He died suddenly of heart-disease on the 29th of October 1885 at Orange.
He died in his 72nd year of heart disease on the 4th of May 1875.
It aggravates asthma and allergies, increases the risk of heart disease and reduces the ability of the lungs to work properly.
During the last two years of his life Ruiz Zorilla became less active; failing health and the loss of his wife had decreased his energies, and the Madrid government allowed him to return to Spain some months before he died at Burgos, on the 1 3 th of June 1895, of heart disease.
His successor, Sir John Thompson, after a successful leadership of about two years, died suddenly of heart disease at Windsor Castle, immediately after being sworn of the imperial privy council.