Orville Wright died January 30, 1948. He died after his second heart attack, more than 35 year after his brother had died. Wilbur Wright died May 30, 1912. Wilbur died after battling typhoid fever for several weeks, he eventually succumbed to the disease.
Wilbur Wright, born in Millville, Indiana on April 16, 1867, became ill on a business trip to Boston in April 1912. Some have attributed his illness to eating bad shellfish at a banquet.
After returning to Dayton, he was diagnosed with typhoid fever. He
lingered in and out of consciousness for several weeks until he died, at
age 45, in the Wright family home on May 30, 1912.
Orville Wright, born in Dayton, Ohio on August 19, 1871, died on January 30, 1948, over 35 years after his brother,
following his second heart attack.
John T. Daniels, the Coast Guardsman who took the famous first-flight photos in 1903, died the day after Orville Wright.
Both Wright brothers are
buried in the family plot at Woodland Cemetery in Dayton, Ohio.
