FAMOUS ALZHEIMER PATIENTS |
RONALD REAGAN, former US president and Hollywood actor
announced his Alzheimer disease the 5th November 1994.
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 RITA
HAYWORTH, (+1987) her strange behavior in later years
caused by Alzheimer's says her daughter Yasmin Aga Khan.
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 IRIS
MURDOCH (1919-1999) British Irish - born novelist
and philosopher.
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ARON COPLAND (1900-1990) US folksy-jazz composer
died at 90 of Alzheimer´s.
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WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997) Dutch
painter and artist died at 93 still working despite his
mental deterioration.
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SUGAR RAY ROBINSON (1921-1989) US
middleweight boxer died with Alzheimer´s , heart disease
and diabetes.
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 E.B.WHITE
(1899-1985) essayist and
storyteller died at 86 suffering of Alzheimer´s.
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 W.
SOMERSET MAUGHAM (1874-1965) according to
biographer Ted Morgan, Maugham was severely hit by
dementia.
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WINSTON CHURCHILL (b.1874) died 1965 after 8 years
of increasing signs of mental deterioration.
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 "WILD
BILL" DONOVAN, founder of CIA-precurser OSS lost his
intelligence in his last years.
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 DEWITT
WALLACE, founder of monthly magazine "Readers Digest"
got Alzheimers together with his wife Lila.
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 RALPH
WALDO EMERSON, philosopher of the 19th century, whose
mind went blank in his last years.
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 HENRY
FORD (1863-1947) US car-maker, died 1947 after years of
senility.
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MARY REEVES, widow of country singer Jim Reeves (+1964)
had Alzheimers and died 1999 in a nursing home.
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DANA ANDREWS, (1909-1992) US movie actor
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 MAURICE
RAVEL, (1875-1937) French composer of "Bolero"
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 EDMUND
O'BRIEN, (1915-1985) US- Irish film actor
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ARLENE FRANCIS, (1907-2001) US stage-TV-movie star
of Turkish origin
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 German
doctor Alois Alzheimer (picture) diagnosed the first
Alzheimer-patient AUGUSTE D. in 1906
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