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Yuri Gagarin, the first man to enter space, died upon reentry once his ground-breaking mission was complete.
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Robert E. Lee's death at Appomattox Courthouse caused the Confederate States of America to surrender the Civil War.
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The seer Nostradamus was killed by a lightning strike.
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Charlie Chaplin's body was once stolen and held for ransom.
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The famous protestor Tank Man from Tiananmen Square was killed after an army tank ran him over.
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The Red Baron died being shot down during World War One.
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Karl Marx's last words were "Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!"
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Julius Caesar was forced to drink lethal poison by political radicals.
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Napoleon Bonaparte was killed at the Battle of Waterloo.
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Ulysses S. Grant was the first person to be honored with a burial at Arlington Ceremony.
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Amelia Earhart vanished during an aerial journey and her fate is still unknown.
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Marie and Pierre Curie both died from radiation poisoning due to the radioactive materials they studied.
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Joan of Arc was executed by the English not because she fought against them on the battlefield, but because of her cross=dressing.
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The official records of Pharaoh Menes' life claim he was killed by a hippopotamus.
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Vincent van Gogh died by cutting off his ear and subsequently bleeding out.
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The enigmatic thief D. B. Cooper died by jumping out of an airplane with a faulty parachute.
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Crazy Horse was murdered by the United States Cavalry during a peace conference while he was dictating his terms of surrender.
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John Wilkes Booth died mid-sentence when he jumped from the President's Box in Ford's Theater.
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Alexander Hamilton and his son Philip Hamilton were both killed in duels.
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The cult leader Jim Jones was executed for his role in the Jonestown Massacre.
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Most Christian traditions say that the prophet Simon Peter was executed by being crucified upside-down.
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Richard the Lionheart died from drowning after his boat sprang a leak because he was too armored to swim properly.
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Oscar Wilde died of an illness he contracted in prison while serving a sentence for being gay.
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Genghis Khan's last words, when translated, were "A strong man can never die."
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Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on the 5oth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
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Legends state that Draco the Lawgiver of Ancient Athens was smothered to death after people threw their cloaks on him.
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Pope Urban II died by falling down the steps of Saint Peter's Basilica after someone told him a raunchy joke.
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Calvin Coolidge's son died of an infected blister that he sustained while playing tennis at the White House.
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J. Edgar Hoover died while exiting an underground drag bar.
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Rasputin survived for an entire minute after his head was cut off.
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