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Suffocated with pear

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Claudius Drusus, son of emperor Claudius (10 BCE – 54 CE) and Plautia Urgulanillia, suffocated when he tossed a pear for fun and this one fell his open mouth.

Sources
  • Suetonius, The Life of the Caesars, 27

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