List of famous deaths through alcohol

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

Contents 1 Alcohol poisoning 2 Alcoholism 3 Related articles 3.1 References

Alcohol poisoning

• Keith Whitley - 9 May 1989 (33)

Alcoholism

• Jack Kerouac - 21 October 1969 (47)
• Ira Hayes - 24 January 1955
• Joseph McCarthy - 2 May 1957
• Lester Young - 15 March 1959
• Billie Holiday - 17 July 1959
• Truman Capote - 25 August 1984
• Alexander Godunov - 18 May 1995
• Phil Katz (Phillip K. Katz) - 14 April 2000
• Rob Buck - 19 December 2000

Related articles

• Index of lists of famous deaths by cause

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "List_of_famous_deaths_through_alcohol" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famous_deaths_through_alcohol, used under the GNU Free Documentation License