American singer and actor Elvis Presley died of a heart attack in 1977 brought on largely by drug abuse. On August 16 Presley’s girlfriend, Ginger Alden, found him unconscious and lying on the floor of the bathroom adjoining his bedroom in his Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tennessee. Presley was taken by ambulance to Baptist Memorial Hospital, where doctors attempted to revive him. He was pronounced dead at 3:30 pm. He was 42 years old.
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