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1987: R. Budd Dwyer, a Republican politician, committed suicide during a televised press conference. Facing a potential 55-year jail sentence for alleged involvement in a conspiracy, Dwyer shot himself in the mouth with a revolver.

1989: Peter Plumley-Walker, a cricket umpire was found floating downstream of the Huka Falls with his wrists and ankles bound. He had been thrown over the falls by his teenage dominatrix Renee Chignall and her partner Neville Walker. Plumley-Walker had lost consciousness during a bondage session and Chignall had mistakenly thought she had killed him. Walker and Chignall put Plumley-Walker in the boot of a car and drove 150km to the Huka Halls. It is alleged that Plumley-Walker was still alive when he was thrown over the Huka Falls and in fact died by drowning.

1990: Joseph W. Burrus, aged 32, an aspiring magician, decided to perform the "buried alive" illusion in a plastic box covered with cement. The cement crushed the box and he died of asphyxia. [26]

1990: George Allen, an American football coach, died a month after some of his players dumped a Gatorade bucket on him following a victory (as it is tradition in American Football), resulting in pneumonia.

1993: Brandon Lee was shot and killed by a prop .44 Magnum gun while filming the movie The Crow. The scene involved the firing of a full-powder blank (full charge of gunpowder, but no bullet) at Brandon's character. Unknown to the film crew/firearms technician, a bullet was already lodged in the barrel.

1993: Wong Ka Kui, leader of the popular Hong Kong prog rock band Beyond, died following a coma, one week after falling 7 feet from the raised stage of a game show when a panel gave way.

1994: Stephen Milligan, UK journalist and conservative politician, died due to autoerotic asphyxiation.

1994: Ayrton Senna, a former three time Formula One world champion, died at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix after crashing at the Tamburello corner while leading, hitting the wall head-on at 218 km/h. Senna's injuries were caused by the front right tire with attached suspension piece, which became loose on impact, hit Senna on the head and pierced his visor, and caused a fatal cranial trauma.

1996: "The Engineer" Yahya Ayyash, chief Palestinian bombmaker for Hamas, was assassinated by way of a Shin Bet (Shabak) rigged mobile phone, which detonated when he answered a call.

1996: Richard Versalle suffered a heart attack onstage at the New York Metropolitan Opera after delivering the line "Too bad you can only live so long" during a performance of The Makropulos Case.

1998: Tom and Eileen Lonergan were stranded while scuba diving with a group of divers off Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The group's boat accidentally abandoned them due to an incorrect head count taken by the dive boat crew. The couple was left to fend for themselves in shark-infested waters. Their bodies were never recovered. The incident is described in the film Open Water.

1998: American film director Alan J. Pakula died in a car accident on the Long Island Expressway in New York when a driver in front of him struck a metal pipe, which subsequently flew through Pakula's windshield and struck him in the head, causing him to swerve off the road and into a fence, killing him instantly.

1999: Owen Hart, a World Wrestling Federation wrestler, died before a match when he fell 78 feet onto a metal turnbuckle after accidentally triggering an early release from a cable that was lowering him from the stadium rafters into the ring. He had been scheduled to win the WWF Intercontinental Championship that night.

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2001: Bernd-Jürgen Brandes was stabbed repeatedly in the neck and then eaten by Armin Meiwes. Before the killing, both men dined on Brandes' severed penis. Brandes had answered an internet advertisement by Meiwes looking for someone for this purpose. Brandes explicitly stated in his will that he wished to be killed and eaten.[27]

2001: Ahmed Shah Massoud was killed by a video camera containing an explosive. He was apparently about to conduct an interview with two men posing as journalists.[28]

2003: Brian Wells, a pizza delivery man, was killed by a time bomb which was fastened around his neck. He was apprehended by the police after robbing a bank, and claimed he had been forced to do it by three people who had put the bomb around his neck and would kill him if he refused. The bomb then exploded, killing him.

2003: Brandon Vedas died of a drug overdose while engaged in an Internet chat, as shown on his webcam.

2003: Timothy Treadwell, an American environmentalist who had lived in the wilderness among bears for thirteen summers in a remote region in Alaska, was killed and partially consumed by bears, along with his girlfriend Amie Huguenard. The incident is described in the documentary film Grizzly Man.[29]

2005: Kenneth Pinyan of Seattle died of acute peritonitis after submitting to anal intercourse with a stallion in the town of Enumclaw, Washington. Pinyan had done this before, and he delayed his visit to the hospital for several hours out of reluctance for official cognizance. The case led to the criminalization of bestiality in Washington.[30]

2005: 28-year-old Korean video game addict Lee Seung Seop collapsed in an Internet cafe after playing Starcraft for almost 50 consecutive hours.[31]

2006: Steve Irwin, a television personality and naturalist known as The Crocodile Hunter, died when his heart was impaled by a short-tail stingray barb while filming in Queensland's Batt Reef. [32]

2006: Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB spy who had been investigating the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, was poisoned by polonium-210, an extremely rare radioactive metalloid.[33]

2007: Jennifer Strange, a 28-year-old woman from Sacramento, died of water intoxication while trying to win a Nintendo Wii in a KDND 107.9 "The End" radio station's "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest, which involved drinking large quantities of water without urinating.
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