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207 BC: Greek philosopher Chrysippus is said to have died of laughter after watching his drunken donkey attempt to eat figs.

258: St. Lawrence was martyred by being grilled over a fire on a large metal gridiron at Rome. According to legend, Lawrence refused to give information about the Church to the Romans, and instead exclaimed, “I am done on this side! Turn me over.”

1305: Scottish patriot William Wallace was stripped naked and dragged through the city by horse. He was hanged, drawn and quartered, emasculated, eviscerated and his bowels burnt before him, beheaded, then cut into four parts. His preserved head was placed on a pike atop London Bridge, and his limbs were displayed, separately, in Newcastle, Berwick, Stirling, and Aberdeen.

1327: Edward II of England, after being deposed and imprisoned by his Queen consort Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer, is said to have been murdered by having a red-hot iron inserted into his anus.

1771: King of Sweden, Adolf Frederick, died of digestion problems after a meal of lobster, caviar, sauerkraut, smoked herring and champagne, topped off with 14 servings of his favorite dessert: semla served in a bowl of hot milk. He is remembered by Swedish schoolchildren as “the king who ate himself to death.”

1899: French president Félix Faure died of a stroke while receiving oral sex in his office.

1911: Jack Daniel, founder of the Tennessee whiskey distillery, died of blood poisoning six years after receiving a toe injury when he kicked his safe in anger at being unable to remember its combination.

1912: Tailor Franz Reichelt fell to his death from the Eiffel Tower while testing his invention, the coat parachute. It was Reichelt’s first attempt with the parachute, and he’d promised authorities he would first test it with a dummy.

1920: Baseball player Ray Chapman was killed when he was hit in the head by a pitch.

1923: Jockey Frank Hayes suffered a heart attack during a horse race. The horse, Sweet Kiss, continued running and finished first, making Hayes the only deceased jockey to win a race.

1927: J.G. Parry-Thomas, a British racing driver, was decapitated when his car’s drive chain snapped and whipped through the cockpit. Parry-Thomas was attempting to break his own land speed record set the previous year. Despite being killed in the attempt, he succeeded in setting a new record of 171 mph

1927: Dancer Isadora Duncan died of accidental strangulation and a broken neck when one of her trademark long scarves caught on the wheel of a car in which she was a passenger.

1935: Baseball player Len Koenecke was bludgeoned to death with a fire extinguisher by the crew of an aircraft after provoking a fight with the pilot during flight. (Ten bucks is was Delta.)

1941: Writer Sherwood Anderson swallowed a toothpick at a party and died of peritonitis.

1943: Lady Be Good, a USAAF B-24 bomber, lost its way and crash landed in the Libyan Desert. Mummified remains of its crew, who struggled for a week without water, were not found until 1960.

1971: Jerome Rodale, an American pioneer of organic farming, died of a heart attack while being interviewed on “The Dick Cavett Show.” According to urban legend, when Rodale appeared to fall asleep, Cavett quipped, “Are we boring you, Mr. Rodale?” Cavett later stated in a New York Times article that the myth is incorrect; the initial reaction to Rodale’s seizure, he says, was fellow guest Pete Hamill saying in a low voice to Cavett, “This looks bad.” The show was never broadcast.

1972: Leslie Harvey, guitarist of Stone the Crows, was electrocuted on stage by a live microphone.

1974: Christine Chubbuck, an American television news reporter, committed suicide during a live broadcast on July 15. At 9:38 AM, 8 minutes into her talk show on WXLT-TV in Sarasota, Florida, she drew out a revolver and shot herself in the head.

1975: Alex Mitchell, a 50-year-old bricklayer in England, literally died laughing while watching an episode of “The Goodies.” According to his wife, Mitchell was unable to stop laughing while watching a sketch in the episode “Kung Fu Kapers” in which Tim Brooke-Taylor, dressed as a kilted Scotsman, used a set of bagpipes to defend himself from a psychopathic black pudding in a demonstration of the Scottish martial art of “Hoots-Toot-Ochaye.” After twenty-five minutes of continuous laughter, Mitchell finally slumped on the sofa, dead from heart failure.

1976: Keith Relf, former singer for The Yardbirds, was electrocuted while practicing his electric guitar, which was not properly grounded.

1981: Carl McCunn paid a bush pilot to drop him at a remote lake near the Colleen River in Alaska to photograph wildlife, but had not arranged for the pilot to pick him up again. Rather than starve, McCunn shot himself in the head. His body was found in February 1982.

1981: Movie director Boris Sagal died while shooting the TV miniseries World War III when he walked into the tail-rotor blade of a helicopter and was decapitated.

1982: Vic Morrow, actor, was decapitated by a helicopter blade during filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie, along with two child actors, Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen.

1983: Professional diver Sergei Chalibashvili died during the World University Games. When he attempted a three-and-a-half reverse somersault in the tuck position, Chalibashvili smashed his head on the board and was knocked unconscious. He was in a coma for a week before dying.

1984: Jon-Erik Hexum, an American television actor, died after he shot himself in the head with a prop gun during a break in filming on the set of the CBS series Cover Up, a program about a pair of fashion photographers/models who were actually secret agents. Hexum apparently did not realize that blanks use paper or plastic wadding to seal gun powder into the shell, and that this wadding is propelled out of the barrel of the gun with enough force to cause severe injury or death if the weapon is fired at point-blank range.

1984: British TV actor Tommy Cooper collapsed from a massive heart attack in front of millions of television viewers on the popular ITV show, “Live From Her Majesty’s.” At first the audience assumed he was joking.

1990: Aspiring magician Joseph W. Burrus, 32, attempted to perform an illusion of being buried alive in a plastic box covered with cement. The cement crushed the box and smothered Burrus.

1993: Garry Hoy, a Toronto lawyer, fell to his death from the 24th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Centre. Hoy had thrown himself at the window to prove the glass was “unbreakable.”

1997: Daniel Jones, a 21-year-old from Woodbridge, Virginia, died from suffocation when the 8-foot-deep hole he dug at a beach in North Carolina collapsed and buried him in the sand.

1999: Pro wrestler Owen Hart died during a WWE Pay-Per-View event while attempting to perform a stunt. Hart planned to make his ring entrance by being lowered on a rope attached to a safety harness, but the harness broke, dropping Hart nearly 80 feet to the ring below, where he hit his head on a turnbuckle. The Pay-Per-View match continued even after Hart was pronounced dead.

2002: Richard Sumner, a British artist suffering from schizophrenia, mysteriously disappeared in 2002. Three years later, his skeleton was discovered handcuffed to a tree in a remote forest in Wales. Police investigators determined the death was a suicide, with Sumner securing himself with handcuffs and throwing the keys out of reach.

2003: Pizza delivery man Brian Wells was killed by a time bomb which was fastened around his neck. He was apprehended by the police after robbing a bank, and claimed he had been forced to do it by men who put the bomb around his neck and threatened to kill him if he refused. The bomb later exploded, killing him.

2003: Brandon Vedas died of a drug overdose while engaged in an Internet chat, as shown on his webcam.

2003: Timothy Treadwell, an American environmentalist who had lived in the Alaskan wilderness among brown bears for thirteen summers, was killed and partially consumed by a bear, along with his girlfriend Amie Huguenard. The incident is described in Werner Herzog’s documentary film Grizzly Man.

2005: Kenneth Pinyan of Seattle died of acute peritonitis (a lot of that going around) after engaging in anal sex with a stallion. Pinyan delayed his visit to the hospital for several hours out of fear of arrest. The case led to the criminalization of bestiality in Washington. His story was recounted in the 2007 documentary film Zoo.

2005: 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.

2006: Mariesa Weber, a 5’3” Florida woman, fell behind a 6’ tall bookcase in her family’s home and suffocated. She was not discovered for 11 days; her family thought she had been kidnapped.

2007: Jennifer Strange, a 28-year-old woman from Sacramento, California, died of water intoxication while trying to win a videogame system in a contest held by a local radio station. The contest, called “Hold Your Wee for a Wii,” involved drinking large quantities of water without urinating. Strange placed second.

(via list of the day)

i kept on laughing while reading this..LOL ;D Is this for real?