Originally Posted by: aschlemanAnother interesting tidbit... it's rumoured that he died of Syphilis... although his death certificate simply reads "No Doctor" as cause of death.

Actually, that's just one of the theories. It's pretty much a mystery how he died. Syphilis is one of the more likely explanations (given his promiscuity), but it's also been said that he was poisoned by the husband of a woman he was seeing.