7. George II of Great Britain, at the advanced age of almost seventy-seven, died from over-exerting himself whilst on the toilet
George II was, from 1727 until his death in 1760, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire. The last British monarch to be born outside of Great Britain, being born and raised in northern Germany, George was also the last British monarch to personally participate in battle, leading his armies at the Battle of Dettingen in 1743. Becoming king after the death of his father George I, speaking limited English and thwarted at many opportunities by Parliamentary independence, George resided in Germany for much of his reign, where he enjoyed far greater authority and sought to expand his domain.
Surviving the last of the Jacobite rebellions in 1745, led by Charles Edward Stuart, by 1760, then aged 76, George II was partially blind and nearly deaf. Arising as normal at six in the morning on October 25, after consuming his daily cup of hot chocolate he retired to the royal privy. A few minutes later his valet entered in response to a loud noise, finding the monarch collapsed on the floor in his own stool. Carried into bed, he was declared dead at the scene by physicians. The longest-lived of all of his predecessors, a postmortem discovered he had suffered a massive thoracic aortic dissection, likely from the strain of excreting.