As art often imitates life, people who've died from unusual diseases, accidents (boats, cars, planes, trains, industrial machinery), wars, disasters, murders, suicides, executions and quirks of fate are source material to film-makers. People rubberneck … of syphilis treatment. Celebrity Trivia Collection lists such gems as Attila the Hun expiring from a nosebleed on his wedding night; and trombonist Tommy Dorsey asphixiated in his sleep from food in his windpipe (1956). …

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Movies Echo Life's Fantastic, Weird, Unusual and Bizarre Deaths …