If indirect deaths don’t count, then we’ve lost a monkey story. According to kayaker’s quote, the deputy mayor of Delhi died due to the fall from his balcony. Although that fall was a more direct result of an animal attack than King William’s fall was. The mole was just going about its business.
What was a bird doing riding a roller coaster?
From wikipedia entry for Bird Strike:
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The Bird Strike entry notes the possibility of death by Insect Strike, but lists no know examples. If anyone can find a case then wiki is waiting.
For Chrysippus the source is Diogenes Laertius in his Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers who gives two different accounts of his death, the other being that he died after drinking ‘undiluted wine’. See Wikipedia.
The real Grizzly Adams died from having a bear punch a hole in his skull, which he survived, but it never really healed very well. Mostly because he kept boxing with grizzly bears.
Eventually a monkey bit the wound and he died from meningitis.
I’m fairly certain that they never covered that bit in the 70’s TV show.
Hanneman supposedly contracted necrotizing fasciitis from the bite which laid him up for a while, but neither that nor the bite killed him. His death was caused by cirrhosis.
Every time my kids have any unidentified spot on their skin, my wife blames a spider, and I point out that this is probably not true. Then we argue about it. One of us should consider backing down by now.
The great Tamil poet Subramania Bharati was struck by a temple elephant at the Parthasarathy Temple in Madras. He used to feed the elephant regularly. He survived, but his health soon deteriorated and he died a few months afterwards.
Several early catholic saints & martyrs were killed by wild animals in Roman Coliseums.
They ought to count, unless you say they weren’t ‘famous’ until after their martyrdom.
Good point. At the opposite end are all the only relatively famous, or for all I know infamous, so they count, criminals executed in India by being crushed by elephant.