1. 458 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.
2. 336 AD: Arius, the heretical priest who precipitated the Council of Nicea, passed wind and evacuated his internal organs.
3. 1322AD: Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford was fatally speared through the anus by a pikeman hidden under the bridge during the Battle of Boroughbridge.
4. 1514 AD: György Dózsa, a Hungarian man-at-arms and peasants’ revolt leader was condemned to sit on a heated iron throne with a heated iron crown on his head and a heated sceptre in his hand (mocking at his ambition to be king). While Dózsa was suffering, he was set upon and eaten by six of his fellow rebels, who had been starved beforehand.
5. 1771 AD: King of Sweden, Adolf Frederick, died of digestion problems on February 12, 1771 after having consumed a meal consisting of lobster, caviar, sauerkraut, smoked herring and champagne, which was topped off with 14 servings of his favorite dessert: semla served in a bowl of hot milk.
6. 1865 AD: Lord Francis Douglas died after falling 4000 feet, having completed the first summit of the Matterhorn.
7. 1868AD: Matthew Vassar, brewer and founder of Vassar College, died in mid-speech while delivering his farewell address to the College Board of Trustees.
8. 1912 AD: Franz Reichelt, who was a tailor. Fell to his death off the first deck of the Eiffel Tower while testing his invention, the coat parachute. It was his first ever attempt with the parachute and he had told the authorities in advance he would test it first with a dummy.
9. 1998 AD: In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a soccer game ended when every player on the visiting team was struck by a fork bolt of lightning, killing them all instantly.
10. 2005 AD: 28-year-old South Korean, Lee Seung Seop, collapsed of fatigue and died after playing StarCraft for almost 50 consecutive hours in an Internet cafe.
