# Social Psychologist Stanley Milgram
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-psychologist-stanley-milgram/66076
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [May 21, 2001, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-psychologist-stanley-milgram/66076 "2001-05-21T12:08:44Z")
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### Author:  [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2001, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-psychologist-stanley-milgram/66076/1 "2001-05-21T12:08:44Z")
How did Stanley Milgram die? You know, the guy who created the experiement where subjects had to shock other people if they (the one shocked) got a question wrong. I know he died in 1984 at the age of 51, and I’m wondering how he died because 51 is a rather young age.
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### Author:  [@Protesilaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Protesilaus)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2001, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-psychologist-stanley-milgram/66076/2 "2001-05-21T15:30:31Z")
According to [About.com](http://About.com)’s [biography of Milgram](http://sociology.about.com/science/sociology/library/weekly/aa040801c.htm), he died of a heart attack (his fifth).