Churchill remembered at his former home fifty years after death Saturday will mark fifty years since the death of Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister who helped lead the allied effort against Adolf Hitler in World War II. In a nationwide 2002 poll, Churchill was voted the greatest Briton of all time, and a new exhibition at his former home, 'Death of a Hero', tells how the country came to a standstill to pay its respects when he died on 24 January 1965. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES.