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Answer: Francisco Lazaro

Francisco Lazaro tragically passed away while running the marathon race during the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden. Under extreme heat conditions, Lazaro suddenly became affected by these conditions and passed away from severe heat exhaustion. During the first one hundred years of the Olympic Games (1896-1996), there were only two deaths. The second death came during the 1960 Olympic Games held in Rome, Italy. Danish cyclist, Knud Enemark ended up taking amphetamines prior to his racing event. This lethal combination of high speed racing and drugs caused him to collapse during the middle of the race. Tragically, Enemark passed away several hours later while being treated in a hospital.

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Answer: H

London-born Millicent "Peg" Entwhistle moved with her father to New York after the death of her mother. When her father was the victim of a hit and run accident several years later, Peg went to live with an aunt and subsequently set her sights on Hollywood (land). She was marginally successful at first, appearing in a succession of plays and B films, but her star seemed to fade as she went along. She began losing parts and film deals were nixed, and following the termination of her contract with RKO, she made her fateful climb up the maintenance ladder to the top of the letter H. She was found dead the next morning by a hiker, who also turned over her suicide note to police. It read "I am afraid I am a coward. I am sorry for everything. If I had done this a long time ago, it would have saved a lot of pain." Rest in peace, dear Peg.

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Answer: Felix Faure, French president

Jim Morrison's untimely demise in the bathroom of his Parisian appartment at the age of 27 has been documented, and his burial in the Pere Lachaise cemetery has made his tomb one of the most popular tourist destinations in Paris. Various conspiracy theories have cropped up and yet, there was no foul play suspected therefore no autopsy performed.
Jean-Paul Marat is pictured in the famous painting by David after his stabbing by Charlotte Corday in his tub where he conducted his business because he suffered from a skin disease.
Claude Francois was a famous French singer who actually penned the original version of 'My Way', called 'Comme d'habitude'. He died of electrocution in 1978 while getting prepared for a television appearance and changing a light bulb above the bathtub while in it.
Felix Faure was one of the most famous French presidents for having died in a less than illustrious manner with his mistress in 1899. The famous citation about this death was when the priest came in to ask, 'does he still have his connaissance?' and the double meaning is acquaintance and consciousness. His 'acquaintance' was escorted out the back door.

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Answer: In a hang gliding accident

Henry Higgins, whose mother was Colombian, was the first Englishman to reach the highest rank of "matador de toros" when he took his "alternativa" (a sort of graduation) in Fuengirola in 1970. He was hang gliding near the town of Mojacar when he met his death, at the age of 34, in 1978.
His grave is a niche in the wall in the "English zone" of Mojacar cemetery.

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Answer: An eagle dropped a turtle on his head.

Eagles like to drop turtles on rocks to break them open. Apparently this eagle mistook Aeschylus' bald head for a rock! No telling if this is true, but it certainly makes a good story!

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Answer: She suffered a stroke.

Oberon was born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson in 1911, in what was then Bombay (now Mumbai) India. Her mother Charlotte was biracial, but noticeably dark-skinned; her father, Arthur, was a British railway engineer. Oberon and her mother led an impoverished existence in India after her father's death in 1914. An early romance with an ex-actor, with whom she traveled to France, ended abruptly when he discovered her mixed parentage. He did, however, mention her to director Rex Ingram, who was responsible for her start in the cinema. Her first major break came when director Alexander Korda (later her husband) cast her in the small, but conspicuous role of the condemned Anne Boleyn in "The Private Life of Henry VIII". Oberon would become a major film star during the war years, appearing in such films as "Wuthering Heights", "Desiree", "A Song to Remember", and "The Dark Angel", for which she received her only Oscar nomination.

Although Oberon's mixed parentage was responsible for her exotic beauty, she went to great lengths to hide it from the world. She deflected questions about her childhood by creating a fabricated story that she had been born and raised in Tasmania (this falsehood earned her the public opprobrium of actor Erroll Flynn, who actually was Tasmanian). Her treatment of her mother may have caused her some remorse after the latter's death in 1937; she later commissioned paintings of her mother from an old photograph (instructing the artist, however, to lighten the complexion). These were prominently displayed in her home for the remainder of her life. In fairness, it should be noted that biracialism was tolerated far less in Oberon's day than is the case now. Another factor which caused her considerable embarrassment was her complexion, which was damaged by an accident in 1937, and from a reaction to certain cosmetics and drugs in 1940. Her second husband, cinematographer Lucien Ballard, devised a special camera light to disguise her facial scars; this light was dubbed the Obie in her honor. Oberon died in retirement in Malibu, California in 1979, after suffering a stroke. She was 68 at the time of her death.

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Answer: Aboard an ocean liner bound for Brazil

Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) was aboard a liner bound for Brazil when he swallowed that toothpick at a shipboard cocktail party. He was taken off the ship in Panama, where he died of peritonitis. He is buried in Round Hill Cemetery in Marion, Virginia, and his epitaph reads "Life, not Death, is the Great Adventure'. Anderson left school at 14 to go to work to help to contribute financially to his family (his father was a failed businessman, his mother was an alcoholic, and he had six brothers and sisters), and earned the nickname Jobby. He did odd jobs, worked as a manual labourer, and later enlisted in the army but saw no service during the Spanish-American War. After the war he enrolled at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. On graduation he secured a good job as an advertising copywriter in Chicago. He was married four times, and sired three children by his first wife. His gritty, realistic novels ('Windy McPherson's Son', 'Marching Men', 'Poor White', 'Dark Laughter', 'Death in the Woods', 'Kit Brandon' and 'Beyond Desire') influenced other writers like William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and Thomas Wolfe. He is probably best-known for his short stories, particularly the collection called 'Winesburg Ohio', which he began in 1919. Few of his novels are still in print.

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Answer: Racing his horse Sweet Kiss

It all took place in February of 1923 when Hayes, a then 35 year-old horse trainer, decided to beg the owner of Sweet Kiss to give him a chance at riding the horse. During the race Hayes had a heart attack. Sweet Kiss continued on with the race and actually won the race with the then deceased jockey hanging off of the side of him. Frank became the first and only jockey to date to win a race while being dead.

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Answer: His car crushed him against his garage door.

The middleweight Davey Moore (1959-1988) was the World Boxing Association Light Middleweight Champion from February 1982 to June 1983. He continued boxing after losing his title, but commentators generally agreed that his big win at such a young age had damaged his development as an athlete. The accident that killed him occurred at his own home; he got out of his car to open his garage door, the car slipped its brake, lurched backward and pinned him against the door, and he died at the scene.

The first Davey Moore (1933-1963) won the World Featherweight Title, and didn't lose it until the March 21, 1963 fight that also cost him his life. His bout with Sugar Ramos ran on national television. Falling in the tenth round, he hit his head against the lower rope at the edge of the ring, fatally injuring his brain stem. His death two days later raised serious questions about the safety of boxing -- questions that still remain today. Bob Dylan chronicled the chain of buck-passing and denial of responsibility in his song "Who Killed Davey Moore?", in which blame eventually passes from the referee all the way up to God Himself.

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Answer: Keith Richards

Rolling Stone Keith Richards did have an incident involving a fall from a coconut tree in Fiji and was sent to a hospital in New Zealand to recover in May 2006. He did not die of it however. Comedian Robin Williams did a sketch in which Keith Richards survived us all along with a handful of cockroaches.

Michael Kennedy, son of Robert and Ethel Kennedy, perished after a skiing accident with a tree while playing football on skis in Aspen Colorado in 1998. Kennedy's demise was shortly after musician/politician Sonny Bono's death in a skiing incident also involving a tree.

The singer songwriter Jim Croce perished in an airplane accident in 1973 when the airplane hit a tree in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

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