Human cannonball stunts have been going on since the 1870s. Over 30 stuntmen have been killed since then. A man by the name of Matt Cranch with Scott May’s Daredevil Stuntshow is one of the most recent cases. In a show at the Kent Count Showground in England in 2011, the human cannonballer was supposed to be fired into a net. When the truck with the cannon went off, the net collapsed in the area he was most likely to fall. He landed on his head and neck, killing him instantly.

In September of 1983, Ken Carter tried to break the world record for a ramp-to-ramp jump. The ramps were set up 197 feet apart and Carter, who held the previous record, tried to jump in a rocket-powered Pontiac Firebird. The car flipped over and landed far away from his intended landing spot. The car landed on its roof and killed Carter.

Kashin was a Russian free-runner, performing stunts on top of a building. His stunt was supposed to have him backflip off of a wall 160 feet high and land on the ledge. All seemed to be going according to plan until Kashin lost his balance and fell to his death.

On June 11, 1920, Charles Stephens strapped himself into a barrel and floated down the Niagara River to Horsehoe Falls. He had straps attached to his arms and an anvil attached to his feet to help him steer. Once he hit the falls, however, something went wrong. It is believed that the barrel hitting the falls forced the anvil through the bottom. All the authorities ever found was one arm still in its strap

On June 22, 2013 at the Vectren Air Show in Ohio, Wicker got ready to perform her stunt, as she had many times before. She walked out without a harness or parachute onto the wing. Something went wrong during a barrel roll and the plane tumbled from the sky, killing Wicker and pilot Charlie Schwenker.

Performing with the Flying Wallendas, Guzman was helping Karl Wallenda at the end of Wallenda’s act. Guzman reached out to take Wallenda’s pole. Guzman steadied himself on live cable but the shock sent him plummeting to the ground. He landed on a police officer who was trying to catch him. He was treated immediately but died of his injuries. Just 12 years before that, Guzman had fallen from the high wire and spent nine months in the hospital

Todd Green was a wing walker who was performing at the 2011 Selfridge Air Show in Michigan. His stunt would have him walk on the wings of a biplane then grab onto the skids of a helicopter. He did not execute the second step and lost his balance, tumbled off the wing and fell to his death.

Roy was known for his extremely strong hair. He would pull things like a train with it. In 2013, Roy decided he would try to break his own world record by crossing a river while suspended from his hair. He was to travel 590 feet but about 300 feet in, he got stuck and began calling for help. By the time emergency crews got to him, he was motionless. He had suffered a heart attack and passed away

Potter was attempting to fly off the 7,500 foot Taft Point promontory in Yosemite National Park in May of 2015. He and Graham Hunt were going to be using wingsuits equipped with parachutes, which didn’t deploy, slamming the men into the ground at high speed.

Gilks was trying to break his own world record for the longest dirt jump on a 250CC at the Maitland Bike and Hot Rod Show in Australia. During his practice run, however, things went horribly wrong and his bike broke apart, sending him crashing into the ground. He would later die from his injuries. He was only 19

Karl Wallenda, founder of 'The Flying Wallendas' was a tightrope walker. In 1978 at the age of 73, Karl tried to walk 121 feet between two hotels in Puerto Rico. The world record holder for longest skywalk at 1,800 feet fell to his death after high winds destabilized his wire.

Before there was Felix Baumgartner, there was Colonel Joseph Kittinger (pictured above). He set the free-fall record in 1960. Six years later, Nick Piantanida, a truck driver from New Jersey with no training, tried to break Kittinger's record. On his third attempt, his pressurized suit failed. The attempt was aborted but by then it was too late. The lack of oxygen at 56,000 feet sent him into a come from which he never recovered.

Before there was Birdman, there was Clem 'The Birdman' Sohn, who would go up to about 20,000 feet and then glide down in a homemade wingsuit to about 1,000 feet. He would then open his parachute and amaze the crowd at airshows in the 1930s. On April 25, 1937, however, his parachutes failed to deploy and Sohn was killed on impact.

Patch was one of America's very first daredevils. He became famous after jumping into the Niagara River under Niagara Falls in 1829. He would die trying to do something similar in the Genesee River near Rochester, New York. He lost his balance on the platform and fell into the river before he could adjust himself. His frozen corpse would be pulled from the river days later.

Kyle Lee Stocking (that is not him in the picture) and some friends went to the 110-foot tall Corona Arch near Moab, Utah where they were going to swing from a rope between the arch. However, they inexplicably put too much slack in the rope and Stocking was the first to jump. He slammed into the ground instead of swinging and died from his injuries. Sadly, this is what happens when people see YouTube clips and decide to go out and be daredevils themselves with no training or proper support personnel