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Ramses II died while inspecting his future tomb, so his ministers buried him where he lay.
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The scientist J. R. Oppenheimer died of radiation poisoning from the tests he performed to design the first atomic bomb.
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The Soviet political activist Leon Trotsky was murdered in Mexico.
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American president Zachary Taylor died of what is believed to be the first case of influenza in recorded history.
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Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor, died from eating mercury to try and make himself immortal.
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Two different popes died in a fistfight with one of their cardinals.
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The infamous American senator Joseph McCarthy's last words were "Death is preferable to communism."
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Phineas Gage immediately died after a railroad spike was launched into his head.
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The journalist and writer Hunter S. Thompson took his own life and demanded that his remains be shot out of a cannon.
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Neil Armstrong died on the fiftieth anniversary of his moon landing.
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Biblical tradition has it that Jesus Christ's last words before dying were "Father, into your hands, I commend my spirit."
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Andrew Jackson was the first American president to be assassinated while in office.
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It is said that, after Confucius died, his body became a tree.
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Theodore Roosevelt died from trying to ride a bull moose.
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The mogul John D. Rockefeller lived to the age of 100 and publicly attributed his longevity to a deal he made with the devil.
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Mark Twain was born and died on days when Halley's Comet passed the Earth.
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Nikola Tesla was executed via the electric chair after he helped design it.
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Giles Corey was killed during the Salem Witch Trials by being voluntarily pressed to death.
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Hammurabi was killed because an advisor tricked him into signing his own writ of execution.
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Joseph Stalin lay dying for five days because he purged so many doctors from Soviet Russia that no one could be found to treat him.
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The Spanish dictator Francisco Franco was assassinated while on parade.
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Francisco Franco's death led to the dissolution of his fascist regime because the man who succeeded him immediately started turning Spain into a proper republic.
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Unconfirmed legends say the scientist Antoine Lavoisier blinked as he was being guillotined and his severed head continued blinking after decapitation.
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The Chinese cultist and warlord Hong Xiuquan died from eating grass claiming it was mana from Heaven.
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Gandhi was killed by a British military official in revenge for the Quit India protests.
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The televangelist Peter Popoff died while flying a private jet paid for with donation money.
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The legendary Japanese folk hero Goemon was killed by being boiled alive.
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A historical figure known as Abimelech the King of Shechem famously received a mortal wound from a stone a woman threw at him, so he asked one of his aides to kill him so he wouldn't die by the hand of a lady.
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Charles Guiteau murdered American President James Garfield because Guiteau was convinced Garfield owed him a position as Ambassador to France.
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Thich Quang Duc was the name of a Buddhist monk who infamously immolated himself to protest South Vietnam's treatment of Buddhists.
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