List of deaths through alcohol
This is a list of famous people who died either from the effects of excessive alcohol consumption or alcohol poisoning. Dates of death are listed rather than dates of birth.
Alcohol poisoning
- Julia Bruns - 24 December 1927, actress, model[1]
- Bon Scott - 19 February 1980, AC/DC singer[2]
- Keith Whitley - 9 May 1989, country music singer[3]
- Steve Clark - 8 January 1991, Def Leppard guitarist[4]
Alcoholism
- Florence Ballard - 22 February 1976, singer[5][6]
- John Barrymore - 29 May 1942, actor[7]
- Brendan Behan - 20 March 1964, writer[8]
- Bix Beiderbecke - 6 August 1931 (age 28), musician[9]
- George Best - 25 November 2005, football player[10]
- Rob Buck - 19 December 2000, musician[citation needed]
- Richard Burton - 5 August 1984, actor[11][12]
- Truman Capote - 25 August 1984, writer[13]
- Raymond Chandler - 26 March 1959, writer[14]
- Brian Connolly - 9 February 1997, singer[15]
- Peter Cook - 9 January 1995 English comedian[16]
- Michael Elphick - 7 September 2002, actor[17]
- W. C. Fields - 25 December 1946, actor[18]
- F. Scott Fitzgerald - 21 December 1940, writer[19]
- Errol Flynn - 14 October 1959, actor[citation needed]
- Alexander Godunov - 18 May 1995, dancer/actor[20]
- Patrick Hamilton - 23 September 1962, writer[21]
- William Rowan Hamilton, mathematician[22]
- Lorenz Hart - 22 November 1943, lyricist[citation needed]
- Ira Hayes - 24 January 1955, war hero[citation needed]
- O. Henry - June 5 1910, American short story writer[23]
- Billie Holiday - 17 July 1959, singer[24]
- Naftali Herz Imber - 8 October 1909, poet[25]
- Phil Katz - 14 April 2000, computer programmer[26]
- Jack Kerouac - 21 October 1969, writer[27]
- Veronica Lake - 7 July 1973, actress[citation needed]
- Kevin Lloyd - 2 May 1998, actor[28]
- Mickey Mantle - 13 August 1995, New York Yankees center fielder[29]
- Pete Maravich - 5 January 1988, basketball player[30]
- Joseph McCarthy - 2 May 1957, politician[31]
- Ron "Pigpen" McKernan - 8 March 1973, musician[citation needed]
- Clyde McPhatter - 13 June 1972, R&B singer[32]
- Modest Mussorgsky - 28 March 1881, composer[citation needed]
- Barbara Payton - 8 May 1967, actress[citation needed]
- Franklin Pierce - 8 October 1869, U.S. President[33]
- Luca Prodan - 22 December 1987, Italian-Argentine musician[citation needed]
- Oliver Reed - May 2 1999, actor[34]
- Jean Stafford - 26 March 1979, writer[35]
- Dylan Thomas - 9 November 1953, writer[36]
- James Grover Thurber - 1961 cartoonist and writer
- Hank Williams - 1 January 1953, musician
- David Woodley[37] - 4 May 2003, NFL quarterback
- Lester Young - 15 March 1959, musician
- Townes Van Zandt - 1 January 1997, musician
Alcohol abuse
- John Bonham - 24 September 1980, musician
- David Byron - 28 February 1985, musician[38][39]
- Grace Metalious - 25 February 1964, writer[40]
See also
Notes
- ^ "Liquor Kills Ex-Actress". New York Times. 1927-12-25.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Jinman, Richard (2005-02-19). "25 years on, AC/DC fans recall how wild rocker met his end". The Guardian. Retrieved 2008-05-02.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Keith Whitley - View the Music Artists Biography Online - VH1.com". Retrieved 2008-05-02.
- ^ "Awareness - First Page". Retrieved 2008-05-02.
- ^ "The Supremes". Retrieved 2008-05-03.
- ^ Blair, Elizabeth (2007-01-27). "Does 'Dreamgirls' Offer Lowdown on Motown?". NPR. Retrieved 2008-05-03.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Norden, Martin F. (2002). St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture.
- ^ "Brendan Behan". Retrieved 2008-05-04.
- ^ "Solid! -- Bix Beiderbecke Biography". Retrieved 2008-05-04.
- ^ "Football legend George Best dies". BBC News. 2005-11-25. Retrieved 2008-05-04.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "BBC - Wales - On this day in Welsh history". Retrieved 2008-05-04.
- ^ Lewis, Roger (2008-04-05). "The erotic vagrancy of Richard Burton". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2008-05-04.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Krebs, Albin (1984-08-26). "Truman Capote is Dead at 59; Novelist of Style and Clarity". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-05-04.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Baker, Robert (1985). Private Eyes: One Hundred and One Knights: A Survey of American Detective Fiction: 1922-1984. Popular Press. p. 44. ISBN 0879723300.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ "Brian Connolly". Retrieved 2008-05-06.
- ^ Upton, Julian (2004). Fallen Stars: Tragic Lives and Lost Careers. Headpress. pp. p.96. ISBN 1900486385.
{{cite book}}:|pages=has extra text (help) - ^ Hayward, Anthony (2002-09-11). "Michael Elphick". The Independent. Retrieved 2008-05-07.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "W.C. Fields -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia". Retrieved 2008-05-07.
- ^ "F. Scott Fitzgerald - Biography and Works". Retrieved 2008-05-07.
- ^ "Alexander Godunov Biography (1949-1995)". Retrieved 2008-05-08.
- ^ "Patrick Hamilton Biography and Bibliography at LitWeb.net". Retrieved 2008-05-08.
- ^ Reville, William (2004-02-26). "Ireland's Greatest Mathematician". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2008-05-08.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "O.Henry". Retrieved 2008-05-08.
- ^ "Billie Holiday". Retrieved 2008-05-11.
- ^ "Drinking Problem? What Drinking Problem?: Published Works of Aaron Howard". Retrieved 2008-05-02.
- ^ Hawkins, Lee (2000-05-21). "The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved 2008-05-11.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Bancroft, Colette (2007-09-02). "Witnesses to a legend: Jack Keroua". St. Petersburg Times. Retrieved 2008-05-11.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Axed TV star Tosh dies". BBC News. BBC. 1998-05-04. Retrieved 2008-05-11.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Mickey Mantle, Legend of Baseball, Dies at 63". Washington Post. 1995-08-14. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Kriegel, Mark (2007). Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich. The Free Press. ISBN 9780743284974.
- ^ "CNN Cold War - Profile: Joseph Raymond McCarthy". Retrieved 2008-05-13.
- ^ "Clyde McPhatter". Retrieved 2008-05-14.
- ^ "Franklin Pierce Biography - American Presidents on History Empire". Retrieved 2008-05-14.
- ^ "Final toast to Oliver Reed". BBC News. BBC. 1999-05-15. Retrieved 2008-05-14.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Jean Stafford - Internet Accuracy Project". Retrieved 2008-05-14.
- ^ "The Legend of Dylan Thomas". Time. Time Inc. 1955-05-30. Retrieved 2008-05-02.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Super Bowl XVII starter Woodley's life drifted after football
- ^ "Sleaze Roxx: David Byron". Retrieved 2008-05-04.
- ^ "Uriah Heep". Retrieved 2008-05-04.
- ^ Belman, Felice (2001). Concord Monitor Profiles of One Hundred People Who Shaped The New Hamphire Century. UPNE. pp. p.215. ISBN 1584650877.
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