Kissing Tile

People who have died in the bathroom:

• Agamemnon, distinguished hero of Greek mythology during the Trojan War, slain by his wife Clytemnestra alone in a bath, a piece of cloth or a net having first been thrown over him to prevent resistance.

• Seneca the Younger (ca. 4 BC – AD 65) committed suicide in his bath, according to Tacitus.
• Elagabalus, Emperor of Rome (203 - 222), murdered by the Praetorian Guard, along with his mother, Julia Soaemias, in the Emperor's latrine, where the pair had gone to hide
• Arius of Alexandria, founder of Arianism (256 - 336), died of a flux of his bowels, possibly as the result of poisoning
• Edmund Ironside, King of England (989 - 1016), allegedly stabbed in the bowels while using the toilet
• James I, King of Scotland (1394 - 1437), murdered while trying to flee through his bathroom into the sewers. A lady-in-waiting, Lady Catherine Douglas, attempted to keep the door closed to protect the King, but the killers smashed down the door and broke her arm.
• Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese warlord (1530 - 1578), allegedly died while sitting on the toilet
• Henry III, King of France (1551 - 1589), murdered by a monk while leaving his toilet
• Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex (1631 - 1683), committed suicide in the Tower of London while sitting on the toilet
• George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland (1683 - 1760), died of an aortic dissection while using his toilet.
• Jean-Paul Marat, French Revolutionary (1743 - 1793), stabbed to death by Charlotte Corday in his bathtub
• Reginald Heber, English bishop and hymn writer (1783 - 1826), died of an apoplectic fit while in his bath
• Sir John Sparrow David Thompson, Prime Minister of Canada (1845 - 1894), died of a heart attack in the bathtub while visiting with Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle
• Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Founder of Ahmadiyya religious movement (1835 - 1908), allegdely died of cholera in Lahore in toilet
• The victims of George Joseph Smith, the "Brides in the Bath Murderer":
  • Beatrice Constance Annie, died 1912
  • Alice Burnham, died 1912
  • Margaret Elizabeth Lofty, died 1914
• Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress (1908 - 1944), committed suicide with Seconal, found dead on the floor of her bathroom
• Maria Montez, Dominican actress (1912 - 1951), drowned in her bathtub after presumably suffering a heart attack
• Tod Browning, American film director (1880 - 1962), died on the floor of friends' bathroom after having had surgery for throat cancer
• Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (1922 - 1965), of an overdose of Imipramine, in the bathroom of her apartment in New York City
• Lenny Bruce, American comedian (1925 - 1966), died of a morphine overdose in the bathroom of his home in Beverly Hills, California
• Evelyn Waugh, English writer (1903 - 1966), died while sitting on the toilet
• Vivien Leigh, British actress, (1913 - 1967), of tuberculosis, found dead on the floor of her bathroom
• Charles Chaplin Jr., American actor (1925 - 1968), died of a brain embolism on the floor of his grandmother's bathroom
• Albert Dekker, American character actor, (1905 - 1968), of auto-asphyxiation in his bathtub
• Thomas Merton, American Trappist monk and author (1915 – 1968), died by being accidentally electrocuted in his bathtub in a hotel in Bangkok.
• Judy Garland, American actress and singer (1922 - 1969), died of a drug overdose in the bathroom of her London house
• Jim Morrison, American singer (1943 - 1971), died in the bathtub of his hotel in Paris, of a heart attack
• Louis Kahn, Estonian-American architect (1901 - 1974), died of a heart attack in the bathroom of Pennsylvania Station in New York City
• Elvis Presley, American singer (1935 - 1977), died of a heart attack in the bathroom of his home, Graceland, in Memphis, Tennessee
• Claude François, French singer (1939 - 1978), died of electrocution from changing a light bulb while taking a bath.
• Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sid Vicious (1958 - 1978), died of stab wounds to the stomach
• Walter Martin, American Evangelical minister, (1928 - 1989), died of a stroke while on the toilet.
• Jack Nance, American actor, (1943 - 1996), died of blunt force trauma to the head, two days after being involved in a brawl, found dead on the floor of his bathroom
• Don Simpson, American film producer (1943 - 1996), died of a heart attack on the toilet
• Edmond Safra, international banker (1932- 1999), died in the bathroom of his penthouse apartment in Monte Carlo, Monaco, during a fire
• Robert Pastorelli, American actor (1954 - 2004), alleged to have been found on the floor of his bathroom, of a heroin overdose
• Domino Harvey, fashion model turned bounty hunter (1969 - 2005), daughter of actor Lawrence Harvey, found dead in her bathtub from an overdose of fentanyl
• Eddie Guerrero, professional wrestler, (1967 - 2005), found dead in his hotel bathroom, while brushing his teeth, due to heart failure caused by previous years of steroid abuse.