Death
Birdseye died on November 7, 1956, of a stroke at the Gramercy Park Hotel. He was 69 years old. Birdseye was cremated and his ashes were scattered at sea off Gloucester, Massachusetts.
In 2012 the first book-length biography of Birdseye, Mark Kurlansky's Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man was published by Doubleday.
Read more about this topic: Clarence Birdseye
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