1. Aeschylus

Aeschylus was a Greek playwright that was born around 525 BC, in a small town 27 kilometers from the city of Athens. Legend has it, the day he died, an eagle mistaked his bald head for a stone, and dropped a live tortoise on him, killing him. Apparently, the tortoise survived.

2. Jeff Daily

In January of 1981, Jeff Dailey, a 19 year-old boy, died of a heart attack soon after he got a score of 16,660 on the video game Berzerk. Berzerk was the first video game that got involved with a player’s death. In October of 1982, the following year, an 18 year-old boy named Peter Burkowski made the top ten list twice on the same game in fifteen minutes. A few seconds later, he died of a heart attack.

3. Gloria Ramirez

On February 19, 1994, Gloria Ramirez was taken to the hospital in an ambulance due to the effects of advanced cervical cancer. At the hospital, some people noticed that an oily sheen was covering her skin, a fruity, garlicky odor was coming out of her mouth, an ammonia-like smell was coming from the tube of her blood, and manila-colored particles in her blood. Several emergency room staff fainted. The staff were ordered to remove all emergency room patients to the parking lot. A skeleton crew stayed inside to try to stabilize Gloria. Forty-five minutes after she was brought to the hospital, she died of kidney failure that was related to her cancer. After two top scientists were put on the case, they concluded the hospital staff probably suffered from mass hysteria, since they didn’t have enough evidence to prove otherwise. There was a lot of doubt. Another possibility was dimethyl sulfate, a poisonous gas. Gloria was taking dimethyl sulfoxide, a home remedy for pain, and through some process, it became demithyl sulfate, though the lab couldn’t find a way for the one to transform into the other.

4. Jdimypai Damour 

On November 28th, 2008, Black Friday, many people were waiting outside for a Walmart in New York, where Damour worked, to open. Him and other emloyees were waiting in the entryway. When the doors were opened, the crowd knocked Damour over and trampled over him to try to get the products they needed. Damour died at a nearby hospital an hour later.

5. Alexander Bogdanov

Alexander Bogdanov was a Russian physician. In 1928, he died after because of one of his experiments. He transfused blood from a student that had malaria and tuberculosis into himself, which ended up killing him. Some people believe that his death was a suicide, because he had written a very nervous political letter shortly before this experiment. Others believe that his death was caused by blood type incompatibility, which was poorly comprehended at this time.

6. Tennessee Williams

On February 24th, 1983, author Tennessee Williams died after choking on an eyedrop bottle cap in a hotel room in New York. He would usually put the cap in his mouth, lean back, and put drops in each eye. His lack of gag response was probably due to alcohol abuse and drugs.

7. Grigori Rasputin

Rasputin was well-known as being the Russian mystic that is percieved as influencing the later days of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, and their only son. Apparently, while dining with a political enemy, he was poisoned, shot in the head, shot three more times, bludgeoned, then thrown into a frozen river. After his body was washed ashore, an autopsy revealed that the cause of death was hypothermia.

8.  Frank Hayes

In 1953, Frank Hayes, a jockey, had a heart attack during a horse race. The horse, Sweet Kiss, continued running to the finish line and finished first. This made Hayes the only deceased jockey to win a race.

9. Jack Daniel

Jack Daniel was the founder of the Tennessee whiskey distillery. He always forgot the combination to his safe. One day, after being upset about not being able to open his safe early one day at work, he kicked it, injuring his toe and causing an infection. Six years later, he died of blood poisoning, on October 10th, 1911. This incident was a subject of a marketing poster with the line “Moral: Never go to work early.”

10. John Kendrick

John Kendrick was an American sea captain and explorer in the 18th century. He participated in the Boston Tea Party. In the Hawaiian Islands, a British ship accidentally used a loaded cannon to fire a salute to the Kendrick’s ship, smashing the ship and killing him.