No one knows the victims of the big older falls, like Nantan, and if we count also Tunguska as a hit, only dead reindeers was reported, but I can bet, also people were died, but in these cases the russians didn�t give / get the information. The circumstances in many areas were / are a kind, you can�t get a relaible report. And ok, Tunguska was not a meteorite, propably a "dirty snowball"...
In the case of Tunguska, we know two people died as a result of the impact (and many more were injured). Vasiliy son of Okhchen died from wounds sustained after being hurled against a tree by the blast, and the aged hunter Lyuburman of Shanyagir died from shock (probably cardiac arrest).
The Chinese recorded several instances of multiple deaths by meteorite impact. See:
Yau, K., P. Weissman, and D. Yeomans. "Meteorite Falls in China and Some Related Human Casualty Events." Meteoritics v. 29, pp. 864-871.
The "big one" they list is a meteorite shower of 1490 in Shansi province which purportedly killed thousands of people.
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