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(#39) Sirkka Sari
Sari she fell down a chimney. She was at a cast party celebrating the completion of a movie, her third and last. She mistook a chimney for a balcony and fell into a heating boiler, perishing instantly.
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(#13) Edward Juchniewicz
In May 1991, a 76-year-old man perished when the ambulance stretcher he was strapped to rolled down a grade and overturned. Juchniewicz suffered a head injury and was no longer living a short time later.
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(#25) Jack Daniel
- Dec. at 61 (1850-1911)
Daniel, a distiller, passed because of blood poisoning. The infection started in his toe, which he injured kicking his safe in anger when he couldn't open it early one morning.
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(#21) Gustav Kobbé
- Dec. at 61 (1857-1918)
Kobbé, writer and musicologist, perished when the sailboat he was on was struck by a landing seaplane off Long Island, New York.
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(#33) Owen Hart
- Dec. at 34 (1965-1999)
Owen Hart, a Canadian-born professional wrestler for WWF, perished during a pay-per-view event when performing a stunt. It was planned to have Owen come down from the rafters of the Kemper Arena on a safety harness tied to a rope to make his ring entrance. The safety latch was released and Owen dropped 78 feet (24 m), bouncing chest-first off the top rope resulting in a severed aorta, which caused his lungs to fill with blood.
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(#26) Janet Parker
- Dec. at 40 (1938-1978)
She was a British medical photographer and passed because of smallpox in 1978, 10 months after the disease was eradicated in the wild, when a researcher at the laboratory Parker worked at accidentally released some virus into the air of the building. She is believed to be the last smallpox fatality in history.
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In the 20th century, light and shadow have been circulating for a hundred years. Diana, Monroe, JFK, and many other celebrities of the 20th century have already passed away for a long time. The deaths of celebrities are often interpreted as bizarre twists and turns because of the attention they received when they were alive. There are poignant love stories, magnificent stories of struggle, or tragic life incidents.
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