However, she did die in Harry Nilsson’s London apartment. The same place that Keith Moon died several years later. I thought I once read there was some other celebrity death attached to that apartment, but those memories seem to have been moved to the write-only archives.
And while not a particularly strange death, one of the more bizarre after-death stories is that of Gram Parsons.. What’s up with the strange end of country-rock pioneer Gram Parsons? - The Straight Dope
Phil Hartman was the victim of a murder/suicide by his wife.
In Russia, ham sandwich chokes on YOU!
Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron) has been buried seven times since his death in 1918. He was shot down over France and originally buried in France. Following the war’s end, the German government recovered the remains of Germans buried in France (including Richthofen’s) and reburied them in Germany. In 1925, the Richthofen family exhumed his remains and reburied him in a family tomb. Hindenburg’s postwar government wanted to get publicity out of a war hero so they moved his remains to a military cemetery. The family reclaimed the remains in 1961 and moved them back to the family tomb. In 1976, the East German government moved the body to make way for a construction project. Not wanting to have the family tomb so close to the construction, the family moved the remains to a different cemetery.
While strange this is, the fate of Thomas Paine (American Revolutionary theorist) is even stranger. After his death and burial. his remains (bones) were gathered up, and placed in a closet for safekeeping.
They later vanished.
The remains of 19th century utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham, whose death was conventional, are brought out for meetings of the College Council of University College London, where he is recorded as “present but not voting”.
They should send him to Chicago. Nothing would prevent him from voting there.
Though not famous to the public, the Russian double agent Oleg Penkovsky was supposedly cremated alive when his spying for the US was discovered.
I wonder how many of these deaths could have been prevented if the terms ‘while drunk’ wasn’t part of the story.
I remember when Sonny Bono and Michael Kennedy were killed by skiing into trees. There was a report that a tree on some California campus (UCLA?) had a sign posted on it: “Chop me before I kill again.”
Rachel Youngblood would now be 89 years old if she was still alive. Imagine someone that age in Ozzy’s entourage. 
:dubious:
Musicians Kevin DuBrow (Quiet Riot) and Layne Staley (Alice In Chains) both OD’d, and both were dead for a long time before their absence was noted. DuBrow was believed to have been dead for 1 week and Staley for 2.
:eek:
I knew he’d committed suicide by CO and had a history of depression. Hadn’t heard THAT story.
Yes, AND:
More Than A Feeling
Foreplay/Long Time
Peace of Mind (a commercial used this song shortly after his death) :rolleyes:
Don’t Look Back
We’re Ready
etc.
and of course “Party” and “Smokin’”. 
Here’s an article:
http://www.boston.com/2012/05/26/delp/Y6xTxLXOHdwt271ycszThP/singlepage.html
And there were quite a few bad jokes about begging people named Fredo not to go skiing.
Pro wrestler Owen Hart died when a “flying” stunt went awry, dropping him into the ring from a great height.
Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov was (likely) assassinated with a high-tech umbrella.
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on Independence Day, 1826.
Edgar Allan Poe’s death was so bizarre that people are still debating it.
Sam Cooke was shot to death while breaking into a motel office naked but for one shoe and a sportcoat.
Pete Maravich died during a pickup basketball game. His last words were “I feel great!” - after which he turned around, took two steps, and died of a congenital heart defect.
Not a medicine bottle lid, but the lid from an eye drops bottle. He was in the habit of holding it with his lips while applying the drops. There are reports this was a story made up to cover up a barbiturate overdose, but I can’t find a reputable source on that.
I happened to be channel surfing a few days ago and caught a show about his death. They tested some strands of his hair, expecting to find high levels of lead (apparently alcohol at that time had a lot of lead in it for some reason, and if he had died as a result of an alcohol binge it would have showed); they didn’t find the lead they were expecting.
Instead, based on the symptoms Poe had, they were speculating that he may have dies of rabies!
Has Rasputin been mentioned yet? He sure took a lickin’ and kept on tickin’.
Merle Watson injured himself working at home, drove his farm tractor to a neighbor’s house for treatment, then was killed when he flipped the tractor on his way back home.
While most people know the tale of Eva Peron, few know of her post-death “Rainbow Tour”
Shortly after Evita’s death, plans were made to construct a memorial in her honor. The monument, which was to be a statue of a man representing the descamisados, was projected to be larger than the Statue of Liberty. Evita’s body was to be stored in the base of the monument and, in the tradition of Lenin’s corpse, to be displayed for the public. While the monument was being constructed, Evita’s embalmed body was displayed in her former office at the CGT building for almost two years. Before the monument to Evita was completed, Juan Perón was overthrown in a military coup, the Revolución Libertadora, in 1955. Perón hastily fled the country and did not make arrangements to secure Evita’s body.
Following his flight, a military dictatorship took power. The new authorities removed Evita’s body from display, and its whereabouts were a mystery for 16 years. From 1955 until 1971, the military dictatorship of Argentina issued a ban on Peronism. It became illegal not only to possess pictures of Juan and Eva Perón in one’s home, but to speak their names. In 1971, the military revealed that Evita’s body was buried in a crypt in Milan, Italy, under the name “María Maggi.” Tragically, it appeared that her body had been damaged during its transport and storage, such as compressions to her face and disfigurement of one of her feet due to the body having been left in an upright position.
In 1971, Evita’s body was exhumed and flown to Spain, where Juan Perón maintained the corpse in his home. Juan and his third wife, Isabel, decided to keep the corpse in their dining room on a platform near the table. In 1973, Juan Perón came out of exile and returned to Argentina, where he became president for the third time. Perón died in office in 1974. His third wife, Isabel Perón, whom he had married on 15 November 1961, and who had been elected vice-president, succeeded him. She became the first female president in the Western Hemisphere. Isabel had Evita’s body returned to Argentina and (briefly) displayed beside Juan Perón’s. Evita’s body was later buried in the Duarte family tomb in La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires.
The Argentine government took elaborate measures to make Evita’s tomb secure. The tomb’s marble floor has a trapdoor that leads to a compartment containing two coffins. Under that compartment is a second trapdoor and a second compartment. That is where Evita’s coffin rests. Biographers Marysa Navarro and Nicholas Fraser write that the claim is often made that Evita’s tomb is so secure that it could withstand a nuclear attack. "