- Burgess died on 22 November 1993 from lung cancer, at the Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth in London.
- Early on the morning of 21 January [1949], an artery burst in Orwell’s lungs, killing him at the age of 46.
- Newton died in his sleep in London on 20 March 1727 (OS 20 March 1726; NS 31 March 1727).
- Marx developed a catarrh that kept him in ill health for the last 15 months of his life. It eventually brought on the bronchitis and pleurisy that killed him in London on 14 March 1883, when he died a stateless person at age 64.
- On the day of his death (12 August 1827), Blake worked relentlessly on his Dante series. Eventually, it is reported, he ceased working and turned to his wife, who was in tears by his bedside. Beholding her, Blake is said to have cried, “Stay Kate! Keep just as you are – I will draw your portrait – for you have ever been an angel to me.” Having completed this portrait (now lost), Blake laid down his tools and began to sing hymns and verses. At six that evening, after promising his wife that he would be with her always, Blake died.
- Churchill died on the morning of Sunday 24 January 1965 in his home at 28 Hyde Park Gate, London, exactly 70 years after the death of his father.