is phrased similarly to WP's that I didn't add it due to worry of citogenesis. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 06:40, 28 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Tiberius | 16 March 37 | 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.[30][failed verification] | ||
Bartholomew the Apostle | 69 or 71 AD | St. Bartholomew, an apostle of Jesus Christ, died after either being knocked out and thrown into the sea or being skinned alive and beheaded in Armenia.[31][failed verification] | ||
Antipas of Pergamum | 68 or 92 AD | Antipas was burned alive inside the brazen bull for supposedly casting out demons who were worshipped in Pergamum.[32][failed verification] | ||
Simon the Zealot | 1st century AD | According to an ancient tradition, the apostle of Jesus was sawn in half in Persia.[33][verification needed] | ||
Saint Lawrence | 258 | The deacon was roasted alive on a giant grill during the persecution of Valerian.[34][35][failed verification] Prudentius tells that he joked with his tormentors, "Turn me over—I'm done on this side".[36] He is now the patron saint of cooks, chefs, and comedians.[37][failed verification] | Last source doesn't even mention St. Lawrence at all, only a river and a university named after him. WTF. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 06:40, 28 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Marcus of Arethusa | 362 | The Christian bishop and martyr was hung up in a honey-smeared basket for bees to sting him to death.[38]: 104 |
Middle Ages
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Constans II | 15 July 668 | The Byzantine Emperor was assassinated with a bucket according to Theophilus of Edessa.[39][failed verification] | ||
Popiel | 830 | According to legend, after the wife of the dissolute Polish ruler poisoned his uncles to prevent them from deposing him, a horde of rats and mice swarmed out of the uncles' bodies, which had been cast into Gopło, pursued Popiel and his wife to a tower in which they had taken refuge and ate them alive.[40] | ||
Ragnar Lodbrok | c. 865 | The semi-legendary Viking leader whose exploits are narrated in the 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 pit of snakes.[10][41][failed verification] | ||
Abu Nasr al-Jawhari | 1003 or 1010 | The Kazakh Turkic scholar from Farab died after a failed aviation test. It is said he used two wooden wings and rope. He leaped off the roof of the Nisābūr Mosque and then died on impact. His death was most likely caused after he had delusions of being a bird. al-Jawhari is said to be the first person killed by an aviation invention.[42][failed verification] | ||
Victims of the White Ship disaster | 25 November 1120 | While carrying intoxicated nobles across the English Channel, the ship was crashed into a rock by the also-intoxicated helmsman and began sinking. A lifeboat was launched, but William Adelin, the son of Henry I, jumped into and capsized it. All aboard died.[10] | ||
Henry I of Castile | 6 June 1217 | The 13-year-old king of Castile was killed by a tile that fell from a roof.[43][44][failed verification] | ||
Gruffudd ap Llywelyn ap Iorwerth | 1 March 1244 | The first-born son of Llywelyn the Great died while attempting to lower himself from the Tower of London in an escape attempt. The rope, made out of sheets and other fabrics, snapped, and his neck was broken in the fall, according to English monk and chronicler, Matthew Paris.[45] | ||
John of Bohemia | 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.[10][46][47][failed verification] |
Renaissance
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Robert Pakington | 13 November 1536 | The 47-year-old merchant was killed in London by a wheellock pistol, making his death the first political assassination performed by a firearm.[48][49] | ||
Two Dutch sailors | 1595 | Two seamen on an expedition led by Willem Barentsz in search of the Northeast Passage were killed by a polar bear. The sailors were the first men to be killed by a polar bear.[50][51] |
Early modern period
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Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke | 30 September 1628 | A disgruntled servant stabbed the English poet, dramatist and statesman in the stomach after he used the toilet. Physicians treated the wounds with animal fat, which rotted, causing a fatal case of gangrene.[52] | ||
Safi of Persia | 12 May 1642 | The Safavid ruler of Iran allegedly died due to alcohol intoxication in a drinking contest against a Georgian nobleman, Scedan Chiladze, invited from Mingrelia.[53][failed verification] | ||
James Betts | 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.[54][failed verification][55][verification needed] | ||
Bhai Mati Das, Bhai Sati Das and Bhai Dayala | 11 November 1675 | The trio are revered as early Sikh martyrs. By order of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, Bhai Mati Das was executed by being bound between two pillars and sawn in half,[56] while his younger brother Bhai Sati Das was wrapped in cotton wool soaked in oil and set on fire,[57] and Bhai Dayala was boiled in a cauldron full of water and roasted over a block of charcoal.[58] | As the three sources are not online, there is no clear evidence that any were described as "unusual". Await check of print copies or alternative source(s). Martinevans123 (talk) 14:35, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
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Thomas Otway | 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, with which he hastened to a baker's shop, purchased a roll, and choked to death on the first mouthful.[59][failed verification] | ||
Edward Teach | 22 November 1718 | The famous English pirate was shot five times and slashed ~20 times with swords by Robert Maynard and his men. He was still alive but died a day later on the 22nd.[60] | ||
Sarah Grosvenor | 14 September 1742 | The 19-year-old woman was getting an abortion from Dr. John Hallowell. However, on the 14th, she died from the complications of the surgery. Grosvenor was the first case of a surgical abortion.[61] | ||
John Day | 22 June 1774 | The English carpenter and wheelwright was the first human known to have died in an accident with a submarine. Day submerged himself in Plymouth Sound in a wooden diving chamber attached to a sloop named the Maria and never resurfaced.[62] | ||
Unknown concubine of King Tetui of Mangaia | 1777 | In approximately 1777, a concubine of King Tetui was killed by a falling coconut on the island Mangaia in the Cook Islands.[63][verification needed] | ||
Col. Francis Barber | 2 February 1783 | The 32-year-old colonel was killed when a tree fell on top of him as he was riding his horse to dine with George Washington[64][failed verification] in Newburgh, New York.[65] | ||
Col. John Stewart | March 1783 | A former Revolutionary War colonel and prisoner of war was killed in a similar manner to Barber. Stewart was riding home after a dinner with George Washington along with several other officers. Stewart's horse fell, throwing Stewart into a ditch and fatally dislocating his neck.[66] | ||
James Otis Jr. | 23 May 1783 | The 58-year-old son of famed lawyer James Otis was killed by a lightning strike in Andover, Massachusetts.[67][failed verification][68] |
19th century
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John Cummings | March 1809 | After seeing a circus 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.[69] | ||
William Huskisson | 15 September 1830 | The 60-year-old British statesman, financer, and MP was crushed to death by the Stephenson's Rocket after a failed attempt to put the locomotive in reverse.[70] | ||
Unknown man | 3 April 1838 | A horse keeper was killed when a blood horse bit him in the jugular vein.[71] | ||
Unknown slave | 16 August 1841 | A young slave of Pierre de Puerto was fishing in the bayou of New Orleans and fell asleep while the fish line was wrapped around his leg. The next day his body was found on shore, drowned, with the hook of the line in the mouth of a 6-foot (1.8 m) long alligator gar, which was also dead.[72] | ||
George Yugle | 16 March 1860 | A young charcoal burner sustained a serious hip injury while drunk. He repeatedly stated that he was going to die, which Mr. Schardin, the proprietor of a billiard saloon where Yugle was resting, said that it would be impossible for Yugle to do. In response, Yugle made a bet with Schardin, which Schardin accepted, that he would die in 15 minutes. Schardin and others returned to the room 40 minutes later and found Yugle dead.[73] | ||
John Sedgwick | 9 May 1864 | In the midst of battle, the Union officer said, "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance," before being shot and killed by a Confederate sniper.[10] | ||
Mary Ward | 31 August 1869 | The 42-year-old Irish scientist, naturalist, microscopist, author, and artist was killed by a steam-powered car built by William Parsons' sons. While Ward was riding in the car, it hit a bend, causing Ward to fall out of the car. One of the car's wheels ran over her and broke her neck. She is the first person known to have been killed by a motor vehicle.[74][75] | ||
Two Iranian maids | 1870 | In Iran, a wealthy woman's house was set ablaze while her cats were still inside. The woman sent two maids to retrieve her cats, who proceeded to kill the two maids.[76] | ||
Henry Taylor | 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".[76] | ||
James Alfred Dagwell | 9 July 1874 | While in a state of delirium tremens, the 23-year-old member of the Victorian Artillery Corps jumped out of a window and hit a lamp, falling 20 feet (6.1 m). The impact of the fall fractured his skull.[77] | ||
Unknown French man | Summer 1879 | Two Frenchmen made a bet that they would fast for a day, then drink 17 glasses of wine and walk from Pamplona to a village 6 miles (9.7 km) away. The younger man carried 16 pounds (7.3 kg) of dirt, one pound for each year by which he was younger than his friend. The older man died and his friend "escaped death only by the skin of his teeth".[76] | ||
Joseph Huebner | 1882 | The Austrian immigrant had been drinking whiskey, and accidentally drank a bottle of kerosene, after which he collapsed. The people who found him could not tell if he had died or just passed out; regardless, he was buried and is now said to haunt the house he collapsed in.[78] | ||
Louisa Cruikshank | July 1882 | The 18-year-old girl in Brooklyn committed suicide by ingesting Paris green paint, which is arsenic-based. Cruikshank "frequently expressed a wish to die" and ultimately bought the paint at a hardware shop, instead of buying arsenic at a pharmacy, which would have raised questions. The next day, Cruikshank was playing the piano when she fell ill because of the paint. Her last words were reportedly, "Mama I may as well tell you. I have taken Paris Green. I have done what I said I would do."[79] | This had two sources, but the first source was for a completely different person. NekoKatsun (nyaa) | |
Mrs. O'Reilly | 30 September 1883 | The 36-year-old servant from the West Clive Hotel in New Zealand was found on the side of a road by a boy carrying milk. It is said that O'Reilly had been walking in the middle of the night in the rain until she could not go on any longer and decided to wait for a man named Hall. O'Reilly died half an hour later.[80] | ||
Allan Pinkerton | 1 July 1884 | The founder of the Pinkerton Detective Agency tripped on the pavement and severely bit his tongue, which became infected with gangrene.[81] | ||
Julian Smith | 23 September 1887 | The patient at the Kew Asylum died after swallowing a silver dinner fork in February 1887. An autopsy revealed that the fork's handle was in Smith's stomach, with the prongs embedded in his liver; part of a needle was also in the body.[82] | ||
Andrew Westlake | 27 May 1890 | The wealthy rancher from Golden, Colorado, was riding in a buggy with his friend Nicholas Keating. Westlake's horse bucked the men into a ditch with the buggy on top of them after being frightened by a passing train. The train stopped, and its crew got Keating out of the ditch, but Westlake's head had been pinned under one of the buggy's wheels, and he drowned in 1 foot (0.30 m) of water.[83] | ||
Three members of the Building family | 21 April 1891 | The 6-person family was traveling from Tipton, Tennessee, to Texas. While camping in Boone County, Arkansas, the mother and 2 of the children died from drinking coffee made with water that had been contaminated with a large centipede. The father and 2 other children survived.[84] | There are multiple instances of people being lethally poisoned via centipede coffee; pretty sure I'll be able to find another source for this one. NekoKatsun (nyaa) | |
Walter Cowle | November 1893 | In Soho, London, Cowle made a bet with one of his friends that he could fit a whole billiard ball inside his mouth and close his lips around it. However, when he attempted to do so, Cowle choked on the ball. One of his friends tried to hang him upside down and slap him on the back to get it out, but without success. Cowle later died from suffocation.[85] | ||
Count Andrassy A. Bokros | 1 October 1893 | The Hungarian count was killed in Budapest when he was looking out of his window and fell into the street.[86] | ||
James Wilson | 23 January 1894 | The man in Bloemfontein, South Africa, died when he fell off his horse. He was buried in the same coffin that he had playfully tried out for size the day before.[87] | ||
George Howell | 7 September 1895 | A mechanic from Florida died in a hospital of starvation because he was unable to eat or drink due to an injury caused by a peach pit.[88] | ||
Dominick Abbanez | November 1895 | In Columbus, Ohio, an Italian painter called upon a physician named Dr. J. H. Kistler to examine his arm due to an unnatural growth that had appeared. Dr. Kistler claimed that it was most likely a cancerous tumor, although this could not be confirmed. Abbanez died of his mysterious illness soon afterward. The coroner found that the temperature of Abbanez' corpse was 109 °F (43 °C), and the body turned red soon after death. The coroner believed the cause of death to be uremia, but Abbanez' widow refused an autopsy for him.[89] | ||
Isaac Woods | 30 January 1896 | The 55-year-old well digger was working inside a 25-foot (7.6 m) deep well in Randolph County, Georgia, when a layer of dirt and sand spilled into the well, burying him alive.[90] | ||
Thad Jackson | 6 June 1896 | A 19-year-old man was plowing a field when he received a serious blow to his stomach from the plow's handles and died of internal injuries.[91] | ||
Louisa Maria Langridge | Spring 1898 | The wife of a horse-keeper died when she moved a bottle of ammonia which burned her face. The doctor who treated her, Dr. Edward Fish, claimed that the bottle exploded because of its close proximity to a hot fire. Langridge died of bronchitis due to inhaling the ammonia vapors.[92] | ||
Michael Schwab | 29 June 1898 | The German-American labor organizer and supporter of the Haymarket Square Incident died of starvation induced by tuberculosis in Chicago, Illinois.[93] | ||
Joseph Gril | 29 July 1899 | According to The Anaconda Standard, a saloon keeper named Joseph Gril was electrocuted by 102 volts of electricity and died in his bar in Anaconda, Montana.[94] | ||
Unknown Pennsylvania farmer | October 1899 | A unknown man fell from an apple tree and broke 2 of his ribs. A splinter pierced his heart, and he died.[95] |
20th century
1900–1959
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Adelbert S. Hay | 23 June 1901 | The 24-year-old American consul and politician died after falling 60 feet (18 m) 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.[96][failed verification] | Consensus at the moment seems to be that mysterious ≠ unusual, with only Rori1911 disagreeing. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 23:38, 9 October 2024 (UTC) | |
Mary Franks | 12 July 1902 | The woman died from suffocation caused by "matter from her tongue" which went into her throat after a tooth extraction.[97] | ||
Jessie Smith | August 1902 | The elderly woman in Te Aroha was found dead behind her house in a tank. She had come out of an asylum before her disappearance.[98] | ||
Moses Hoakimoa | May 1903 | Hoakimoa was beaten to death with a Bible during a healing ceremony gone wrong in Honolulu, Hawai'i.[99][failed verification][100][failed verification] 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;[101][failed verification] the Kahuna, surnamed Makaio, was sentenced to two years imprisonment for manslaughter.[102][failed verification][103][failed verification] | Article describes Makaio as "one of the most interesting prisoners" and his offense as "interesting". It seems clear from the context that by "interesting" the writer means "unusual" or "bizarre", but the writer does not actually use one of those words or a synonym thereof. Gildir (talk) 01:11, 5 October 2024 (UTC) | |
Romaine Romania | 26 May 1903 | The 45-year-old Belgian died in Norfolk, Virginia, after taking a large amount of calomel, eating several oranges, and drinking a considerable amount of beer. Her head swelled to twice its normal size.[104] | Could only find a copypaste of the current source in The Washington Times [1]; sources have to be independent in order to count for inclusion. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 23:38, 9 October 2024 (UTC) | |
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 42-year-old Canadian journalist walked through the wrong door in the store and fell 10 feet (3.0 m) down an elevator shaft. He died of his injuries 12 days later.[105] | ||
John Mortensen | 1 May 1904 | The 19-year-old duck hunter from Wairoa, New Zealand, drowned in about 6 inches (15 cm) of water on the Whare-o-Maraenui reserve in Napier, New Zealand, apparently having fallen while having a seizure.[106] | As with Romaine, found a mention in The Auckland Herald [2], but it's practically a carbon copy of the current source. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 23:38, 9 October 2024 (UTC) | |
Benjamin and Edwin Coshkey | 24 June 1904 | Two brothers picking cherries near Wabank, Lancaster Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, were electrocuted when they made contact with an exposed wire in the branches.[107] | ||
John Ericsen | 4 July 1904 | The 11-year-old boy from Butte, Montana, went missing on 4 July and was found dead 4 days later under a pile of coal in a bin near the North Pacific roundhouse.[108] | ||
Melissa M. Tiemann | 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.[109] | ||
Clarence Madison Dally | 2 October 1904 | The 39-year-old American glassblower died from radiation on his hands while using a handmade X-ray. Dally is the first person known to have died from X-ray exposure.[110][111] | ||
Jane Stanford | 28 February 1905 | The 76-year-old founder of Stanford University died mysteriously from strychnine poisoning. The case of her death was rumored as poisoning, but later changed into "natural causes," according to David Starr Jordan. Who or what killed Stanford is still a mystery.[112][failed verification] | Again, consensus is mysterious ≠ unusual. Rori1911 has a lot of convincing to do. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 23:38, 9 October 2024 (UTC) | |
Charles Persich | March 1905 | The baby from Sydney died from intussusception, meaning that his bowels had "telescoped".[113] | ||
Thomas Melia | 9 December 1905 | An employee of a brewery in Brooklyn died when he was caught in "an avalanche of shifting malt and barley and was suffocated."[114] | ||
L. R. Davis | 1906 | The 76-year-old inmate of the state insane asylum in Norfolk, Nebraska, was granted a parole. Upon seeing his grandson, who had come to take him home, "he was so filled with joy that he suddenly expired."[115] | ||
Dr. Arthur Calhoun Halbert | 15 August 1908 | While sitting inside a court house with several other people, a cable in the clock tower holding a 1,200-pound (540 kg) clock weight broke. The weight crashed through two floors before landing on Halbert, killing him instantly. No one else present was killed or seriously injured.[116] | One of the other gentlemen present received a small scratch, and that's all; the odds of that happening must be astronomical. NekoKatsun (nyaa) 18:03, 5 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Jane Hewitt | 1 September 1908 | The woman residing in South Melbourne was found dead on the floor in her nighttime attire, having been unconscious for several days. She died from erysipelas and blood loss caused by a wound to her temple.[117] | Once again, only reprints of the current source [3][4] contain the magic words. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 23:38, 9 October 2024 (UTC) | |
Thomas Selfridge | 17 September 1908 | Thomas Selfridge and Orville Wright were presenting the 1908 Wright Military Flyer to the US Army Signal Corps Division at Fort Myer. The plane made 41⁄2 rounds around the Fort before running into problems and crashing. Selfridge fractured his skull and died three hours later, becoming the first person to die in the crash of a powered aircraft.[118][119][120] | ||
James Gough or Goff | 18 October 1908 | Gough was found with a rope tied around his neck in a hotel room in Plattsburg, New York, which led to the belief that he had committed suicide. However, it was also discovered that he had been robbed of all of his money.[121] | ||
Peter A. Rees | 17 February 1909 | The former ice dealer in Philadelphia was found dead in his home. According to the newspaper, a woman was arrested and questioned, but later analysis of his body showed that he had died from "cirrhosis of the heart." Other accounts state that Rees was murdered.[122] | ||
Unknown servant girl | March 1909 | A young servant girl in Altendorf, near Cologne, Germany, died while writing a love letter. She "was overtaken by a fit, and fell with her head so heavily on the table that death ensued." The last words she had written were, "I shall adore thee to my last hour."[123] | ||
Benjamin S. Kradwell | 14 April 1910 | The 26-year-old drug store owner from Boscobel, Wisconsin (who lived in Racine at the time), died when he fell off a Chicago and North Western train heading for Mountain Home, Idaho, into a creek in Vail, Iowa, under mysterious circumstances.[124] | ||
Florence Hill Jelbert | 10 July 1910 | The 30-year-old woman in Ballarat was found dead at the residence of Chinese herbalist Yee Lee, also known as Peter Long. He was arrested as he was believed to have killed Jelbert. Analysis of her organs indicated that "an illegal operation had been performed on the girl."[125][126][failed verification] | ||
Patrick Dolan | 22 October 1910 | In Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, the labor unionist fell asleep, waiting for a train. He woke up as it was starting to leave the station. However, when he attempted to board the train, he fell under its wheels and was killed.[127][verification needed] | ||
George Vedder | 25 February 1911 | The man from Yonkers, New York, killed himself after hallucinating that his dead wife told him to do so. It is said that Vedder broke an "solemn oath" that he would be faithful to his wife. The man was found dead in the Fort Field Reservoir.[128] | ||
Unknown Swiss couple | November 1911 | A bridge at the Handegg Falls (near Meiringen, Switzerland) broke, causing a couple on it to fall 240 feet (73 m) into a whirlpool.[129] | Current source is from December 1912, but found exact reprints which date to July [5], February [6][7], and even November the previous year [8][9][10] (all of which say that it happened mere days ago) and changed the date accordingly. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 07:00, 11 October 2024 (UTC) | |
Morris Quinn and James Ferrera | 19 December 1911 | Two miners in Virginia City, Nevada, died when they were hit with a strong rush of wind from a cave-in 100 feet (30 m) away, which hurled the two men against shaft timbers.[130] | Reprint alert (headline's different but remaining text is the same): [11]. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 07:00, 11 October 2024 (UTC) | |
Ramón Fermin Artagaveytia Gomez | 15 April 1912 | 41 years after surviving the sinking of the steamship America and subsequently obtaining a fear of the ocean, the wealthy Argentinean died on the Titanic.[131] | ||
Leo Davis | 26 August 1912 | The harvest hand was holding the brake wheel of a passenger train when air was applied to it. The force of the wheel turning flung him off the train, over a fence, across a road, and through another fence. A blood vessel in his neck ruptured, and he bled to death.[132] | Currently only one source calling it "one of the most peculiarly fatal accidents". Reads like something out of a Final Destination book; I'm hopeful I can find another source. NekoKatsun (nyaa) 18:03, 5 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Mr. & Mrs. Emile Froment-Meurice | 25 April 1913 | The famed French goldsmith and his wife were killed when their house, in an aristocratic quarter of Paris, collapsed on them.[133] | ||
Mrs. Jim Thomason | 6 May 1913 | According to the Washington Telegraph, the wife of Jim Thomason died shortly after being stung by a bee in Columbus, Arkansas. The woman was directing her husband on hiving a swarm of bees when she was suddenly stung and fled into the house, where she fell unconscious and died three days later.[134] | ||
Peter T. Graham | 13 May 1913 | A farmer from Stanwood, Iowa, was killed while trying to fix a metal fence. A bolt of lightning struck the fence, electrocuting the man to death.[135] | ||
Romain Moll | 7 June 1913 | The San Joaquin County rancher fell head-first into a posthole 6 feet (1.8 m) deep and 2 feet (0.61 m) wide. Unable to get out, he eventually suffocated.[136] | The following, while not copies of the one provided, are clearly derivative of it, and therefore I don't think they should count for inclusion. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 07:00, 11 October 2024 (UTC) | |
A. A. Hudgin | 13 November 1913 | The 66-year-old rancher died of blood poisoning, which he contracted the previous month when both his eyeballs were slit open by corn leaves as he walked through a cornfield.[137] | I can only find one source calling this unusual (a "peculiar accident", specifically), but given the circumstances I'm hoping to find a second. NekoKatsun (nyaa) 18:03, 5 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Unknown woman | February 1914 | The middle-aged woman was found dead leaning over a copper with her "feet sprawled out in a curious manner" by a butchering establishment in North Sydney. The woman, who had been dead for 12 hours, had apparently choked while vomiting.[138] | ||
Julian Carlton | 7 October 1914 | The servant to American architect Frank Lloyd Wright committed a mass murder spree on 15 August 1914, at Wright's 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 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.[139][140][failed verification] | ||
Benjamin F. Steward | 30 May 1915 | The 45-year-old stock buyer attempted to throw part of a horse carcass over a railing into the Iowa River. Part of it caught on him, and he was pulled over as well.[141] | ||
George William Edwards | 30 June 1915 | The fuelman in Junee, New South Wales, was killed by opening a truck door that struck him in the forehead. His body was found under a tub.[142] | ||
George Feas | 8 August 1915 | The 15-year-old went to the Sand Island in the Delaware River in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, to bathe and was struck by a bolt of lightning.[143] | ||
Rose Talbot Bullard | 22 December 1915 | The 51-year-old physician and medical school professor from Birmingham, Iowa, unknowingly died from blood poisoning after complications from a failed dental infection cure.[144][failed verification][145] | ||
Martin Fisher | 4 February 1916 | The farmer from Moran Township, Minnesota, was butchering a hog in a shed when the blade slipped and Fisher stabbed his leg, severing an artery. He died shortly thereafter.[146] | ||
William or Martin McClelland | 25 February 1916 | The swagman from Queensland died from inflamed bowels brought on by eating wheat. His cause of death was later identified as a case of acute diarrhea.[147] | ||
William John Wallace | 4 February 1917 | The fisherman was talking to two men, leaning on a clothesline. The line split and Wallace fell on his back, dislocating his neck.[148] | ||
Rev. Walter Rue Murray | 22 July 1918 | The YMCA worker from East Orange, New Jersey, was killed while volunteering in Château-Thierry when two artillery shells exploded simultaneously on either side of him, concussing him.[149] | Additional details sourced from here (none of which call the death unusual): [12][13][14][15][16] ZionniThePeruser (talk) 07:00, 11 October 2024 (UTC) | |
Sewall Willis Rodgers | 1 August 1918 | The cadet from Brookline, Massachusetts, was riding his motorcycle at Chanute Field in Illinois and was killed when he was hit by an airplane flown by Lieutenant Symnesttebedt.[150] | ||
Pvt. Joseph Mantach | 5 or 6 October 1918 | The 28-year-old soldier from Kenosha, Wisconsin, drowned in Rock River by Camp Grant. He had been critically ill with Spanish flu and had escaped from the hospital in delirium.[151] | ||
Arthur Thomas Hunter | 12 December 1918 | The soldier was found dead with his head stuck through a wooden fire escape and his neck dislocated.[152] | ||
Capt. P. H. Shaffer | 3 October 1919 | The commander of The Salvation Army in Kearney, Nebraska, was killed by a Union Pacific Railroad train. He left his wife and another woman in his car to search for gasoline and was killed by a train. His wife, however, did not attempt to search for him due to her fear of African-American railroad workers.[153] | ||
George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon | 5 April 1923 | The 56-year-old 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.[154][155][failed verification] | ||
Calvin Coolidge Jr. | 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 quickly became infected, and he died just over one week later when sepsis set in.[156][failed verification] | ||
Carl Albright | 22 December 1924 | The construction-company timekeeper was found burned to death with his neck broken between Plattsmouth, Nebraska, and Omaha, Nebraska, near his burned-out car, from which pieces including the tires, radiator and carburetor had been removed. His time of death was estimated to be 8:20 PM according to his watch. The police initially theorized that thieves had broken into his car and set it on fire to make it look like an accident, but a physician who examined the body believed that Albright had been refueling his car when an explosion set it and Albright on fire. Further investigation suggested that the stolen pieces of the car were removed after the fire.[157][self-published source?] | ||
Cora Stallman | 1 August 1925 | The 45-year-old former schoolteacher, found partially submerged in a cistern on her sister's farm in Humboldt Township, Coles County, Illinois, died from "unknown causes", according to a jury in her court case. It is said she may have committed suicide, been killed by a strange man, or died of fright.[158] Before her death, many threatening letters were sent, possibly by members of the Ku Klux Klan.[159][failed verification] | ||
Gladys Brockwell | 2 July 1929 | The 34-year-old film actress died from peritonitis and internal injuries reportedly from an automobile accident in Calabasas, California. While Thomas Stanley Brennan, a friend of Brockwell, was driving the automobile, it went over a 75-foot (23 m) embankment where she was crushed beneath it. She underwent four blood transfusions until peritonitis set in.[160][verification needed] | ||
Alfred Green | July 1931 | The 17-year-old died of convulsions while being tickled "during a friendly wrestling match."[161] | ||
Peg Entwistle | 16 September 1932 | The 24-year-old film actress committed suicide by jumping off the letter "H" of the Hollywoodland Sign. The following day, a letter arrived for Entwistle offering her a role in a movie about a woman on the verge of suicide.[162] | ||
Rheta Gardner Wynekoop | 21 November 1933 | The 23-year-old was found in the basement surgery of her mother-in-law, Dr. Alice Wynekoop. She had been chloroformed, undressed, and shot in the back.[163] | ||
Grace Weatherstone | 15 December 1933 | The wife of Mr. Roy Weatherstone from Mayfield Garden was found dead in the water wearing male attire. The cause of her death was found to be falling off some rocks which fractured her skull as she fell into the water.[164] | ||
Mary Emma Busch James | 2 May 1936 | The wife of the Los Angeles barber Robert James died from drowning in a fishing pond after being bound and thrust into a den of rattlesnakes. The Los Angeles Police Department later arrested a 38-year-old night manager of a nearby night club, who said that he was the one who bought the snakes from a Pasadena farm and took them to James's La Crescenta home.[165][verification needed] | ||
Lena and Kathaline Morris | July 1937 | The sisters, 6 and 10 years old, were killed by a dirt track motorcycle when the rider, Australian motorcyclist Andy Menzies, was dislodged and the now-riderless motorcycle "careered" 150 yards (140 m) towards them. The sisters saw it and went indoors, but the motorcycle went through the door, striking them and ultimately crashing in a fireplace. Daphne Morris, 11 years old, was injured in the accident.[166][167] | Second source does not describe deaths as unusual. Also I'm fairly sure the article writer meant "careened", but hey, maybe "careered" was more common in 1937. | |
Vivian Hensley | 10 July 1938 | The 42-year-old dentist died after accidentally swallowing a razor blade for a "sleight-of-hand" trick.[168] | Could only find a reprint in The Advertiser [17] ZionniThePeruser (talk) 07:38, 15 October 2024 (UTC) | |
Mildred Roth | 21 May 1945 | The 23-year-old from North Braddock, Pennsylvania, died after locking herself inside a cedar chest while attempting to prank her sister. An autopsy later found that she died from suffocation.[169][verification needed] | ||
Mary Edith Sutton | 30 October 1949 | The 11-year-old girl from Indianapolis, Indiana, suffered burns to her legs and lower body after a jar of flaming gasoline was tossed from a stalled car in front of the girl while she was roller-skating back to her home. She was taken to a nearby hospital where she died from her injuries a few hours later.[170][verification needed] | ||
Joseph L. Rauchut | 30 November 1957 | The 32-year-old patrolman of the New York City Police Department died during a traffic stop on the Queens side of the Kosciuszko Bridge when a truck struck his parked patrol car, which struck and killed him.[171][172][failed verification] |
1960s
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1970s
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1980s
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Vladimir Chelomey | 8 December 1984 | The 70-year-old Soviet engineer and missile designer was closing the garage door at his dacha when his Mercedes slipped into gear and crushed his leg. The injury did not seem life-threatening, but Chelomey died in the hospital of a massive thrombosis while on the phone with his wife.[173] |
1990s
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2000s
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Bliss Scott | 4 June 2000 | The 7-year-old died after touching an 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.[174] | ||
Gilbert Tinoso | 22 December 2001 | The 38-year-old died in Burbank, California, after the spare wheel from an oncoming 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.[175][176] | Second source is a database entry which says nothing about the death being unusual. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 07:11, 20 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Virginia Graeme Baker | June 2002 | The 7-year-old was entrapped underwater due to the suction from a hot tub drain and drowned.[177] | There is only one source provided, which doesn't even refer to the death as unusual. In fact, one source I found stated there were 94 similar incidents throughout the 2000s. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 07:11, 20 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Kyle McGarity | 14 December 2002 | After a drunken scuffle, the 25-year-old fell about 15 feet (4.6 m) 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.[178] | ||
Phillip Quinn | 28 November 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.[179][180] | Most contemporary news sources say something to the effect of "it's unknown why Quinn was heating up a lava lamp in the first place..." but I'm unsure on whether that's enough for inclusion. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 06:38, 22 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Mildred Bowman and Alice Wardle | 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.[181] | Only source provided doesn't call their deaths unusual, only easily preventable. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 08:15, 21 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Lydia Tsekova | 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.[182][183][verification needed] | ||
Unknown male | 3 March 2009 | A 14-year-old boy from Jiaozhou, Shandong, China, was killed when the pneumatic cylinder in his office chair exploded.[184] | All English sources I've found don't call the death unusual, and all Chinese sources are either from unreliable government media or are copy-pasted from the source already provided. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 06:38, 22 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Diane Durre | 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.[185] | ||
Tony Leigh | 13 October 2009 | On October 7, 2009, the 47-year-old British gym owner and security guard was weightlifting at a gym in Tilbury when a barbell slipped and fell on his face. Leigh died in hospital 6 days later.[186] |
2010s
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Elizabeth Nass and Rose Mayr | 21 August 2012 | The 19-year-olds died after more than 20 coal cars (out of 90) from a CSX Transportation 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 National Transportation Safety Board.[187] | ||
Ilda Vitor Maciel | 28 September 2012 | The 88-year-old died in a hospital in Barra Mansa, Rio de Janeiro, allegedly as a result of nursing technicians injecting soup through her intravenous drip instead of her feeding tube.[188] | ||
Palmerina Pires Ribeiro | 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.[189] | ||
Takuya Nagaya | 18 January 2013 | The 23-year-old from Okazaki, Aichi, 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".[190] | ||
Jeffery Bush | 28 February 2013 | The 37-year-old from the Tampa, Florida, area was killed while he slept when a giant sinkhole measuring 15 feet (4.6 m) wide and 20 feet (6.1 m) deep opened below and swallowed his entire bedroom. His body was never recovered.[191][192] | Neither source refers to his death as unusual. Heck, The Guardian states that over 500 sinkholes had been reported in the county since 1954. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 23:39, 17 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Roger Mirro | 30 July 2013 | The 56-year-old man in Chicago was crushed by a trash compactor while looking through a dumpster for his phone.[193][194] | Neither source refers to his death as unusual. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 23:39, 17 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Peng Fan | August 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.[195][196] | Per WP:NYPOST, the New York Post ain't reliable, which leaves us with one source calling it unusual from the Daily Mirror, which itself is WP:MREL. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 23:39, 17 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Heval Yıldırım | 3 October 2014 | The 13-year-old from Turkey was killed when a 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.[197] | ||
Peter Biaksangzuala | 19 October 2014 | The 23-year-old Indian football player from Mizoram state died after sustaining spinal cord injuries while awkwardly landing a somersault, celebrating a goal.[198][199] | First source does not refer to his death as unusual. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 23:39, 17 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Stephen Whinfrey | 1 January 2015 | The 50-year-old became trapped and asphyxiated when rabbiting near Doncaster, England, after his head became stuck down a rabbit hole.[200] | ||
Jaylon Rippy | 2 July 2015 | The 5-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 facial reconstruction surgery.[201] | ||
Steven Baker | 25 October 2016 | The 56-year-old British brand manager died when a 100-kilogram (220 lb) bench press machine fell on him in his garage in Leicester, England, compressing his neck and causing a fatal heart attack.[202] | ||
Heidi Fay Taylor | 6 April 2017 | The 40-year-old mother was stabbed and shot to death by her 14-year-old adoptive son Donovan Austin Nicholas,[203] who claimed that he was influenced by Jeff the Killer, saying, "It was Jeff. Jeff is inside me."[204][205] | Only one source refers to her death as unusual. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 23:39, 17 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Jasmine Beever | 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.[206] | ||
Samen Kondorura | 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 pallbearers 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.[207] | ||
Daniel S. | October 2018 | A 32-year-old from Morelia, Mexico, died after his microwave exploded while he was making popcorn in it.[208][209] | Neither source refers to his death as unusual. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 23:39, 17 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Elena Struthers-Gardner | 22 November 2018 | The 60-year-old from Broadstone, Dorset, England, was carrying a mason jar-style drinking glass when she collapsed. Its 10-inch (250 mm) stainless steel straw entered her left eye socket and pierced her brain.[210][211][212] | None of the sources provided refer to her death as unusual. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 23:39, 17 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Zafer Kuzu | 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 with a shotgun through two pillows to reduce the shot's power. He was killed and the friend arrested.[213] | Not only is there only one source, said source is Daily Sabah, which is generally unreliable per WP:DAILYSABAH. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 23:39, 17 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Samuela Cirivakayawa | 8 September 2019 | The 40-year-old Fijian emigrant to Australia was killed while working as an arborist at 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.[214] Although Cirivakayawa's ex-wife in Fiji later suggested the incident may have been a complication of depression,[215] the coronial report was never released to the public. | Neither source refers to his death as unusual. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 23:39, 17 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Pamela Kreimeyer | 27 October 2019 | The 56-year-old from Marion County, Iowa, was killed during an explosion at a gender reveal party. Members of her family filled a steel umbrella stand with gunpowder, intended to emit a shower of sparks. However, 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.[216] |
2020s
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Sergio Millán | 14 January 2020 | The 59-year-old was alone in his apartment in Torreforta, Tarragona, Spain, when an explosion in a petrochemical plant 3 kilometres (2 mi) away launched a one-ton iron plate into the apartment above him, causing the ceiling to collapse, killing him.[217] | ||
Valentin Didenko, Natalia Monakova and Yuri Alferov | 28 February 2020 | The trio died while celebrating Didenko's wife's birthday in Moscow. During the party, a guest dumped 25 kilograms (55 lb) 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.[218] The three deaths came as a result of asphyxia due to lack of oxygen. This was all captured on video.[219][220] | Sources do not appear to describe this as unusual. Aoidh (talk) 17:53, 8 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Salman Mirza | June 2021 | The resident of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, died after using 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 failure after being hospitalised.[221][222] | One calls it bizarre, the other does not. - Aoidh (talk) 17:53, 8 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Tony Eyles | 9 September 2021 | The 42-year-old died at a McDonald's drive-through in Vancouver, British Columbia, 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.[223][224] | ||
Laila Zahrul Maisaroh | 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.[225][226] | Neither source calls this death unusual, and I haven't found any others which do so far (except for the occasional Wikipedia mirror). ZionniThePeruser (talk) 04:12, 14 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Unknown man | 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. He lost control and crashed into a parked car. The car's airbag propelled the knife into his neck, fatally injuring him.[227] | ||
Phen Channy | 3 April 2022 | The 27-year-old was killed during a workout outside his home in Phnom Penh when a weightlifting bar fell on his neck.[228] | ||
Dolores Olive Boschert | 22 May 2022 | The 23-year-old paramedic was exercising alone on a Smith machine at a Planet Fitness gymnasium in St. Charles, Missouri, when she was pinned by a barbell due to unknown circumstances. Another patron found her 30 minutes later and she was pronounced dead at the scene.[229] | ||
Maya Murmu | 20 June 2022 | The 68-year-old woman was trampled by an elephant in Odisha, India. Later, at her funeral, the same elephant came back and attacked her corpse by picking up her body and throwing her in the air.[230] | ||
Klil Kimhi | 21 July 2022 | The 32-year-old fell to his death when a sinkhole opened under a swimming pool he was in at a house party in Israel.[231][232] | Only one of the sources describes this as unusual, and it's a quote from a paramedic. - Aoidh (talk) 01:51, 9 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Muthukumar | 2 August 2022 | A 54-year-old man in Tamil Nadu, India, died 4 days after falling into a pot of freshly-prepared porridge that was still boiling, suffering 65% burn injuries in the process. The man had lost his balance and leaned against the pot, toppling backwards into it. His wife claimed he suffered from epilepsy which may have triggered the fall.[233][234] | New York Post is not reliable per WP:NYPOST, and the India Today article does not describe it as unusual. - Aoidh (talk) 01:51, 9 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Unknown man | 7 August 2022 | A 65-year-old man was hit in the head by a 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.[235] | ||
Leandro Mathias de Novaes | 6 February 2023 | The 40-year-old activist for the right to keep and bear arms in Brazil was assisting his mother in the 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.[236][237] | New York Post is not reliable per WP:NYPOST, and the second reference does not describe it as unusual. - Aoidh (talk) 01:51, 9 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Shivdayal Sharma | 19 April 2023 | The 82-year-old was urinating next to a train track in the region of Alwar, India, when a cow was hit by the Vande Bharat express train. The animal was launched 100 feet (30 m) into the air before landing on Sharma, killing him instantly.[238] | ||
Lynn Ann Fleming | 16 May 2023 | The 68-year-old was a passenger in the front seat of a car travelling on the I-75 in Whitfield County, Georgia, U.S., when a cargo winch bar came through the windshield and impaled her. She died at the scene.[239] | ||
Unknown boy | 26 June 2023 | An 11-year-old boy was killed in Wayne County, Ohio, in a freak accident while riding in a side-by-side, after a dog who was riding in the SSV with him jumped onto the vehicle's accelerator pedal, causing it to accelerate, veer off the road and fly over the edge of an embankment. The boy died at the scene of the accident, while his 12-year-old brother, who was also in the SSV, sustained minor injuries and was admitted to hospital. The driver of the vehicle, an 18-year-old family friend, also survived.[240] | ||
Giacomo Chiapparini | 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 40 kilograms (88 lb).[241] His body was recovered from the wreckage after 12 hours.[242][243] | While The Telegraph describes it as a freak accident, the BBC does not appear to call it unusual. - Aoidh (talk) 01:51, 9 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Dorothy Louise Downey | 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 48 ft (15 m) into a hidden well shaft. She was extricated by rescue services, but died from her injuries.[244][245] | Only one source calls it unusual ("freak fall"). - Aoidh (talk) 01:51, 9 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Yogish | 25 March 2024 | The 24-year-old Bengaluru man died due to a burst colon after his friend blew air into his rectum with an electric high-pressure blow-dryer used for vehicles. The friend was playfully blowing air at him, and when he turned to shield his face, the force of the air was such that it entered his rectum and severely damaged his colon.[246] | ||
Unknown male tourist | 13 April 2024 | A 30-year-old tourist was killed in a freak accident at a church in El Pinell de Brai, Tarragona, Spain, during the festival of Santa Magdalena. The tourist, part of a group from Terra Alta, Catalonia, had climbed the church's tower during the celebrations and was killed instantly when the church bell, which was ringing at the time of the accident, swung forward and hit him.[247][248] | While it's two separate references, they are the same exact article written by the same journalist; the Yahoo! News reference is a reprint of the article in The Standard. - Aoidh (talk) 01:51, 9 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Lucy Morgan | 5 June 2024 | The 6-year-old girl was with her family on vacation in Limerick, Maine, on 1 June when, whilst playing badminton with her family, her brother's aluminum racket shaft broke and pierced her in the skull. She was taken to the hospital where she died from her injuries four days later.[249] | ||
Tony Knight | 7 June 2024 | The 54-year-old British comedian died after he was struck by a large tree branch while attending the Rock&Cars festival in Lavaur, Tarn, France.[250][251] | Both sources are quoting the same source, the family's GoFundMe page. A tree branch falling and causing a fatality is not uncommon or unusual. - Aoidh (talk) 01:51, 9 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Andrew Pontious | 14 June 2024 | The 53-year-old Los Angeles County firefighter was killed while spraying water on a burning construction vehicle when one of the vehicle's tires exploded.[252] | ||
Unknown woman | 18 June 2024 | A 22-year-old woman using a treadmill at a gym in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, died after she stumbled off the end of the treadmill and fell through the window behind her, falling three stories to her death.[253] The local police commissioner reported that the gym's safety standards were insufficient, as the glass was not thick enough, while the treadmills were placed too close to the window.[254] | ||
Margherita Lega | 4 July 2024 | The 41-year-old woman from Trentino, Italy, was killed in a freak accident in Calasca-Castiglione, Piedmont, when she was caught by the cables of a cargo cable car and dragged over the edge of a cliff overlooking the Anzasca Valley. After holding on for a few moments, Lega lost her grip and fell 492 feet (150 m) to her death in front of her family, who were visiting the area with her.[255] | ||
Ayres Sasaki | 13 July 2024 | The 35-year-old rock singer from Brazil was electrocuted while performing at a hotel in the city of Salinópolis, Pará. Those watching the performance said that a person hugged him with wet clothes. At the time the contact occurred, he received an electric shock and died before being rescued.[256] | ||
Maga | 15 August 2024 | The 74-year-old woman from Palopo, South Sulawesi, was constricted to death by a 4.5-metre (15 ft) long reticulated python. The python regurgitated her body after being unable to fully swallow her.[257][258] | The CNN source does not mention it being unusual, and the CBS source says the opposite, giving examples of other similar deaths in the past few months alone - Aoidh (talk) 01:51, 9 September 2024 (UTC) |
Animal deaths
Name of person/s | Image | Date | Details | Notes |
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Three cows, three sheep, two sows | 1662 | Cotton Mather writes how one William Potter was hanged for bestiality, as were the animals involved.[259][260] | Cracked isn't reliable per WP:RSP and second source refers to Cotton Mather's account of the case as rare, not the case itself. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 07:32, 23 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Dog | 1677 | Mary Hicks, a married working-class woman, was brought before the Central Criminal Court of London on the charge of having sex with her dog. When the dog was brought into the court he started "wagging his tail, and making motions as it were to kiss her", which the court took as evidence the charges were true. Mary was subsequently forced to watch the dog be hanged before she was executed herself.[261] | Srinivasin's article doesn't refer to the dog's death, nor any death, as unusual. I've only found two other sources which even mention the death so far (one being a primary [18] and other being some activist blog [19]), and neither of them do so as well. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 07:32, 23 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Female goat | 1758 | John Blake, a Royal Marine, was convicted of "buggery upon the body of a she-goat" and both were sentenced to death. Blake, however, was pardoned on grounds of being "next to an idiot". Only the goat was put to death.[261][262] | Can't verify whether Boys of Sea calls the death unusual. Found scant mentions in reviews for Loving Animals, a book by Joanna Bourke, but no dice regarding its strangeness. Perhaps in the book itself? ZionniThePeruser (talk) 07:32, 23 September 2024 (UTC) | |
12+ cows and 1 horse | November 1892 | In Ohio, a killer nicknamed Jack the Cow Slasher killed a dozen or more cows and one horse, taking meat from most of them.[263] | ||
Cow | January 1932 | The Townsville Daily Bulletin, an Australian newspaper, reported an incident where a dairy cow was partially blown up and killed on a farm at Kennedy Creek (near 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.[264] | ||
Hilda the elephant | 8 September 1938 | Hilda, a 7-year-old 2,500-pound (1,100 kg) female Asian elephant, was butted into a 25-foot (7.6 m) deep moat surrounding the elephant enclosure by her 3,600-pound (1,600 kg) mate, Bill. She survived the fall and was derricked out, but x-rays showed that her back had been broken, and she was euthanized.[265] | Managed to find two contemporary sources regarding Hilda [20][21], but they don't call her death unusual. In fact, I found a 1949 source which states it was fairly par-for-the-course [22]. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 07:32, 23 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Cow | 22 May 1957 | In New Mexico, approximately 4.5 mi (7.2 km) south of Kirtland Air Force Base, a grazing cow was killed by a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb accidentally jettisoned from a USAF 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 12 ft (3.7 m) deep and 25 ft (7.6 m) wide.[266][267] | First source calls the cow unlucky; unlucky ≠ unusual. Second source (and all other sources from the time which I've found) mention the cow's death in passing. ZionniThePeruser (talk) 07:32, 23 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Purzel, Amema and Rosi (hippopotami) | 14-15 July 1984 | Three 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 °C / 150 °F) into their pool. The water generated steam that interfered with their breathing, and the hippos (28-year-old Purzel, 27-year-old Amema and their offspring, 1-year-old Rosi) died of shock.[268] | Provided source, alongside all the English sources I've dug up, don't have the u-word or any of its synonyms. Haven't looked at German sources yet, though... ZionniThePeruser (talk) 07:32, 23 September 2024 (UTC) | |
Bird | 24 January 2002 | During a Tennis doubles match at the 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.[269][270] | ||
Pigeon | 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 pigeon in flight across the ground.[271][272] |
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On May 23 of that year, he stood in the doorway of the home at which he was staying and a bolt of lightning took him. Family and friends, shocked by the event, recalled that that was how he wished to go.
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It is impossible to figure to one's self any event which could produce a greater sensation or be more striking to the imagination than this, happening at such a time and under such circumstances: the eminence of the man, the sudden conversion of a scene of gaiety and splendour into one of horror and dismay; the countless multitudes present, and the effect upon them-crushed to death in sight of his wife and at the feet (as it was) of his great political rival-all calculated to produce a deep and awful impression.
- ^ "Strange Death". The Phenix. Bristol, Rhode Island. 1838-04-21. Page 1, column 1. Retrieved 2024-08-31 – via Chronicling America.
- ^ "Strange death". Litchfield Enquirer. Litchfield, Connecticut. 1841-12-02. Page 2, column 5. Retrieved 2024-08-31 – via Chronicling America.
A negro boy belonging to Pierre de Puerto, in Colcasine, come [sic] to his death on the 16th Aug., in a very strange manner.
- ^ "A Strange Death". The Hydraulic Press. North San Juan, Nevada County, California. 1860-03-24. Page 3, column 1. Retrieved 2024-08-21 – via Chronicling America.
A young man named George Yugle, a charcoal burner and much addicted to drunkenness, died in this place last Friday night, the 16th inst., under peculiar circumstances.
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In addition to the first traffic fatality, that might make Mary Ward the first bizarre car death on record.
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The orderly in charge of the deceased and three other patients, between 2 and 3 o'clock on Thursday morning, took the deceased at his own request into the passage, where the night stool was, and went to get a light to light the gas.
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Huebner, said to be a bit of a drinker, died an unusual death in 1882.
- ^ "Strange and Unusual Deaths in the 19th Century". C.A. Asbrey. 2018-06-04. Retrieved 2024-08-01.
Death by Paris Green was one of the stranger causes of death in the 19th century.
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A shocking death is reported from West Clive, six miles from here. Early on Sunday morning a boy going out with milk found a woman lying in a ditch at the side of the road.
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Andrew Westlake, a wealthy ranchman, met death in an unusual manner this morning.
- ^ "Mother and Children Poisoned". St Paul Daily Globe. 1891-04-22. Retrieved 2024-08-14 – via Chronicling America.
Particulars of a shocking poisoning were received here to-day.
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An unusual case of accidental death from suffocation during an attempt to 'swallow' a pool cue ball is presented.
- ^ "High Officer's Strange Death". St. Paul Daily Globe. Vol. XV, no. 275. Saint Paul, Minnesota. 1893-10-02. Page 1, column 7. Retrieved 2024-09-02 – via Chronicling America.
A sensation was caused here today by the strange death of the vice president of the lower house of the Hungarian diet, Count Andrassy A. Bokros.
- ^ "STRANGE FATALITY". Grahamstown Journal. 1894-01-25. Retrieved 2024-08-27 – via eGGSA Library.
- ^ "A Peculiar Death. A Former Arizonian Starved to Death. A Peach Stone Lodges in His Throat and He Is Unable to Swallow Food". The Arizona Republican. Phoenix, Arizona. AP. 1895-09-08. Page 4, column 3. Retrieved 2024-08-06 – via Chronicling America.
- ^ "Strange Death of an Italian". Phillipsburg Herald. Phillipsburg, Kansas. 1895-11-14. Page 3, column 1. Retrieved 2024-08-21 – via Chronicling America.
There is much excitement in Italian circles here over the strange death of a son of sunny Italy... Director of Safety Williams declined to allow an autopsy, in view of the objections of Mrs. Abbanez, and the real cause of the death is a mystery.
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News reached the city Friday of a very sudden and unusual death over in the Fourth district of Randolph county.
- ^ "A Strange Death". Birmingham State Herald. Birmingham, Alabama. 1896-06-14. Part One, Page 3, column 4. ISSN 2692-4250. Retrieved 2024-08-31 – via Chronicling America.
A strange but fatal accident happened on Maj. H. A. McLane's plantation (the old Will Copeland place) last Thursday.
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- ^ "A Bad Man Is Dead. Passing of Michael Schwab, Anarchist. Died a Painful and Unusual Death—Noted Ex-Anarchist Dies of Starvation, Due to Consumption—The Haymarket Murders Recalled". The Wray Weekly Times. Vol. 1, no. 6. 1898-07-30. Page 2, column 4. Retrieved 2024-08-17 – via Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection.
- ^ "A Most Unusual Death – Investigation of the Death of Joseph Gril – Shock Was a Light One – Any Healthy Man Should Have Been Able to Have Taken It Without Fatal Results — A Low Voltage Current On". The Anaconda Standard (Morning ed.). Anaconda, Montana. 1899-08-01. Page 7, column 2. Retrieved 2024-07-21 – via Chronicling America.
- ^ "An Unusual Death". The Manning Times. Manning, Clarendon County, South Carolina. 1899-10-25. Page 4, column 4. Retrieved 2024-08-20 – via Chronicling America.
A Pennsylvania farmer died in an unusual manner the other day.
- ^ "Adelbert S. Hay's Death Casts Gloom Over Yale — Secretary of State Collapses When He Reaches the Side of His Dead Son". The San Francisco Call. Vol. 87, no. 24. 1901-06-23. Page 2, columns 3-4. Retrieved 2024-07-16 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
Here the mystery becomes intangible.
- ^ "A WOMAN'S STRANGE DEATH". The Bairnsdale Advertiser and Tambo and Omeo Chronicle. Victoria, Australia. 1902-07-15. Page 2, column 6. Retrieved 2024-08-24 – via Trove.
An inquest was held to-day touching the death of Mary Franks, a married woman who died suddenly at a private hospital on Saturday after having a tooth extracted.
- ^ "A STRANGE DEATH". The Northern Advocate. Press Association. 1902-09-01. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-08-28 – via Papers Past.
- ^ "Tué a Coups de Bible" [Killed With a Bible.]. Le Petit Parisien. 28 May 1903. Archived from the original on 24 May 2016. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
- ^ "Beaten to Death with a Bible: A Kahuna in Puna Tries to Cast Out Devils with a Fatal Result". The Hawaiian Star. Vol. XI, no. 3469. 1903-05-02. Page 1, column 4. ISSN 2165-915X. Retrieved 2024-10-07 – via Chronicling America.
- ^ "Bible to Drive Out Devils. Hawaiian Sorcerer Beat Patient Over the Head With It and Victim Died". The Sun. 1903-05-14. Page 12, column 1. Retrieved 2019-01-13 – via Chronicling America.
- ^ "Two Years for Kahuna: Witch Doctor Who Killed Red Devils". The Hawaiian Gazette. 1903-07-21. Page 6, column 2. ISSN 2157-1392. Retrieved 2024-10-07 – via Chronicling America.
- ^ "Deadly Bible Wielder Free: Famous Kahuna of Puna Completed His Sentence of Two Years Today". The Hawaiian Star. Vol. XIII, no. 4094. 1905-05-05. Page 1, column 6. ISSN 2165-915X. Retrieved 2024-10-07 – via Chronicling America.
- ^ "CALOMEL KILLED ROMANIA — Negro Electrocuted On Norfolk Bridge—A Girl Suicide". The Baltimore Sun. 1903-05-27. Page 8, column 6. Retrieved 2024-08-28 – via Newspapers.com.
Romaine Romania, died today at St. Vincent's Hospital under peculiar circumstances.
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The circumstances of his death were somewhat bizarre.
- ^ "Drowned While in a Fit". Colonist. Vol. XLVI, no. 11015. 1904-05-02. p. 4. Retrieved 2022-03-24 – via Papers Past.
A fatality of a very peculiar nature occurred early this morning.
- ^ "BROTHERS ELECTROCUTED — Strange Death of Two Men While Picking Cherries". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 271. 1904-06-26. Page 3, column 1. Retrieved 2024-08-28 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- ^ "Crushed Under Tons of Coal". The Minneapolis Journal. Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1904-07-08. Page 5, column 6. Retrieved 2024-08-07 – via Chronicling America.
John Ericsen, the 11-year-old son of a sectionman in the employ of the Northern Pacific, who has been missing since the Fourth of July, met with a tragic and unusual death, his crushed and mangled body being found today beneath a mass of coal in a bin near the Northern Pacific roundhouse.
- ^ "Aged Los Angeles Woman Killed in Strange Way – Falls From Street Car and Teeth of Heavy Comb Are Driven Into Skull". San Francisco Call. Vol. XCVI, no. 38. 1904-07-08. Page 7, column 5. Retrieved 2023-01-23 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
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Clarence Dally (1865–1904) is thought to be the first to die as [a] result of X-ray exposure.
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By 1902, Dally had practically exhausted all orthodox modes of treatment for burns of the skin; they seemed of no avail in this strange affection [sic], never before seen and almost sinister in its persistent progress.
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- ^ "Strange Death of a Baby". Stockton Evening and Sunday Record. Stockton, California. 1905-03-11. Page 1, column 6. Retrieved 2024-08-24 – via Newspapers.com.
That affliction is somewhat unusual.
- ^ "Killed by Avalanche of Malt". The Bennington Evening Banner. Bennington, Vermont. 1905-12-09. Page 6, column 3. Retrieved 2024-08-30 – via Chronicling America.
Thomas Melia, employed in a Brooklyn brewery, met an unusual death when he was caught beneath an avalanche of shifting malt and barley and was suffocated.
- ^ "Dies of Joy When Released". The Commoner. Lincoln, Nebraska. 1906-03-09. Page 12, column 4. Retrieved 2024-08-02 – via Chronicling America.
A most remarkable and unusual death took place at the state insane asylum in Norfolk.
- ^ "Weight Falls, Kills Doctor". The Mongomery Advertiser. 1908-08-16. Retrieved 2024-09-04 – via Chronicling America.
Unusual accident causes a death.
- ^ "WOMAN'S STRANGE DEATH. UNCONSCIOUS FOR SEVERAL DAYS". The Age. Melbourne. 1908-09-08. Page 6, column 4. Retrieved 2024-08-28 – via Trove.
The death of a woman named Jane Hewitt, who resided at 130 Park-street, South Melbourne, in remarkable circumstances, has been reported to the Coroner.
- ^ "Fatal Fall of Wright Airship; Lieut. Selfridge Killed and Orville Wright Hurt by Breaking of Propeller. Machine a Total Wreck. Increased Length of New Blade and Added Weight of a Passenger Probable Causes. Cavalry Ride Down Crowd Rumor That the Machine Had Been Tampered with Denied by Army Officers—Not Well Guarded" (PDF). The New York Times. 1908-09-18. Retrieved 2024-08-22.
Falling from a height of 75 feet, Orville Wright and Lieut. Thomas E. Selfridge of the Signal Corps were buried in the wreckage of Wright's aeroplane shortly after 5 o'clock this afternoon. The young army officer died at 8:10 o'clock to-night. Wright is badly hurt, although he probably will recover.
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Events took a bizarre twist on September 17, 1908 when Selfridge, a member of the aeronautical board that was appraising a Wright machine in U.S. army acceptance trials, was killed... Selfridge, however, died within hours of the crash, earning him the dubious distinction of being the first man to die in powered flight.
- ^ "A STRANGE DEATH. James Gough Was Either Murdered or Committed Suicide". The Coconino Sun. Vol. XXV, no. 48. Flagstaff, Arizona. 1908-11-20. Page 1, column 4. ISSN 2158-2637. Retrieved 2024-09-01 – via Chronicling America.
- ^ "AFTER WOMAN IN REES DEATH Girl Said to Have Visited Former Ice Dealer at His Hotel JEWELRY AND MONEY ARE NOT TO BE FOUND". Courier-Post. Camden, New Jersey. 1909-02-18. Page 7, columns 1-2. Retrieved 2024-08-28 – via Newspapers.com.
The arrest of a woman is expected to-day in connection with the death of Peter A. Rees yesterday at Guy's Hotel, Seventh street above Chestnut, Philadelphia, under circumstances which the police declare to be unusual.
- ^ "DIED WHILE WRITING". Evening Express and Evening Mail (Sixth ed.). 1909-03-17. Page 3, column 2. Retrieved 2024-08-30 – via Welsh Newspapers.
A young servant girl of Altendorf, near Cologne, found a tragic and unusual death.
- ^ "Met Unusual Death – B. S. Kradwell Falls From Train Near Vail, Iowa, and Meets Death in Creek – Mystery Shrouds Accident – Deceased Was One of the Owners of the Store of the Kradwell Drug Company and He Had Started West for a Long Vacation". The Telegraph-Courier. Kenosha, Wisconsin. 1910-04-21. Page 4, column 4. Retrieved 2024-08-03 – via Chronicling America.
- ^ "WOMAN'S STRANGE DEATH. TRACING HER MOVEMENTS". The Argus. Melbourne, Australia. 1910-07-13. Page 8, column 1. Retrieved 2024-09-21 – via Trove.
- ^ "YOUNG WOMAN'S DEATH". Kalgoorlie Miner. Western Australia. 1910-07-20. Page 6, column 6. Retrieved 2024-09-21 – via Trove.
A sensational development has occurred at Ballarat in connection with the death of Florence Hill Jelbert, whereby Yee Lee, otherwise known as "Peter Long," a Chinese herbalist, was arrested on a charge that he did, at Ballarat, on July 10, wilfully, maliciously and with malice aforethought, kill and slay Florence Hill Jelbert.
- ^ "Patrick Dolan is killed". Aberdeen Daily News. 1910-10-25.
- ^ "Ghost of First Wife Drove Him to Kill Himself - George Vedder Had Broken Oath of Loyalty Made at Her Deathbed. Took Another Bride. It Was Only a Short Distance From Saloon to Reservoir After Haunting Began". The Evening World (Final ed.). New York City, New York. 1911-02-28. Page 1, columns 3-4. Retrieved 2024-08-13 – via Chronicling America.
- ^ "Unusual Death". The Daytona Daily News. Daytona, Florida. 1912-12-23. Page 2, column 4. Retrieved 2024-08-02 – via Chronicling America.
- ^ "MEET STRANGE DEATH. Miners 100 Feet from Cave-in Are Killed By Resulting Rush of Air". Bisbee Daily Review. Bisbee, Arizona. 1911-12-20. Page 8, column 7. ISSN 2157-3255. Retrieved 2024-09-01 – via Chronicling America.
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One of the most peculiarly fatal accidents that has occurred in this vicinity was that at Lansing yesterday afternoon.
- ^ "HOUSE IN PARIS FALLS, KILLING MAN AND WIFE Emile Froment-Meurice, Goldsmith, Descendant of Rubens, Meets Strange Death". New-York Tribune. New York City. 1913-04-26. Page 5, column 6. Retrieved 2024-08-21 – via Chronicling America.
- ^ "Unusual Death of Columbus Woman Mrs. Jim Thomason Dies From Sting of a Bee – Became Unconscious, Remaining So to Time of Her Death, Which Occurred Tuesday". Washington Telegraph. Washington, Arkansas. 1913-05-09. Page 1, column 1. Retrieved 2024-07-21 – via Chronicling America.
- ^ "Farmer Meets Strange Death - Property Assessed Too Low in Marshall County. Veterans to Be Provided For - Series of Accidents Occur Near Melrose—Missing Man Found Demented at Decorah—Pres. Erb on Tour of Inspection". The Oskaloosa Herald. Vol. 57, no. 43. Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa. 1913-05-15. Page 1, column 7. Retrieved 2024-08-31 – via Chronicling America.
While repairing a wire fence near here, Peter Graham a farmer met a strange death.
- ^ "WEALTHY RANCHER DIES IN POSTHOLE — San Joaquin Farmer Trips Head First Into Opening and Suffocates". The San Francisco Call. 1913-06-08. Page 17, column 4. Retrieved 2020-10-10 – via Chronicling America.
Romain Moll, a wealthy rancher of this county, met an unusual and tragic death about mid-night last night.
- ^ "Peculiar Accident Results in Death". Rogue River Courier. 1913-11-14. Retrieved 2024-09-04 – via Chronicling America.
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A strange death has been discovered to have taken place at North Sydney.
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- ^ "LIGHTNING KILLS ONE, SETS FIRE TO TEN BUILDINGS Bather Struck Dead in Water at Phillipsburg—Three Boys Partially Paralyzed". Newark Evening Star and Newark Advertiser (Home ed.). Newark, New Jersey. 1915-08-09. Page 8, column 1. Retrieved 2024-09-13 – via Chronicling America.
A very unusual death occurred here yesterday afternoon, when a fifteen-year-old bather in the Delaware river was struck by lightning and killed during the storm which struck here.
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Her demise was altogether unexpected, so much so that her family and close friends were so upset by the news last night that it was several hours before they could discuss the case at all.
- ^ "DEATH RESULTS FROM PECULIAR ACCIDENT". Little Falls Herald. 1916-02-11. Page 2, column 4. Retrieved 2024-08-15 – via Chronicling America.
Martin Fisher, a well known farmer, living 6 miles south and one mile west, in Moran township, met a peculiar death last Friday while butchering a hog.
- ^ "STRANGE DEATH. RESULT OF EATING WHEAT". The Forbes Advocate. Forbes, New South Wales. 1916-02-29. Page 2, column 3. Retrieved 2024-08-24 – via Trove.
- ^ "Strange Death". The Kyogle Examiner and Upper Richmond Advocate. Vol. II, no. 904. 1917-02-10. Page 1, column 4. Retrieved 2024-08-28 – via Trove.
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Rev. Walter Murray, a Y. M. C. A. worker in France, was killed before Chateau-Thierry recently in a peculiar accident.
- ^ "AIRPLANE CARRYING CHUM KILLS CADET ON CYCLE S. W. Rodgers, Son of Grand Central Palace Manager, Meets Death in Unusual Accident". The Evening World (Final ed.). New York, N.Y. 1918-08-02. Page 1, column 2. Retrieved 2024-08-30 – via Chronicling America.
- ^ "PVT. MANTACH DROWNED IN ROCK RIVER Kenosha Soldier at Camp Grant Flees from Hospital in Delirium and Meets Unusual Death in River". The Telegraph-Courier. Kenosha, Wisconsin. 1918-10-10. Page 4, columns 6-7. Retrieved 2024-08-29 – via Chronicling America.
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- ^ "PROBE STRANGE DEATH OF MAN ON U. P. TRACKS Wife of Salvation Army Captain Abandons Him in Dark Without Seeking to Learn His Fate". Omaha Daily Bee. Omaha, Nebraska. 1919-10-04. Page 4, column 3. Retrieved 2024-09-14 – via Chronicling America.
Because of the unusual circumstances attending the death, a coroner's inquest was called for.
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The Earl of Carnarvon died peacefully at 2 o'clock this morning. He was conscious almost to the end.
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The case only got stranger from there.
- ^ "POISON PEN FIGURES IN CISTERN DEATH; Vicious Letters to Woman and Illinois Family Preceded Finding of Her Body".
Poison pen letters, which included what purported to be Ku Klux Klan threats played an important part in the mysterious death yesterday of Miss Cora Stallman, aged 48, a former Cincinnati school teacher and for the past four years manager of the $250,000 farm owned here by her sister, Mrs. Anna Seaman.
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Seventeen-year-old Alfred Green's strange death is still being discussed here.
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The arrest of Earle Wynekoop was ordered today by police investigating the mysterious and bizarre death of his pretty 23 year old wife who was murdered on the operating table of her physician mother-in-law.
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Two sisters, Lena Morris (6) and Kathaline Morris (10) were killed, Daphne Morris (11) was seriously injured when a dirt track motor cycle ridden by Andy Menzies, after overturning twice and dislodging the rider, careered 150 yards and entered the front door of a hut at Hendy, near Mildura.
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He was still in good health when he suffered a bizarre accident at his dacha in December 1984.
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One or two cases of the disease are reported annually in Okinawa, but it is the first death linked to the parasite.
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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.
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