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Famous Deaths in History

Guess the historical figure based on their unusual passing. Some will be more obscure, some will be more bizzare, and some will be ridiculous, while others will be extremely well known.
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A famous renaissance painter who's death was rumored to have happened after very passionate intercourse and then falling into a fever where the doctors ended up accidently killing him
Raphael
A famous philosopher forced to drink hemlock
Socrates
A Greek king who was killed by a monkey bite
King Alexander I
A famous Athenian statesman, known for his strict laws, suffocated from an excited crowd throwing clothes on him in affection
Draco
A famous president who was shot in the head watching a play
Abraham Lincoln
A Greek philosopher known for his great sense of humour, supposedly died of laughter from making a joke about a giving a donkey some wine after he had witnessed it eat figs.
Chrysippus
Died on his wedding day due to supposedly an assassination by his new wife...or just chocked on his own blood from a nosebleed
Attila the Hun
After murdering a shaman who predicted his death, he fell through the latrine pit in the washroom and drowned (essentially drowning in a toilet)
Jing of Jin
A roman emperor who became a prisoner of a Persian king, eventually dying from being forced to drink molten gold
Valerian
A Greek dramatic poet said to be killed by an eagle dropping a tortoise on his head
Aeschylus
Famously known to have been assassinated with his last words, according to a play, being: "Et tu, Brute?"
Julius Caesar
He was poisoned with cake and wine, shot with a revolver twice, and then dumped in a river
Grigory Rasputin
A roman emperor who had become so enraged, screaming and yelling, that he died from a stroke
Valentinian
A terrible king who died in the middle of a game of chess
King Ivan the Terrible
He jumped in a volcano to prove that he was immortal, ended up just dying instead
Empedocles
A famous escape artist that died due to a ruptured appendix, believed to have been caused by being punched in the gut by an amateur boxer
Harry Houdini
Physicist and chemist who passed due aplastic anaemia arising from excessive exposure to radiation
Marie Curie
A famous pirate that was found to have died from 5 gunshot wounds and twenty sword wounds
Captain Edward Teach (Blackbeard)
An English pope who died anticlimactically died from choking on a fly that was floating in his wine glass
Pope Adrian IV
This queen's execution via axe failed twice, forcing the executioner to use his axe to saw the rest of her neck off
Mary, Queen of Scots
A Danish astronomer that died due to complications from holding in his urine at a banquet, worried that it'd be impolite to leave the table before finishing his meal
Tycho Brahe
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2 Comments
SpartanLlama
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Level 79
Feb 12, 2025
Wow Draco got loved to death
whatamidoinghere
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Level 42
Feb 14, 2025
What a way to go!
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