The following is a list of people who are alleged to have died in the bathroom. In the case of earlier people, the legends may be inaccurate.

Eglon, King of Moab, Old Testament, killed by Ehud (stabbed in the bowels) while relieving himself in his private chamber. Judges 3:1-31

Agamemnon, distinguished hero of Greek mythology during the Trojan War, slain by his wife Clytemnestra alone in a bath, a piece of cloth or a net having first been thrown over him to prevent resistance.

Seneca the Younger (ca. 4 BC – AD 65) committed suicide in his bath, according to Tacitus.

Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus (August 31, 161 – December 31, 192) strangled in his bath, by the wrestler Narcissus.

Elagabalus, Emperor of Rome (203 - 222), murdered by the Praetorian Guard, along with his mother, Julia Soaemias, in the Emperor's latrine, where the pair had gone to hide

Arius of Alexandria, founder of Arianism (256 - 336), died of a flux of his bowels, possibly as the result of poisoning

Edmund Ironside, King of England (989 - 1016), allegedly stabbed in the bowels while using the toilet

James I, King of Scotland (1394 - 1437), murdered while trying to flee through his bathroom into the sewers. A lady-in-waiting, Lady Catherine Douglas, attempted to keep the door closed to protect the King, but the killers smashed down the door and broke her arm.

Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese warlord (1530 - 1578), allegedly died while sitting on the toilet

Henry III, King of France (1551 - 1589), murdered by a monk while leaving his toilet

Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex (1631 - 1683), committed suicide in the Tower of London while sitting on the toilet

George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland (1683 - 1760), died of an aortic dissection while using his toilet.

Jean-Paul Marat, French Revolutionary (1743 - 1793), stabbed to death by Charlotte Corday in his bathtub

Reginald Heber, English bishop and hymn writer (1783 - 1826), died of an apoplectic fit while in his bath

Sir John Sparrow David Thompson, Prime Minister of Canada (1845 - 1894), died of a heart attack in the bathtub while visiting with Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Founder of Ahmadiyya religious movement (1835 - 1908), allegedly died of cholera in Lahore in toilet

The victims of George Joseph Smith, the "Brides in the Bath Murderer":

Beatrice Constance Annie, died 1912

Alice Burnham, died 1912

Margaret Elizabeth Lofty, died 1914

Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress (1908 - 1944), committed suicide with Seconal, found dead on the floor of her bathroom

Maria Montez, Dominican actress (1912 - 1951), drowned in her bathtub after presumably suffering a heart attack

Tod Browning, American film director (1880 - 1962), died on the floor of friends' bathroom after having had surgery for throat cancer

Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (1922 - 1965), of an overdose of Imipramine, in the bathroom of her apartment in New York City

Lenny Bruce, American comedian (1925 - 1966), died of a morphine overdose in the bathroom of his home in Beverly Hills, California

Montgomery Clift, American actor (1920-1966), was found in the bathroom of his home in Manhattan.

Evelyn Waugh, English writer (1903 - 1966), died while sitting on the toilet

Charles Chaplin Jr., American actor (1925 - 1968), died of a brain embolism on the floor of his grandmother's bathroom

Albert Dekker, American character actor, (1905 - 1968), of auto-asphyxiation in his bathtub

Thomas Merton, American Trappist monk and author (1915 – 1968), died by being accidentally electrocuted in his bathtub in a hotel in Bangkok.

Judy Garland, American actress and singer (1922 - 1969), died of a drug overdose in the bathroom of her London house

Jim Morrison, American singer (1943 - 1971), died in the bathtub of his hotel in Paris, reason of death, unknown.

Louis Kahn, Estonian-American architect (1901 - 1974), died of a heart attack in the bathroom of Pennsylvania Station in New York City

Elvis Presley, American singer (1935 - 1977), died of a heart attack in the bathroom of his home, Graceland, in Memphis, Tennessee

Claude François, French singer (1939 - 1978), died of electrocution from changing a light bulb while taking a bath.

Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sid Vicious (1958 - 1978), died of a stab wound to the stomach

Richard Manuel, singer/pianist for The Band (1943 - 1986), hanged himself from a shower curtain rod in a motel room

Walter Martin, American Evangelical minister, (1928 - 1989), died of a stroke while on the toilet.

Ioan Petru Culianu, professor of history of religions at University of Chicago, (1950-1991) was shot while using the water closet in the university's department. Police investigations yielded no results, but his Romanian conationals suspect the long reaching arm of the Romanian secret police. Even more strange is the fact that many years before, he had taken an oath to his first wife that if he were to leave her, he should die a shameful death.

Orville Redenbacher, founder of his eponymous popcorn company, (1907 - 1995), suffered a heart attack while in the bathtub and drowned

Jack Nance, American actor, (1943 - 1996), died of blunt force trauma to the head, two days after being involved in a brawl, found dead on the floor of his bathroom

Don Simpson, American film producer (1943 - 1996), died of a heart attack on the toilet

Christopher Drexler, son of Melissa Drexler, born and then killed in a bathroom at the Aberdeen banquet hall during his mother's highschool prom in 1997

Hideto Matsumoto (hide), Japanese Guitarrist-Singer, member of the now defunct X-Japan, and successful solo artist. Found dead in 1998, strangled with a towel on the bathroom door. Whether his death was intentional or accidental is still a topic of great controversy to this day.

Edmond Safra, international banker (1932- 1999), died in the bathroom of his penthouse apartment in Monte Carlo, Monaco, during a fire

The 5 children of Andrea Yates, drowned in the bathtub of the famiy home.

Noah, age 7, died 2001

John, age 5, died 2001

Paul, age 3, died 2001

Luke, age 2, died 2001

Mary, age 6 months, died 2001

Robert Pastorelli, American actor (1954 - 2004), alleged to have been found on the floor of his bathroom, of a heroin overdose

Domino Harvey, fashion model turned bounty hunter (1969 - 2005), daughter of actor Lawrence Harvey, found dead in her bathtub from an overdose of fentanyl

Eddie Guerrero, professional wrestler, (1967 - 2005), found dead in his hotel bathroom, while brushing his teeth, due to heart failure caused by previous years of steroid abuse.

Kenneth Lay, American businessman, (1942 - 2006), due to heart attack that struck at his home in Old Snowmass, Colorado when he was on the toilet and caused Lay to pitch forward and smack his forehead and mouth on a bathtub.

Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1729 - 1796), is rumored to have died while sitting on the toilet. In reality, she was found unconscious in a closet and died of a cerebral hemorrhage in her bedroom the next day.