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(#13) Edward Juchniewicz
In May 1991, a 76-year-old man perished when the ambulance stretcher he was strapped to rolled down a grade and overturned. Juchniewicz suffered a head injury and was no longer living a short time later.
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(#49) Vladimir Komarov
- Dec. at 40 (1927-1967)
He became the first person to perish during a space mission after the parachute of his capsule failed to deploy following re-entry.
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(#31) Martha Mansfield
- Dec. at 24 (1899-1923)
The American film actress passed after sustaining severe burns on the set of the film The Warrens of Virginia after her Civil War-era costume caught fire.
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(#42) Thomas Midgley, Jr.
- Dec. at 55 (1889-1944)
Midgley accidentally strangled himself with the cord of a pulley-operated mechanical bed of his own design.
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(#44) Tom Lonergan
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Lonergan was stranded while scuba diving with a group of divers off Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The group's boat accidentally abandoned them owing to an incorrect head count taken by the dive boat crew. Their corpses were never recovered. The incident inspired the film Open Water and an episode of 20/20.
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(#32) Bandō Mitsugorō VIII
- Dec. at 69 (1906-1975)
The Japanese kabuki actor suffered severe poisoning after claiming not to be effected by the substances in fugu livers (also known as pufferfish). He consumed four and passed.
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In the 20th century, light and shadow have been circulating for a hundred years. Diana, Monroe, JFK, and many other celebrities of the 20th century have already passed away for a long time. The deaths of celebrities are often interpreted as bizarre twists and turns because of the attention they received when they were alive. There are poignant love stories, magnificent stories of struggle, or tragic life incidents.
However, more and more evidence shows that in the 20th century, the deaths of many celebrities were not as simple as people thought. The random tool tells 55 stories of bizarre deaths of the last century.
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