On This Day: September 28, 1991 — Miles Davis Dies at 65
Miles Davis died on September 28, 1991, at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, California, at age 65. A stroke triggered by a furious reaction to a doctor’s suggestion that he get a tracheal tube put him into a coma he never woke from, following years of pneumonia, diabetes, and a hip wrecked by sickle…