Jason V Brock 2 weeks ago

I didn't see this here, and NOTHING tops it--the death of the playwright Aeschylus:

"Aeschylus, an ancient Greek playwright was killed at the age of 67, when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head. The eagle is said to have mistaken his baldness for a rock and tried to use it to crack the shell of its prey. To add a further strange twist to the death of Aeschylus, Roman author Pliny suggested that Aeschylus had been spending a lot of time outdoors to avoid a prophecy that he would be killed by a falling object.

Ironically, Aeschylus was known as the 'father of tragedy' for his work in theatrical Greek tragedies."