12 - 1834: David Douglas, Scottish botanist, who fell in a pit trap, was crushed by a bull that fell in the same pit.


11 - 453: Attila the Hun suffered a severe nosebleed and choked to death on his wedding night.


10 - 1989: A Belgian teenager was killed by a crashing Soviet MiG-23 fighter jet, which escaped from Poland on autopilot after the crew ejected over a false engine failure alarm.


9 - 1327: Edward II of England, after being deposed and imprisoned by his Queen consort Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer, was rumored to have been murdered by having a red-hot iron inserted into his anus.


8 - 2003: Jane McDonald, a seminary student from Scotland, slipped and fell into an open dishwasher and was impaled by a kitchen knife.


7 - 207 BC: Chrysippus, Greek stoic philosopher, is believed to have died of laughter after watching his drunken donkey attempt to eat figs.


6 - 81: Roman emperor Titus is said to have died when a mosquito flew up his nose and picked at his brain.


5 - 1981: Jeff Bailey, a 19-year-old man died of a heart attack after scoring 16,660 on the arcade game Berzerk. This was the first known instance of a video game-related death.


4 - 1953: Frank Hayes, jockey, suffered a heart attack during a horse race. The horse, Sweet Kiss, went on to finish first, making Hayes the only deceased jockey to win a race.


3 - 2005:Lee Seung Seop, a 28-year-old Korean video game addict collapsed in an Internet cafe after playing World of Warcraft and Starcraft for almost 50 hours.



2 - 1997: David Bailey, an Irish man died when he was urinated on by a rat while attempting to retrieve a lost golf ball from a ditch. Bailey apparently startled the rat, causing it to dart up his pant leg and urinate on him. After the incident, Bailey's companions urged him to immediately shower, but Bailey refused stating that he had no bites or scratches. He died two weeks later from kidney failure brought on by an acute case of leptospirosis.



1 - 2005: Kenneth Pinyan, a Seattle, WA. man, died of acute peritonitis after submitting to anal intercourse with a stallion in the town of Enumclaw, WA. The man had done this before, but he delayed several hours to visit a hospital wishing to avoid official cognizance. The case led to the criminalization of bestiality in Washington.