2013 Event After more than seven weeks of treatment for bronchitis, former U.S. President George H. W. Bush is released from The Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas 2012 Event U.S. pastor Billy Graham is hospitalized for several days at Mission Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina due to bronchitis; he recently suffered pneumonia in November, 2011 1988 Death Trevor Howard, actor (Ryan's Daughter), dies of bronchitis at 71 1879 Death Willem, (crown)prince of Orange, dies of bronchitis or murder at 39