Bakers Dozen

Celebrities who died in bizarre or unusual ways (with cause of death)

  1. Isadora Duncan - strangled by scarf tangled in car wheel
  2. Sonny Bono - skied right into a tree
  3. Tennessee Williams - choked to death on a bottlecap from a bottle of eyedrops
  4. Jon-Erik Hexum - as a joke, shot self in the head with a gun loaded with blanks; didn’t know even a cotton wad could kill when fired at close range
  5. John “Stumpy” Pepys - gardening accident; Eric Childs - choking to death on someone else’s vomit; Peter “James” Bond – spontaneous combustion
  6. David Carradine - autoerotic asphyxiation
  7. Steve “The Crocodile Hunter” Irwin - stabbed in heart by stingray tail
  8. Jean-Baptiste Lully - struck himself on the foot with his conducting staff; the foot became gangrenous and he refused treatment.

Celebrities who died in bizarre or unusual ways (with cause of death)

  1. Isadora Duncan - strangled by scarf tangled in car wheel
  2. Sonny Bono - skied right into a tree
  3. Tennessee Williams - choked to death on a bottlecap from a bottle of eyedrops
  4. Jon-Erik Hexum - as a joke, shot self in the head with a gun loaded with blanks; didn’t know even a cotton wad could kill when fired at close range
  5. John “Stumpy” Pepys - gardening accident; Eric Childs - choking to death on someone else’s vomit; Peter “James” Bond – spontaneous combustion
  6. David Carradine - autoerotic asphyxiation
  7. Steve “The Crocodile Hunter” Irwin - stabbed in heart by stingray tail
  8. Jean-Baptiste Lully - struck himself on the foot with his conducting staff; the foot became gangrenous and he refused treatment.
  9. Pres. William Henry Harrison - death came from giving the longest Inaugural address in history in cold weather, caught pneumonia and died soon after

Celebrities who died in bizarre or unusual ways (with cause of death)

  1. Isadora Duncan - strangled by scarf tangled in car wheel
  2. Sonny Bono - skied right into a tree
  3. Tennessee Williams - choked to death on a bottlecap from a bottle of eyedrops
  4. Jon-Erik Hexum - as a joke, shot self in the head with a gun loaded with blanks; didn’t know even a cotton wad could kill when fired at close range
  5. John “Stumpy” Pepys - gardening accident; Eric Childs - choking to death on someone else’s vomit; Peter “James” Bond – spontaneous combustion
  6. David Carradine - autoerotic asphyxiation
  7. Steve “The Crocodile Hunter” Irwin - stabbed in heart by stingray tail
  8. Jean-Baptiste Lully - struck himself on the foot with his conducting staff; the foot became gangrenous and he refused treatment.
  9. Pres. William Henry Harrison - death came from giving the longest Inaugural address in history in cold weather, caught pneumonia and died soon after
  10. [del]Sonny Bono[/del] Michael Kennedy–skied right into a tree two weeks before Sonny Bono. What are the odds?

Celebrities who died in bizarre or unusual ways (with cause of death)

  1. Isadora Duncan - strangled by scarf tangled in car wheel
  2. Sonny Bono - skied right into a tree
  3. Tennessee Williams - choked to death on a bottlecap from a bottle of eyedrops
  4. Jon-Erik Hexum - as a joke, shot self in the head with a gun loaded with blanks; didn’t know even a cotton wad could kill when fired at close range
  5. John “Stumpy” Pepys - gardening accident; Eric Childs - choking to death on someone else’s vomit; Peter “James” Bond – spontaneous combustion
  6. David Carradine - autoerotic asphyxiation
  7. Steve “The Crocodile Hunter” Irwin - stabbed in heart by stingray tail
  8. Jean-Baptiste Lully - struck himself on the foot with his conducting staff; the foot became gangrenous and he refused treatment.
  9. Pres. William Henry Harrison - death came from giving the longest Inaugural address in history in cold weather, caught pneumonia and died soon after
  10. Sonny Bono Michael Kennedy–skied right into a tree two weeks before Sonny Bono. What are the odds?
  11. Jack Daniel - died from gangrene in his foot after kicking a safe

Celebrities who died in bizarre or unusual ways (with cause of death)

  1. Isadora Duncan - strangled by scarf tangled in car wheel
  2. Sonny Bono - skied right into a tree
  3. Tennessee Williams - choked to death on a bottlecap from a bottle of eyedrops
  4. Jon-Erik Hexum - as a joke, shot self in the head with a gun loaded with blanks; didn’t know even a cotton wad could kill when fired at close range
  5. John “Stumpy” Pepys - gardening accident; Eric Childs - choking to death on someone else’s vomit; Peter “James” Bond – spontaneous combustion
  6. David Carradine - autoerotic asphyxiation
  7. Steve “The Crocodile Hunter” Irwin - stabbed in heart by stingray tail
  8. Jean-Baptiste Lully - struck himself on the foot with his conducting staff; the foot became gangrenous and he refused treatment.
  9. Pres. William Henry Harrison - death came from giving the longest Inaugural address in history in cold weather, caught pneumonia and died soon after
  10. Sonny Bono Michael Kennedy–skied right into a tree two weeks before Sonny Bono. What are the odds?
  11. Jack Daniel - died from gangrene in his foot after kicking a safe
  12. Yardbirds vocalist Keith Relf - electrocuted himself with his guitar

Celebrities who died in bizarre or unusual ways (with cause of death)

  1. Isadora Duncan - strangled by scarf tangled in car wheel
  2. Sonny Bono - skied right into a tree
  3. Tennessee Williams - choked to death on a bottlecap from a bottle of eyedrops
  4. Jon-Erik Hexum - as a joke, shot self in the head with a gun loaded with blanks; didn’t know even a cotton wad could kill when fired at close range
  5. John “Stumpy” Pepys - gardening accident; Eric Childs - choking to death on someone else’s vomit; Peter “James” Bond – spontaneous combustion
  6. David Carradine - autoerotic asphyxiation
  7. Steve “The Crocodile Hunter” Irwin - stabbed in heart by stingray tail
  8. Jean-Baptiste Lully - struck himself on the foot with his conducting staff; the foot became gangrenous and he refused treatment.
  9. Pres. William Henry Harrison - death came from giving the longest Inaugural address in history in cold weather, caught pneumonia and died soon after
  10. [del]Sonny Bono[/del] Michael Kennedy–skied right into a tree two weeks before Sonny Bono. What are the odds?
  11. Jack Daniel - died from gangrene in his foot after kicking a safe
  12. Yardbirds vocalist Keith Relf - electrocuted himself with his guitar
  13. ABBA drummer Ola Brunkert - Massive blood loss after hitting his head against a glass door in his dining room, shattering the glass and cutting himself in the neck.

Since we’re being morbid: Celebrities who committed suicide, and how they did it

  1. Robin Williams-- Hanging himself

Since we’re being morbid: Celebrities who committed suicide, and how they did it

  1. Robin Williams-- Hanging himself
  2. Capucine - Jumped from her 8th Story apartment

Since we’re being morbid: Celebrities who committed suicide, and how they did it

  1. Robin Williams-- Hanging himself
  2. Capucine - Jumped from her 8th Story apartment
  3. Hunter S. Thompson - self inflicted gunshot to the head

Since we’re being morbid: Celebrities who committed suicide, and how they did it

  1. Robin Williams-- Hanging himself
  2. Capucine - Jumped from her 8th Story apartment
  3. Hunter S. Thompson - self inflicted gunshot to the head
  4. Baseball superstar Ed Delahanty, jumped off railroad bridge over Niagara Falls.

Since we’re being morbid: Celebrities who committed suicide, and how they did it

  1. Robin Williams-- Hanging himself
  2. Capucine - Jumped from her 8th Story apartment
  3. Hunter S. Thompson - self inflicted gunshot to the head
  4. Nick Drake - overdose, ruled intentional, of his prescription antidepressant
    Irony.

Since we’re being morbid: Celebrities who committed suicide, and how they did it

  1. Robin Williams-- Hanging himself
  2. Capucine - Jumped from her 8th Story apartment
  3. Hunter S. Thompson - self inflicted gunshot to the head
  4. Baseball superstar Ed Delahanty, jumped off railroad bridge over Niagara Falls
  5. Nick Drake - overdose, ruled intentional, of his prescription antidepressant
  6. Dick Trickle - shot himself in a graveyard after calling police and telling them where to find his body

Since we’re being morbid: Celebrities who committed suicide, and how they did it

  1. Robin Williams-- Hanging himself
  2. Capucine - Jumped from her 8th Story apartment
  3. Hunter S. Thompson - self inflicted gunshot to the head
  4. Baseball superstar Ed Delahanty, jumped off railroad bridge over Niagara Falls
  5. Nick Drake - overdose, ruled intentional, of his prescription antidepressant
  6. Dick Trickle - shot himself in a graveyard after calling police and telling them where to find his body
  7. Brad Delp (Boston lead singer) - CO asphyxia in his home
    The details are crushingly sad, yet underscore his reputation as one of the nicest guys in rock. Who leaves a note, separate from the suicide note, specifically to make sure the first responders aren’t endangered by your suicide method? Brad freakin’ Delp.

Since we’re being morbid: Celebrities who committed suicide, and how they did it

  1. Robin Williams-- Hanging himself
  2. Capucine - Jumped from her 8th Story apartment
  3. Hunter S. Thompson - self inflicted gunshot to the head
  4. Baseball superstar Ed Delahanty, jumped off railroad bridge over Niagara Falls
  5. Nick Drake - overdose, ruled intentional, of his prescription antidepressant
  6. Dick Trickle - shot himself in a graveyard after calling police and telling them where to find his body
  7. Brad Delp (Boston lead singer) - CO asphyxia in his home
  8. Ernest Hemingway – aimed his favorite shotgun at his head

Since we’re being morbid: Celebrities who committed suicide, and how they did it

  1. Robin Williams-- Hanging himself
  2. Capucine - Jumped from her 8th Story apartment
  3. Hunter S. Thompson - self inflicted gunshot to the head
  4. Baseball superstar Ed Delahanty, jumped off railroad bridge over Niagara Falls
  5. Nick Drake - overdose, ruled intentional, of his prescription antidepressant
  6. Dick Trickle - shot himself in a graveyard after calling police and telling them where to find his body
  7. Brad Delp (Boston lead singer) - CO asphyxia in his home
  8. Ernest Hemingway – aimed his favorite shotgun at his head
  9. Herve Villechaize - gunshot

Since we’re being morbid: Celebrities who committed suicide, and how they did it

  1. Robin Williams-- Hanging himself
  2. Capucine - Jumped from her 8th Story apartment
  3. Hunter S. Thompson - self inflicted gunshot to the head
  4. Baseball superstar Ed Delahanty, jumped off railroad bridge over Niagara Falls
  5. Nick Drake - overdose, ruled intentional, of his prescription antidepressant
  6. Dick Trickle - shot himself in a graveyard after calling police and telling them where to find his body
  7. Brad Delp (Boston lead singer) - CO asphyxia in his home
  8. Ernest Hemingway – aimed his favorite shotgun at his head
  9. Herve Villechaize - gunshot
  10. Margaux Hemingway - overdosed on Phenobarbital one day before the anniversary of her grandfather’s suicide.

Since we’re being morbid: Celebrities who committed suicide, and how they did it

  1. Robin Williams-- Hanging himself
  2. Capucine - Jumped from her 8th Story apartment
  3. Hunter S. Thompson - self inflicted gunshot to the head
  4. Baseball superstar Ed Delahanty, jumped off railroad bridge over Niagara Falls
  5. Nick Drake - overdose, ruled intentional, of his prescription antidepressant
  6. Dick Trickle - shot himself in a graveyard after calling police and telling them where to find his body
  7. Brad Delp (Boston lead singer) - CO asphyxia in his home
  8. Ernest Hemingway – aimed his favorite shotgun at his head
  9. Herve Villechaize - gunshot
  10. Margaux Hemingway - overdosed on Phenobarbital one day before the anniversary of her grandfather’s suicide.
  11. Virginia Woolf - drowning

Since we’re being morbid: Celebrities who committed suicide, and how they did it

  1. Robin Williams-- Hanging himself
  2. Capucine - Jumped from her 8th Story apartment
  3. Hunter S. Thompson - self inflicted gunshot to the head
  4. Baseball superstar Ed Delahanty, jumped off railroad bridge over Niagara Falls
  5. Nick Drake - overdose, ruled intentional, of his prescription antidepressant
  6. Dick Trickle - shot himself in a graveyard after calling police and telling them where to find his body
  7. Brad Delp (Boston lead singer) - CO asphyxia in his home
  8. Ernest Hemingway – aimed his favorite shotgun at his head
  9. Herve Villechaize - gunshot
  10. Margaux Hemingway - overdosed on Phenobarbital one day before the anniversary of her grandfather’s suicide.
  11. Virginia Woolf - drowning
  12. Kurt Cobain- shotgun

Since we’re being morbid: Celebrities who committed suicide, and how they did it

  1. Robin Williams-- Hanging himself
  2. Capucine - Jumped from her 8th Story apartment
  3. Hunter S. Thompson - self inflicted gunshot to the head
  4. Baseball superstar Ed Delahanty, jumped off railroad bridge over Niagara Falls
  5. Nick Drake - overdose, ruled intentional, of his prescription antidepressant
  6. Dick Trickle - shot himself in a graveyard after calling police and telling them where to find his body
  7. Brad Delp (Boston lead singer) - CO asphyxia in his home
  8. Ernest Hemingway – aimed his favorite shotgun at his head
  9. Herve Villechaize - gunshot
  10. Margaux Hemingway - overdosed on Phenobarbital one day before the anniversary of her grandfather’s suicide.
  11. Virginia Woolf - drowning
  12. Kurt Cobain- shotgun
  13. Tony Scott - jumped off a bridge

Next: Famous people who committed murder after being famous

  1. O. J. Simpson
    (Famous people who “very probably” committed murder obviously accepted)

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  1. O.J. Simpson
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  2. Robert Blake
  3. Phil Spector