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  2. On January 14, 1924, Hughes Sr. died of a heart attack caused by an embolism at his company's offices on the fifth floor of the Humble Oil Building in Houston at the age of 54. After his death, his only child, Howard Jr. , assumed control of the company as its 75% owner at the age of 19.

  3. Bettmann/Getty Images. When Howard Hughes took his last breath it was 1:27 on the morning of April 5, 1976, and he was in an airplane over northern Mexico on his way to a Texas hospital.

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  4. Apr 6, 1976 · A physician accompanying him told hospital officials that Mr. Hughes died at 1:27 P.M. in chartered Lear jet flying over south Texas. The body was taken by ambulance to the hospital, where;...

  5. Howard Hughes Sr. died of a heart attack in 1924. Their deaths apparently inspired Hughes to include the establishment of a medical research laboratory in the will that he signed in 1925 at age 19. Howard Sr.'s will had not been updated since Allene's death, and Hughes Jr. inherited 75% of the family fortune. [18]

    • April 5, 1976 (aged 70), en route via air from Mexico to Houston, Texas, U.S.
    • Howard Robard Hughes Jr., December 24, 1905, Houston, Texas, U.S.
    • Businessman, filmmaker, investor, philanthropist, pilot
    • Howard R. Hughes Sr. (father)
  6. In 1976, at age 70, he died in flight from Acapulco, Mexico, to Houston, Texas, to seek medical treatment. Legal battles over his estate ensued, and several “wills” were declared to be forgeries. How did Howard Hughes die? In Howard Hughes’s later years he became emaciated and deranged from the effects of a meagre diet and an excess of drugs.

  7. Oct 22, 2001 · Hughes died at the age of 70, while being flown to a hospital in his native Houston for emergency medical attention. The autopsy report came as a surreal shock.

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