Alcohol-related deaths in New York City

The list Alcohol-related deaths in New York City includes Billie Holiday, Nelsan Ellis, Charlie Parker, Eric Douglas and Jeanne Eagels. The list consists of 29 members.

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1.

Billie Holiday

American jazz singer (1915–1959)

Overview: Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), known professionally as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz and swing music singer with a career spanning 26 years. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and ...

Date of birth: 7 April 1915

Date of death: 17 July 1959

Age: 44 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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Singers from Baltimore 70T

Jazz musicians from Philadelphia 102T

Saint Frances Academy (Baltimore) alumni 16T
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Nelsan Ellis

American actor

Overview: Nelsan Ellis (November 30, 1977 – July 8, 2017) was an American actor and playwright. He achieved critical acclaim for his portrayal of Lafayette Reynolds in the HBO television series True Blood (2008 ...

Date of birth: 30 November 1977

Date of death: 8 July 2017

Age: 39 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Drug-related deaths in New York City 81T

21st-century African-American people 11,041T

20th-century African-American people 12,521T
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Charlie Parker

American jazz musician (1920–1955)

Overview: Charles "Charlie" Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), nicknamed "Bird" and "Yardbird", was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Parker was a highly influential soloist and leading figure ...

Date of birth: 29 August 1920

Date of death: 12 March 1955

Age: 34 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Saxophone

Gender: Male

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Sonet Records artists 43T

American male jazz composers 567T

Jazz musicians from Missouri 117T
4.

Eric Douglas

American actor

Overview: Eric Anthony Douglas (June 21, 1958 – July 6, 2004) was an American actor and stand-up comedian. Douglas was the youngest son of actor Kirk Douglas and his second wife Anne Buydens. His half brother was ...

Date of birth: 21 June 1958

Date of death: 6 July 2004

Age: 46 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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Drug-related deaths in New York City 71T

20th-century American comedians 1,226T

Male actors of German descent 672T
5.

Jeanne Eagels

Actress

Overview: Jeanne Eagels (born Eugenia Eagles; June 26, 1890 – October 3, 1929) was an American stage and film actress. A former Ziegfeld Girl, Eagels went on to greater fame on Broadway and in the emerging medium ...

Date of birth: 26 June 1890

Date of death: 3 October 1929

Age: 39 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Drug-related deaths in New York City 71T

Actresses of Irish descent 597T

Actresses of German descent 622T
6.

Dylan Thomas

Welsh poet and writer

Overview: Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion"; the "play ...

Date of birth: 27 October 1914

Date of death: 9 November 1953

Age: 39 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Deaths from pneumonia in New York City 259T

Deaths from pneumonia in New York (state) 400T

Caedmon Records artists 9T
7.

Dorothy Kilgallen

American journalist and TV personality (1913–1965)

Overview: Dorothy Mae Kilgallen (July 3, 1913 – November 8, 1965) was an American columnist, journalist, and television game show panelist. After spending two semesters at the College of New Rochelle, she started ...

Date of birth: 3 July 1913

Date of death: 8 November 1965

Age: 52 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Columnist

Gender: Female

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Unsolved deaths in the United States 67T

Drug-related deaths in New York City 80T

American women television personalities 413T
8.

Lester Young

American musician

Overview: Lester Willis Young (August 27, 1909 – March 15, 1959), nicknamed "Pres" or "Prez", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and occasional clarinetist.

Date of birth: 27 August 1909

Date of death: 15 March 1959

Age: 49 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

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American male jazz musicians 3,118T

Aladdin Records artists 15T

Oklahoma City Blue Devils members 10T
9.

Clyde McPhatter

American singer

Overview: Clyde Lensley McPhatter (November 15, 1932 – June 13, 1972) was an American rhythm and blues, soul, and rock and roll singer. He was one of the most widely imitated R&B singers of the 1950s and early 1960s ...

Date of birth: 15 November 1932

Date of death: 13 June 1972

Age: 39 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Male

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Burials at George Washington Memorial Park (Paramus, New Jersey) 16T

Rock and roll musicians 36T

Musicians from Durham, North Carolina 37T
10.

Julia Bruns

American stage and silent film actress and model

Overview: Julia Eliza Bruns (1895 – December 24, 1927) was an American stage and silent film actress and model. Bruns came to prominence for her work as a model. Her image was illustrated by artist James ...

Date of birth: 19 May 1885

Date of death: 24 December 1927

Age: 42 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Model

Gender: Female

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Female models from Missouri 19T

Actresses from St. Louis, Missouri 105T

20th-century American actresses 6,858T
11.

O. Henry

American short story writer (1862–1910)

Overview: William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), better known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer known primarily for his short stories, though he also wrote poetry and non-fiction ...

Date of birth: 11 September 1862

Date of death: 5 June 1910

Age: 47 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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People born in the Confederate States 1T

20th-century pseudonymous writers 1,008T

19th-century pseudonymous writers 482T
12.

Khalil Gibran

Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer

Overview: Gibran Khalil Gibran (Arabic: جبران خليل جبران‎, Jubrān Khalīl Jubrān, or Jibrān Khalīl Jibrān, January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran ( kah-LEEL ji-BRAHN) ...

Date of birth: 6 January 1883

Date of death: 10 April 1931

Age: 48 (age at death)

Nationality: Lebanese

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Tuberculosis deaths in New York (state) 81T

Eastern Catholic poets 18T

Mahjar 6T
13.

Lorenz Hart

American musical librettist

Overview: Lorenz Milton Hart (May 2, 1895 – November 22, 1943) was the lyricist half of the Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include "Blue Moon", "The Lady Is a Tramp" ...

Date of birth: 2 May 1895

Date of death: 22 November 1943

Age: 48 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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Broadway composers and lyricists 196T

Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School alumni 41T

LGBT songwriters 437T
14.

Bix Beiderbecke

American jazz musician

Overview: Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931) was an American jazz cornetist, pianist, and composer.

Date of birth: 10 March 1903

Date of death: 6 August 1931

Age: 28 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Jazz Musician

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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American male jazz composers 567T

20th-century American male musicians 6,873T

People from Sunnyside, Queens 19T
15.

Robert Benchley

American comedian

Overview: Robert Charles Benchley (September 15, 1889 – November 21, 1945) was an American humorist best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and film actor. From his beginnings at The Harvard Lampoon while ...

Date of birth: 15 September 1889

Date of death: 21 November 1945

Age: 56 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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Male actors from Worcester, Massachusetts 18T

Harvard Advocate alumni 67T

The Harvard Lampoon alumni 189T
16.

Theresa Duncan

American video game designer (1966–2007)

Overview: Theresa Duncan (October 26, 1966 – July 10, 2007) was an American video game designer, blogger, filmmaker and critic. By the late 1990s, she was recognized as one of the most critically acclaimed game ...

Date of birth: 26 October 1966

Date of death: 10 July 2007

Age: 40 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Designer

Gender: Female

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Drug-related deaths in New York City 71T

2007 suicides 63T

Video game designers who committed suicide 3T
17.

Beverly Kenney

American jazz vocalist

Overview: Beverly Kenney (January 29, 1932, Harrison, New Jersey – April 13, 1960, Greenwich Village, New York City) was an American jazz singer.

Date of birth: 29 January 1932

Date of death: 13 April 1960

Age: 28 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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1960 suicides 22T

20th-century American women singers 2,001T

Barbiturates-related deaths 101T
18.

Wallace Thurman

American writer

Overview: Wallace Henry Thurman (August 16, 1902 – December 22, 1934) was an American novelist active during the Harlem Renaissance. He also wrote essays, worked as an editor, and was a publisher of short-lived ...

Date of birth: 16 August 1902

Date of death: 22 December 1934

Age: 32 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Screenwriter

Gender: Male

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Tuberculosis deaths in New York (state) 81T

20th-century American screenwriters 1,746T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T
19.

Rockets Redglare

American actor and stand-up comedian

Overview: Rockets Redglare (born Michael Morra, May 8, 1949 – May 28, 2001) was an American character actor and stand-up comedian. He appeared in over 30 films in the 1980s and 1990s, including a number of ...

Date of birth: 8 May 1949

Date of death: 28 May 2001

Age: 52 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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20th-century American comedians 1,226T

Comedians from New York City 279T

Male actors from New York City 1,913T
20.

Elizabeth Hawes

American fashion designer

Overview: Elizabeth Hawes (December 16, 1903 – September 6, 1971) was an American clothing designer, outspoken critic of the fashion industry, and champion of ready to wear and people's right to have the clothes ...

Date of birth: 16 December 1903

Date of death: 6 September 1971

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Designer

Gender: Female

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American women fashion designers 282T

Ridgewood High School (New Jersey) alumni 32T

20th-century American women writers 5,363T