Famous People with Parkinson’s Disease

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5. Salvador Dali

He (1904 – 1989) was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain.In 1980 at age 76, Dalí’s health took a catastrophic turn. His right hand trembled terribly, with Parkinson-like symptoms. His near-senile wife allegedly had been dosing him with a dangerous cocktail of unprescribed medicine that damaged his nervous system, thus causing an untimely end to his artistic capacity.

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