Babe Ruth died on August 16, 1948, in New York City, at the age of 53.

He passed away at Memorial Hospital (now part of Memorial Sloan Kettering) after a long battle with cancer, which had started as a throat or laryngeal cancer and later spread. His death triggered massive public mourning, with tens of thousands of fans filing past his open casket at Yankee Stadium over two days before his funeral and burial in Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York.

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