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This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources. The death of Aeschylus , killed by a tortoise dropped onto his head by an eagle , illustrated in the 15th-century Florentine Picture-Chronicle by Baccio Baldini [ 1 ]
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"James Otis, American patriot, struck and killed by lightning." - Nothing unusual there: lightning kills about 500-700 people a year. In the world it's said to be 1171 a year. However in a year something like 57 million people die. Although things like getting crushed by reptiles is far rarer, lightning deaths are unusual.--
[1] [9] [verification needed] [10] Seagull 4 August 1983: During a Major League Baseball Yankees-Blue Jays game at Toronto's Exhibition Stadium, Yankees right fielder Dave Winfield threw a warm-up ball which hit a seagull, killing it. After the game, Toronto police charged Winfield with causing "unnecessary suffering of an animal".
The 39-year-old American cave diver died in the partial collapse of an underwater cave during a dive at Indian Springs, Florida. Of the several hundred cave diving deaths in Florida between 1960 and 2010, Turner's was the only one caused by a partial cave collapse. [238] [239] Greg Austin Gingrich 28 November 1992
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