List of Unusual Deaths

wikipedia (an example of what the internet can really be) has a fascinating and intresting list of unusual deaths of figures in history. 1911: jack daniel, founder of the famous tennessee whiskey distillery, died of blood poisoning due to a toe injury he received after kicking his safe in anger when he could not remember its combination code. 1916: grigori rasputin, russian Mystic, died of hypothermia while swimming to shore after having been poisoned, shot multiple times in the head and torso, bludgeoned, mutilated (severed penis), wrapped in a sheet and dropped into the River neva through a hole in the winter ice. 1941: sherwood anderson, writer, swallowed a toothpick at a party and then died of peritonitis....