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# Strange Deaths
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/2107/
- Published: 2005-08-24T20:37:14.000Z
- Updated: 2005-08-24T20:37:14.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: History, #wpChunk

From *The Know-It-All* by A.J. Jacobs, p. 284:

> I've read about blues singer Robert Johnson, who died after drinking strychnine-laced whiskey in a juke joint. And Marie Blanchard, an aviation pioneer who died when her hot air balloon was set ablaze by fireworks. Explorer David Livingstone died of hemorrhoids(!); poet Henry Longfellow's wife's dress caught on fire; the Greek philosopher Peregrinus Proteus threw himself into the flames of the Olympic Games; the French revolutionary Jean Paul Marat was stabbed in his bath by a female assassin.