Celebrity Death of the Day - Syphilis Special
This sexually transmitted disease took the lives of some of history’s most great and terrible men. Al Capone and Genghis Khan succumbed to it’s latter stage: Neurosyphilis, bringing about their end via acute dementia.
Others known to have died from Syphilis include Toulouse-Lautrec, Jack Pickford and Paul Gauguin.
More on Jack Pickford at a later date.
