Couriosity Kills!

COURIOSITY kills the cat!

Unusual Deaths in 1975

• On 24 march 1975 alex mitchell, a 50-year-old bricklayer from king's lynn literally died laughing while watching an episode of the goodies. according to his wife, who was a witness, mitchell was unable to stop laughing while watching a sketch in the episode "kung fu kapers" in which tim brooke-taylor, dressed as a kilted scotsman, used a set of bagpipes to defend himself from a psychopathic black pudding in a demonstration of the scottish martial art of "hoots-toot-ochaye." after twenty-five minutes of continuous laughter mitchell finally slumped on the sofa and expired from heart failure.

Natural disasters in 1975

• Canton, Illinois Tornado of 1975
• Great Storm of 1975
• Omaha Tornado of 1975

People who died on June 24 (various years)

• 2007 - Natasja Saad, Danish reggae and dancehall artist
• 2007 - Derek Dougan, Northern Irish footballer
• 2007 - Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler
• 2007 - Byron Baer, American politician
• 2006 - Patsy Ramsey, mother of JonBenét Ramsey
• 2005 - Hakham Yedidia Shofet, Former chief rabbi of Iran
• 2005 - Paul Winchell, American voice actor and ventriloquist
• 2004 - Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, Greek songwriter
• 2003 - Vladimir Garin, Russian actor
• 2002 - Pierre Werner, Prime Minister of Luxembourg
• 2000 - David Tomlinson, English actor
• 2000 - Vera Atkins, Romanian-born British intelligence officer
• 1997 - Brian Keith, American actor
• 1997 - Don Hutson, American athlete
• 1993 - Archie Williams, American athlete
• 1991 - Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter.
• 1987 - Jackie Gleason, American actor and musician
• 1984 - Clarence Campbell, Canadian NHL president
• 1978 - Robert Charroux, French writer
• 1977 - André-Gilles Fortin, French Canadian politician
• 1968 - Tony Hancock, British comedian
• 1947 - Emil Seidel, Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• 1935 - Carlos Gardel, Argentine singer (airplane crash)
• 1922 - Walther Rathenau, German Minister of Foreign Affairs (assassinated)
• 1909 - Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer
• 1908 - Grover Cleveland, President of the United States (heart failure)
• 1894 - Marie François Sadi Carnot, French statesman
• 1835 - Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician, commander of Greek naval forces in Greek War of Independence
• 1817 - Thomas McKean, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence
• 1803 - Matthew Thornton, American signer of the Declaration of Independence
• 1778 - Pieter Burmann the Younger, Dutch philologist
• 1766 - Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier
• 1643 - John Hampden, English politician
• 1637 - Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer
• 1604 - Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain of England
• 1520 - Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese samurai commander
• 1519 - Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara
• 1439 - Duke Frederick IV of Austria
• 1398 - Hongwu Emperor of China
• 803 - Higbald of Lindisfarne