List of drug-related deaths

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The following is a list of notable people who have died from drug-related causes. Deaths caused by alcohol are included.

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

[edit] A

• Herb Abrams - professional wrestling promoter, heart complications brought on by drug abuse.
• Nick Adams (36) - actor, drug overdose.
• Stuart Adamson - musician, Big Country, self-asphyxiation under the influence of alcohol.
• Kerry Gene Adkisson (33) - professional wrestler, suicide, after arrest for cocaine possession and drug problems.
• Michael Brent Adkisson (23) - professional wrestler, suicide, overdosed on tranquilizers.
• Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (35) - writer, committed suicide by overdosing on barbiturates.
• Dennis Allen - infamous drug dealer, drug induced heart failure.
• GG Allin (36) - punk musician, heroin overdose.
• Bridgette Andersen (21) former child actress, alcohol and heroin overdose.
• Pier Angeli (39) Italian-born actress, died of anaphylactic shock after being given a tranquilizer by her doctor.
• Matthew Ansara - actor and bodybuilder, heroin overdose.
• Chris Antley - champion horse-racing jockey, drug-related causes.
• West Arkeen - musician, drug overdose.
• Howard Arkley - painter, drug overdose.
• Kevyn Aucoin - photographer & make-up artist, kidney and liver failure due to Tylenol toxicity, due to prescription painkillers addiction.

[edit] B

• Chet Baker (58) - jazz trumpeter and singer.
• Florence Ballard (32) - musician, The Supremes, cardiac arrest strongly exacerbated by long-term drug abuse.
• Lester Bangs (33) - musician, writer, overdose of painkillers, possibly accidental.
• Jean-Michel Basquiat (27) - painter, heroin overdose.
• Scotty Beckett (38) - American former child actor, suicide, barbiturate overdose.
• Steve Bechler - Major League Baseball pitcher, after using the drug ephedra.
• John Belushi (33) - of the Blues Brothers, actor, and comedian, heroin and cocaine overdose (speedball).
• Wes Berggren - musician, Tripping Daisy.
• George Best (59) - ex-footballer with Manchester United, multiple organ failure exacerbated by chronic long-standing alcoholism.
• Leah Betts (18) - schoolgirl, ecstasy related.
• Len Bias (22) - basketball star; died of cocaine overdose before ever playing in the NBA.
• Bam Bam Bigelow (45) - professional wrestler, toxic levels of cocaine and temazepam.
• Count Gottfried von Bismarck (44) - Aristocrat, suspected drug overdose.
• Mike Bloomfield (36) - blues guitarist, heroin overdose.
• Tommy Bolin (25) - musician, Deep Purple, drugs overdose and/or alcohol poisoning.
• John Bonham (32) - musician Led Zeppelin, alcohol related asphyxiation caused by choking on his own vomit.
• Christopher Bowman (40) - former professional ice skater, possible prescription drug overdose.
• Elisa Bridges (29) - model, acute intoxication - combined effects of heroin, methamphetamine, meperidine and alprazolam.
• Erik Brødreskift (30) - musician, Borknagar,Gorgoroth,and Immortal, suicide - pill overdose.
• Lenny Bruce (40) - comedian, morphine overdose.
• Tim Buckley (28) - rock and roll musician, heroin overdose.
• Chad Butler (aka "Pimp C") - rap musician, accidental overdose of Promethazine/Codeine "syrup" mixed with a pre-existing medical condition, sleep apnea^[1][2].
• Paul Butterfield (44) - musician, drug and alcohol overdose.

[edit] C

• Andrés Caicedo (25) - writer, drug overdose, possibly suicide.
• Toy Caldwell - musician, Marshall Tucker Band.
• Casey Calvert - guitarist of Hawthorne Heights, accidental drug overdose through mixture of opiates, citalopram, and clonazepam.
• Ken Caminiti (41) - former Major League Baseball player; acute cocaine and opiates intoxication.
• Max Cantor - journalist, actor, heroin overdose, he became an addict while researching addicts in New York.
• Truman Capote (59) - writer, liver disease complicated by phlebitis and multiple drug intoxication.
• Sonny Clark - musician, hard bop pianist, heroin overdose.
• Steve Clark (30) - musician, Def Leppard, accidential death (anti-depressants, painkillers and alcohol).
• Montgomery Clift - actor, heart attack due to severe alcoholism and drug abuse.
• Kurt Cobain (27) - musician, Nirvana, alleged suicide by gunshot after heroin overdose.
• Natasha Collins (31) - actress - cocaine overdose.
• Brian Cole - musician, the Association, heroin overdose.
• Brian Connolly - musician, Sweet, liver damage caused by long-term substance abuse and chronic alcoholism.
• Megan Connolly (27) - actress, heroin overdose.
• Pamela Courson - common law wife of Jim Morrison of The Doors, heroin overdose.
• Carl Crack (30) - musician, Atari Teenage Riot, drug overdose.
• Darby Crash (22) - punk musician, of The Germs, suicide by heroin overdose.
• Robbin Crosby (42) - musician, ex-Ratt, contracted HIV as a result of long-time heroin addiction and died of a heroin overdose.

[edit] D

• Dalida (54) - singer, suicide, barbiturates overdose (sleeping pills).
• Dorothy Dandridge (42) - actress, singer, anti-depressant overdose.
• Jesse Ed Davis (43) - guitarist, session musician, drug overdose.
• Paul Demayo (38) - professional bodybuilder, heroin overdose.
• Teri Diver (29) - pornographic actress, cardiac arrest caused by overdose of migraine medication.
• DJ Screw (29) - musician, heart attack thought to be result of codeine overdose.
• Desmond Donnelly (53) - politician/ businessman/ journalist, suicide under influence of alcohol/ overdose of barbiturates.
• Tommy Dorsey (51) - jazz musician and bandleader, choked to death while sleeping with the aid of drugs.
• John Dougherty - musician, Flipper, heroin overdose.
• Eric Douglas - stand-up comedian, "acute intoxication" by the effects of alcohol, tranquilizers and painkillers.
• Nick Drake (26) - musician, anti-depressant overdose, disputed suicide.
• Michael Dransfield (24) - poet, heroin overdose.
• Kevin DuBrow (52) - rock vocalist, cocaine overdose.
• Bobby Duncum, Jr. - professional wrestler, prescription drug overdose.
• Anthony Durante - professional wrestler, drug overdose.

[edit] E

• Jeanne Eagels (35) - actress, alcohol and/or heroin abuse.
• John Entwistle (57) - musician, bassist for the Who, died from heart failure brought upon by cocaine use.
• Brian Epstein (32) - Manager of The Beatles, accidental sleeping pill overdose.
• Howie Epstein (47) - musician, ex-bassist with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, heroin overdose^[3].

[edit] F

• Chris Farley (33) - comedian who rose to fame on Saturday Night Live, cocaine and morphine overdose (speedball).
• Pete Farndon (31) - musician, the Pretenders, drowned/ heroin overdose.
• Rainer Werner Fassbinder - playwright, director, cocaine overdose (possible suicide).
• Brenda Fassie (39) - singer, cocaine overdose.
• Keith Ferguson - musician, the Fabulous Thunderbirds.
• Althea Flynt - co-publisher of Hustler magazine, drowned after passing out after drug overdose.
• Zac Foley (31) - musician, EMF, heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, temazepam, barbiturates and alcohol in bloodstream.
• Katy French (24) - model and socialite, cocaine use.
• Sigmund Freud (83) - neurologist, long-term cocaine use, physician assisted morphine overdose (euthanasia).

[edit] G

• Rory Gallagher (47) - musician, Taste, died of pnemonia and a liver failure, caused by side effects of a combination of doctor-prescribed drugs.
• Danny Gans (52) - Impressionist, Las Vegas entertainer. Accidental drug overdose, May 1st, 2009.
• Paul Gardiner - musician, Tubeway Army, drug overdose.
• Judy Garland (47) - singer and actress, disputed drug overdose as cause of death.
• Lowell George (34) - musician, Little Feat, heart attack - habitual drug abuse probable cause.
• Talitha Getty (30) - actress (Barbarella) and socialite (Wife of John Paul Getty Jr), heroin overdose in Rome 1971.
• Andy Gibb (30) - singer, younger brother of the Bee Gees; cardiac damage strongly exacerbated by cocaine and alcohol abuse.
• Simon Gipps-Kent - actor, morphine poisoning, suspected drug overdose.
• Trevor Goddard (40) - former professional boxer turned actor, cocaine, heroin, hydrocodone, and diazepam overdose.
• Dwayne Goettel (31) - musician, Skinny Puppy, heroin overdose.
• Paul Gonsalves (53) - jazz tenor saxophonist, Duke Ellington, narcotics overdose
• Gribouille (26) - singer, drugs overdose.

[edit] H

• Clinton Haines - noted computer hacker, heroin overdose on 21st birthday.
• Bobby Hatfield - musician, The Righteous Brothers, heart attack triggered by cocaine overdose.
• Tim Hardin - folk musician, heroin and morphine overdose.
• Brynn Hartman - wife and murderer of comedian Phil Hartman, suicide after cocaine and alcohol.
• Phyllis Haver - actress, intentional barbiturate overdose
• James Hayden (29) - actor, heroin overdose.
• Joey Hawthorne - professional poker player, drug overdose.
• Eddie Hazel - musician, guitarist, of the P-funk collective, liver failure.
• Mitch Hedberg - comedian, multiple drug toxicity (cocaine and heroin).
• Tim Hemensley - indie musician, member of GOD, heroin overdose
• Margaux Hemingway (41) - actress, disputed suicide, overdose of phenobarbital.
• Jimi Hendrix (27) - rock and roll musician, respiratory arrest caused by alcohol and barbiturate overdose and vomit inhalation.
• Curt Hennig - professional wrestler, cocaine overdose.
• Gino Hernandez (28) - wrestler, cocaine overdose.
• Randy Jo Hobbs - musician.
• Abbie Hoffman - self-identified communo-anarchist, social and political activist in the United States, suicide by overdose of Phenobarbital pills
• El Duce Hoke - musician, drummer and singer in the Mentors, hit by train when alcohol intoxicated (disputed murder theories).
• Hollywood Fats - musician, heroin overdose.
• Gary Holton (33) - actor, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, alcohol and morphine overdose.
• James Honeyman-Scott - musician, the Pretenders, cocaine overdose.
• Shannon Hoon (28) - musician, singer in Blind Melon, cocaine overdose.
• Howard Hughes (70) - aviator, engineer, industrialist, movie producer, playboy, liver failure - autopsy showed lethal amount of codeine and also valium in body.
• Gertrude Hullett - died of barbiturate overdose while being treated by suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams.
• Elizabeth Hulette (42) - professional wrestling manager, accidental overdose of alcohol, alprazolam, temazepam, oxycodone, hydrocodone, and anabolic steroids.
• Harold Hunter (31) - professional skateboarder and actor, apparent cocaine overdose.
• Phyllis Hyman - singer, suicide involving lethal amounts of alcohol and temazepam.

[edit] J

• Steven Ronald "Stevo" Jensen - musician, The Vandals, prescription drug overdose.
• Joëlle, American born French singer, drug overdose.
• Anissa Jones (18) - actress (played "Buffy" on American TV series Family Affair), accidential overdose of cocaine, PCP, methaqualone and secobarbital.
• Brian Jones - musician, the Rolling Stones, drowned, very likely due to alcohol and barbiturate intoxication.
• Rob Jones (a.k.a. The Bass Thing) - musician - former bassist of The Wonder Stuff, heroin/cocaine/alcohol overdose.
• Russell Jones (a.k.a. Ol' Dirty Bastard) - hip hop musician, accidential overdose, cocaine and prescription painkiller^[4].
• Janis Joplin (27) - rock and roll and blues musician, heroin overdose.
• Rick James (56)- Punk-Funk/Rock Legend Died August 6, 2004 of a drug induced heart-attack

[edit] K

• John Kahn - musician, Jerry Garcia Band, complications of heart disease, heroin, cocaine, and antidepressants found in his body.
• David Kennedy - fourth child of Robert F. Kennedy, cocaine and pethidine overdose.
• Bernard Kettlewell - lepidopterist and medical doctor, drug overdose.
• Dorothy Kilgallen, Irish-American journalist and television game show panelist, fatal combination of alcohol and secobarbital, perhaps concurrent with a heart attack
• John Kordic - hockey player, died during struggle with police after cocaine overdose.

[edit] L

• Alan Ladd (50) - actor, acute overdose of alcohol and hypnotic barbiturates, probable suicide ^[5].
• Arcadia Lake - pornographic actress, drug overdose.
• Barbara La Marr - actress, drug-related death in Hollywood.
• Karen Lancaume - pornographic actress, overdose of temazepam (suicide).
• Carole Landis - actress, overdose of barbiturates (suicide).
• Heath Ledger (28) - actor, accidental death Combined Drug Intoxication of various prescription drugs, including oxycodone, hydrocodone, temazepam, and others^[6].
• Bruce Lee (32) - actor, martial artist, died of acute cerebral edema due to a reaction to compounds present in the prescription pain killing drug Equagesic.
• Gerald Levert - R&B singer, son of O'Jays singer Eddie Levert - accidental combination of prescription medications.
• Frank X. Leyendecker - illustrator, drug overdose.
• Debbie Linden - glamour model & actress, heroin overdose.
• Eugene Lipscomb - American football player, heroin overdose.
• Mike Lockwood - professional wrestler, choked on his own vomit after overdose of painkillers and alcohol.
• Trinity Loren (real name: Joyce Evelyn McPherson) - porn star, model, and stripper, accidental overdose of prescription painkillers.
• Bela Lugosi (73) - actor, drug-related heart attack.
• Zoe Tamerlis Lund - former child musical prodigy turned model, actress, and writer, heart failure due to heroin use.
• Donyale Luna (34) - first notable African American supermodel & actress, drug overdose.
• Frankie Lymon - musician, doo wop singer, heroin overdose.
• Aaron Lynch - writer on memetics, opiate-based painkiller overdose (coroner ruled accidental death.)
• Phil Lynott (36) - musician, Thin Lizzy, health breakdown caused by a heroin overdose. (speedball.)

[edit] M

• Billy Mackenzie - musician, the Associates, overdosed on temazepam, amitriptyline, and paracetamol (suicide).
• Chris Mainwaring - Australian Footballer, alleged accidental overdose.
• Bibek Maitra
• Sherri Martel - professional wrestler, accidental overdose with multiple drugs in her system, including high amounts of oxycodone.
• David McComb (36) - musician, The Triffids, heroin overdose.
• Jimmy McCulloch - musician with Wings, guitarist, heroin overdose.
• Robbie McIntosh - musician, Average White Band, heroin overdose.
• Clyde McPhatter - singer, complications of heart, liver, and kidney disease due to alcoholism.
• Aimee Semple McPherson - Canadian-born evangelist and media sensation in the 1920s and 1930s, overdose of prescription barbiturates.
• Jonathan Melvoin - touring keyboardist for the Smashing Pumpkins, heroin overdose.
• Amedeo Modigliani - painter, tubercular meningitis — exacerbated by poverty, overworking, and excessive use of alcohol and narcotics.
• Joëlle Mogensen - singer, drug overdose.
• Marilyn Monroe (36) - actress, overdose of barbiturate-based sleeping pills.
• Ken Montgomery - musician, D.O.A.
• Keith Moon - musician, the Who, accidental overdose on anti-seizure medication prescribed for alcoholism.
• Edith Alice Morrell - died of morphine overdose while being treated by suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams.
• Chester Morris - actor, drug overdose.
• Jim Morrison (27) - musician, The Doors, heart failure, alcohol abuse (cause and fact of death disputed).
• Billy Murcia - musician, the New York Dolls, accidental suffocation after drugs and alcohol.
• Brent Mydland - musician, keyboardist, of the Grateful Dead, cocaine/morphine overdose.

[edit] N

• Delphine Neid - musician, The Nuns, drugs overdose.
• Joachim Nielsen (36) - rock musician in the band Jokke & Valentinerne, drug overdose
• Bradley Nowell (28) - musician, Sublime, heroin overdose.

[edit] O

• Hugh O'Connor - actor, of In the Heat of the Night TV series, suicide under influence of cocaine.
• Lani O'Grady - actress, of Eight Is Enough - multiple drug intoxication.
• Johnny O'Keefe - musician/ singer, heart attack after prescription drugs addiction.
• Christina Onassis - daughter of the billionaire Aristotle Onassis, pulmonary edema, caused by constant drug abuse and dramatic weight changes.
• Bryan Ottoson - musician, American Head Charge, accidental prescription-drug overdose.

[edit] P

• Marco Pantani (34) - cyclist, Tour de France winner; acute cocaine intoxication.
• Charlie Parker (34) - jazz musician; the official cause of death was (lobar) pneumonia and a bleeding ulcer, his death was hastened by his drug and alcohol abuse
• Robert Pastorelli (49) - television actor, heroin overdose.
• Gram Parsons (26) - country musician, of the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers, overdose, purportedly of morphine and tequila.
• Chris Penn (40) - actor (Reservoir Dogs), brother of Sean Penn, heart disease and prescription drugs.
• Art Pepper (56) - jazz musician.
• Christopher Pettiet (24) - actor.
• Jack Pickford (36) - actor, syphillis & alcohol and drug abuse.
• Kristen Pfaff (27) - musician, ex-member of Hole, heroin overdose.
• Esther Phillips (48) - musician, singer, liver and kidney failure due to alcohol and heroin dependency.
• John Phillips (65) - musician, of the Mamas and the Papas, heart failure due to lifetime of alcohol and narcotics abuse.
• River Phoenix (23) - actor, overdose of heroin and cocaine (speedball).
• Jeffrey Lee Pierce (37) - musician, the Gun Club.
• Rob Pilatus (32) - musician, Milli Vanilli, drug overdose.
• Dana Plato (34) - actress, of Diff'rent Strokes, suicide - overdose of muscle relaxant Vanadom (carisoprodol)and Vicodin.
• Pola - model, appeared in Vogue and Cosmopolitan - heroin overdose in 1975.
• Darrell Porter (50) - professional baseball catcher (Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals) turned broadcaster, cocaine overdose.
• Freddie Prinze (22) - comic, actor (Chico and the Man), self-inflicted gunshot wound while under the influence of Quaaludes

[edit] Q

• Glenn Quinn (32) - Actor Angel (TV series), heroin overdose.

[edit] R

• Dee Dee Ramone (50) - musician, the Ramones, heroin overdose.
• James Ray - singer, drug overdose.
• Michael Reeves - film director, barbiturate overdose.
• Wallace Reid (31) - actor, flu caused by morphine addiction.
• Jimmy Reilly (17) - musician, Watertower West and Tony And The Tigers, heroin and alcohol overdose.
• Elis Regina (36) - singer, fatal alcohol and temazepam interaction.
• Brad Renfro (25) - actor, overdose of heroin and morphine^[7].
• Ryszard Riedel (37) - blues and rock vocalist with the Polish band Dżem due to cardiac insufficiency due to long time drug abuse (especially heroin)|
• Rachel Roberts (53) - actress - barbiturate overdose (suicide).
• Don Rogers (23) - American football player, cocaine overdose.
• Alma Rubens - actress, flu caused by heroin addiction.
• David Ruffin (50) - musician, the Temptations, drug overdose.

[edit] S

• George Sanders (65) - actor, barbiturates overdose (suicide).
• Catya Sassoon (33) - model and actress, overdose of hydromorphone and cocaine.
• Joe Schermie - musician, Three Dog Night, heart attack resulting from long-term drug abuse
• Ronnie Scott (69) - jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz-club owner, died accidentally from a mixture of brandy and temazepam.
• Jean Seberg - actress, barbiturate and alcohol overdose (suicide).
• Jason Sears - musician, Rich Kids on LSD, treatment with natural drugs.
• Rod Scurry (36) - Major League Baseball relief pitcher, cocaine-induced heart attack.
• Edie Sedgwick - actress.
• Bobby Sheehan - musician, Blues Traveler, drug overdose.
• Eric Show - baseball player, cocaine and heroin overdose (speedball).
• Pavlos Sidiropoulos - rock musician, heroin overdose.
• Judee Sill - folk musician, heroin overdose.
• Don Simpson - film producer, heart attack, reports of 20 drugs in his body at time of death.
• Tom Simpson - road racing cyclist, dehydration and exhaustion while cycling, amphetamines and alcohol usage.
• Hillel Slovak (26) - musician, Red Hot Chili Peppers, heroin overdose.
• Anna Nicole Smith (39) - Playboy playmate, actress, reality show star, lethal combination of chloral hydrate and various benzodiazepines.
• Daniel Smith (20) - Son of Anna Nicole Smith, part-time actor and director, lethal combination of methadone, Lexapro and Zoloft.
• Davey Boy Smith (39) - professional wrestler, heart attack - steroid abuse may have contributed.
• Freddy Soto - comedian, writer and actor, mixture of alcohol, alprazolam, and fentanyl.
• Louie Spicolli - professional wrestler, choked on vomit after drugs and alcohol overdose.
• Layne Staley (34) - musician, Alice in Chains, cocaine and heroin overdose (speedball).
• Joey Stefano (26) - pornographic actor, overdose of cocaine, morphine, heroin and ketamine.
• Inger Stevens - actress, suicide - overdose of sleeping pills.
• Rory Storm - musician, suicide - sleeping pills overdose.
• Margaret Sullavan (48) - actress, deliberate barbiturate overdose.
• Paige Summers - pornographic model & actress, a drug overdose from a combination of the painkillers codeine and oxycodone.^[8]
• Screaming Lord Sutch - singer and politician, suicide following Prozac overdose.

[edit] T

• Zoë Tamerlis Lund - musician turned model, heart failure after sustained heroin and cocaine abuse.
• Warren Tartaglia (Walid al-Taha) - jazz musician & one of six founders of Moorish Orthodox Church of America, heroin overdose.
• Chase Tatum (34) former wrestler for the now-defunct World Championship Wrestling organization, apparent drug overdose.
• Vinnie Taylor - musician, Sha Na Na, heroin overdose.
• Gary Thain - musician, Uriah Heep, drug overdose.
• Jotie T'Hooft - poet, drug overdose, suicide.
• Johnny Thunders - musician, the New York Dolls, alcohol and methadone poisoning.
• John Thompson - poet, "a brutal mix of barbiturates and liquor."
• Georg Trakl - playwright, cocaine overdose.
• D. M. Turner (34) - author/psychonaut, drowned in a bathtub while on ketamine.
• Ike Turner (76) - musician/producer, died from cocaine overdose with high blood pressure and emphysema as contributing factors^[9].
• Dick Twardzik - bebop jazz pianist, heroin overdose.

[edit] U

• Stu Ungar (45) - Three-time World Series of Poker Main Event winner, heart condition caused by long-term cocaine abuse.
• Enrique Urquijo - singer, drug overdose.

[edit] V

• Paul Vaessen - former professional footballer with Arsenal, post mortem found he had a high levels of methadone, heroin, temazepam, diazepam, and alcohol in his bloodstream.
• Lupe Vélez - actress, secobarbital overdose (suicide).
• Michael VerMeulen - magazine editor, drug overdose.
• Sid Vicious (21) - musician, the Sex Pistols, heroin overdose, disputed suicide

[edit] W

• Robert Hudson Walker - actor, died suddenly after being administered sodium amytal by his doctor.
• Shelby Walker (31) - female boxer and Martial arts fighter, apparent medicine overdose.
• Jeremy Michael Ward - musician, The Mars Volta, apparent heroin overdose.
• Dinah Washington - musician, singer, overdose of diet pills and alcohol.
• Dave Waymer (34) - American football defensive-back, cocaine-induced heart attack.
• Michael Weber - lead guitarist of The Seminal Rats, heroin overdose.
• Rachel Whitear - student, heroin overdose led to large-scale anti-drugs press campaign in Britain.
• Brett Whiteley - artist, heroin and temazepam overdose.
• Kurt Winter - guitarist with The Guess Who, kidney failure after sustained drug abuse
• Keith Whitley (33) - country musician, alcohol poisoning.
• Danny Whitten - musician, Crazy Horse, drug overdose or drugs with alcohol (disputed).
• Dale Whittington - racecar driver, drug overdose.
• Alan Wilson - musician, Canned Heat, drug overdose (possible suicide).
• Dennis Wilson (39) - musician, The Beach Boys, alcohol-related drowning
• Hank Williams (29) - musician, drugs and probably alcohol.
• Kenneth Williams (62) - actor, author and comedian of Carry On fame, overdose of barbiturates (accidental or suicide).
• Linda Wong - pornographic actress, overdose on alprazolam, chloral hydrate and alcohol.
• Andrew Wood - musician, lead singer Mother Love Bone, Malfunkshun, heroin overdose.
• Anna Wood (15) - Australian schoolgirl, cerebral edema, caused by water intoxication and resultant hyponatremia after taking ecstasy.

[edit] X

[edit] Y

• Paula Yates (40) - British TV presenter & author, partner of deceased INXS star, Michael Hutchence, heroin overdose.

[edit] Z

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• Lists of people by cause of death