26Monica Meyer
In 1980, Monica Meyer, the mayor of Betterton, Maryland, died while checking her town's sewage tanks. She fell in and drowned in 15 feet of human waste.
27. During the 1970s Cambodian genocide by the Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge, people in Cambodia were killed for being academics or for merely wearing eyeglasses.
28. After John Scott Harrison (son of President William Henry Harrison) died, his body was stolen from his grave. His body was later found hanging naked from a rope in a chute located in the Ohio Medical College by his son.
29. A total of 62 extras and crew members died after a fire broke out while filming the Indian historical drama “The Sword of Tipu Sultan (1989).” It is the largest number of on-set deaths in film history.
30. Botanist David Douglas, after whom the Douglas fir was named, died by falling into a bull pit under mysterious circumstances at the age of 35. Prior to that he identified over 200 important plant species and is still a hero to botanists today.
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31Alcohol Intoxication
In 2004, a Taiwanese woman died of alcohol intoxication after immersion for twelve hours in a bathtub filled with 40% ethanol. Her blood alcohol content was 1.35%. It was believed that she had immersed herself in response to the SARS epidemic.
32. French actor and playwright Molière collapsed on stage while performing in the last play he had written. He recovered, insisted on completing his performance, before collapsing again and dying hours afterward.
33. As of May 2021, three people have been killed playing tug of war, fifteen fingers and thumbs have been amputated, and two arms have been severed below the shoulder. Two of those lives and six of those digits were lost by children attempting to get into the Guinness Book of Records.
34. Eleven active Major League Baseball players died between 1900 and 1910. Their causes of death include ingesting carbolic acid, inhaling illuminating gas, cutting their own throat, and being swept over Niagara Falls.
35. Notorious gangster Al Capone had the mental age of a 12-year-old at the time of his death and the years prior to his death, despite being 48 years old. This was caused by mental illness due to untreated neurosyphilis.
36Pablito Picasso
Pablo Picasso's grandson "Pablito Picasso" drank a bottle of bleach after Pablo's wife Jacqueline Roque stopped Pablito from attending his grandfather's funeral. Pablito died after 3 months of suffering.
37. Since 2012, 6 people have choked to death during competitive eating contests (as of May 2021).
38. In 1950, a 20-year-old amateur herpetologist named Kevin Budden died of a taipan snake bite which he captured for antivenom research. News of Budden’s death inspired others to capture more snake species, resulting in the development of five new antivenoms within 12 years of Budden’s death.
39. In 2020, 9 members of the same family died in China after eating stale corn-based noodles, which gave them Bongkrekic acid poisoning. The three kids that survived refused to eat the noodles.
40. Kirsty MacColl, vocalist and female singer in "Fairytale of New York", died saving her son from an oncoming powerboat owned by a multimillionaire while vacationing in Cozumel, Mexico. The boat's driver escaped jail time by paying a fine of $90.
