List of deaths through alcohol
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of famous people who died either through alcoholism or alcohol poisoning. Dates of death are listed rather than dates of birth.
Contents |
[edit] Alcohol poisoning
- Li Bai - 762, Ancient Chinese Poet
- Naftali Herz Imber - 1909, Galician-born Jewish poet who wrote Tikvatenu, some of which was incorporated into the Israeli National Anthem Hatikvah
- Dylan Thomas - 9 November 1953, writer
- Bon Scott - 19 February 1980, AC/DC singer
- Keith Whitley - 1989, Country Music Singer
- Steve Clark - 1991, Def Leppard Guitarist
[edit] Alcoholism
- Kemal Atatürk - 10 November 1938, president of Turkey[citation needed]
- John Barrymore - 29 May 1942, actor
- Brendan Behan - 20 March 1964, writer
- Bix Beiderbecke - 6 August 1931, musician
- George Best - 25 November 2005, football player
- Robert Buck - 19 December 2000, musician
- Richard Burton - 5 August 1984, actor
- Truman Capote - 25 August 1984, writer
- Raymond Chandler 26 March 1959, writer
- Peter Cook 9 January 1995 English comedian
- F. Scott Fitzgerald - 21 December 1940, writer
- Errol Flynn - 14 October 1959, actor
- Alexander Godunov - 18 May 1995, dancer/actor
- Patrick Hamilton - 23 September 1962, writer
- William Rowan Hamilton, mathematician
- Powers Hapgood - 4 February 1949, American labor activist
- Lorenz Hart - 22 November 1943, lyricist
- Ira Hayes - 24 January 1955, war hero
- Ernest Hemingway - 2 July 1961, writer
- O. Henry - June 5, 1910, American short story writer
- William Holden - 12 November 1981, actor
- Billie Holiday - 17 July 1959, singer
- Phil Katz - 14 April 2000, computer programmer
- Jack Kerouac - 21 October 1969, writer
- Veronica Lake - 7 July 1973, actress
- Kevin Lloyd - 2 May 1998, actor
- Joseph McCarthy - 2 May 1957, politician
- David McComb - 2 February 1999, musician
- Ron "Pigpen" McKernan - 8 March 1973, musician
- Grace Metalious - 25 February 1964, writer
- Jim Morrison - July 3, 1971, musician
- Modest Mussorgsky - 28 March 1881, composer
- Franklin Pierce - 8 October 1869, U.S. President
- Edgar Allan Poe - 7 October 1849, writer
- Jackson Pollock - 11 August 1956, artist
- Oliver Reed - May 2, 1999,Actor
- Jean Stafford - 26 March 1979, writer
- James Grover Thurber 1961 cartoonist and writer
- Hank Williams - 1 January 1953, musician
- Lester Young - 15 March 1959, musician
- Townes Van Zandt - 1 January 1997, musician
- Brian Connolly - 9 February 1997, singer
[edit] Alcohol abuse
- John Bonham - 24 September 1980, musician
- Bon Scott - 19 February 1980, musician
