<br /><br /><!--sizeo:4--><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><b>On This Day in Hisory</b><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--><br /><br />August 5, 1962<br />Marilyn Monroe is found dead<br /><br />On August 5, 1962, movie actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her home in Los Angeles. She was discovered lying nude on her bed, face down, with a telephone in one hand. Empty bottles of pills, prescribed to treat her depression, were littered around the room. After a brief investigation, Los Angeles police concluded that her death was &quot;caused by a self-administered overdose of sedative drugs and that the mode of death is probable suicide.&quot;<br /><br /><img src="http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp190/FindStuff2/Entertainment%20and%20Celebrities/Marilyn%20Monroe/50-4.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />