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{{Short description|none}} {{dynamic list}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2022}} These are a series of incomplete '''lists of unusual deaths''', unique or extremely rare circumstances of [[death]] recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources. <!--Deaths that are unusual but that are not associated with reliable sources that ''say'' the death is unusual will be removed. --> {{TOC limit|10}} {{Clear}} <gallery widths="165px" heights="165px" class="center"> File:Death of Aeschylus in Florentine Picture Chronicle.jpg|alt=|The death of [[Aeschylus]], killed by a [[tortoise]] dropped onto his head by an [[eagle]], illustrated in the 15th-century ''Florentine Picture-Chronicle'' by [[Baccio Baldini]]<ref name=":0">{{cite journal |title=Meditation in Solitude |first=Ursula |last=Hoff |journal=[[Journal of the Warburg Institute]] |volume=1 |year=1937 |pages=292β294 |jstor=749994 |issue=44 |doi=10.2307/749994 |s2cid=192234608 |issn=0959-2024}}</ref> File:Barbarossa smrt.jpg|alt=|[[Frederick Barbarossa]]'s strange drowning gave rise to legends that he was still alive File:Flying tailor.png|alt=|[[Franz Reichelt]], known as the "Flying Tailor", prior to his death testing an early [[wingsuit]] </gallery>
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