List of people who died on the toilet
The following is a list of people who died on the toilet, where individuals have died while using a toilet facility or in the process of defecation or urination. This includes all confirmed historical figures and more modern recent notable cases of deaths.
Before 20th Century
Date | Location | Name | Age | Description | Source |
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Summer of 581 BC | Jin, China | Duke Jing of Jin (Ju) | Unknown | Died falling into a toilet pit. | [1] |
approx. 336 AD | Constantinople, Eastern Roman Empire | Arius | 80 | Died from explosive gastrointestinal problems while in a public toilet | [2] |
30 November 1016 | King Edmund II of England | Unknown | Stabbed from under a toilet seat while defecating. | [3] | |
4 November 1035 | Jaromír, Duke of Bohemia | Unknown | Stabbed with a spear from under a toilet seat while defecating. | [4] | |
Circa. 26 or 27 of February 1076 | Vlaardingen, Lower Lorraine | Godfrey IV, Duke of Lower Lorraine | Unknown | Was assassinated while using a toilet. | [5] |
4 August 1306 | Wenceslaus III of Bohemia | 16 | Murdered with a spear while sitting in the garderobe. | [6] | |
9 January 1483 | Unknown, Japan | Aiko Harukaze | Unknown | Bowel explosion while trying to defecate. | [7] |
19 April 1578 | Echigo Province, Japan | Uesugi Kenshin | circa. 58 | Allegedly assassinated while using a toilet. | [8] |
25 October 1760 | George II of Great Britain | 76 | Collapsed shortly after attending to his close stool, possibly died of an aortic aneurysm. | [9] | |
17 November 1796 | Catherine the Great | 67 | Died of a stroke while attending to chamber business. | [10] |
20th Century
Date | Location | Name | Age | Description | Source |
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10 April 1966 | Evelyn Waugh | 62 | Died of a heart attack after attending a Latin Mass. | [11] | |
3 August 1966 | Lenny Bruce | 40 | Died of a drug overdose | [12] | |
22 June 1969 | Judy Garland | 47 | Overdosed on barbiturates while using a toilet. | [13] | |
16 August 1977 | Elvis Presley | 42 | Cardiac arrest due to alleged drug overdose while using a toilet. | [14] | |
19 January 1996 | Don Simpson | 52 | Drug overdose whilst in his bathroom. | [15] |
21st Century
Date | Location | Name | Age | Description | Source | |
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8 March 2004 | Robert Pastorelli | 49 | Overdosed on morphine while on a toilet. | [16] | ||
25 June 2011 | Christopher Shale | 56 | Died of a heart attack on a portable toilet while at Glastonbury Festival. | [17] | ||
17 May 2013 | Jorge Rafael Videla | 87 | Died of cardiac arrest in the bathroom of his cell. | [18] | ||
21 June 2019 | Toufiq M. Seraj | 63 | Became unconscious on an airplane lavatory en route to Spain and was given emergency treatment, later was pronounced dead in Doha Airport while on transit. | [19] | 28 June 2020 | |
Wiktoria Chlebek | 16 | Toilet exploded into buttocks
Deaths in fiction
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