Celebrity Deaths – E

by Michael RichComment — Updated August 3, 2023
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
1955
Dwight D. Eisenhower - Celebrity Deaths E
Dwight Eisenhower
1969
Mama Cass Elliott
Cass Elliott
1974
Dale Evans
Dale Evans
2001
Leif Erickson
Leif Erickson
1986
Dale Earnhardt
Dale Earnhardt
2001
Dale Evans
Buddy Epsen
2003
Dana Elcar
Dana Elcar
2005
Chad Everett
Chad Everett
2012
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
2013

Sen. Thomas Eagleton b. 1929 d. March 4, 2007 (heart and respiratory complications)
Briefly a Vice Presidential nominee under George McGovern in 1972

Dale Earnhardt b. 1951 d. February 18, 2001 (auto accident during Daytona 500 competition)
Race car driver

Fred Ebb b. 1933 d. September 11, 2004 (heart attack)
Lyricist – Chicago, Cabaret, New York, New York

Roger Ebert b. 1942 d. April 4, 2013
Journalist – Pulitzer Prize winning film critic and screenwriter

Billy “Mr. B” Eckstine b. 1914 d. 1993 (cancer)
Singer

Blake Edwards b. 1922 d. 2010 (natural)
Writer, Director, Producer – Pink Panther, Victor/Victoria, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Elizabeth Edwards b. 1949 d. 2010 (breast cancer)
Author and spokesperson for health care reform

Ralph Edwards b. 1913 d. November 16, 2005 (heart failure)
TV pioneer and host – This Is Your Life

Ronnie Claire Edwards b. 1933 d. 2016 (in her sleep)
Actress – Corabeth Walton Godsey on The Waltons (1972-81)

Vince Edwards b. 1928 d. 1996 (pancreatic cancer)
Actor – Ben Casey

Richard Egan b. 1921 d. 1987 (cancer)
Actor – Jim Redigo in Redigo and Empire

John Ehrlichman b. 1926 d. 1999
Advisor to Richard Nixon convicted of federal crimes

Albert Einstein b. 1879 d. April 18 1955
Scientific genius

Dwight D. Eisenhower b. 1890 d. 1969
34th US President

John Eisenhower b. 1922 d. Dec. 21, 2013
Army Brigadier General and son of Dwight and Mamie

Mamie Doud Eisenhower b. 1896 d. 1979
Wife of Dwight D. Eisenhower

Jack Elam – b. 1916 d. October 20, 2003
Character actor – Rawhide (movie) and Wichita

Dana Elcar – b. 1927 d. June 6, 2005
Actor – Pete Thornton on “MacGyver“; Col. Lard on “Baa Baa Black Sheep

Duke Ellington b. 1899 d. 1974 (cancer)
Musician

Bob Elliot b. 1923 d. 2016 (throat cancer)
Comedian – one-half of the comedy duo of Bob and Ray

Cass “Mama” Elliot b. 1941 d. 1974 (heart attack)
Singer – The Mamas and the Papas

Patricia Elliott b. 1938 d. 2015 (leiomyosarcoma, a rare cancer)
Actress – Renée Divine Buchanan on “One Life To Live”

John Ellis b. 1939 d. 2012 (alzheimers disease)
Played with the Trammps, “Disco Inferno”

Jack Ely b. 1943 d. 2015 (after a long illness)
Musician / Singer – sang “Louie Louie” while with the Kingsmen (1963)

Keith Emerson b. 1944 d. 2016 (suicide)
Musician / keyboardist – created Emerson, Lake & Palmer rock group (1970)

John Entwistle b. 1944 d. June 27, 2002
Musician – Bassist for the Who

Nora Ephron b. 1941 d. 2012 (acute myeloid leukemia)
Screenwriter/Producer/Director/Novelist – “When Harry Met Sally”, “Sleepless in Seattle”

Buddy Epsen b. 1908 d. July 6, 2003
Actor- Davy Crockett, Beverly Hillbillies, Barnaby Jones

Leif Erickson b. 1911 d. 1986
Actor – Big John Cannon on the High Chaparral

Little Eva (Eva Narcissus Boyd ) b. 1944 d. April 11, 2003 (cervical cancer)
Singer – The Loco-Motion

Dale Evans b. 1912 d.2001 (congestive heart failure)
Actress – wife of Roy Rogers and Queen of the West

Gene Evans b. 1922 d. 1998
Actor – Rob McLaughlin on My Friend Flicka

Mike Evans b. 1949 d. 2006 (throat cancer)
Actor/Writer – Lionel Jefferson on “The Jeffersons

Michael Evans b. 1920 d. September 4, 2007
Actor – Col. Douglas Austin on the Young and the Restless

Chad Everett b. 1936 d. July 25, 2012 (lung cancer)
Actor – Dr. Joe Gannon in “Medical Center” (1969-’76)

Phil Everly b. 1939 d. Jan. 03, 2014 (smoking)
Singer – younger half of the duo The Everly Brothers, “Wake Up Little Susie”

Medgar Evers b. 1925 d. 1963 (murdered – shot)
Civil Rights leader

Tom Ewell b. 1909 d. 1994
Actor – The Tom Ewell Show

Judith Katherine Campbell Exner b. 1934 d. 1999 (breast cancer)
Reported mistress of both JFK and Sam Giancana

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