Strange and absurd death

a. 207 years BC. e. And Chrysippus, Stoic philosopher, died of laughter while watching a drunken donkey trying to have figs.

2. 869 g. Arab scholar Al- Jahiz, the author of works on literature, history, biology and philosophy, are done in a library of its own: it fell from the shelves of books.

3. 1567 g. Austrian Hans Steininger was proud of the world's longest beard - 1.4 m. But, when once there was a fire, I forgot to roll up his beard and fell down, tangled in it, and broke his neck.

4. 1601 g. The astronomer Tycho Brahe died from complications after gall bladder is too abundant banquet. According to the rules of etiquette was considered impolite to leave the table until the meal is over. Brahe's time did not go to the bathroom and got a fatal disease of the bladder.


5. 1671 g. Francois Vatel, the chef of Louis XIV, committed suicide by plunging a sword into the heart, after he ordered the fish are not entered into the kitchen in time: he was not able to transfer deferred due to the shame of dinner. Body found Vatel assistant who came to announce the arrival of fish.

6. 1771. Swedish King Adolf Fredrik died of indigestion after eat their favorite dishes: lobster served, caviar, sauerkraut, smoked herring and champagne. And the dessert - a roll of marzipan and hot milk - served in the night 14 times! .

7. 1884. Detective Allan Pinkerton died of gangrene - before he was bitten through language, stumbled on a walk.

8. 1899. French President Felix Faure kick caught during oral sex in the workplace.

9. 1911. Jack Daniel, founder of whiskey 'Jack Daniel's', died of blood poisoning six months after the injured toe, he kicked the safe in a fit of anger, unable to remember the combination lock safes figures.

10. 1923. Jockey Frank Hayes caught a fatal heart attack during a race.
However, his horse, Sweet Kiss still came to the finish line first.
So Hayes became the only jockey in the world of the dead to win a race.

11. 1927. Parry - Thomas, racing driver from Wales, also died during the arrival. The driver tried to beat his own record last year. And have not learned that this had happened.

12. 1927. All the well-known story: the dancer Isadora Duncan strangled when her long scarf wound around the wheel of a car while driving.

13. 1945. The Austrian composer Anton Webern was accidentally shot and killed an American soldier during the occupation of the Allies. Webern, despite the curfew, went to smoke a cigar, so as not to disturb the sleeping grandchildren.

14. 1961. Soviet cosmonaut candidate Valentin Bondarenko died a horrible death in a fire at surdobarokamere. Information about this tragedy was classified. In 1967, in a similar incident in the pressure chamber, practicing before the flight on the ' Apollo 1', three American astronauts were burned: the construction of the hatch is not allowed to open within a simulator. If the death of Bondarenko became known earlier, these deaths could be avoided.

15. 1973. Minister of Finance of Hungary, during a visit to the steel plant in Miskolc fell in a bucket of molten iron.

16. 1975. 50 -year-old construction worker Alex Mitchell died laughing while watching a humorous series. According to his wife, he was laughing non-stop 25 minutes, then lay down on the sofa and died of cardiac arrest.

17. 1975. The legendary Japanese kabuki actor, died after eating puffer fish liver four, the most poisonous part of this terrible delicacy. The warnings posted that is immune to poison, cod-liver. Chef preparing the liver, could not refuse the customer ordered and brought, with the result that later lost its license.

18. 1978. Janet Parker, a medical photographer from Britain, died of smallpox within ten months after it was announced that the world was forever free of the disease. Parker caught in a closed laboratory, where the virus got someone else's negligence in the air. As a result, Janet became the latest victim of smallpox in the world.

19. 1993. Garry Hoy, a lawyer in Toronto, dropped out of the window on the 24th floor. I wanted to show the audience that the glass can not be beat. alas.

20. 1994. British politician Stephen Milligan choked during sex games, dressed as a woman with a clear orange in his mouth.

21. 2005. 28 -year-old South Korean student died of exhaustion: the gaming club, he lost in the ' Starcraft ' is greater than 50 hours.

22. 2007. 28- year-old Jennifer Strange died of intoxication, trying to become the winner of the radio games: those who drink the most water without going to toilet. She died, but the game still was only the second.