10. Jimi Hendrix — Samarkand Hotel, London

Widely regarded as the greatest electric guitar player of all time, on September 18, 1970, Jimi Hendrix was found dead at the Samarkand Hotel, at 22 Lansdowne Crescent, London.

There are many rumours surrounding his death, allegations of murder, a girlfriend who claimed he was alive in the ambulance despite the ambulance men saying he was dead at the scene and had been for some time.

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What is known is he died in bed after taking sleeping pills and drowning in his own vomit.

Hendrix had spent the evening at a party before being picked up by girlfriend Monika Dannemann and driven to her flat at the Samarkand Hotel.

Dannemann claimed in her original testimony that after they returned to her lodgings the evening before, Hendrix, unknown to her, had taken nine of her prescribed sleeping pills.

The normal medical dose was half a tablet, but Hendrix was unfamiliar with this very strong German brand.

According to surgeon John Bannister, the doctor who initially attended to him, Hendrix had asphyxiated in his own vomit, mainly red wine which had filled his airways, as an autopsy later confirmed.