Jimi Hendrix Chokes to Death on His Own Vomit…… September 18, 1970…… Jimi Hendrix‘s girlfriend awakes at 11 a.m. to find him unresponsive, but still breathing. She called an ambulance and he was pronounced dead at the hospital at 12:45 p.m. The coroner would rule that the legendary singer had aspirated his own vomit and…