John Hughes Died Suddenly of Heart Attack at 59

John Hughes died suddenly of a heart attack in New York on Thursday, August 6. He was 59.

Hughes, the director of The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, suffered the heart attack while strolling in Manhattan, where he was visiting his family.

Hughes and Nancy Ludwig, his wife of 39 years whom he met in high school, had two sons and four grandchildren.

R.I.P.!