Also known as the "Mad Monk", Rasputin was reportedly disemboweled, poisoned, shot, clubbed before being thrown into an icy river where he perished. Impressive as that may be, he had nothing on his modern day counterpart.
American motorcycle daredevil Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel, Jr. died recently (30-11-07) aged 69 from pulmonary fibrosis. While Evel had been battling illness for some time now, with his daredevil years long behind him, during his prime Evel had suffered a startling number of injuries and was even in the Guinness book of Records having had 40 broken bones at once.