The Mystery of Bruce Lee’s Death
Bruce Lee died on July 20, 1973 — six days before Enter the Dragon opened in US cinemas. The official cause was cerebral oedema. The complete picture, fifty years later, is still not fully resolved.
Bruce Lee died on July 20, 1973 — six days before Enter the Dragon opened in US cinemas. The official cause was cerebral oedema. The complete picture, fifty years later, is still not fully resolved.
James Coburn, Steve McQueen, Chuck Norris, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — here’s what they actually said about training with Bruce Lee, and the specific qualities that set him apart from every other martial artist they’d encountered.
Bruce Lee is buried at Lake View Cemetery in Seattle’s Capitol Hill — the city where he built his first martial arts school and became the thinker who created Jeet Kune Do. His son Brandon is buried beside him.
A complete chronological timeline of Bruce Lee’s life — from his 1940 birth in San Francisco through his transformation into a global icon and his death in Hong Kong in 1973, with context for each key period.