💐 REMEMBERING DAVID BOWIE 💐 The Singer, Songwriter and Actor. David Bowie died of liver cancer in his New York City apartment on January 10, 2016. He had been diagnosed 18 months earlier, but he had not made his condition public. Following Bowie's death, fans gathered at impromptu street shrines. At the mural of Bowie in his birthplace of Brixton, South London, fans laid flowers and sang his songs. Other memorial sites included Berlin, Los Angeles, and outside his apartment in New York. After