Death in Office
While still in office, Pompidou died unexpectedly on 2 April 1974, 9 PM, from Waldenström's macroglobulinemia.
Pompidou's wife Claude Pompidou lived more than thirty years past his death. The couple had one foster son, Alain Pompidou, former president of the European Patent Office.
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