President Harding Dies -- President Harding died at his apartment in the palace hotel here, suffering an unexpected attack of apoplexy and dying before medical aid could reach him. Mrs. Harding was reading from a newspaper to the president at the time of his death. The above is one of the best photographs to be made of Mrs. Harding, with whom the world sorrows in her grief. March 08, 1923. (Photo by International Newsreel Photo).