List of unusual deaths in the 19th century

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|File:Hammersmith Ghost.PNG

|{{dts|3 January 1804}}

|The 32-year-old plasterer was shot and killed by excise officer Francis Smith, who mistook him for the Hammersmith ghost due to his white uniform. Smith was later sentenced to death, but his sentence was commuted to one year's imprisonment with hard labor, and he received a full pardon later in the year.{{cite magazine|last=Baggoley|first=Martin|date=2015-04-09|title=The Hammersmith Ghost and the Strange Death of Thomas Millwood|url=https://www.crimemagazine.com/hammersmith-ghost-and-strange-death-thomas-millwood|magazine=Crime Magazine|access-date=2024-08-17}}{{Cite web|title=10 Historical Deaths Weirder Than the Movies|url=https://historycollection.com/10-historical-deaths-weirder-than-the-movies/|first=Khalid|last=Elhassan|date=2018-07-04|access-date=2024-09-06|website=History Collection}}

|File:Horseshoe Brewery, London, c. 1800.jpg

|{{dts|17 October 1814}}

|At Meux & Co's Horse Shoe Brewery, a 22-foot-tall (6.7 m) wooden vat of fermenting porter burst, causing chain reactions and destroying several large beer barrels. The beer subsequently flooded the nearby slum and killed eight people. Several people also subsequently died from alcohol poisoning as a result of vaporized liquor.{{cite web|last1=Mikkelson|first1=Barbara|last2=Mikkelson|first2=David|date=2007-01-17|orig-date=Originally published 31 August 2002|title=Did a Beer Flood Kill 9 People?|url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/a-brew-to-a-kill/|access-date=2024-08-07|website=Snopes|quote=The ongoing spate of Internet reports of unusual deaths, both real and fictional, might lead some to believe extraordinary modes of demise are a recent phenomenon. Nothing could be further from the truth — the Grim Reaper has always found incredible methods of ending human life.|department=Fact Check}}{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/friday-zak-ebrahim-stolen-cabin-sphinx-unearthed-and-more-1.2902846/a-real-beer-tsunami-remembering-the-big-british-beer-flood-of-october-1814-with-brewing-historian-martyn-cornell-1.2902838|title="A real beer tsunami". Remembering the big British beer flood of October, 1814 with brewing historian Martyn Cornell|publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|department=As It Happens|date=2014-10-17|access-date=2024-08-07}}{{cite web|last=Johnson|first=Ben|title=The London Beer Flood of 1814|publisher=Historic UK|access-date=2024-08-12|url=https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/The-London-Beer-Flood-of-1814/|quote=A bizarre industrial accident resulted in the release of a beer tsunami onto the streets around Tottenham Court Road... This unique disaster was responsible for the gradual phasing out of wooden fermentation casks to be replaced by lined concrete vats.}}

|File:William Henry Harrison by James Reid Lambdin, 1835.jpg

|{{dts|4 April 1841}}

|The 9th President of the United States died a month after his inauguration from an illness (possibly pneumonia or enteric fever) that developed after he stood in the rain to deliver his 2-hour-long inaugural address, the longest by any U.S. President. Medical treatments Harrison received in the last week of his life included opium, castor oil and leeches. Harrison remains the U.S. President to have served the shortest term in office and was the first President to die in office.{{cite web|url=https://collegeofphysicians.org/programs/education-blog/what-killed-william-henry-harrison|author=((Mütter EDU Staff))|title=What Killed William Henry Harrison?|publisher=College of Physicians of Philadelphia|department=Education Blog|date=2017-01-20|access-date=2024-08-12|quote=Since today is inauguration day, allow me to shed light on what has to be one of the most unusual inauguration stories: the death of William Henry Harrison.}}{{Cite web|last=Paoletti|first=Gabe|editor-last=Kuroski|editor-first=John|date=2019-07-31|orig-date=Originally published 13 November 2017|title=The Strange Deaths Of 16 Historic And Famous Figures|url=https://allthatsinteresting.com/strange-deaths|access-date=2024-08-08|website=All That's Interesting|quote=Many of history's most important figures have suffered strange deaths that do not seem to befit their noble legacy.}}

|File:Zachary Taylor half plate daguerreotype c1843-45.png

|{{dts|9 July 1850}}

|The 12th President of the United States died of diarrhea and dysentry 5 days after consuming raw cherries and iced milk at a 4th of July event at the site of the Washington Monument.{{cite web|title=Dead President: Zachary Taylor and His Calamitous Chow Down|website=The Skeleton Key Chronicles|date=2020-02-18|access-date=2024-08-12|url=https://theskeletonkeychronicles.com/2020/02/18/dead-president-zachary-taylor-and-his-calamitous-chow-down/|quote=We all learn about assassinations of presidents in history class but I was looking for something a bit more unusual, and I found it – the death of Zachary Taylor.}}{{cite web|last=Savey|first=Edward|title=US President Zachary Taylor|website=ConstitutionUS.com|date=2021-07-06|access-date=2024-08-12|url=https://constitutionus.com/presidents/us-president-zachary-taylor/|quote=Then you have those remembered for their short stay in the White House and unusual cause of death. The 12th president, Zachary Taylor, belongs to the latter category.}} Persistent speculation that Taylor was poisoned would lead to the exhumation of some of his remains in 1991, but scientific testing found no evidence of poison.

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|{{dts|11 January 1854}}

|The 13-year-old died in San Francisco, California, reportedly after a circus clown named Manuel Rays swung him around by his heels.{{Cite news|last=Bletchly|first=Rachel|date=2012-11-02|title=Death and dumb: The 13-year-old killed by a circus clown and other truly epic exits|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/weirdest-deaths-the-13-year-old-killed-by-a-circus-1412109|access-date=2024-07-03|work=Daily Mirror}}{{cite web|last=Henley|first=Nicole|url=https://nicolehenley.medium.com/this-might-be-the-strangest-death-in-all-of-history-43638bb72613|title=This Might Be the Strangest Death in All of History|date=11 March 2020|access-date=13 September 2024|quote=However it transpired, it goes without saying that this death has arguably gone down as one of, if not the most, unusual reported manners in which someone rode the pale horse.}}

|File:The Great Lozenge-Maker A Hint to Paterfamilias.jpg

|{{dts|1858}}

|In Bradford, England, a batch of sweets accidentally poisoned with arsenic trioxide were sold by William Hardaker, colloquially referred to as "Humbug Billy". Around five boxes of sweets were delivered and sold. Around 20 people died and 200 people suffered from the effects of the poison.{{cite web|last=Johnson|first=Ben|title=Dying for a Humbug, the Bradford Sweets Poisoning 1858|publisher=Historic UK|date=2014-12-08|access-date=2024-08-12|url=https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Dying-for-Humbug-the-Bradford-Sweets-Poisoning-1858/}}{{cite web|last1=Baldwin|first1=Cassidy|last2=Rushton|first2=William|title=Halloween Sadism: A Review of Poisoned Halloween Candy|url=https://www.alacep.org/halloween-sadism-a-review-of-poisoned-halloween-candy/|website=Alabama American College of Emergency Physicians|access-date=2024-08-12|quote=Yet, the historical literature reports only few isolated cases over the last 150 years...}}

|File:JimCreighton.png

|{{dts|18 October 1862}}

|The 21-year-old American baseball player from Manhattan died from abdominal pain, possibly caused by pitching or swinging at the ball, which likely gave him a ruptured bladder or a ruptured hernia.{{cite web|url=https://tht.fangraphs.com/tht-live/150th-anniversary-jim-creightons-fatal-swing/|last=Jaffe|first=Chris|title=150th anniversary: Jim Creighton's fatal swing|work=The Hardball Times|date=2012-10-14|access-date=2024-09-22|quote=But no single event is stranger to us or better demonstrated how very different the game was in its early years than what happened 150 years ago today.}}{{cite news|title=Recalling a New Pitch and a Strange Death|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/in-brooklyn-honoring-a-baseball-pioneer/|last=Schweber|first=Nate|date=2012-10-18|access-date=2024-09-22|newspaper=The New York Times|department=Local History}}

|File:Julius_Peter_Garesché_(1862).jpg

|{{dts|31 December 1862}}

|The Cuban-born professional soldier was killed on the first day of the Battle of Stones River when a cannonball decapitated him.{{cite book|page=145|last=Stritch|first=Thomas|title=The Catholic Church in Tennessee: The Sesquicentennial Story|location=Nashville|publisher=Catholic Center|year=1987|isbn=9780961826000|access-date=2024-09-05|via=Google Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lwriAAAAMAAJ&q=bizarre%20mischance|quote=Julius was killed in a bizarre mischance when his head was blown off by a stray cannon ball as he rode with General Rosecrans near Murfreesboro.}}{{cite web|last=Pittard|first=Homer|title=The Strange Death of Julius Peter Garesché|url=https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/civil-war-cubans/garesche-death.htm|website=latinamericanstudies.org|access-date=2024-09-05}}

|File:Matilde de Áustria-Teschen.5.jpg

|{{dts|6 June 1867}}

|The daughter of Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen set her dress on fire while trying to hide a cigarette from her father, who had forbidden her to smoke.{{Cite book|title=Twilight of the Habsburgs. The Life and Times of Emperor Francis Joseph|last=Palmer|first=Alan|publisher=Phoenix Giant|year=1997|isbn=978-1857998696|location=London|page=158}}{{verify source|date=October 2024}}{{Cite web|url=https://landesarchiv.hessen.de/sites/landesarchiv.hessen.de/files/Newsletter%20HessenArchiv%20aktuell%202020_09.pdf|language=German|title=Brandunfall der Erzherzogin Mathilde von Österreich|pages=5|trans-title=The Fire Death of Archduchess Mathilda of Austria|work=HessenArchiv aktuelle 9/2020|publisher=Hessisches Landesarchiv|access-date=24 October 2021|archive-date=24 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024094839/https://landesarchiv.hessen.de/sites/landesarchiv.hessen.de/files/Newsletter%20HessenArchiv%20aktuell%202020_09.pdf|url-status=dead}}

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|{{dts|1869}}

|A woman in Gayton le Marsh, Lincolnshire, England, became severely ill and later died after consuming her own hair for 12 years.{{cite news|title=Extraordinary Case.|newspaper=Liverpool Daily Post|date=1869-11-03|quote=The Times gives the particulars of a death which took place a few days ago from a singular cause at Grayton-le-Marsh [sic]... "The occurrence of a similar case to the above is either so rare or so seldom detected, that several medical men of large experience never remember ever having heard of one like it."}}, cited in {{cite web|title=11 unusual tales of terror from historical newspapers|date=2014-10-27|department=Blog|website=The British Newspaper Archive|url=https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2014/10/27/11-unusual-tales-of-terror-from-historical-newspapers/|access-date=2024-10-05}}{{Cite news|date=2013-12-25|last=Clay|first=Jeremy|title=10 truly bizarre Victorian deaths|publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25340525|access-date=2024-09-02|work=BBC News|url-status=live|archive-date=2018-05-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180519152935/http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25340525}}

|File:Clement Vallandigham - Brady-Handy.jpg

|{{dts|17 June 1871}}

|The American politician and lawyer, who was defending a man accused of murder, accidentally shot himself while demonstrating how the victim might have done so. His client was acquitted.{{cite news|url=http://www.civil-war-150.com/tag/clement-vallandigham|title=Fatal Accident to Mr. Vallandigham|newspaper=Western Reserve Chronicle|date=1871-06-21|page=2|access-date=2022-02-21|via=The American Civil War @ 150|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103232217/http://www.civil-war-150.com/tag/clement-vallandigham|archive-date=2013-11-03|quote=Here is a newspaper account of the unusual death of Clement Vallandigham, a leader of the Copperhead Democrats during the Civil War.}}{{cite web|url=http://www.historiclebanonohio.com/?q=vallandigham|title=Death of Clement Vallandigham|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151103215850/http://www.historiclebanonohio.com/?q=vallandigham|archive-date=2015-11-03}}{{Cite web|title=20 Unusual Deaths from the History Books|url=https://historycollection.com/20-unusual-deaths-from-the-history-books/|author=Steve|date=2019-08-07|access-date=2024-09-05|website=History Collection}}

|File:Mob-lynching-1.jpg

|{{dts|6 November 1873}}

|The 25-year-old Irish man became the only man ever lynched in Mapleton, Maine,{{cite journal |last1=Winslow York |first1=Dena Lynn |date=1 June 2001 |title=“They Lynched Jim Cullen”: Story and Myth on the Northern Maine Frontier |url=https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1205&context=mainehistoryjournal |archive-url=https://archive.ph/EX7O3 |archive-date=19 April 2025 |journal=Maine History |volume=40 |issue=2 |publisher=Maine Historical Society and University of Maine History Department |pages=126-136 |access-date=19 April 2025}} after he committed a robbery and beat two deputy sheriffs to death with an axe.{{Cite web|last=Dan_nehs|date=2020-11-20|title=A Lynching in Maine: What Happened to James Cullen|url=https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/a-lynching-in-maine-what-happened-to-james-cullen/|access-date=2024-10-30|website=New England Historical Society|department=Crime and Scandal|quote=A lynching in Maine is an unusual thing. Throughout New England, lynching was extremely rare.}}

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|{{dts|1875}}

|A factory worker in Manchester found a mouse on her table and screamed. A man rushed over to her and tried to shoo it away, but it tried to hide in his clothes, and when he gasped in surprise the mouse dove into his mouth and he swallowed it. The mouse tore and bit the man's throat and chest, and he later died "in horrible agony".{{cite news|last=O'Neal|first=Eamonn|title=Man dies after swallowing a mouse.|newspaper=Manchester Evening News|department=Greater Manchester News|date=2013-12-31|access-date=2024-08-18|url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/mouse-kills-man-after-being-6453511|quote=In 1875, we reported on a very unusual death.}}

|File:Dublin Whiskey Fire 1875.png

|{{dts|18 June 1875}}

|At The Liberties, Dublin, Ireland (then part of the United Kingdom), a fire broke out at Laurence Malone's bonded storehouse on the corner of Ardee Street, where 5,000 hogsheads ({{convert|262500|impgal|disp=or}}) of whiskey were being stored. The heat caused the barrels in the storehouse to explode, sending a stream of whiskey flowing through the doors and windows of the burning building. The burning whiskey then flowed along the streets where it quickly demolished a row of small houses. Despite the damage from the fire, all of the resulting 13 fatalities were caused by alcohol poisoning after drinking the undiluted flooded whiskey.{{Cite news|first=Dean|last=Ruxton|date=2016-08-03|title=The night a river of whiskey ran through the streets of Dublin|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/offbeat/the-night-a-river-of-whiskey-ran-through-the-streets-of-dublin-1.2743517|access-date=2022-04-28|newspaper=The Irish Times}}{{cite magazine|last=Hyland|first=Adam|date=2020-06-18|title=The Great Whiskey Fire|url=https://firecall.ie/the-great-whiskey-fire/|magazine=Firecall official magazine of Dublin Fire, Ambulance, and Emergency Services|quote="There were 13 deaths, but not one of them was caused by fire itself," Las says. "They were all to do with the madness that took hold. Some of the stories were very sad, but some of them were also bizarre."}}{{cite web|last=Mock|first1=Nancy|title=The Shocking Story Behind The Great Whiskey Fire Of Dublin|url=https://www.mashed.com/493134/the-shocking-story-behind-the-great-whiskey-fire-of-dublin/|website=Mashed.com|publisher=Mashed |access-date=10 January 2025|quote=Even as people were trying to escape the blaze, hundreds more flocked to the area to witness the unbelievable event and to help themselves to free whiskey.}}

|File:The Self Acting Guillotine.jpg

|{{dts|10 June 1876}}

|The 37-year-old blacksmith, self-proclaimed inventor, and American Civil War veteran killed himself with a makeshift guillotine.{{Cite news|date=1876-06-15|title=A Strange Suicide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lKcnAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA1|access-date=2024-09-24|work=Crawfordsville Star|at=Page 1, column 3|via=Google Newspapers}}{{Cite news|date=1876-06-22|title=The Guillotine|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015854/1876-06-22/ed-1/seq-3/|access-date=2024-09-24|work=The Knoxville Journal|at=Page 3, column 3|via=Chronicling America|quote=The situation, as they found it, was bad enough, but the appliances which had been used to produce death were most wonderful, and will stand in the history of suicides without a parallel.}}{{Cite news|last=Kriebel|first=Bob|date=2016-11-25|orig-date=Reprint of columns printed 1989-10-22, 1989-10-29, and 1989-11-05|title=The unusual, tragic death of James Moon|url=https://www.jconline.com/story/news/history/2016/11/25/unusual-tragic-death-james-moon/94184470/|access-date=2024-09-01|newspaper=Journal & Courier}}

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|{{dts|October 1881}}

|A British servant of one Mr. Birchall was instructed by his master to retrieve a four-chambered pistol.{{Cite web|date=2016-12-09|last=Pinheiro|first=Maria|title=9 of the Strangest Victorian Deaths Reported in the Newspapers|url=https://the-line-up.com/victorian-deaths|access-date=2024-08-18|website=The Lineup|department=Bizarre|quote=Then, in an absurd case of irony, the servant managed to duplicate Hague's fate.}} Hague did so, but while examining the gun he shot himself in the jaw, which caused instant death. He was discovered by another servant, who also shot herself demonstrating how Hague died.{{Cite news|date=1881-10-15|title=Tragic Affair at Widnes.|newspaper=The Yorkshire Herald and the York Herald|location=York, North Yorkshire, England|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-yorkshire-herald-and-the-york-herald/25893734/|access-date=2024-10-20|via=Newspapers.com}}{{failed verification|date=October 2024|reason=Source does not describe deaths as unusual.}}

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|{{dts|19 December 1881}}

|The former British MP died after sustaining severe internal injuries when he fell on a turnip while hunting.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/391692319|title=Death of Sir William Gallway|newspaper=The Northern Echo|date=1881-12-20|access-date=2024-10-20}}{{failed verification|date=October 2024|reason=Source does not describe death as unusual.}}{{cite news|department=UK Politics|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/andy-mcsmiths-diary-the-enemy-within-chequers-at-sam-cams-delayed-40th-9934549.html|title=Andy McSmith's Diary: The enemy within Chequers at Sam Cam's delayed 40th|newspaper=The Independent|date=2014-12-18|access-date=2024-10-20}}{{failed verification|date=October 2024|reason=Source does not describe death as unusual.}}

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|{{dts|31 December 1885}}

|The lamplighter in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York, had attached a {{convert|10|lb|adj=on}} rock to his alarm clock, which would crash to the floor and awaken him. On Christmas Eve, he rearranged his furniture for a party, but forgot to change his room back afterwards. When the alarm mechanism went off the next morning, the rock fell on his head and killed him.{{cite news|title=A Singular Death.|newspaper=The Representative|location=Fox Lake, Wisconsin|date=1886-01-13|at=Page 2, column 3|access-date=2024-08-03|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-representative-strange-death-of-samu/19729595/|via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite web|date=2018-06-04|title=Strange and Unusual Deaths in the 19th Century|url=https://caasbrey.com/obscure-and-mysterious-victoriana/strange-and-unusual-deaths-in-the-19th-century/|access-date=2024-08-01|website=C.A. Asbrey}}

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|{{dts|13 May 1886}}

|The 8-year-old boy from Aroostook County, Maine, died from a hemorrhage after having a live snake pulled out of his mouth. The snake was speculated to have gone down his throat after he had "gone to sleep in some field".{{cite news|title=That Hissing Snake That was Pulled Out of a Boy's Mouth—The Original Story Confirmed—Further Particulars—A Horrible Fate.|at=Page 3, column 3|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sun-journal/152989002/|access-date=2024-08-27|newspaper=Sun-Journal|location=Lewiston, Maine|date=1886-05-11|quote=A strange case which has recently come under the notice of the physicians, is the unhappy fate of the little boy who lived a few miles below Grand Falls... The above case is an actual fact, and so far as we can learn, it is unparalleled.}}{{cite news|title=The Aroostook Snake Story.|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-portland-daily-press/152988956/|access-date=2024-08-10|newspaper=Portland Daily Press|location=Portland, Maine|date=1886-05-13|at=Page 1, column 9|quote=A short time ago the strange story of a snake being pulled out of the mouth of a boy who lived near Grand Falls, in Aroostook county, was telegraphed the papers. Since then the case, which is believed to be unparalleled, has attracted the attention of physicians, and the story is fully confirmed.|via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite news|title=A Live Snake in a Boy's Stomach. He Died of Hemorrhage Soon After it Had Been Pulled From His Mouth.|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-and-democrat/152989164/|access-date=2024-08-10|newspaper=The Times and Democrat|location=Orangeburg, South Carolina|date=1886-05-20|at=Page 5, column 3|quote=The almost incredible story recently printed about the death of a boy near Grand Falls from hemorrhage caused by pulling from his mouth a live snake which had grown to his flesh proves to be literally true.|via=Newspapers.com}}

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|{{dts|16 March 1887}}

|According to an autopsy during her inquest, the 25-year-old woman, living in Redfern, New South Wales at the time, died from peritonitis due to an internal injury inflicted by Dr. Sabowiski with the intent of "procuring abortion".{{cite news|date=1887-03-22|newspaper=The Queanbeyan Age|via=Trove|title=THE STRANGE DEATH OF A WOMAN AT REDFERN.|at=Page 2, columns 4–5|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/30915859}}{{cite news|date=1887-03-26|newspaper=The Western Star and Roma Advertiser|via=Trove|title=New South Wales.|at=Page 2, column 2|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/102548358/10372008|quote=The coroner's inquest on the body of Mrs. Caroline Yates, who died under suspicions circumstances at Redfern last week, was concluded to-day.}}

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|{{dts|22 August 1888}}

|At around 8:30{{nbsp}}pm, a shower of meteorites fell "like rain" on a village in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq (then part of the Ottoman Empire). One man was paralyzed and another died. His death is considered the only credible case of death-by-meteorite.{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/meteor-man-death-first-person-killed-iraq-turkey-ottoman-empire-a9484231.html|last=Stubley|first=Peter|title=First credible evidence emerges of person being killed by meteor|date=2020-04-25|newspaper=The Independent|department=Science|access-date=2024-10-01|quote=The odds of being struck and killed by a meteorite are said to be as low as one in 250,000.}}{{cite web|last=Atkinson|first=Nancy|title=Terrible Luck. The Only Person Ever Killed by a Meteorite – Back in 1888|website=Universe Today|date=2020-04-29|access-date=2024-10-01|url=https://www.universetoday.com/145884/terrible-luck-the-only-person-ever-killed-by-a-meteorite-back-in-1888/|quote=One astronomer put the odds of death by space rock at 1 in 700,000 in a lifetime, while others say it's more like 1 in 1,600,000. Computing the probability for such an untimely death is difficult because this type of event is so rare.}}{{cite magazine|last=Betz|first=Eric|title=A meteorite killed a man in Iraq in 1888, historic records suggest|date=2023-05-18|orig-date=Originally published 12 May 2020|magazine=Astronomy|access-date=2024-10-01|url=https://www.astronomy.com/science/a-meteorite-killed-a-man-in-iraq-in-1888-historic-records-suggest/|quote=If they can find related meteorites in the area, the victim will be the only confirmed human in history killed by a meteorite.}}

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|{{dts|August 1891}}

|A bear walked into the barkeep's inn in Vilna, Russia (now part of Lithuania) and picked up a keg of vodka. When he tried to take it back, he was hugged to death by the intoxicated bear along with his two sons and daughter. Villagers shot and killed the bear.{{Cite news|date=1891-08-27|title=Killed by a Drunken Bear|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000321/18910927/053/0004 |url-access=subscription|access-date=2024-09-24|work=The Nottingham Evening Post|pages=4|via=British Newspaper Archive|quote=A strange and terrible accident has just occurred in the neighbourhood of Vilna, in Russia.}}

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|{{dts|1892}}

|A sailor in Bermuda was arguing with other sailors, but the argument turned into a fight and the sailor was pushed into the water. A marine began undressing for a rescue attempt, but an officer ordered him to stop because there was a boat nearby that had ladies on it. As the sailor continued struggling in the water, five men volunteered to save him, but he had already drowned.{{Cite news|date=1892-06-09|title=Delicacy and Drowning|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000264/18920609/056/0007|url-access=subscription|access-date=2024-09-25|work=Western Daily Press|pages=7|via=British Newspaper Archive|quote=The Hampshire Telegraph, in its 'Naval Section', relates the following curious story from Bermuda.}}

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|{{dts|April 1893}}

|The Australian woman stumbled into a barbed-wire fence, possibly while intoxicated, and was strangled by her fur collar.{{cite news|date=1893-04-18|at=Page 6, column 1|title=THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH AT WEST MELBOURNE. THE BODY IDENTIFIED.|newspaper=The Argus|location=Melbourne|access-date=2024-08-17|via=Trove|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/8539231}}{{Cite web|date=2016-12-09|last=Pinheiro|first=Maria|title=9 of the Strangest Victorian Deaths Reported in the Newspapers|url=https://the-line-up.com/victorian-deaths|access-date=2024-08-18|website=The Lineup|department=Bizarre}}

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|{{dts|1895}}

|The former United States Congressman from Alabama disappears from the historical record after his 1895 imprisonment for pension fraud in Albany, New York. He was reportedly killed by an unknown animal while coal mining near Denver, Colorado, {{circa|1916}}, but there is little or no historical evidence for this.{{Cite news|date=2020-02-26|last=Lyman|first=Brian|title=Killed by wild beasts: The strange story of Jeremiah Haralson's 'death'|url=https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/in-depth/news/2020/02/26/jeremiah-haralson-death-wild-beasts-ansel-wold/4684366002/|access-date=2024-08-14|newspaper=Montgomery Advertiser}}{{Cite news|date=2020-02-26|last=Lyman|first=Brian|title=The lost congressman: Sources for Jeremiah Haralson's remarkable life|quote=The manner of death was bizarre...|url=https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/in-depth/news/2020/02/26/jeremiah-haralson-life-death-sources-lost-congressman/4780636002/|access-date=2024-08-14|newspaper=Montgomery Advertiser}}

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|{{dts|17 August 1896}}

|The 44-year-old, the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in Great Britain,{{cite news|title=Fatal crash with self-driving car was a first – like Bridget Driscoll's was 121 years ago with one of the first cars|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/tripping/wp/2018/03/22/fatal-crash-with-self-driving-car-was-a-first-like-bridget-driscolls-was-121-years-ago-with-one-of-the-first-cars/|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=2018-03-22|access-date=2023-12-26|url-access=subscription|quote=But Driscoll's death was so unusual that the matter landed in Coroners Court for a full-blown inquest.}} was struck on the grounds of the Crystal Palace in London, by a car belonging to the Anglo-French Motor Carriage Company while giving demonstration rides.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10987606|title=How the UK's first fatal car accident unfolded|first=Andrew|last=McFarlane|work=BBC News|date=2010-08-17|access-date=2013-08-27|quote=Melvyn Harrison, of historical group the Crystal Palace Foundation, says people would have been simply bemused at the sight of these "horseless carriages". "It was such a rare animal to be on the roads and, for her to be killed, people would have thought the story was made up," he says.}}

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|{{dts|October 1897}}

|The group of men died of exhaustion on the island Kvitøya after trying to reach the North Pole by hot air balloon.{{cite magazine|title=Last Balloon to Nowhere|magazine=True Magazine|last1=Cross|first1=Wilbur|last2=Hellbom|first2=Thorleif|quote=There was no reason at all why the explorers should have perished when and where they did...|date=August 1962}}, cited in {{Cite web|year=2007|title=Solomon August Andrée – Sweden: The First Attempt of a Flight to the North Pole|access-date=2024-09-06|website=The Aviation History On-Line Museum|url=http://www.aviation-history.com/airmen/andree.htm}}{{cite web|title=The Flight of Andrée's Balloon Eagle 5|last=Vojir|first=Vladimir|translator-last=Kriz|translator-first=Pavel|department=Mysteries of the Arctic|date=1999–2000|access-date=2024-09-22|url=https://www.vova.cz/pgs1_a/ark_orel_a.htm|website=www.vova.cz|quote=Here they perished one by one after an almost three month long exhausting march under strange and never clarified circumstances...}}{{Self-published source|date=September 2024}}{{cite news|date=2012-02-05|access-date=2024-09-22|last=Quamme|first=Margaret|title=Ill-fated balloon trip among more unusual attempts to reach North Pole|newspaper=The Columbus Dispatch|quote=One of the more unusual attacks on the pole was made by Salomon August Andree, a Swedish engineer who in 1897 tried to fly over it in a hydrogen-filled balloon.|department=Books|url=https://www.dispatch.com/story/entertainment/books/2012/02/05/ill-fated-balloon-trip-among/23514406007/}}

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|{{dts|10 September 1898}}

|Stabbed with a thin file by Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni while strolling through Geneva with her lady-in-waiting Irma Sztáray. The wound pierced her pericardium and a lung. Her extremely tight corset held the wound closed, so she did not realize what had happened (believing a passerby had struck her), and walked on for some time before collapsing.{{Cite book|title=Elizabeth, empress of Austria: a memoir|last=De Burgh|first=Edward Morgan Alborough|publisher=J. B. Lippincott & Co.|year=1899|location=Philadelphia|page=310}}{{verify source|date=October 2024}}{{Cite book|title=L'attentato. La morte dell'Imperatrice Elisabetta e il delitto dell'anarchico Lucheni|trans-title=The attack. The death of Empress Elisabeth and the crime of the anarchist Lucheni|language=it|last1=Matray|first1=Maria|last2=Krüger|first2=Answald|publisher=Mgs Press|year=1998|isbn=978-8886424561|location=Trieste}}{{verify source|date=October 2024}}