From the Greek playwright who was crushed to death when a bird dropped a tortise on his head, all the way to the nine poor souls who died in the London Beer Flood, Wikipedia has catalogued the world's most unusual deaths from Ancient Greece through the present.

 Many of the deaths lead to their own murky Wikipedia entries, but few pages are more heavily referenced in this laundry-list obituary than the List of Inventors Killed by Their Own Inventions, including Franz Reichelt who attempted to use this contraption as a parachute.  A jump off the Eiffel Tower to test the device proved fatal.