Lists of unusual deaths

These are a series of incomplete lists of unusual deaths, unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources.

• The death of Aeschylus, killed by a tortoise dropped onto his head by an eagle, illustrated in the 15th-century Florentine Picture-Chronicle by Baccio Baldini
• Frederick Barbarossa's strange drowning gave rise to legends that he was still alive
• Franz Reichelt, known as the "Flying Tailor", prior to his death testing an early wingsuit