[img]http://www.oneplusyou.com/q/img/bb_badges/death.jpg[/img] [spoiler]Unusual Deaths in 1993 * Brandon lee, son of bruce lee, was shot and killed by a prop .44 magnum gun while filming the movie the crow. a cartridge with only a primer and a bullet was fired in the pistol prior to the scene brandon was in; this caused a squib load, in which the primer provided enough force to push the bullet out of the cartridge and into the barrel of the revolver, where it became stuck. the malfunction went unnoticed by the crew, and the same gun was used again later to shoot the death scene, having been re-loaded with blanks. however, the squib load was still lodged in the barrel, and was propelled by the blank cartridge's explosion out of the barrel and into lee's body. although the bullet was traveling much slower than a normally fired bullet would be, the bullet's large size and the nearly point-blank firing distance made it powerful enough to severely wound lee. it was not instantly recognized by the crew or other actors; they believed he was still acting. interestingly, the incident was almost an exact replica of a scene in his father bruce lee's last film "game of death", during the filming of which bruce lee also died. even more bizarrely yet; the plot of game of death revolved around bruce lee's character, a kung-fu actor, faking his own death - by pretending to have been hit by an accidentally fired real bullet while filming a scene where hundreds of blanks were fired at him. * Garry hoy, a toronto lawyer, fell to his death after he threw himself through the glass wall on the 24th floor of the toronto-dominion centre in order to prove the glass was "unbreakable." Natural disasters in 1993 * Great Flood of 1993 * Storm of the Century (1993) * Virginia Tornado Outbreak People who died on August 14 (various years) * 2007 - Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian composer * 2006 - Bruno Kirby, American actor * 2005 - Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver * 2004 - Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born writer, Nobel Prize Laureate * 2003 - Helmut Rahn, German footballer * 2002 - Dave Williams, American singer (Drowning Pool) * 2000 - Alain Fournier, French-born computer graphics researcher * 1999 - Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player * 1996 - Tom Mees, American sportscaster * 1994 - Elias Canetti, British-Austrian novelist * 1992 - Tony Williams, American singer (The Platters) * 1992 - John Sirica, American judge * 1991 - Alberto Crespo, Argentine racing driver * 1988 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian car maker * 1988 - Robert Calvert, South African singer (Hawkwind) * 1985 - Gale Sondergaard, American actress * 1984 - J. B. Priestley, English playwright * 1984 - Spud Davis, American baseball player * 1981 - Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor * 1980 - Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress and model * 1978 - Nicolas Bentley, British writer * 1972 - Jules Romains, French author * 1972 - Oscar Levant, American actor * 1972 - Pierre Brasseur, French actor * 1967 - Bob Anderson, British racing driver * 1964 - Johnny Burnette, American Rockabilly singer * 1958 - Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat (b.1873) * 1958 - Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate * 1956 - Bertolt Brecht, German writer * 1955 - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress * 1951 - William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper magnate * 1943 - Joe Kelley, American baseball player * 1941 - Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr * 1941 - Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate * 1938 - Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer * 1926 - John H. Moffitt, American politician * 1928 - Alfred Henschke, ps. Klabund, German writer, poet * 1905 - Simeon Solomon, British artist * 1874 - Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician * 1870 - David Farragut, American officer of the U.S. Navy * 1860 - André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist * 1856 - Constant Prévost, French geologist * 1784 - Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter * 1774 - Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician * 1727 - William Croft, English composer * 1704 - Roland Laporte, French Protestant leader * 1691 - Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel, Irish rebel * 1573 - Saito Tatsuoki, Japanese warlord * 1464 - Pope Pius II * 1433 - King John I of Portugal * 1430 - Philip I, Duke of Brabant * 1390 - John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier * 1204 - Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun * 1167 - Rainald of Dassel, Archbishop of Cologne * 582 - Tiberius II Constantine, Byzantine Emperor [/spoiler]