This week Neil Armstrong died following surgery to open blockages in his coronary arteries. To date, only 25 famous persons (VIP’s) have died from this procedure, accounting for only 0.35% of the 7,006 VIP deaths recorded since the procedure was developed (see list below). The first of these (Eisenstadt, Jacobs and Kieslowski) occurred in 1996.
VIPatients lists the diseases / causes of deaths for 61 Astronauts and Cosmonauts. 35 of these have died of vehicular accidents (including 13 airplane accidents), 11 from cancer and 9 from heart attack.. One Astronaut, Charles Jones was murdered – a passenger aboard a hijacked airplane on September 11, 2001.
Death Associated with Coronary Bypass or Angioplasty
Armstrong, Neil
Clower, Jerry
de Marco, Guido
Donahue,Troy
Eisenstadt, Benjamin
Eisner, Will
Gemmell, David
Glickman, Marty
Griffey, Dick
Guinzburg, Thomas
Jacobs, Bernard
Jones (Singer), Joe
Kieslowski, Krysztof
Leela, Chindodi
Maddoux, Marlin
Mansfield, Mike
Norden, Christine
Randall, Tony
Rock, Joe
Serling, Rod
Sutton, Ed
Thesz, Lou
Trafficante, Santo
Wando (Wanderley Alves dos Reis)
Waxman, Al
Wise, Ernie
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