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Lista de muertes inusuales

Esta lista de muertes inusuales incluye circunstancias de muerte únicas o extremadamente raras registradas a lo largo de la historia y señaladas como inusuales por múltiples fuentes.

Antigüedad

Edad media

Renacimiento

Periodo moderno temprano

Siglo XIX

Siglo XX

1900–1959

Década de 1960

Década de 1970

Década de 1980

Década de 1990

Siglo XXI

Década de 2000

Década de 2010

Década de 2020

Muertes de animales

Esta sección es para las muertes de animales, para quienes hay varias fuentes que mencionan las muertes como inusuales.

Véase también

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Notas

  1. ↑ Valerio Máximo cuenta la misma historia sobre la muerte del poeta y dramaturgo ateniense Filemón (fallecido en el año 262 a. C.). [13]
  2. ^ Esta fuente indica incorrectamente que la edad de Spencer al morir era 60 años.
  3. ^ Snopes califica este relato de la muerte de Kogut como una "leyenda". [264]

Referencias

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  539. ^ "Porcos matam tarado que estuprava leitoa" [Pigs kill pervert who raped piglet]. Real Deodorense (in Portuguese). 21 January 2014. Bizarro. Polícia Civil informou que vítima estava embriagada; homem era caseiro do local [Bizarre. Civil Police reported that the victim was drunk; man was housekeeper of the place]
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  548. ^ "Phillip Hughes dead: Australian cricketer dies after bouncer at SCG". The Sydney Morning Herald. 27 November 2014. Retrieved 9 December 2014. Cricket Australia boss James Sutherland delivered a statement after Clarke. This freak accident is now real life tragedy ... Our grief runs deep and the impact of Phillip's loss is enormous.
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  562. ^ Hayes, Dan (12 December 2015). "Former East Midlands hockey star dies in 'freak' training ground accident". News. Chad. Retrieved 17 October 2024. The sport's national body, England Hockey, also paid tribute to Tom in a statement released on Thursday. They said: "Incidents such as this one are almost unprecedented in hockey – our thoughts, and those of the club and wider hockey community are with Tom's family and friends."
  563. ^ "Hornchurch son killed in accident lives on as organ donor". Romford Recorder. 7 September 2023. Retrieved 17 October 2024. A young man who died in a "freak" hockey accident is still saving lives after his organs were used for vital operations... "It was a freak accident," [Tom Wilson's mother Lisa] said.
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  571. ^ Henschke, Rebecca (9 May 2016). "The salacious musical scene behind a snakebite stage death". BBC News. Retrieved 16 September 2024. Do singers often get killed by snakes?" I ask. "This is the first time I have ever heard of it," he replies. "Snakes are not essential to perform dangdut at all. In all my years on stage I have never met a snake.
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  573. ^ "Woman dies after being stabbed in chest with umbrella at Virginia Beach Oceanfront". WTKR. Scripps Media. 10 June 2016. Retrieved 1 February 2022. According to Tom Gill, Captain of the Virginia Beach Lifesaving Service, this is the first time he has ever heard of someone being killed by an umbrella in the Resort City. Gill says he has heard of people being injured by an umbrella that gets loose, but considers Belk's death, a freak accident.
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  596. ^ "Missing man killed, swallowed whole by python". Toronto Sun. The Associated Press. 29 March 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2022. Reports of humans being killed by pythons are extremely rare.
  597. ^ "Family friends identify 5-year-old boy killed in freak accident at Atlanta rotating restaurant". CBS News. 15 April 2017.
  598. ^ "Sun Dial reopens after child's tragic death, but not rotating". WXIA-TV. 14 June 2017. Retrieved 16 September 2024. On April 14, Charles Holt was killed in a freak accident at the Sun Dial restaurant.
  599. ^ Price, Mark (19 April 2024). "Witnesses detail chaos when Charlotte boy's body became stuck in rotating restaurant". The Charlotte Observer. Retrieved 15 September 2024. Witness accounts are emerging of the scene that erupted when a 5-year-old Charlotte boy died after a freak accident inside an Atlanta rotating restaurant.
  600. ^ Johnson, Alex (11 May 2017). "Florida Man Crashes Into Fire Hydrant and Drowns on 89th Birthday". NBC News. Retrieved 1 February 2022. "This is probably the first time I've heard of something like this happen, where somebody hits a fire hydrant and drowns," said Lt. Channing Taylor, commander of the Highway Patrol's Brevard County office.
  601. ^ Hadley, Greg (12 May 2017). "A man in Florida veered off the road into a fire hydrant — and then drowned". Miami Herald. Retrieved 16 September 2024. I haven't seen anything like this before," a police spokesperson told the station. "Usually the fire hydrants will break off and they won't spew water; they have safety valves in place. But if you hit something the right way, the safety doesn't work.
  602. ^ Gutierrez, Lisa (7 June 2017). "Woman dies when she's thrown from golf cart and lands on wine glasses". The Kansas City Star. Retrieved 16 September 2024. A freak accident involving a golf cart and wine glasses in a private California orchard on Friday left a 58-year-old woman dead.
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