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Which historical figures died the funniest, most unexpected or anti-climatic death?

>Stirner was killed due to an insect bite
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Archimedes,

Summoned to the Roman emperor by a Roman soldier during the capture of Sicily
Told the soldier to wait whilst he finished his geometry problem
Soldier didn't like the rudeness and killed him.
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Tried to hold it for a bit too long.
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George Boole

Got ill when he stayed in soaking wet clothes all day
Wife thought the remedy should resemble the cause, so she soaked him some more
He died.
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>>294293
Nietszche was killed by horse fandom.
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the death of Walter Benjamin is just the saddest thing ever, he was about to be freed but he thought they were arresting him so he took cyanide.
on the funny side, the legend says that Cavour died for a stroke after a turboblowjob
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>>294293
Death by beer tsunami count?
No one well known died there, but man, what a way to go.
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Chrysippus died from laughter.
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>>294410
purest love
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Roland Barthes was run over by an Ice cream truck
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Antoni Gaudí was ran over by the tram
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>>294307
>roman emperor
>3rd century BC
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Vespasian died from the shits. His last words were "Vae puto deus fio" allegedly.
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It's not the most funniest death and it's not entirely sure what exactly caused it. But Alexander the motherfucking Great died of fever.

Also Frederick Barbarossa just drowned on his way to the holy land.
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>>294307
>Summoned to the Roman emperor by a Roman soldier during the capture of Sicily
It was the sacking of Syracuse and he wasn't being summoned, his house was being looted.

https://www.math.nyu.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Death/Histories.html
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Attilla the Hun died of a nosebleed
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Joseph Stalin died in his bedroom.
In his pajamas.
Soaked in his own piss and shit.
Staring dead at the ceiling.
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>>294307
>roman emperor
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>>300032
Beria's finest achievement.
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>>300054

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrentiy_Beria#Stalin.27s_death\

"Khrushchev wrote in his memoirs that Beria had, immediately after Stalin's stroke, gone about "spewing hatred against [Stalin] and mocking him." When Stalin showed signs of consciousness, Beria dropped to his knees and kissed his hand. When Stalin fell unconscious again, Beria immediately stood and spat"


Aaahahhahahahhaahaha its just like my Saturday morning cartoons.
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>>294311
Was going to post this. The last days of his life must have been painful as hell though.
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>>297154

>It's not the most funniest death and it's not entirely sure what exactly caused it. But Alexander the motherfucking Great died of fever.

We don't know that. He could have been either fallen sick with typhus or have been poisoned. He was not popular with everyone.
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Was receiving a meal from a gracious host, started shitting blood until he died.
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>>296634
You're forgetting the best part: he was ran over by a tram whose course HE DESIGNED HIMSELF when he was redesigning barcelona.
So essentialy the tracks he drafted succesfully took him to his 'final destination'

Talk about insane irony
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>>294307
>Roman emperor
>summoned

Wew lad.
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>>296643
>>300040
>>300499
Fucking idiots. The consul was pretty much like the emperor so it doesn't matter. The words are interchangeable
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>>300558
Jesus, this is some next level shit.
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>>300054
>>300074
Beria was stupendously wicked, he reminds me a little of Wormtongue.

>>297185
My mistake.
The Roman commander had, however, ordered that Archimedes' not be injured. Archimedes was at this point infamous to the Romans for having defended Syracuse from the naval assault via catapults.The Roman soldier who did the killing obviously took no notice.
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>A variety of sources have given accounts of Plato's death. One story, based on a mutilated manuscript,[49] suggests Plato died in his bed, whilst a young Thracian girl played the flute to him.
>Plato was literally killed by music
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Isadora Duncan got her neck snapped when her abnormally long scarf was snagged by a passing car.
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>>300558
I....what

What are you doing are the history board?
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>>294421
No that's not really what happened. Benjamin and his buddies were fleeing the Nazi occupation of France and made it to the Spanish border after a long and arduous journey. At the border they requested safe passage into Spain but the guards refused to let them in. Figuring he'd never make it to freedom and that he was about to be captured and killed by the Nazis, Benjamin took his cyanide pill that night.

In the morning the guards told them they could make their way into Spain and that everything was gonna be fine.
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>>300651
>whilst a young Thracian girl played the flute to him
Flute girls were usually used for sexual purposes as well, so he most likely died during sex
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>>300558
>consul
>emperor
>interchangeable

Ayy lmao
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Pyrrhus of Epirus
Died after an old lady threw a brick at him
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>>300706
>died during sex
there is a term for this
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>>300558
No
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>>300558
Holy shit please be bait
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>>297154
Barbarossa jumped into a river in full plate and his life guard was too stumped to save him.
They had all been travelling in the hot sun for days and Barbarossa was literally dying to get his sweat off.
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>>300651
>>300706
>"played the flute for him"
We all know what that's supposed to mean.
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Felix Faure, 7th president of France

Faure died suddenly from apoplexy in the Élysée Palace on 16 February 1899, at a critical juncture while engaged in sexual activities in his office with 30-year-old Marguerite Steinheil. It has been widely reported that Felix Faure had his fatal seizure while Steinheil was fellating him
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>>300651
>Plato decides to have his flute played with
>girl literally rides him to death
Brutal
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>>296634
That´s fucking sad, yo. Gaudí was awesome, he more or less invented Modernisme, which is basically catalonian Art Nouveau on LSD.

But yeah, pretty ironic death desu.
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>>294410
fucking bronies man
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>>300558
>The consul was pretty much like the emperor
do you know where you are
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>>301044
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_Faure#Plaisanteries.2C_rumeurs_et_quolibets

>bantering hard in the early XX century
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>>301281

Catalonian?
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