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===Death=== A few months after returning from his second European tour, Little Walter was involved in a fight while taking a break from a performance at a nightclub on the South Side of Chicago. He apparently sustained only minor injuries in this altercation, but they aggravated the damage he had suffered in previous violent encounters, and he died in his sleep at the apartment of a girlfriend, at 209 East 54th Street in Chicago, early the following morning.<ref name="Glover"/><ref name="Chicago Defender"/> The official cause of death on his death certificate was [[coronary thrombosis]] (a blood clot in the heart). Evidence of external injuries was so insignificant that the police reported that his death was due to "unknown or natural causes",<ref name="Chicago Defender">''Chicago Defender'', February 21, 1968</ref> and no external injuries were noted on the death certificate.<ref name="Glover"/> His body was buried at St. Mary's Cemetery, in [[Evergreen Park, Illinois]], on February 22, 1968.<ref name="Chicago Defender"/>
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