List of deaths through alcohol

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This is a list of famous people who died either through alcoholism or alcohol poisoning.

Alcohol poisoning

• Dylan Thomas - 9 November 1953, writer
• Bon Scott - 19 February 1980, singer
• Li Bai - 768, Ancient Chinese Poet
• Steve Clark - 1991, Def Leppard Guitarist

Alcoholism

• Edgar Allan Poe - October 7 1849, writer
• Kemal Ataturk - 10 November 1938, president of Turkey
• George Best - 25 November 2005, footballer
• Brendan Behan - 20 March 1964, writer
• John Barrymore - 29 May 1942, actor
• Robert Buck - 19 December 2000, musician
• Richard Burton - 5 August 1984, actor
• Truman Capote - 25 August 1984, writer
• F. Scott Fitzgerald - 21 December 1940, writer
• Errol Flynn - 14 October 1959, actor
• Alexander Godunov - 18 May 1995, dancer/actor
• Lorenz Hart - 22 November 1943, lyricist
• Ira Hayes - 24 January 1955, war hero
• 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 - July 7, 1973, actress
• Kevin Lloyd - 2 May 1998, actor
• Joseph McCarthy - 2 May 1957, politician
• Ron "Pigpen" McKernan - 8 March 1973, musician
• Grace Metalious - 25 February 1964, writer
• Modest Mussorgsky - 28 March 1881, composer
• Franklin Pierce - 8 October 1869, president of U.S.
• Jackson Pollock - 11 August 1956, artist
• Jean Stafford - 26 March 1979, writer
• Lester Young - 15 March 1959, musician

Alcohol abuse

• John Bonham - 24 September 1980, musician
• Bon Scott - 19 February 1980, musician

See also

• Lists of people by cause of death