10 Famous People Who Died on the Toilet
Elvis Presley (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
1. Louis Kahn, an American Architect, died of a heart attack in 1974 in a men’s restroom in Pennsylvania Station in New York City.
2. Elvis Presley died of a heart attack in his bathroom in 1977. History disputes whether the heart attack was caused by drug intake, his weight, or what his biographer called “straining at stool”.
Evelyn Waugh (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
3. English novelist Evelyn Waugh died in 1966 after heading to the bathroom after church one Sunday.
4. Contrary to the popular myth of her death, Russian leader Catherine the Great actually suffered a stroke in her dressing room at the age of 67. She fell into a coma and died the following evening.
5. The Japanese warlord Uesugi Kenshin died on his toilet in 1578, possibly due to copious alcohol consumption.
6. Christopher Shale, constituency aide to U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron died last year on a toilet at the Glastonbury Festival at age 56.
7. Edmund II, or “Edmund Ironsides”, the eleventh-century king of England was stabbed in the anus by a Viking hiding in his toilet.
8. Top Gun Producer Don Simpson apparently died on his toilet of a heart attack due to combined drug use in 1996 while reading a biography of Oliver Stone.
9. King George II was pronounced dead in 1760 from “overexertions on the privy”.
10. Comedian Lenny Bruce died of an accidental morphine overdose in the bathroom of his Hollywood home in 1966.
Source: Nathaniel Tapley + Wikipedia
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Hi–just a quick correction. Evelyn Waugh was a novelist, not an architect!
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The entry says that he was a novelist. Can’t you read?
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I think the SevenPonds staff may have corrected our mistake at some point. The original comment was posted in 2012. We appreciate your feedback, but please be kind.:)
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Add Jackie Gleason the fat & big mouth comedian. Had colon cancer. Also Judy Garland under drugs & suffering constipation. . Well one way to go & can be quite embarrassing. Even I hate it.
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