Nikola Tesla, a Serbian-American scientist, died in 1943 at the age of 86.
Nikola Tesla died alone and in debt on the 33rd floor of the Hotel New Yorker on January 7, 1943. He was 86 years old and had spent decades living in modest motel rooms like this. Coronary thrombosis was Tesla's cause of death. When Nikola Tesla died on January 7, 1943, he was alone with his pigeons and his obsessions.
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