Celebrities death in dirt

Jonathan SWIFT - Irish novelist and poet.

Sad ending had Swift, who died mad, after nine years of madness, prey to a manic restlessness about which made him walk through house and 10 hours a day, refusing to eat or drink in presence of someone, speaking without string. Sometimes he retrieve lucidity, and looking at it in a mirror, said desperately, as though he were talking to someone stranger: "Poor Swift!" It has been said that his servants, sometimes, let eager people to see this wreck for money.

Johann Strauss I (the father) - Austrian composer.

Strauss had an sordid end: died of scarlet fever which took from one of his daughters, and was found without life in flat of mistress, Emilie. Emilie had brought with her everything he had, and his nightshirt and litter in which he had found the end . "Strauss died like a dog, but was buried as a king", said the writer Hans Weigel. Indeed, a hundred thousand people, a fifth of the population of Vienna, have followed the casket, carried away by the musicians of the orchestra. On the cover of the coffin, on a cushion, he was the violin master, with the strings broken.

Lef Nicolaievitch TOLSTOI - Russian writer

In the desire to get rid of his wife, next to which no longer bear to live, Tolstoi left the house, hidden from Iasnaia Poliana. On the way, he cooled and was forced to descend from the train at station Astapovo. As there is no hotel, has been housed in the head of station. In a short time, the whole world was with her eyes on Astapovo. Immediately there was his family, but Tolstoi refused to see his wife, which has been allowed to come to his bed until the last moment, when it was no longer lucid.