John Glenn Cause Of Death: How Did John Glenn Die?

John Herschel Glen was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman and politician. He was born on July 18, 1921. He was the third American in space, and the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962.

How Did John Glenn Die?

John Glenn was in good health for most of his life. In June 2014, Glen underwent successful heart valve replacement surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. In early December 2016, he was hospitalised at the James Cancer Hospital of Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus

According to a family source, he had been in declining health, and his condition was grave; his wife and their children and grandchildren were at the hospital. Glenn died on December 8, 2016, at Osu Wexner Medical Center; he was 95 years old. No cause of death was disclosed. After his death, his body lay in state at the Ohio Statehouse.