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Comedy icon Graham Chapman has the dubious distinction of being the first member of the Monty Python team to die having passed away at the age of just 48 on 4 October 1989. His death from tonsil ...

Graham Chapman was one of the six original members of the Monty Python comedy troupe and was in the presence of two of his co-stars when he died aged just 48. After a routine visit to the dentist in ...