Bizarre and Memorable Deaths from History

[@11mitsaras11]

The death of king Alexander was one of the most unfortunate events in modern Greek history. The Greek royal family used to unconstitutionally meddle with the function of the elected governments. Alexander was considered to be a new kind of king that would uphold the constitution. He was not a puppet king, just a king that would not overstep the constitutional boundaries. That's why he was beloved even by those opposing the monarchy, and that's the reason they accepted him as king although their first choice was to completely abolish the monarchy. And the solution would have worked had he not died.

[@kcbh24]

And, judging by the photos, he was gorgeous. 😍

[@victorcalvin1557]

instablaster

[@gerardmorvan2232]

One missing death here : Playwright Aeschylus, who died because an eagle had mistaken his bald head for a rock and had dropped a turtle on it.

[@mrsblobbielife4842]

yer beat me to that one gerard ! :)

[@winnifredforbes8712]

Say what?

[@CliftonPhotographer]

Who did the eagle tell to let us know that's what he thought?

[@jeremymiller4280]

Simon better stay inside then.

[@SplotchTheCatThing]

Maybe the eagle just hated sanctimonious playwright pretend-philosophers :D

[@misterbubbles6389]

Vallandigham: I can prove to the court that my client is innocent. You see, Meyers shot himself. Other lawyers: How did that happen? Vallandigham: You see, he took this gun and he- *BANG*

[@MsPrincesspaulina]

Case Closed

[@Tommy-5684]

king Alexanders death arguably helped lead to the Greek Civil War 25 years later as it widened the rift in Greek politics that successive leaders where unable to bridge

[@jacobkenney2026]

I wanna know what happen to the servant who burnt the king in the bandages

[@ewestner]

Me too. I'm guessing she didn't last long after that.

[@thehellyousay]

Strangled on a pole.

[@petergray2712]

Tis a pity the quack doctor didn't end up dead as well.

[@PixiePrincess501]

There's one about a lawyer that liked to show off/prove that the window in his office, on one of the top floors in a high rise building were shatterproof. How did he do this? By ramming into it like when you try to bash into a jammed door. He did prove that the window was shatterproof- It never shattered, but it did eventually pop out of the frame, plunging the man to his death...smh.

[@diogeneslantern18]

Stoopid lawyer

[@canadasleftcoast.5744]

Garry Hoy from Toronto. He fell from the 24th floor of the TD Tower.

[@r.awilliams9815]

General Sedgwick was killed by a hexagonal bullet from a Whitworth rifle, which gave it the characteristic whistle. It was not, however, explosive.

[@thebrocialist8300]

Someone should repurpose the Candlestick’s ‘Be Our Guest’ song from Beauty and the Beast to that French culinary honor killing/suicide. 🥖👨🏻‍🍳🥂 🇫🇷

[@kcbh24]

I feel guilty for laughing.

[@katiewenta]

I would swear Simon said ‘Noblewoman’ when talking about Máel Brigte. I was so hung up about what happened to the noble woman he’d mentioned that I missed the entire story. Ha!

[@KyleBoise]

He definitely says rules by a noble woman but then goes on to say HE had large teeth. I had to go back and listen several times to makes sure it wasn't me.

[@katiewenta]

Kyle Boise Okay, THANK YOU. I thought I was losing it!

[@jenniferryersejones9876]

lol! Me, too! Had to go back and listen again.

[@claudiobizama5603]

My favorite weird death is Chrysippus, allegedly dying of laughter after he say a donkey eating his figs

[@christelheadington1136]

When I was a kid, there was a legend in our neighborhood that a local widower had tickled his wife to death, that is she laughed so much (while he tickled her) she couldn't catch her breathe.

[@nejm612]

Wow!

[@nejm612]

@@christelheadington1136 Murder?

[@christelheadington1136]

@@nejm612 Well he was still living in the neighborhood, either it was urban legend, or they decided it was accidental

[@jaspr1999]

Of all the debates I've taken part in and witnessed, I can't think of one that was worth suicide to prove a point. Accidental or purposeful.

[@fredsmith9714]

Fair enough, but if the defendant had been convicted he almost certainly would have been hanged giving the time period. To save an innocent from wrongful death is heroic and possibly merits some risk to self. Especially true if it were a close friend or family. Just take gun safety, or whatever danger you face, more seriously so as to minimize such a stupid accident

[@melissadahl7561]

Number one is one of my favorite death stories. So ironic but hey, at least he proved his point and got his client off!

[@nikkigriffin08]

am I the only one who feels bad for the chef/master of festivities who wouldve been fine if he wouldve just waited another 15 mins and chilled tf out?

[@lunaazule1899]

Most lawyers would shoot their client to prove he's innocent.

[@twrea1118]

Most prosecutors would shoot the defendant to prove she’s guilty

[@AB-xd8hm]

How is that one of the Founding Fathers who stuck a whale bone in his junk and died not on this list?

[@ryanmchardy6242]

Wasn't he trying to break up a kidney stone?

[@InnannasRainbow]

Which one of the FF did that?

[@d4mdcykey]

@@InnannasRainbow ~ It was Gouverneur Morris. After suffering from crippling gout throughout the fall of 1816 he began to experience a urinary tract blockage at which point Morris then attempted to clear the obstruction by using a piece of whale bone as a catheter, eventually causing internal injuries and infection. OUCH.

[@kcbh24]

@@InnannasRainbow 😂

[@rukminikrishna1938]

He was Gouvernour Morris

[@marthaharnish178]

There was a king of Spain who literally baked himself to death because a servant had the day off. It wasn't the king's royal job to move himself away from the fireplace if he got too hot, so he stayed there and cooked.

[@Sallygirl19931]

I honestly love your channel so much. I really appreciate how you get right into that unlike others who go on and on before & after the stories

[@Sharabehayat]

Really enjoy the way you dictate. Amazing contents too. Thanks and keep it up!

[@mischakellen6684]

Simon, ever done a q&a...? If I missed it, I'll find it. If not, it's time I think. - A Canadian.

[@allhumansarejusthuman.5776]

I swear I saw one. I don't remember what channel it was on however

[@stephjovi]

Check his personal channel. In 2016 he did daily vlogs and Q&A 's

[@mischakellen6684]

@@stephjovi Ah, nice! I'll check that. Thanks!

[@phoenixwolf6779]

A long time ago I think

[@stephjovi]

@@phoenixwolf6779 yeah 2016 in his vlog on his personal channel he did several

[@princessbuttercup8954]

#5 Is something we still see today. Not riding around with decapitated heads but treating bites from humans. Our mouths are extremely dirty and there is one particular bacteria that causes an infection if you get bit. And the only way you can actually get that bacteria in you is if you are bit by human teeth.

[@u.t.bparanormalteam5218]

I'd have listened to my history teacher more if hed made the lesson as interesting as you do , thanks.

[@caleblarsen5490]

Another musician who died a weird death is Jean Baptiste Lully. He stabbed his foot with his conducting baton, got gangrene, refused to have his foot amputated, and promptly died. Not quite as weird as the example in the video, but still interesting.

[@nosuchthing8]

Eccentric Ends and Dubious Demises, nice

[@GeneralDurandal]

1:52 Piccolo : DOOOOOOODGE!!!

[@Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access]

When someone got hit by an uprooted tree for going into my woods

[@ekramer2478]

Oh dear no visitors huh?

[@mr.blonde1709]

'Some Bigfoot' finally got his internet access and immediately started spamming youtube videos for likes. 'Bigfoot use clever name!'

[@jaybee9269]

Mr. Blonde >> I think you confuse Bigfoot with George of the Jungle. Bigfoot speak gooder than that.

[@xlucykayx]

I love Simon Whistler, would love to interview him. His delivery is perfect.

[@stellarob]

I agree about simon. Id love to interview you also lol for different reasons.

[@rosadenson5689]

If you can do a bio on Charlie Parker???? That would be very helpful and informative!!!! I enjoy all your shows 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

[@txgunguy2766]

It certainly was a surprise to Charlie's friends wasn't it? They never would have suspected that about the toughest stagecoach driver the west ever saw.

[@pamelahomeyer748]

You remember a movie star whose name on the program was grasshopper. He was a martial arts expert and he loved choking himself and eventually this is how he died

[@bobbyanderson1054]

One of the Carradines.... Either Keith or David, I can't remember which one exactly

[@buffster948]

06:30 Me: "This is fascinating, what a great piece of history. I feel so civilised and intellectual." Simon: "Prince Louie the Second, of Bourbon." Me: "Bourbon! Ooo! Biscuits!" 🤣

[@TheCat72850]

Interesting cases!

[@cauldronmoon]

Story about Charles II of Navarre. Was hilarious!!! I Laughed so hard over the story. visual played out in mind ...i heard the attendant's shrill screaming I my mind. I want this bit of history filmed..I This will be hilarious. This is my favorite story out of this entire video. Great job ,Simon!😘😘😘

[@allhumansarejusthuman.5776]

I can only hope my death is so spectacular and insane that I have this level of fame shared and talked about for centuries when my ticket comes up in the grand lottery

[@christopherpappas7474]

As the forgettable person that I am. I still want to be mummified and buried with all my worldly possessions so that in 4 - 5 thousand years some archaeologist finds me and they all think hey this guy musta been really important... I get the last laugh! My mother just rolled her eyes when I told her this...

[@petergray2712]

@@christopherpappas7474 I have to agree with your mother. Many Egyptian mummies were ground up into paint pigments. This form of burial isn't all its cracked up to be.

[@5610winston]

Repeat after me: "Hold my beer. Watch this!"

[@TheCat72850]

What a committed lawyer . Phys Therapist came this morning, so I hurt now 🙄. So have been enjoying videos from you and a couple of urbexers while sitting on my deck in 70degree weather. Insane- 70 on Dec 30!!! Thank you for the video.

[@LostFelidae]

What happened with the lion? Did he escaped the fire, or amongst the 11?

[@canadiandee6342]

Veronika, Questioning Things if he did die, I doubt it would have been included in the final death toll. Animals were just a prop

[@mikeschiavi5320]

Love your channel. Always interesting. Can you do my voicemail ha

[@ItsJustLisa]

No mention of Isadora Duncan?

[@Ma3Laura]

Simon, giving a sly little knowing eye: Thank you for watching. Me: No, no, Simon. Thank YOU, you handsome little devil. Thank YOU times 1000.

[@jaybee9269]

I had no idea Vallandigham died in such an ignominious way. He led the Copperhead faction during the American Civil War. I can’t help but think that what goes around, comes around... (Although in fairness there was no end of people on the make then as always.) Cheers!

[@willsetchell4222]

The Niall vs Sigurd deception actually happened again in the Keith vs Gunn feud at the Battle of the Champions. Funnily enough, the Gunn clan were descended from the Norse earls of Orkney but it was the Keiths that pulled the switcheroo that time.

[@almightydevin4793]

What happened to the woman who accidentally burned the king to death?

[@nightray7854]

Probably executed

[@Dugout97]

Kotzwara was re-incarnated and born David Carradine.

[@deemariedubois4916]

As the matriarch-ha-of a large family, our family get togethers have gotten quite large with 26 just in my immediate family with our children their spouses, and my grandkids. Add in any friends invited and it’s quite a party. I have never been concerned about having enough food to take a sword to the heart. I have considered such however when preparing the food.

[@bibbicus3942]

Top Tenz makes a top 8 list. Rushed?

[@YeeSoest]

In the last case, I wonder if the jury even debated ^^ "Yeah no, I've just seen it happen and still have blood on my shirt but...I don't know, doesn't add up"

[@Robert-xp4ii]

LOL Now THAT was a great, dedicated defense attorney. 👍 My favorite was the bouncing decapitated head's tooth scratching the cheating fighter and him dying from infection. So ironic!!

[@vincentmalab3289]

Im watching Sigurd the Mighty's death in Simple History before watching this video.

[@YeeSoest]

The story of The Grand Lafayette is so perfectly full circle, I think the magician probably smiled when he looked down on it. I'm an atheist, what am I saying?

[@trudyclay3478]

I got a question for you Mr. Top 10 Where did the Term skin a cat more than one way to skin a cat come from

[@jaimie00]

Sepsis isn't "blood poisoning", it's your immune system overreacting to an infection. And it doesn't take septic shock (the part that kills you) long to happen once sepsis has begun. It takes hours. The monkey bite was obviously infected from the moment he got it, it did not become infected just hours after getting it. King Alexander had up to 7 medical procedures before his death, and it's likely that at least one of them caused a worse infection, which could have then triggered sepsis. He did not have sepsis the whole time.

[@TeufelHunden927]

If a six shot revolver shoots 3 shots it still only has one in the chamber but 3 in the cylinder.

[@Khodorchan]

Simon! I am truly addicted to your voice during suffering my insomnia. But it helps. Thank you very much. At least 3-4 hours intensiv sleep. Thanks again!

[@dissonanceofcircles5451]

Well im glad they showed that pronouncement

[@chinaexpat1827]

WHAT A LAST PERFORMANCE

[@imnotakillabutdontpushme4125]

Bless the lawyers little slow heart 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@darthstarkiller6605]

15/10 lawyer

[@bobbieleveline3207]

Wow! I didn't know that and I love here in Hamilton!!

[@mellie4174]

Wow, makes you thankful for antibiotics!

[@Christinebanks11]

Revolver Simon ,pistols do not have a revolving cylinder .

[@ferociousgumby]

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dis-"

[@mildredpierce4506]

I was reading a Darwin Award book in a thrift store. I should have bought it. Very interesting.

[@elfhybrid9063]

I am curious about Vatel's life.

[@feraudyh]

There was a movie on Vatel, starring Gérard Depardieu. The title is Vatel.

[@user-hx5xq6tl9f]

Most people want to die peacefully in their own beds....buuuut, Charles the Bad upset a lot of people so, you know, it's not too hard to imagine that his physician and the attendant were paid to bump him off...🤔

[@paddygeoghegan6509]

That sounds like Michael Hutchison death, never tear us a part filmed in Czech Republic

[@FriendshipandPonies]

simon whistler got me actin strange

[@010Jordi]

5:12 did you say nobelwomen there ?

[@V.Hansen.]

Thats what I was confused by. Totally said woman

[@itsa-itsagames]

Top tens video..... starts out not numbering them, then goes right into #7 lol

[@The00Lisa00]

Died of monkey bites. Hilarious!😂

[@Irene-iu9sj]

Not so.Alexander was a beloved king, even if his term was a short one..........

[@FeedScrn]

Those macaws have nasty teeth... and they like to show them off... to intimidate their perceived enemies. It works.

[@The00Lisa00]

Irene 1943 I’m sure he was beloved, but it doesn’t sound like he was too smart. Common sense should tell you that if you’re bitten by a monkey, you should do whatever’s necessary to treat the wounds (including amputation) and not worry about the story being embarrassing. As it is now, he went down in history as the king that died from monkey bites. Which is hilariously funny 🤣

[@bruhbruh5476]

@@The00Lisa00 it was *1920* a hundred and 1 years ago, science wasn't that well developed

[@ferociousgumby]

How come the Top Ten is now eight?

[@SplotchTheCatThing]

I'm pretty sure I've heard the viking one before but I'm not sure where...

[@mrobvious9535]

Greetings from Hamilton Ohio you could make a whole top ten on this place from mass family murders to paper mill mishaps hell even got a guy who likes to get it on with pool floats.. repeatedly

[@Charles36.]

Isn't Sigurd the one who killed a dragon or serpent? Cool story bro

[@bobthegoat7090]

Nr 1 is just plain terrifying

[@mischakellen6684]

SYMIN WHISTLAH

[@abiflynn46]

😂

[@ewestner]

As a violist myself, I do not believe the one about Kotzwara. Not so much that he died while having sex but that he was a virtuoso violist. I don't think those exist. (Hahahaha, just kidding. I know of at least one.) Btw, it's pronounced VEE-o-la, not VY-o-la. People ask me all the time why it's pronounced wrong (as in, not like violin) but it's from Italian so it's not that viola is pronounced wrong, it's that violin is pronounced wrong. It should be vee-o-lin if it were pronounced correctly as coming from Italian.

[@joebuckhoff]

2:30 I grew up in Sedgwick County Kansas Wichita

[@clbcl5]

1:52 Is that where Boris and Natasha were from?

[@Charles36.]

As the great piccolo once said DODGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@rudramajumder6806]

Brandon Lee was shot during a movie scene

[@robertcombs9469]

damn food order was late.. lol

[@stevecannon-english8683]

Spotsylvaniar???

[@nomfundomdluli1544]

Hie Simon 😊 have a grear 2020

[@jacobkenney2026]

u drunk?

[@LilDroidBlue]

@@jacobkenney2026 going by her name, English may not be her first language.

[@jacobkenney2026]

@@LilDroidBlue true

[@christelheadington1136]

@@jacobkenney2026 -Or just everyday fat finger syndrome.

[@DrowningTimeOfficially]

Croatian leader of the villegers rebellion M.Gubec had the most grudome death. He was the one from witch the Game of thrones got the idea of crowning a king with a melten krown just that was ofc. not that grusome as the real one. He is still a hard symbol of fight for liberty, pride and defience to autorithy in our home region.

[@ushasamc]

So death took someone else as replacement

[@kevinfavron]

Are there any other lawyers that have won there case after death

[@lanemcculley4351]

🎶🎶Stupid deaths. Stupid deaths. They're funny cause they're true.🎶🎶

[@MF_UNDERTOW]

Simon’s accent used to sound different. I wonder if his teeth job is responsible for his BBC anchor accent now days.

[@sophierobinson2738]

Eysteinson is near the top of my family tree.

[@TheDragontee44]

To a crisp huh? Sounds pretty bad Charles the Bad...

[@MarcelaElviraTimis]

Question: how can someone who had progeny win an "award" for removing themselves out of the gene pool?

[@kevinrussell2718]

They could have taken themselves out of the gene pool after procreating at least once, thereby denying the gene pool of any further contamination. Their progeny will then have the opportunity to learn from their parent's stupidity.

[@purpleku7768]

Great, and that is who they named Sedgwick County Kansas after. 😒

[@MatthewSchooley94]

Stupid deaths, stupid deaths They're funny 'cause they're true Stupid deaths, stupid deaths Hope next time it's not you!

[@baryochayyurkevich3032]

Only 8!??

[@christelheadington1136]

The other 2 had cyber deaths.

[@nejm612]

#1 is a Boss

[@mistyocdragons]

*"Got bitten". Not "got bit".* 😖

[@bruhbruh5476]

Eh ?

[@anonymousperson8487]

None of it surprises me, it's the same stuff that all movies today are made up of.

[@goneutt]

Umm, brandy wasn’t invented until 2 centuries after King Charles the Bad.

[@Henchman1977]

Top Eights?

[@Erin-Thor]

Yeah! That’s false advertising! 😱

[@markherron1407]

Rest in peace ✌️ King 👑 Alexander of Greece! Blessings and hugs 🤗💞😂💘😊💖💘❤️🤗💞🤗🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏!

[@teiabutters7732]

What's going on with the kids educational channel you guys where dabbling with?

[@mr.blonde1709]

you forgot that Epstein guy.

[@CliftonPhotographer]

If you watch the video that was recorded outside his cell at the time of his first suicide attempt, you'll VERY CLEARLY see that.......(Wait..... What?.....Oh,I see.) I'm sorry we've just gotten word in that the security footage recorded today day was accidentally deleted. True fact.

[@kcbh24]

@@CliftonPhotographer nice!