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Ancient Age
456 BC: Aeschylus, Greek dramatist, according to legend, died when a vulture, mistaking his bald head for a stone, dropped a tortoise on it.
207 BC: Chrysippus, Greek stoic philosopher, believed to have died of laughter after seeing a donkey eating figs.
121 BC: Gaius Gracchus, Roman tribune, according to the ancient Roman historian Plutarch, Gaius was executed by assassins who were out to receive a bounty on the weight of his head in gold. One of the co-conspirators in his murder, Septimuleius, then decapitated Gaius, scooped the brains out of his severed head, and filled the cavity of his skull with molten lead. Once the lead hardened, the head was taken to the Senate and weighed in on the scale at over seventeen pounds. Septimuleius was paid in full. [1]
30 BC: Cleopatra, beautiful queen of Egypt, killed herself with an Asp snake bite
33 AD: Judas Iscariot exploded when he hung himself (as recorded in Acts 1:18).
260: Roman emperor Valerian, after being defeated in battle and captured by the Persians was used as a footstool by their king Shapur I. After a long period of brutal treatment and humiliation of this sort, he offered Shapur a huge ransom for his release. In reply, Shapur had molten gold poured down his throat. He then had the unfortunate Valerian skinned and his skin stuffed with straw and preserved as a trophy in the main Persian temple. Only after Persia's defeat in their last war with Rome three and a half centuries later was his skin given a cremation and burial.
453: Attila the Hun suffered a severe nosebleed and choked to death on his wedding night.
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Middle Age
895: Álmos, the top chieftain leading Hungarian tribes towards the Carpathian basin, was executed in a horse sacrifice on the border, not allowed to enter the haven for ritual reasons - a cruel reflection on the fate of Moses.
1063: Eight Deer Jaguar Claw, Mixtec ruler, served as a human sacrifice.
1063: King Béla I of Hungary died when his tall wooden throne collapsed due to sabotage.
1277: Pope John XXI was killed in the collapse of his scientific laboratory.
1327: King Edward II of England, after being deposed and imprisoned by his Queen consort Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer, was rumored to have been murdered by having a red-hot iron shoved up his anus.
1490: Matthias Corvinus, the most successful king of Hungary, died after eating poisoned figs.
1514: György Dózsa, leader of the Great Hungarian Peasant Uprising, was roasted alive on a white hot iron chair while his captured companions were forced to eat his meat.
1526: King Louis II of Hungary drowned in a stream under the weight of his own plate armour while fleeing the Ottomans after the lost battle of Mohács.
1534: Pope Clement VII died after eating the death cap mushroom.
1541: George Friar, Governor of Transylvania, was assasinated but his body was not discovered in his room until half a year later, as people thought he simply retracted to some months of hermit-hood.
1543: Pedro de Valdivia a dreaded conquistador was captured by Native Americans and executed by pouring molten gold down his throat to satisfy his thirst for treasures.
1543: Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, Spanish explorer, died of gangrene in a broken leg. He broke the leg when jumping from one of his ships to attack hostile natives.
1559: King Henry II of France was killed during a stun knight's jousting match, when his helmet's soft golden grille gave way to a broken lancetip which hit him right through the eye. Nostradamus the astronomer is often believed to have forseen this tragic event.
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Early Modern Age
1601: Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer, was once thought to have died of a bladder infection after refusing to leave for the bathroom during a banquet for the sake of good manners. However, newer research suggests that he died of mercury poisoning.
1626: Francis Bacon, English philosopher, statesman, and essayist, died of possible pneumonia after purchasing a chicken and stuffing it with snow to see if cold could preserve meat.
1671: François Vatel, chef to Louis XIV committed suicide because his seafood order was late and he couldn't stand the shame of a postponed meal. His body was discovered by an aide, sent to tell him of the arrival of the fish.
1687: Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer, died of a gangrenous abscess after piercing his foot with a staff while he was vigorously conducting a Te Deum.
1695: Henry Purcell, composer died of a chill after returning late from the theatre one night and finding that his wife had locked him out. It is also possible that he died of chocolate poisoning.
1783: James Otis, American patriot, struck and killed by lightning.
1834: David Douglas, Scottish Botanist, who fell in a pit trap, was crushed by a bull that fell in the same pit.
1841: William Henry Harrison, ninth President of the United States, gave the longest inaugural address in the history of the United States in heavy snow and subsequently caught a cold. It developed into pneumonia and killed him in a month.
1844: United States Secretary of State Upshur and the Secretary of the Navy Gilmer along with several other dignitaries were killed when the Peacemaker, a new experimental breech-loading 12-inch naval cannon on board the USS Princeton exploded while firing a salute. The Princeton's Captain Stockton, the press and the public blamed the great naval engineer John Ericsson, who had to flee to Europe, even though the faulty cannon was a product of one of his rivals.
1850: Zachary Taylor, twelfth President of the United States, following ceremonies on an exceptionally hot July 4, Taylor had eaten a large quantity of iced milk and cherries then fell ill with acute indigestion and died five days later, after only 16 months in office. This led to speculation he might have been poisoned which in turn led to his body being exhumed and his rest disturbed in the early 1990s.
1867: William Bullock (inventor), accidentally killed by his own invention, the web rotary press.
1884: Allan Pinkerton, detective, died of gangrene resulting from having bitten his tongue after stumbling on the sidewalk.
1888: Charles-Valentin Alkan, composer and pianist, died when a bookcase collapsed on him when he was reaching for a copy of the Talmud from the top shelf.
1898: Austrian empress Elisabeth (affectionately known as Sissi) was assassinated with a nailfile while boarding a ship.
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Modern Age
1901: William McKinley, 25th president of the United States, was assassinated while attending the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. The assassin, Leon Czolgosz, concealed the gun by a cast on his arm.
1911: Jack Daniel, founder of the famous Tennessee whiskey distillery, died of blood poisoning due to a toe injury he received after kicking his safe in anger when he could not remember its combination code.
1915: François Faber, Luxembourgean Tour de France winner, died in a trench on the western front of World War I. He received a telegram saying his wife had given birth to a daughter. He cheered, giving away his position, and was shot by a German sniper.
1916: Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic, died of drowning while trapped under ice. He had been placed in the water through a hole in the winter ice after having been poisoned, shot multiple times in the head, lung, and liver, and bludgeoned.
1918: Young princesses of the Romanov tsar dynasty had to be slaughtered with bayonets, after their communist captors' bullets bounced off their garments, stuffed full of hidden family gems.
1923: Frank Hayes, jockey, suffered a heart attack during a horse race. The horse, Sweet Kiss, went on to finish first, making Hayes the only deceased jockey to win a race.
1927: Isadora Duncan, dancer, died of accidental strangulation and broken neck when her scarf caught on the wheel of a car in which she was a passenger.
1933: Michael Malloy, a homeless man, was murdered by gassing after surviving multiple poisonings, intentional exposure, and being struck by a car. Malloy was murdered by five men in a plot to collect on life insurance policies they'd purchased.
1937: Harold Davidson, a defrocked Church of England Rector, died after being mauled by a lion.
1940: Leon Trotsky, the Soviet revolutionary leader in exile, was assassinated with an ice axe in his Mexico home.
1941: Sherwood Anderson, writer, swallowed a toothpick at a party and then died of peritonitis.
1943: Lady Be Good, a USAAF B-24 bomber lost its way and crash landed in the Libyan Desert. Mummified remains of its crew, who struggled for a week without water, were not found until 1960.
1960: Movie legend Clark Gable died of long term heart disease hours before his daughter was born. The public accused his film partner Marilyn Monroe for the fatal exhaustion, contributing to her worsening mental condition and eventual suicide.
1967: The crew of three astronauts onboard the Apollo 1 spacecraft died in a fierce flash fire due to the cabin's pure oxygen atmosphere.
1968: Thomas Merton, Trappist monk, author, was accidentally electrocuted to death while taking a bath.
1971: Jerome Irving Rodale, an American pioneer of organic farming, died of a heart attack while being interviewed on the Dick Cavett Show. When he appeared to fall asleep, Cavett quipped "Are we boring you, Mr. Rodale?".[2] The show was never broadcast.
1973: Péter Vályi finance minister of Hungary fell into a blast furnace on visit to a steelworks factory at Miskolc.
1974: Christine Chubbuck, an American television news reporter committed suicide during a live broadcast on July 15th. At 9:38 AM, 8 minutes into her talk show, on WXLT-TV in Sarasota, Florida, she drew out a revolver and shot herself in the head.
1977: Tom Pryce, a Formula One driver, and a 19-year-old track marshal both died at the 1977 South African Grand Prix after the marshal ran across the track beyond a blind brow to attend to another car and was struck by Pryce's car. Pryce was hit in the face by the marshal's fire extinguisher and killed instantly.
1978: Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian dissident, was assassinated by poisoning in London by an unknown assailant who shot him in the leg with a specially modified umbrella that fired a metal pellet with a small cavity full of ricin poison.
1981: A 25-year-old Dutch woman studying in Paris, Renée Hartevelt, was killed and eaten by a classmate, Issei Sagawa, when he invited her to dinner for a literary conversation. The killer was declared unfit to stand trial and extradited back to Japan, where he was released from custody within fifteen months.
1982: Vic Morrow, actor, was decapitated by helicopter blade during filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie and was killed instantly, along with two child actors.
1982: Vladimir Smirnov, an Olympic champion fencer, died of brain damage nine days after his opponent's foil snapped during a match, pierced his eyeball and entered his brain.
1983: Sergei Chalibashvili, a professional diver, died after a diving accident during World University Games. When he attempted a three-and-a-half reverse somersault in the tuck position, he smashed his head on the board and was knocked unconscious. He died after being in a coma for a week.
1984: Jon-Erik Hexum, an American television actor, died after he shot himself in the head with a prop gun during a break in filming. Whether he deliberately committed suicide or was simply unaware of the potentially deadly effects of the blank round was not determined.
1986: Jane Dornacker, a musician, actress and comedienne turned radio station traffic reporter, died after a helicopter owned by New York's WNBC 660AM in which she was a passenger crashed into the Hudson River. The fatal crash occurred as Dornacker was delivering a traffic report, and was broadcast live on air. Her final words (to the helicopter pilot), "Hit the water! Hit the water! Hit the water!", were clearly heard by listeners.
1987: R. Budd Dwyer, a Republican politician, committed suicide during a televised press conference. Facing a potential 55-year jail sentence for alleged involvement in a conspiracy, Dwyer shot himself in the head with a revolver.
1989: A Belgian teenager was killed by a crashing soviet MiG-23 fighter jet, which escaped from East Germany on autopilot after the crew ejected over a false engine failure alarm.
1993: Brandon Lee, the son of Bruce Lee, was shot and killed by a prop 44 Magnum while filming the movie The Crow. The scene involved the firing of a full-powder blank (full charge of gunpowder, but no bullet) at Brandon's character. However, unknown to the film crew/firearms technician, a bullet was already lodged in the barrel. The gun had previously been fired with a dummy round that had had all its gunpowder removed, but its primer charge left intact in error. The firing of the 'squib' lodged the bullet inside the barrel. When the full powder blank round was later fired, the bullet already in the barrel shot out and fatally wounded Lee.
1996: A man known as "The Engineer", chief palestinian bombmaker of Hamas and responsible for over 60 Israeli civilian casualties, was assasinated by way of a Mossad-rigged mobile phone, which blew his head off when answering a call.
1999: Owen Hart, WWF wrestler, died when he fell 78 feet while being lowered into the ring by a cable from the stadium rafters before an upcoming match. He had been scheduled to win the WWF Intercontinental Championship that night.
1999: Golf champion Payne Stewart and his support staff died aboard their business jet, when the craft suddenly lost all pressurization at high altitude. The Learjet then became a flying coffin, continuing on autopilot for several hours. Its almost total destruction on eventual impact made full investigation of the mystery impossible.
2001: June 1, Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal, enraged (and possibly intoxicated) from a dispute over his marriage arrangements, reportedly went on a rampage at dinner and massacred nearly the entire Royal Family, including his father the king. But in accordance with custom and tradition, Dipendra, now in a coma due to wounds sustained either from palace guards or a botched suicide attempt, became king for three days before dying on June 4. He was suceeded by his uncle, whose son mysteriously survived the massacre unscathed.
2001: Several government employees and US Post Office workers were killed by anthrax spores after opening envelopes full of a suspicious white powder in a mysterious case of post-September 11th domestic terrorism which has not yet been solved.
2003: Brian Wells, pizza deliveryman, was killed by a time bomb fastened to his neck. He was apprehended by the police for robbing a bank, and claimed he had been forced to do it by three people who had put the bomb around his neck.
2005 - An Enumclaw, WA. man died of peritonitis after submitting to anal intercourse with a stallion. The man had done this before, apparently this time his partner was a little too keen. The case may lead to the criminalization of bestiality in Washington. [3]
Ancient Age
456 BC: Aeschylus, Greek dramatist, according to legend, died when a vulture, mistaking his bald head for a stone, dropped a tortoise on it.
207 BC: Chrysippus, Greek stoic philosopher, believed to have died of laughter after seeing a donkey eating figs.
121 BC: Gaius Gracchus, Roman tribune, according to the ancient Roman historian Plutarch, Gaius was executed by assassins who were out to receive a bounty on the weight of his head in gold. One of the co-conspirators in his murder, Septimuleius, then decapitated Gaius, scooped the brains out of his severed head, and filled the cavity of his skull with molten lead. Once the lead hardened, the head was taken to the Senate and weighed in on the scale at over seventeen pounds. Septimuleius was paid in full. [1]
30 BC: Cleopatra, beautiful queen of Egypt, killed herself with an Asp snake bite
33 AD: Judas Iscariot exploded when he hung himself (as recorded in Acts 1:18).
260: Roman emperor Valerian, after being defeated in battle and captured by the Persians was used as a footstool by their king Shapur I. After a long period of brutal treatment and humiliation of this sort, he offered Shapur a huge ransom for his release. In reply, Shapur had molten gold poured down his throat. He then had the unfortunate Valerian skinned and his skin stuffed with straw and preserved as a trophy in the main Persian temple. Only after Persia's defeat in their last war with Rome three and a half centuries later was his skin given a cremation and burial.
453: Attila the Hun suffered a severe nosebleed and choked to death on his wedding night.
[edit]
Middle Age
895: Álmos, the top chieftain leading Hungarian tribes towards the Carpathian basin, was executed in a horse sacrifice on the border, not allowed to enter the haven for ritual reasons - a cruel reflection on the fate of Moses.
1063: Eight Deer Jaguar Claw, Mixtec ruler, served as a human sacrifice.
1063: King Béla I of Hungary died when his tall wooden throne collapsed due to sabotage.
1277: Pope John XXI was killed in the collapse of his scientific laboratory.
1327: King Edward II of England, after being deposed and imprisoned by his Queen consort Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer, was rumored to have been murdered by having a red-hot iron shoved up his anus.
1490: Matthias Corvinus, the most successful king of Hungary, died after eating poisoned figs.
1514: György Dózsa, leader of the Great Hungarian Peasant Uprising, was roasted alive on a white hot iron chair while his captured companions were forced to eat his meat.
1526: King Louis II of Hungary drowned in a stream under the weight of his own plate armour while fleeing the Ottomans after the lost battle of Mohács.
1534: Pope Clement VII died after eating the death cap mushroom.
1541: George Friar, Governor of Transylvania, was assasinated but his body was not discovered in his room until half a year later, as people thought he simply retracted to some months of hermit-hood.
1543: Pedro de Valdivia a dreaded conquistador was captured by Native Americans and executed by pouring molten gold down his throat to satisfy his thirst for treasures.
1543: Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, Spanish explorer, died of gangrene in a broken leg. He broke the leg when jumping from one of his ships to attack hostile natives.
1559: King Henry II of France was killed during a stun knight's jousting match, when his helmet's soft golden grille gave way to a broken lancetip which hit him right through the eye. Nostradamus the astronomer is often believed to have forseen this tragic event.
[edit]
Early Modern Age
1601: Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer, was once thought to have died of a bladder infection after refusing to leave for the bathroom during a banquet for the sake of good manners. However, newer research suggests that he died of mercury poisoning.
1626: Francis Bacon, English philosopher, statesman, and essayist, died of possible pneumonia after purchasing a chicken and stuffing it with snow to see if cold could preserve meat.
1671: François Vatel, chef to Louis XIV committed suicide because his seafood order was late and he couldn't stand the shame of a postponed meal. His body was discovered by an aide, sent to tell him of the arrival of the fish.
1687: Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer, died of a gangrenous abscess after piercing his foot with a staff while he was vigorously conducting a Te Deum.
1695: Henry Purcell, composer died of a chill after returning late from the theatre one night and finding that his wife had locked him out. It is also possible that he died of chocolate poisoning.
1783: James Otis, American patriot, struck and killed by lightning.
1834: David Douglas, Scottish Botanist, who fell in a pit trap, was crushed by a bull that fell in the same pit.
1841: William Henry Harrison, ninth President of the United States, gave the longest inaugural address in the history of the United States in heavy snow and subsequently caught a cold. It developed into pneumonia and killed him in a month.
1844: United States Secretary of State Upshur and the Secretary of the Navy Gilmer along with several other dignitaries were killed when the Peacemaker, a new experimental breech-loading 12-inch naval cannon on board the USS Princeton exploded while firing a salute. The Princeton's Captain Stockton, the press and the public blamed the great naval engineer John Ericsson, who had to flee to Europe, even though the faulty cannon was a product of one of his rivals.
1850: Zachary Taylor, twelfth President of the United States, following ceremonies on an exceptionally hot July 4, Taylor had eaten a large quantity of iced milk and cherries then fell ill with acute indigestion and died five days later, after only 16 months in office. This led to speculation he might have been poisoned which in turn led to his body being exhumed and his rest disturbed in the early 1990s.
1867: William Bullock (inventor), accidentally killed by his own invention, the web rotary press.
1884: Allan Pinkerton, detective, died of gangrene resulting from having bitten his tongue after stumbling on the sidewalk.
1888: Charles-Valentin Alkan, composer and pianist, died when a bookcase collapsed on him when he was reaching for a copy of the Talmud from the top shelf.
1898: Austrian empress Elisabeth (affectionately known as Sissi) was assassinated with a nailfile while boarding a ship.
[edit]
Modern Age
1901: William McKinley, 25th president of the United States, was assassinated while attending the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. The assassin, Leon Czolgosz, concealed the gun by a cast on his arm.
1911: Jack Daniel, founder of the famous Tennessee whiskey distillery, died of blood poisoning due to a toe injury he received after kicking his safe in anger when he could not remember its combination code.
1915: François Faber, Luxembourgean Tour de France winner, died in a trench on the western front of World War I. He received a telegram saying his wife had given birth to a daughter. He cheered, giving away his position, and was shot by a German sniper.
1916: Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic, died of drowning while trapped under ice. He had been placed in the water through a hole in the winter ice after having been poisoned, shot multiple times in the head, lung, and liver, and bludgeoned.
1918: Young princesses of the Romanov tsar dynasty had to be slaughtered with bayonets, after their communist captors' bullets bounced off their garments, stuffed full of hidden family gems.
1923: Frank Hayes, jockey, suffered a heart attack during a horse race. The horse, Sweet Kiss, went on to finish first, making Hayes the only deceased jockey to win a race.
1927: Isadora Duncan, dancer, died of accidental strangulation and broken neck when her scarf caught on the wheel of a car in which she was a passenger.
1933: Michael Malloy, a homeless man, was murdered by gassing after surviving multiple poisonings, intentional exposure, and being struck by a car. Malloy was murdered by five men in a plot to collect on life insurance policies they'd purchased.
1937: Harold Davidson, a defrocked Church of England Rector, died after being mauled by a lion.
1940: Leon Trotsky, the Soviet revolutionary leader in exile, was assassinated with an ice axe in his Mexico home.
1941: Sherwood Anderson, writer, swallowed a toothpick at a party and then died of peritonitis.
1943: Lady Be Good, a USAAF B-24 bomber lost its way and crash landed in the Libyan Desert. Mummified remains of its crew, who struggled for a week without water, were not found until 1960.
1960: Movie legend Clark Gable died of long term heart disease hours before his daughter was born. The public accused his film partner Marilyn Monroe for the fatal exhaustion, contributing to her worsening mental condition and eventual suicide.
1967: The crew of three astronauts onboard the Apollo 1 spacecraft died in a fierce flash fire due to the cabin's pure oxygen atmosphere.
1968: Thomas Merton, Trappist monk, author, was accidentally electrocuted to death while taking a bath.
1971: Jerome Irving Rodale, an American pioneer of organic farming, died of a heart attack while being interviewed on the Dick Cavett Show. When he appeared to fall asleep, Cavett quipped "Are we boring you, Mr. Rodale?".[2] The show was never broadcast.
1973: Péter Vályi finance minister of Hungary fell into a blast furnace on visit to a steelworks factory at Miskolc.
1974: Christine Chubbuck, an American television news reporter committed suicide during a live broadcast on July 15th. At 9:38 AM, 8 minutes into her talk show, on WXLT-TV in Sarasota, Florida, she drew out a revolver and shot herself in the head.
1977: Tom Pryce, a Formula One driver, and a 19-year-old track marshal both died at the 1977 South African Grand Prix after the marshal ran across the track beyond a blind brow to attend to another car and was struck by Pryce's car. Pryce was hit in the face by the marshal's fire extinguisher and killed instantly.
1978: Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian dissident, was assassinated by poisoning in London by an unknown assailant who shot him in the leg with a specially modified umbrella that fired a metal pellet with a small cavity full of ricin poison.
1981: A 25-year-old Dutch woman studying in Paris, Renée Hartevelt, was killed and eaten by a classmate, Issei Sagawa, when he invited her to dinner for a literary conversation. The killer was declared unfit to stand trial and extradited back to Japan, where he was released from custody within fifteen months.
1982: Vic Morrow, actor, was decapitated by helicopter blade during filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie and was killed instantly, along with two child actors.
1982: Vladimir Smirnov, an Olympic champion fencer, died of brain damage nine days after his opponent's foil snapped during a match, pierced his eyeball and entered his brain.
1983: Sergei Chalibashvili, a professional diver, died after a diving accident during World University Games. When he attempted a three-and-a-half reverse somersault in the tuck position, he smashed his head on the board and was knocked unconscious. He died after being in a coma for a week.
1984: Jon-Erik Hexum, an American television actor, died after he shot himself in the head with a prop gun during a break in filming. Whether he deliberately committed suicide or was simply unaware of the potentially deadly effects of the blank round was not determined.
1986: Jane Dornacker, a musician, actress and comedienne turned radio station traffic reporter, died after a helicopter owned by New York's WNBC 660AM in which she was a passenger crashed into the Hudson River. The fatal crash occurred as Dornacker was delivering a traffic report, and was broadcast live on air. Her final words (to the helicopter pilot), "Hit the water! Hit the water! Hit the water!", were clearly heard by listeners.
1987: R. Budd Dwyer, a Republican politician, committed suicide during a televised press conference. Facing a potential 55-year jail sentence for alleged involvement in a conspiracy, Dwyer shot himself in the head with a revolver.
1989: A Belgian teenager was killed by a crashing soviet MiG-23 fighter jet, which escaped from East Germany on autopilot after the crew ejected over a false engine failure alarm.
1993: Brandon Lee, the son of Bruce Lee, was shot and killed by a prop 44 Magnum while filming the movie The Crow. The scene involved the firing of a full-powder blank (full charge of gunpowder, but no bullet) at Brandon's character. However, unknown to the film crew/firearms technician, a bullet was already lodged in the barrel. The gun had previously been fired with a dummy round that had had all its gunpowder removed, but its primer charge left intact in error. The firing of the 'squib' lodged the bullet inside the barrel. When the full powder blank round was later fired, the bullet already in the barrel shot out and fatally wounded Lee.
1996: A man known as "The Engineer", chief palestinian bombmaker of Hamas and responsible for over 60 Israeli civilian casualties, was assasinated by way of a Mossad-rigged mobile phone, which blew his head off when answering a call.
1999: Owen Hart, WWF wrestler, died when he fell 78 feet while being lowered into the ring by a cable from the stadium rafters before an upcoming match. He had been scheduled to win the WWF Intercontinental Championship that night.
1999: Golf champion Payne Stewart and his support staff died aboard their business jet, when the craft suddenly lost all pressurization at high altitude. The Learjet then became a flying coffin, continuing on autopilot for several hours. Its almost total destruction on eventual impact made full investigation of the mystery impossible.
2001: June 1, Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal, enraged (and possibly intoxicated) from a dispute over his marriage arrangements, reportedly went on a rampage at dinner and massacred nearly the entire Royal Family, including his father the king. But in accordance with custom and tradition, Dipendra, now in a coma due to wounds sustained either from palace guards or a botched suicide attempt, became king for three days before dying on June 4. He was suceeded by his uncle, whose son mysteriously survived the massacre unscathed.
2001: Several government employees and US Post Office workers were killed by anthrax spores after opening envelopes full of a suspicious white powder in a mysterious case of post-September 11th domestic terrorism which has not yet been solved.
2003: Brian Wells, pizza deliveryman, was killed by a time bomb fastened to his neck. He was apprehended by the police for robbing a bank, and claimed he had been forced to do it by three people who had put the bomb around his neck.
2005 - An Enumclaw, WA. man died of peritonitis after submitting to anal intercourse with a stallion. The man had done this before, apparently this time his partner was a little too keen. The case may lead to the criminalization of bestiality in Washington. [3]