Sebastian Cabot b. 1918. d. 1977
(stroke) Actor - Mr. French on Family Affair

Dr.Robert Cade b. 1927 d. November 27, 2007 (kidney disease)
Univ. of Florida (Gators) researcher who invented Gatorade in 1965

James Cagney b. 1899 d. 1986 (heart attack/diabetes)
Actor - The Yankee Doodle Dandy

Rory Calhoun b. 1922 d. 1999 (diabetes and emphysema)
Actor - Bill Longely on The Texan

Cab Calloway b. 1907 d. 1994 (stroke)
Jazz musician

John Candy b. 1950 d. 1994 (heart attack)
Actor

J.D. Cannon b. 1922 d. May 20, 3005
Actor - NYPD Chief Peter Clifford on McCloud

Truman Capote b. 1924 d. 1984 (diputed)
Writer - In Cold Blood, Breakfast at Tiffanys

Alfred 'Al' Capp b. 1909. d. 1979
Cartoonist

Frank Capra b. 1897 d. 1991
Director - It's a Wonderful Life and others

MacDonald Carey b. 1913 d. 1994 (cancer)
Actor - Dr. Tom Horton on Days of Our Lives

Ron Carey b. 1935 d. January 16, 2007 (stroke)
Actor - Ofc. Carl Levitt on Barney Miller

Kitty Carlisle (Hart) b. 1910 d. April 17, 2007 (pneumonia)
Actress - To Tell the Truth

Hoagy Carmichael b. 1899 d. 1981
Actor

Art Carney b. 1918 d. November 9, 2003
Actor - Ed Norton on the Honeymooners

Karen Anne Carpenter b. 1950 d. 1983 (heart failure resulting from years of anorexia)
Singer

Leo Carrillo b. 1881 d. 1961(cancer)
Actor - Pancho in the Cisco Kid

Leo G. Carroll b. 1892 d. 1972 (pneumonia and cancer)
Actor - Cosmo Topper

Johnny Carson b. 1925 d, January 23, 2005 (emphysema)
King of Late Night TV - Host of the Tonight Show for nearly 30 years

Billy Carter b. 1937 d. 1988 (pancreatic cancer)
Brother of President Jimmy Carter

Nell Carter b. 9/13/1948 d. January 23, 2003
Actress - Nell Harper in Gimme a Break!

Barbara Cartland b. 1901 d. 2000
Romance novel writer

Johnny Cash - b. 1932 d. September 12, 2003 (complications of diabetes)
Singer - "Ring of Fire" and "I Walk the Line." Wife, June (below.)

June Carter Cash b. 1929 d. May 15, 2003 (complications after heart surgery)
Singer/actress - wife of Johnny Cash and composer of "Ring of Fire"

Peggy Cass b. 1924 d. 1999 (heart failure)
Actress/panelist - To Tell the Truth

John Cassavetes b. 1929 d. 1989
Actor/director - Victor Franko in The Dirty Dozen

Jack Cassidy b. 1927 d. 1976 (fire - fell asleep smoking in living room, couch ignited)
Actor - father of Shaun and David Cassidy

Joan Caulfield b. 1922. d. 1991(cancer)
Actress

Roger Chaffee b. 1935 d. 1967 (Killed when their Apollo 1 command module had a flash fire on the pad)
Astronaut

Wilt Chamberlain b. 1936 d. 1999 (heart attack)
Basketball player and self-professed stud

John Chancellor b. 1927 d. 1996 (cancer)
Journalist

Harry Chapin b. 1942 d. 1981(car accident)
Musician - Cat's in the Cradle

Ray Charles b. 1918 d. June 10, 2004 (liver disease)
Composer/singer - Georgia on my Mind

Paddy Chayefsky b. 1923 d. 1981(cancer)
Director

John Cheever b. 1912 d. 1982
Writer - Falconer

Maurice Chevalier b. 1888. d. 1972 (cardiac arrest after surgery)
Actor - Honore Lachaille in GiGi

Chiang Kai-shek b. 1887 d. 1975 (heart attack)
Taiwan president - China's only elected president in 1948

Julia Child b. 1912 d. August 12, 2004
Gourmet author - Known for "Bon Appetite"

Virginia Christine b. 1920 d. 1996 (heart disease)
Actress - Mrs. Olson in the Folger's Coffee television commercials

Winston Churchill b. 1874 d. 1965
British Prime Minister and statesman

Craig Claiborne b. 1920 d. 2000
Writer - Food books and the NY Times

Tom Campbell Clark b. 1899 d. 1977
U. S. Supreme Court Justice

Arthur C. Clarke b. 1917 d. March 18, 2008 (post-polio syndrome)
Writer - 2001: A Space Odyssey

Ray Charles b. 1930 d. June 10, 2004
Singer/composer - "What'd I Say" and "Georgia on My Mind."

Jan Clayton b. 1917 d. 1983
Actress - Lassie

Eldridge Cleaver b. 1935 d. 1998 (heart attack)
Militant Black Panther and activist

Roberto Clemente b. 1934 d. 1972 (Plane crash while delivering relief supplies to earthquake-ravaged Nicaragua)
Baseball Hall of Famer

Liz Claiborne b. 1929 d. June 26, 2007 (cancer)
Famed fashion designer

Clark Clifford b. 1906 d. 1998
Lawyer/DC insider

Montgomery Clift b. 1920 d. 1966 (heart attack)
Actor - Perce Howland in the Misfits

Patsy Cline b. 1932 d. 1963 (plane crash)
Singer and country music pioneer

Rosemary Clooney b. 1928 d. June 29, 2002
Singer/Actress - aunt of George Clooney; with Bing Crosby in White Christmas

Lee J. Cobb b. 1911 d. 1976
Actor - Judge Henry Garth on the Virginian

James Coburn b. 1928 d. November 18, 2002 (heart attack)
Actor - Magnificent 7, Affliction

Imogene Coca b.1908 d. June 2, 2001
Actress - co-star with Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows

Eddie Cochran b. 1938 d. 1960 (car crash)
Musician - Summertime Blues

Johnnie Cochran b. 1937 d. March 29, 2005 (brain tumor)
Famed attorney who represented O.J. Simpson

Iron Eyes Cody b. 1907 d. 1999
Actor - Native American who shed tear in environmental ads

Tristam Coffin b. 1909 d. 1990 (lung cancer)
Actor - Captain Tom Rynning on 26 Men

Claudette Colbert b. 1903 d. 1996 (stroke)
Actress - It Happened One Night

Nat 'King' Cole b. 1919 d. 1965 (lung cancer)
Singer - Unforgettable

John Colicos b. 1928 d. 2000 (heart attack)
Actor - Baltar on Battlestar Gallactica

Bud Collyer b.1908 d. 1969
Game show host - To Tell the Truth

Alex Comfort b. 1919 d. 2000 (strokes)
Writer - Joy of Sex

Perry Como b. 1912 d. 5/12/2001
Singer - Catch a Falling Star

Darlene Conley b. 1934 d. January 14, 2007 (stomach cancer)
Actress - Sally Spectra on Bold and the Beautiful

John B. Connally b. 1917 d. 1993
Texas Governor wounded in Dallas Nov. 22, 1963
Nellie Connally b. 1919 d. September 1, 2006
Wife of former Texas Governor John B. Connally

Chuck Connors b. 1921 d. 1992 (lung cancer)
Actor - Lucas McCain on The Rifleman

Charles Pete Conrad, Jr. b. 1930 d. 1999 (motorcycle accident)
Astronaut, third man to walk on the moon

Michael Conrad b. 1925 d. 1983 (urethral cancer)
Actor - Sgt. Phil Esterhauser in Hill Street Blues

William Conrad b. 1920 d. 1994 (heart attack)
Actor - Jake and the Fat Man also Cannon

Bert Convy b. 1933 d. 1991(cancer)
Actor/host - Win, Lose or Draw

Pat Conway b. 1931 d. 1981
Actor - Sheriff Clay Hollister on Tombstone Territory

Alistair Cooke b. 1908 d. March 30, 2004
Broadcaster - Letter from America

Jackie Coogan b. 1914 d. 1984 (cardiac arrest)
Actor - Uncle Fester in the Addams Family

Sam Cooke b. 1931 d. 1964 (shooting)
Singer - Wonderful World

Gary Cooper b. 1901 d. 1961(cancer)
Actor - Will Kane in High Noon

Gordon Cooper b. 1927 d. October 4, 2004
Astronaut - One of the orginal Mercury 7

(Aaron Copland b. 1900 d. 1990 (Alzheimer's disease)
Composer - Fanfare for the Common Man

Ellen Corby b. 1911 d. 1999
Actress - Grandma Walton on the Waltons

Charles Correll b. 1890 d. 1972
Actor - Andy of Amos and Andy

Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan b. 1907 d. 1995
Flew to Ireland instead of the West coast of US

Howard Cosell b 1918 d. 1995 (heart aneurism)
Sports announcer

Lou Costello b. 1906 d. 1959 (heart attack)
Half of Abbott and Costello

Joseph Cotten b. 1905 d. 1994 (pneumonia)
Actor - Jedidiah Leland in Citizen Kane

Jacques-Yves Cousteau b. 1910 d. 1997 (heart attack)
Oceanographer

Sir Noel Coward b. 1899 d. 1973 (heart attack)
Playwright

William Cowsill b. 1948 d. February 18, 2006 (emphysema, osteoporosis, and other ailments)
Singer - The Cowsills, the band that inspired the TV series "The Partridge Family"

Archibald Cox b. 1912 d. May 29, 2004
Lawyer - Special Prosecutor, Watergate, fired in "Saturday Night Massacre" by Nixon

Wally Cox b. 1924 d. 1973 (heart attack)
Actor - Mr. Peepers

Buster Crabbe b. 1908 d. 1983
Actor - Tarzan

Jeanne Crain b.1925 d. December 14, 2003 (heart attack)
Actress - "State Fair" and "Pinky"

Bob Crane b. 1928 d. 1978 (murdered)
Actor - Col. Robert Hogan on Hogan's Heroes

Richard Crane b. 1918 d. 1969 (heart attack)
Actor - Rocky Jones, Space Ranger

Alan Cranston b. 1914 d. December 31, 2000
US Senator from California 1969 - 1993

Broderick Crawford b. 1911 d. 1986 (stroke)
Actor - Chief Dan Mathews on Highway Patrol

Richard Crenna b. 1927 d. January 17, 2003 (pancreatic cancer)
Actor - Real McCoys and Rambo

Joan Crawford b. 1904 d. 1977 (cancer)
Actress - also known as Mommie Dearest

Francis Crick b.1916 d. July 28, 2004 (cancer)
Nobel Prize for Medicine - With Watson, revealed the structure of DNA

Jim Croce b. 1943 d. 1973 (plane crash)
Musician - Time in a Bottle

Bing Crosby b. 1904 d. 1977 (heart attack)
Singer/actor - Jim Hardy in Holiday Inn

Gary Evan Crosby b. 1933 d. 1995 (cancer)
Actor - Bing's Son

Scatman Crothers b. 1910 d. 1986 (lung cancer)
Actor - Dick Hallorann in the Shining

Hume Cronyn b. 1911 d. June 15, 2003 (prostate cancer)
Actor - Cocoon, husband of 52 years to Jessica Tandy

George Cukor b. 1899 d. 1983
Director - My Fair Lady

Bill Cullen b. 1920 d. 1990 (lung cancer)
Host - The Price is Right, Name That Tune, Joker's Wild

Bob Cummings b. 1908. d. 1990
Actor - Love That Bob

Ken Curtis d. 1991 b. 1916
Actor - Festus on Gunsmoke

Peter Cushing b. 1913 d. 1994 (cancer)
Actor - played both Frankenstein and Sherlock Holmes

George Carlin b. 1937 d. 2008
Comedian - known for "off color language"