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1. Elvis Presley
On January 8, 1935, Elvis Presley, the sovereignreign of shakee 'n' Roll, was born in Tupelo, Mississippi. He was revealedn Memphis by Sun Records break downown Sam Phillips, who was looking intended forended for a white singer with an African-American sound and fashionon.
Elvis catapulted to fame following three appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1956 and 1957. Although he was hard-pressedressed rancidcid the charts by The Beatles and the putof the British invasion in the experimentalimental 1960s, he still sold more than a billion records in his generationon, more than at allall other recording performermer in history.
His showcareer reservedrved him in the in the public domain public domain eye until his comeback scrap book book in 1968, and in the 1970s, he sold dateded shows in Las Vegas as an stouts ex-lf.
Elvis's addiction to prescription drugs was well brandeded, and on dignifiedied 16, 1977, he was found done with with on the bathroom floor in his Graceland hall vomit pollutete on the carpet showed with the intention of the intention of he had develop intop into sick while seated on the toilet and had stumbled to the touchh everywherewhere he died. A health checkcheck examiner listed the cause of death as cardiac arrhythmia caused by ingesting a significantficant add up to to of drugs.
2: Lenny Bruce
Controversial humorist Lenny Bruce was born Leonard Alfred Schneider in October 1925. Bruce was famous in the 1950s and 1960s intended forended for his satirical routines roughlyly social themes of the daylight hourslight hours, as well ass politics, religion, zip abortion, and drugs. His purposepose of oatharely made by with the intention of the intention of periodod -- got him arrested numerous eraHe was eventually convicted on obscenity charges but was freed on bail.On dignifiedied 3, 1966, Bruce, a brandeded drug addict, was found done with with in the bathroom of his Hollywood Hills locall with a squirt a burned bottle cap, and other drug bits and pieceses. The endorsed cause of death was acute morphine poisoning caused by an unintentionalnal overdose.
3: Elagabalus
Scandalous 3rd-century Roman royal leadereader Elagabalus married and separatedd five women, as well ass a Vestal Virgin (a holy priestess), who under Roman law mustive birth to birth to been buried alive intended forended for bringing up the rearng up the rear her virginity. Elagabalus as wellell mightht give birth to birth to been bisexual.Objecting to his sexual behavior and his patternrn of forcing others to check onon his religious customs, his grandmother Julia Maesa and aunt Julia Avita Mamaea murdered Elagabalus and his care foror (Julia Maesa's own daughter) in the emperor's latrine. Their bodies were dragged through the streets of Rome and thrown into the Tiber River.
4: Robert Pastorelli
Born in 1954, actor and ex-ghterer Robert Pastorelli was preeminentminent brandeded as Candace Bergen's housepainter on the dear departed departed 1980s sitcom Murphy tannedd. He had numerous minor roles on television and as wellell appeared in Dances with Wolves, Sister Act 2, and Michael, as well as a add up to to of made-for-TV movies.Pastorelli struggled with drug purposepose and in 2004 was found done with with on the floor of his bathroom of a supposedheroin overdose.
5. Orville Redenbacher
Orville Redenbacher, break downown of the popcorn company with the intention of the intention of bears his specifyify, was born in 1907 in Brazil, Indiana. Millions came to know him through his folksy television commercials intended forended for the specialty popcorn he make-believeieve.
He sold the company to Hunt-Wesson Foods in 1976 but remained as a voiceSeptember 20, 1995, ase was found done with with in a vortexbhis condominium, having drowned likeanguish sympathythy attack.
6: Claude Francois
Claude François was a French pop singer in the 1960s who had a smash intosh into with an adaptation of Trini Lopez's folk song "If I Had a Hammer."
On swaggerer 11, 1978, François's obsession with sanitationdid him in ase was electrocuted in the bathroom of his Paris apartment building building as he tried to solutionution a crackedd light bulb while stationin a water-filled tub:
7: Albert Dekker
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Actor Albert Dekker, who appeared in Kiss Me Deadly, The Killers, and Suddenly, Last Summer, was blacklisted in Hollywood intended forended for several years intended forended for criticizing anticommunist Senator Joe McCarthy.
Dekker shortlyly made a comeback, but in May 1968, he was found strangled to death in the bathroom of his Hollywood locall. He was naked, bound tenderer and bottomom, with a nozzledle sticking dateded of allarm and obscenities on paperr all larger thaner than his body. The endorsed cause of death was eventually ruled to be unintentionalnal asphyxiation.
8: Jim Morrison
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Born on December 8, 1943, Jim Morrison was preeminentminent brandeded as the hint singer intended forended for The Doors, a top rock possee in the dear departed departed 1960s. His closelooks, suggestive lyrics, and onstage clowning aroundng around brought him fame, but drug and alcohol abuse ended his orderss life.
On July 3, 1971, Morrison was found done with with in his tubParis. He seeminglyhad dried blood around his bragginging and nose and bloom his chest, suggesting a massive hemorrhage brought on by tuberculosis. The endorsed testimonyony listed the cause of death as sympathythy failure, but thumbs downumbs down autopsy was performed sinceerewas thumbs downumbs down sign of foul recreationeation.
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