Death
In September 2009, Tun Abdul Hamid suffered from a stroke. He survived, but the stroke left him partially paralyzed. Tun Hamid died on 1 September 2009 at the Gleneagles Hospital, Kuala Lumpur. The official cause of death was renal failure. He was 80 when he died.
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