Tradition holds that Aeschylus died when a bird dropped this reptile on his bald head to crack its shell
[DOC] [TLE] Real Life / Cruel And Unusual Death - TV Tropes [PAR] A famous if possibly apocryphal story holds that in 1218, Inalchuq, governor ... 
Manius Aquillius of Rome was killed by having molten gold poured down his 
throat ...