Weird Deaths!
a catalogue of weird deaths found on wikipedia.
Antiquity
Note: Many of these stories are likely to be apocryphal (uncertain authenticity)
456 BC: Aeschylus, a Greek playwright, was killed when an eagle dropped a live tortoise on him, mistaking his bald head for a stone. The tortoise survived.[1]
430 BC: Empedocles, Pre-Socratic philosopher, secretly jumped into an active volcano [...]
