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 | 26 | 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] |
10 April 1966 | ![]() |
Mirza Ghulam Ahmed | 73 | Died as a result of dysentery. | [16] |
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. | [17] |
25 June 2011 | ![]() |
Christopher Shale | 56 | Died of a heart attack on a portable toilet while at Glastonbury Festival. | [18] |
17 May 2013 | ![]() |
Jorge Rafael Videla | 87 | Died of cardiac arrest in the bathroom of his cell. | [19] |
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. | [20] |
Deaths in fiction
- The Character Lawyer Donald Gennaro (played by Martin Ferrero) is eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex while sitting on the toilet of a destroyed restroom cabin in the 1993 movie Jurassic Park.[21]
- Vincent Vega (played by John Travolta), a mob contract killer, is killed on the toilet by prizefighter Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) with a MAC-10 submachine gun in the 1994 movie Pulp Fiction.[22]
- A Song of Ice and Fire / Game of Thrones: in the book A Storm of Swords (2000) from the series written by George R. R. Martin the character Tywin Lannister is killed while using the toilet.[23]
- The Sopranos: one capo for Tony Soprano's crime family, Gigi Cestone, died on the toilet, likely due to stress caused by the new leadership role.
- Georgia Lass, the protagonist of comedy-drama television series Dead Like Me, is hit and killed in the pilot episode by a toilet seat falling from the deorbiting Mir space station.[24]
- Rick McCarthy (played by Eric Keenleyside) from Stephen King's Dreamcatcher (2003) dies from expelling an alien while on the toilet.
- South Park: in the 2012 episode "Reverse Cowgirl", Clyde's mom falls into the toilet and suffers disembowelment.[25]
- Saturday Night Live: produced several fictional advertisements for comedic value for a device called a "Toilet Death Ejector", in which a toilet would "eject" a person off of a toilet if they died on it so they would not be found dead on the toilet.[26]
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References
- Zuo Qiuming (translator James Legge). "Book VIII. Duke Cheng". Zuo Zhuan (in Chinese and English). University of Virginia. Retrieved 23 April 2012. Chapter X.
- Muehlberger, Ellen (6 May 2015). "The Legend of Arius' Death: Imagination, Space and Filth in Late Ancient Historiography". Past & Present. 227 (1): 3–29.
- Henry of Huntingdon 2002, p. 15.
- Chronica Baemorum. "Kochan poslal svého kata a když onen slepec seděl na záchodě v hodině noční, vyprazdňoval břich, proklál ho ostrým oštěpem zezadu až do útrob břišních."
- Hay, David (2008), The military leadership of Matilda of Canossa, 1046-1115, Manchester University Press, pp. 35, 43–44.
- Charles Edmund Maurice, The Story of Bohemia from the Earliest Times to the Fall of National Independence in 1620 (1896), p.117
- "History Alive 9". Retrieved 13 January 2020.
- Turnbull 2012, p. 32
- Thompson, pp. 289–290; Van der Kiste, p. 213.
- "The Truth About Catherine the Great | SomeWriters". 2014-04-13. Archived from the original on 2014-04-13. Retrieved 2017-10-08.
- Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Location 49889). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition
- Collins, Ronald; Skover, David (2002). The Trials of Lenny Bruce: The Fall and Rise of an American Icon. Sourcebooks Mediafusion. p. 340. ISBN 1-57071-986-1.
- citing United Press International article "Judy Took Too Many Pills" and containing a copy of Garland's death certificate.
- "Elvis' addiction was the perfect prescription for an early death". PBS NewsHour. 16 August 2018. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
- Shipman, David (January 23, 1996). "Obituary: Don Simpson". independent.co.uk. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
- Adil Hussain Khan. From Sufism to Ahmadiyya: A Muslim Minority Movement in South Asia Indiana University Press, 6 April 2015 p 6
- "Actor Robert Pastorelli found dead in home". TODAY.com. Retrieved 2017-10-08.
- "PM in Commons tribute to friend". BBC News. Retrieved 2017-10-08.
- "Videla el represor que murio en un inodoro y que lidero a los presos que podrian pedir el 2x1". Big Bang News (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-05-13.
- "Sheltech MD dies 'on plane'". The Daily Star. June 22, 2019.
- Alexander, Bryan (7 April 2013). "'Jurassic Park': Meet 'the guy who died on the toilet'". USA Today. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
- Rohan Gupta (24 August 2010). "Pulp Fiction - John Travolta's Death". Retrieved 26 July 2018.
- "Game of Thrones Viewer's Guide". viewers-guide.hbo.com. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- "Dead Like Me (TV Series 2003–2004)". IMDb. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
- McGee, Ryan (14 March 2012). "South Park: "Reverse Cowgirl"". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
- Berkowitz, Joe (2019-03-03). "SNL has disrupted elder care with this excremental innovation". Fast Company. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
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