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- 32 men died when the British cruiser HMS Trinidad accidentally torpedoed herself
- Critic Alexander Woollcott suffered a fatal heart attack during an on-air discussion about Adolf Hitler.
- Margo Jones, theater director, was killed by exposure to carbon tetrachloride fumes from her newly cleaned carpet.
- Isadora Duncan, dancer, died of a broken neck when one of the long scarves she was known for wearing caught on the wheel of a car in which she was a passenger.
- Martha Mansfield, an American film actress, died after sustaining severe burns on the set of the film The Warrens of Virginia after a smoker’s match, tossed by a cast member, ignited her Civil War costume of hoopskirts and ruffles.
- Basil Brown, a 48-year-old health food advocate from Croydon, drank himself to death with carrot juice
- C.B. Lansing an Aloha Airlines Flight 243 flight attendant, was sucked out of an airliner when the bulkhead tore off in mid flight.
- Gloria Ramirez was admitted to Riverside General Hospital, in Riverside, California, for complications of advanced cervical cancer. Before she died, her caregivers claimed that Ramirez’s body mysteriously emitted toxic fumes that made several emergency room workers very ill. She was dubbed the “toxic lady” by the media.
- The entire Basanga football team was killed instantly when the field was struck by a fork of lightning during a match in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Everyone on the opposing team survived
