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== Death and re-interment ==
Herzl died of heart failure on 3 May 1904 when he was 44 and his [[intact]] son Hans was 13. Herzl was buried in the [https://mahlerfoundation.org/mahler/locations/austria/vienna/dobling-cemetery/ Döbling Cemetery] of Vienna, but later was exhumed and re-interred in the national cemetery on 17 August 1949 in a special location of great honor chosen by a special commission on [https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/mount-herzl Mount Herzl], a prominence with a height of 834 meters near immediately west of Jerusalem that was named in Herzl's honor.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/mount-herzl#herzl
|title=Theodor Herzl’s Grave
|accessdate=2024-02-19
}}</ref> His other family members also were later re-interred in the Mount Herzl national cemetery.
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* [[Israel]]
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