@BhargavRao, actually, I can just copy-paste the answer from the link, but I think that this question can be also marked as a dupe of the question I refer to. However, I'm not sure... â Ilya V. Schurov Dec 2 '14 at 13:00.
First barrel ride down Niagara Falls. On this day in 1901, a 63-year-old schoolteacher named Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to take the plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel. After her husband died in the Civil War, the New York-born Taylor moved all over the U. S. before settling in Bay City, Michigan, around 1898.
This list of celebrities who died from falling and fatal falls below has everything from Owen Hart to Robert Culp. These notable people who fell to their death include modern and long-gone famous men and women, from politicians to religious leaders to writers. Everyone on this list fell to their death as a cause of death somewhere in their public records, even if it was just one contributing factor for their death. Owen Hart.