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The 1920’s brimmed with bizarre deaths, ranging from monkey attacks to cyanide poisoning. Read on to hear about some of the strange ways in which certain individuals died in that decade. I bet all of them wish they had visited www.sunlife50plan.co.uk and got themselves life insurance!

In 1920, the Swedish author Dan Andersson died of cyanide poisoning at Hotel Hellman in Stockholm. The hotel staff had used hydrogen cyanide to kill bed bugs previously and had failed to clear the room out properly. Alexander I, the King of the Hellenes, died the same year after sustaining monkey bites when attempting to protect his dog from a monkey attack. The bites causes sepsis and Alexander I died just three weeks later. In 1923 Martha Mansfield died after sustaining severe burns whilst filming on the set for The Warrens of Virginia. A smoker’s match was tossed by a cast member causing her Civil War costume to subsequently set alight. Harry Houdini, the famous American escape artist, died in 1926 after being punched in the stomach by an amateur boxer which ruptured his appendix.