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According to his son, his last words were most unusual. He reportedly sat up in bed, shouting "Yeah! Why not? Why not?" He then laid back down and said "Oh! Beautiful! Beautiful!"

Godfather of actress Winona Ryder.

His death was announced on the internet with a black screen on his website, and the words "Timothy has passed."

Was the first husband of actress Uma Thurman's mother, Nena Thurman. He later lived with and fathered a son by Joanna Harcourt-Smith whose nephew, Arpad Busson, was engaged to and fathered a daughter by Uma.

Once appeared on stage dressed as Satan, proclaiming, "I am the god of Hellfire!" An acid-head in the front row yelled in fright, and ran screaming out of the amphitheater.

G. Gordon Liddy of Watergate fame was an assistant district attorney in the late 1960s and participated in a law enforcement raid on Leary's upstate compound. According to Liddy's autobiography 'Will' Leary greeted the police and Liddy wearing only a shirt and no pants or underwear. Few drugs were found and nearly all charges against Leary were dismissed.

While he toyed with the idea of cryogenic suspension, he never went ahead with it. Instead, his body was cremated, with a portion of his ashes placed on a small rocket that is presently in Earth orbit, and will eventually burn up as it re-enters the atmosphere (the rocket includes portions of the ashes of Star Trek (1966) creator Gene Roddenberry).

Claimed he was conceived on the night before Prohibition went into effect in the USA.

Father of Zach Leary.

Served as one of several celebrity witnesses to testify at the trial of the "Chicago Eight" featuring defendants, Abbie Hoffman, David Dellinger, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden, Bobby Seale, Rennie Davis, John Froines and Lee Weiner (1969-1970).

Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 348-351. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Was friends with Bill Moseley.

Born at 10:20am-EDT

Bill Maher revealed in his podcast Club Random April 17th 2022 talking with Piers Morgan that a chair he has hanging on his wall had the upholstery burned at a Christmas party in 1992 by Timothy Leary because he was so high. Maher goes on to say that Timothy Leary then signed the burn and dated it. Maher keeps the chair as a memento for the time he knew Timothy Leary and further commented that today's kids probably don't even know who he is.