Margaret Hamilton (The Wicked Witch of the West in “The Wizard of Oz”) suffered 3rd-degree burns to her face and hands during the scene in Munchkinland where she exits in a ball of flame.
Continuum, a magazine devoted to the idea that AIDS is a conspiracy, went out of print after all the editors died of AIDS
Johnny Cash accidentally started a wildfire that destroyed over 500 acres and killed 49 endangered condors.
Mademoiselle Maupin – The opera singer who beat men in duels as a swordswoman. Oh, and she rescued her lesbian lover from a convent