Here is a small compilation of deaths of people who can qualify as unusual:
1974: Christine Chubbuck, an American journalist, committed suicide while he was broadcasting his TV show live in Sarasota, Florida. He took a revolver from the news desk and shot himself in the head. This incident inspired the film partially Network (1976), winner of four Academy Awards.
1944: Thomas Midgley accidentally rolled into the strings of his instrument invented to get out of bed and died of strangulation at age 55.
2003: Timothy Treadwell, an American environmentalist who had lived in the wilderness among bears for thirteen summers in a remote region in Alaska, was killed and partially eaten by a bear, along with his girlfriend Amie Huguenard. The incident is described in Werner Herzog's documentary Grizzly Man
2008: Gerald Mellin, a UK businessman, committed suicide by tying one end of a rope around his neck and the other to a tree. Then he climbed into his Aston Martin DB7 and led by a main road in Swansea until the rope decapitated him. Supposedly he did so as an act of revenge against his ex-wife for abandoning him.
458 a. C.: The Greek playwright Aeschylus was killed when a vulture dropped a tortoise shell on his head, confusing it with a rock. D. 325
C.: Arius, a priest who precipitated the Unitarian Christian Council of Nicea, releasing a gas, and he evacuated his internal organs.
1974: Christine Chubbuck, an American journalist, committed suicide while he was broadcasting his TV show live in Sarasota, Florida. He took a revolver from the news desk and shot himself in the head. This incident inspired the film partially Network (1976), winner of four Academy Awards.
1944: Thomas Midgley accidentally rolled into the strings of his instrument invented to get out of bed and died of strangulation at age 55.
2003: Timothy Treadwell, an American environmentalist who had lived in the wilderness among bears for thirteen summers in a remote region in Alaska, was killed and partially eaten by a bear, along with his girlfriend Amie Huguenard. The incident is described in Werner Herzog's documentary Grizzly Man
2008: Gerald Mellin, a UK businessman, committed suicide by tying one end of a rope around his neck and the other to a tree. Then he climbed into his Aston Martin DB7 and led by a main road in Swansea until the rope decapitated him. Supposedly he did so as an act of revenge against his ex-wife for abandoning him.
458 a. C.: The Greek playwright Aeschylus was killed when a vulture dropped a tortoise shell on his head, confusing it with a rock. D. 325
C.: Arius, a priest who precipitated the Unitarian Christian Council of Nicea, releasing a gas, and he evacuated his internal organs.
