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Death

On Christmas Day 2006, Brown died at approximately 1:45 a.m. EST (05:45 UTC), at age 73, from congestive heart failure, resulting from complications of pneumonia. Bobbit was at his bedside and later reported that Brown stuttered, "I'm going away tonight", then took three long, quiet breaths and fell asleep before dying.

Then-President George W. Bush released a statement calling the musician "an American original."

In February 2019, an investigation by CNN and other journalists led to suggestions that Brown had been murdered.