Isadora Duncan, considered the mother of modern dance, lost her two children along with their governess when their car tragically went off a bridge just outside Paris and into the Seine in 1913.
Later in 1927, she was riding in an Amilcar CGSS in Paris when her long scarf blew into the wind and got wrapped around a rear axle, pulling her out of the car and breaking her back. She was 50 years old.