The Death of Alan Turing

Alan Turing, the father of modern computing and WWII codebreaker who helped crack the Enigma cipher, was found dead in his Wilmslow home on June 8, 1954, from cyanide poisoning. A half-eaten apple was found nearby. The inquest ruled his death a suicide. However, Turing had been subjected to court-ordered chemical castration as punishment for homosexuality just two years prior, and some historians argue his death may have been accidental. In 2013, Queen Elizabeth II granted him a posthumous royal pardon.