Audrey Hepburn, a British actress, died of colon cancer at the age of 63 in 1993.
Hepburn died in her sleep at home on the evening of January 20, 1993. Following her death, Gregory Peck taped a tribute to Hepburn in which he performed Rabindranath Tagore's poem "Unending Love." On January 24, 1993, funeral services were performed in the local church in Tolochenaz. Maurice Eindiguer, the same clergyman who married Hepburn and Mel Ferrer and baptised her son Sean in 1960, officiated at her funeral, while UNICEF's Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan offered a eulogy.
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