Callaghan died on 26 March 2005, at the age of 92, at his home in Ringmer, East Sussex,Blake, Aled (18 August 2005), A lot of what he did was for great causes when he retired from frontline politics' | This is how Britain's first millionaire socialist Prime Minister made and shared his wealth", Wales Online. Retrieved 26/4/21. of lobar pneumonia, cardiac failure and kidney failure. He died just one day before his 93rd birthday and 11 days after his wife of 67 years, who had spent the last four years of her life in a nursing home due to Alzheimer's disease. He died as Britain's longest-lived former prime minister, having surpassed Harold Macmillan's record 39 days earlier. Callaghan died 4 months before former Prime Minister Edward Heath.
Callaghan died on 26 March 2005, at the age of 92, at his home in Ringmer, East Sussex,Blak.e, Aled (18 August 2005), A lot of what he did was for great causes when he retired from frontline politics' | This is how Britain's first millionaire socialist Prime Minister made and shared his wealth", Wales Online. Retrieved 26/4/21. of lobar pneumonia, cardiac failure and kidney failure. He died just one day before his 93rd birthday and 11 days after his wife of 67 years, who had spent the last four years of her life in a nursing home due to Alzheimer's disease. He died as Britain's longest-lived former prime minister, having surpassed Harold Macmillan's record 39 days earlier Callaghan died 4 months before former Prime Minister Edward Heath.