- Eight people appeared at Robert Musil’s funeral.
Ives died of heart disease compounded by diabetes.
J. R. R. Tolkien died of a chest infection while hospitalized for something else.
Callas died in Paris, of a heart attack
And was buried from a Greek Orthodox church on the Rue Georges Bizet.
Billie Holiday died of a kidney infection after years of heroin abuse.
John Singer Sargent died reading Voltaire.
A son of Ring Lardner’s died fighting with the Lincoln Brigade in Spain in 1938.
A son of Ring Lardner’s died as a correspondent when his jeep hit a land mine in WWII.
Berlin died at one hundred of old age alone, evidently.
Isak Dinesen died of what was recorded as emaciation.
This is not a novel, David Markson