diff --git a/doc/changelog.dox b/doc/changelog.dox
index bb2c60129..eef409ed1 100644
--- a/doc/changelog.dox
+++ b/doc/changelog.dox
@@ -87,6 +87,13 @@ See also:
 -   Fixed compilation of the @ref GL library on macOS with ANGLE --- new code
     assumed macOS is always desktop GL (see [mosra/magnum#452](https://github.com/mosra/magnum/issues/452))
 
+@subsection changelog-latest-bugfixes Bug fixes
+
+-   Creating @ref Platform::WindowlessEglApplication again after it was
+    destroyed could fail with an error saying "cannot make the previous context
+    current" on certain system. This was due to EGL not destroying the context
+    if it's still made current.
+
 @subsection changelog-latest-compatibility Potential compatibility breakages, removed APIs
 
 -   Removed remaining APIs deprecated in version 2018.10, in particular:
diff --git a/src/Magnum/Platform/WindowlessEglApplication.cpp b/src/Magnum/Platform/WindowlessEglApplication.cpp
index b514e2b06..9aaad65ee 100644
--- a/src/Magnum/Platform/WindowlessEglApplication.cpp
+++ b/src/Magnum/Platform/WindowlessEglApplication.cpp
@@ -442,7 +442,19 @@ WindowlessEglContext::WindowlessEglContext(WindowlessEglContext&& other):
 }
 
 WindowlessEglContext::~WindowlessEglContext() {
-    if(_context) eglDestroyContext(_display, _context);
+    if(_context) {
+        /* eglDestroyContext() doesn't actually destroy the context if it's
+           still current, it's only destroyed once eglMakeCurrent() makes some
+           other context current. This causes the "cannot make the previous
+           context current" error from above to appear if one creates an EGL
+           context again for a second time --- we switch from the (now zombie)
+           context to a new one to read the vendor string for the
+           "no-forward-compatible-core-context" workaround, at which point the
+           zombie gets finally killed, which then means we can't
+           eglMakeCurrent() it back after. */
+        eglMakeCurrent(_display, EGL_NO_SURFACE, EGL_NO_SURFACE, EGL_NO_CONTEXT);
+        eglDestroyContext(_display, _context);
+    }
     #if defined(MAGNUM_TARGET_GLES) && !defined(MAGNUM_TARGET_WEBGL)
     if(_surface) eglDestroySurface(_display, _surface);
     #endif