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Clark Gable b. 1901 d. 1960 (heart attack)
Actor - Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind
Eva Gabor b. 1919 d. 1995 (Respiratory failure)
Actress - Lisa Douglas on Green Acres
Magda Gabor b. 1918 d. 1997
Another Gabor - Eva and Zsa Zsa's sister
James Gammon b. 1940 d. 2010
Actor - father on "Nash Bridges"
Indira Gandhi b. 1917 d. 1984 (murdered)
Indian President
Rajiv Gandhi d. 1991 b. 1944 (murdered)
Indian President
Don Galloway b. 1937 d. 2009 (stroke)
Actor - Ironside
Greta Garbo b. 1905 d. 1990 (kidney failure)
Actress - Camille
Jerry Garcia b. 1942 d. 1995 (heart attack)
Musician - The Grateful Dead
Vincent Gardenia d. 1992 b.1922 (heart attack)
Actor - Murray Melman on L.A. Law
Ava Gardner b. 1922 d. 1990 (pneumonia)
Actress - Maxine Faulk in Night of the Iguana
Erle Stanley Gardner b. 1889 d. 1970 (cancer)
Writer - Perry Mason
Hank Garland b.1930 d. December 27, 2004 (staph infection)
Guitarist - For Elvis, the Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison, Patsy
Cline, Charlie Parker...
Judy Garland b. 1922 d. 1969 (drug overdose)
Actress - Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz
Betty Garrett b. 1919 d. 2011 (aortic aneurysm)
Actress - "All in the Family", "Laverne & Shirley"
David Garroway b. 1913 d.1982 (suicide)
First Today Show host
Greer Garson b. 1904 d. 1996 (heart failure)
Actress - Mrs. Miniver
Marvin Gaye b. 1939 d. 1984 (shot)
Singer - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Janet Gaynor b. 1906 d. 1984 (pneumonia)
Actress - Seventh Heaven and Sunrise
Ben Gazzara b. 1930 d. February 3, 2012 (pancreatic cancer)
Actor - Run for Your Life (1965-68)
Will Geer b. 1902 d. 1978 (respiratory arrest)
Actor - Grandpa Walton on the Waltons
Theodore Geisel b. 1904 d. 1991
Writer/illustrator - Dr. Seuss
Vito Genovese b. 1897 d. 1969
Mobster - 'Boss of all Bosses.' He died in prison
Christopher George b. 1929 d. 1983 (heart attack)
Actor - Sgt. Sam Troy on the Rat Patrol
Ira Gershwin b. 1896 d. 1983
Composer
Vitas Gerulaitis b. 1954 d. 1994 (carbon monoxide poisoning)
Tennis Player
Estelle Getty b.1923 d.2008
actress, starred on The Golden Girls
J. Paul Getty b. 1892 d. 1976
Really, really rich guy
Alice Ghostley b. 1926 d. September 21, 2007 (colon cancer)
Actress - Esmeralda on Bewitched and Bernice on Designing Women
Sam (Salvatore) Giancana b. 1908 d. 1975 (mob hit)
Mobster - Friend of Frank Sinatra
Andy Gibb b. 1958 d. 1988 (heart attack)
Singer - cute Bee Gee
Maurice Gibb b. 1949 d. January 12, 2003 (complications after
surgery for intestinal blockage)
Singer - Bee Gees
Robin Gibb b. 1949 d. May 20, 2012 (colorectal cancer)
Singer - Bee Gees (survived by the oldest brother Barry Gibb)
Althea Gibson b. 1927 d. September 28, 2003 (respiratory failure)
Tennis - First Black to win Wimbleton and U.S. National
Henry Gibson b. 1935 d. 2009 (cancer)
Actor - Rowan & Martins Laugh-in, Boston Legal
John Paul Getty Jr. b. 1933 d. April 17, 2003 (heart problems)
Billionaire philanthropist
Sir John Gielgud b. 1904 d. 2000
Actor - Hobson in Arthur
Jack Gilford b. 1907 d. 1990
Actor - Bernie Lefkowitz in Cocoon
"Dizzy" Gillespie b. 1917 d. 1993 (pancreatic cancer)
Musician
Allen Ginsberg b. 1926 d. 1997 (liver cancer)
Beat poet - Howl
Art Ginsburg b. 1930 d. 2012 (pancreatic cancer)
Celebrity Chef - "Mr Food" his tag line was "Ooh! It's so good!"
Lillian Gish b. 1893 d. 1993 (heart failure)
Actress
Elizabeth Glaser b. 1946 d. 1994
(AIDS) Activist - Married Paul Michael Glazer
Jackie Gleason b. 1916 d. 1987 (colon cancer)
Actor/comedian - And away he went...
Paul Gleason b. 1944 d. May 27, 2006 (lung cancer)
Actor - Principal Richard Vernon in Breakfast Club
Marty Glickman b. 1918 d. February 3, 2001(complications of heart
surgery)
Voice of New York sports for 55 years
George Gobel, b. 1919 d. 1991(complications after surgery)
Actor/comedian
Paulette Goddard b. 1914 d. 1990 (heart failure)
Actress
Trevor Goddard b. 1965 d. June 8 2003 (overdose)
Actor - Mic Brumby on JAG
Arthur Godfrey b. 1903 d. 1983
Host/Singer - The Arthur Godfrey Show
Alexander Godunov b. 1948 d. 1995 (disputed - alcoholism)
Dancer/actor - Karl in Die Hard
William Golding b. 1911 d. 1993
Writer - Lord of the Flies
Jerry Goldsmith b. 1929 d. July 21, 2004 (cancer)
Composer - Star Trek, Barnaby Jones, Waltons, Air Force One,
Mummy
Barry Goldwater b. 1909 d. 1998 (stroke)
U.S. Senator from Arizona, 1964 presidential candidate
Benny Goodman b. 1909 d. 1986
Musician
Mark Goodson b. 1915 d. 1992
TV Producer - To Tell The Truth, What's My Line, I've Got a
Secret
Leo Gorcey b. 1917 d. 1969 (liver failure)
Actor - played Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney
Gale Gordon b. 1906 d. 1995 (cancer)
Actor - Theodore Mooney on The Lucille Ball Show
Ruth Gordon b. 1896 d. 1985 (stroke)
Actress - Rosemary's Baby
Esther Gordy (Edwards) b. 1920 d. August 24, 2011
co-founded Motown records with brother Berry Gordy
Frank Gorshin b. 1934 d. May 17, 2005 (lung cancer, emphysema)
Actor and Impressionist - Riddler on TV's "Batman")
John Gotti - b. 1940 d. June 10, 2002 (cancer)
Thug - Gambino crime family boss
Michael Gough b. 1916 d. March 17, 2011 (natural causes)
starred in over 150 films incl. Alfred in 4 Batman movies
Robert Goulet b. 1933 d. October 30, 2007 (pulmonary fibrosis)
Singer/actor - Sir Lancelot in Camelot
Curt Gowdy b. 1919 d. February 20, 2006 (leukemia)
Sportscaster - American Sportsman
Betty Grable b. 1916 d. 1973 (lung cancer)
Actress - The ultimate pin-up girl in WWII
Don Grady b. 1944 d. June 27, 2012 (cancer)
Actor - Robbie Douglas on "My Three Sons" also a Mouseketeer
Katherine Graham b. 1917 d. July 17, 2001
Publisher - The Washington Post
Ruth Graham b. June 10, 1920 d. June 14, 2007 (pneumonia)
beloved wife of Rev. Billy Graham
Virginia Graham b. 1912 d. 1998 (heart disease)
Talk show trail-blazer and a founder of the Cerebral Palsy
Association
Farley Granger b. 1925 d. 2011 (natural causes)
Actor - played in Hitchcock films "Strangers on a Train" &
"Rope"
Stewart Granger b. 1913 d. 1993 (cancer)
Actor - Col. Alan MacKenzie on the Virginian
Cary Grant, b. 1904 d. 1986 (stroke)
Actor - Houseboat, North by Northwest
Kirby Grant b. 1912 d. 1985 (car crash)
Actor -Sky King
Peter Graves b.1926 d. 2010 (heart attack)
Actor - Mission Impossible
L. Patrick Gray b. 1917 d. July 5, 2005 (complications from
pancreatic cancer)
F.B. I. Director (1972 - 1973). A Nixon loyalist during Watergate
years
Spalding Gray b. 1941 d. January 10, 2004 (suicide)
Actor/writer - Swimming to Cambodia, Killing Fields
Kathryn Grayson b. 1922 d. 2010
Operatic Singer & Actress, Showboat, Anchors Aweigh also did
Broadway
Rocky Graziano b. 1922 d. 1990
Boxer
Lorne Greene b. 1915 d. 1987 (respiratory failure)
Actor - Ben Cartwright on Bonanza
Richard Greene b. 1918 d. 1985 (cardiac arrest)
Actor - Robin Hood on The Adventures of Robin Hood
Meg Greenfield b. 1930 d. 1999 (cancer)
Journalist - Editorial editor of the Washington Post for 20 years
Jose Greco b. 1918 d. December 31, 2000 (heart failure)
Musician/choreographer
Merv Griffin b.1925 d. August 13, 2007 (prostate cancer)
Talk show host, game show creator (Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune)
and casino owner
Andy Griffith b. 1923 d. July 3, 2012 (heart attack)
Actor/Director/Producer/Grammy Award-winning Singer -
"The Andy Griffith Show" (1960-'68), "Matlock" (1986-'95)
Richard Griffiths b. 1947 d. March 28, 2013 (complications following heart surgery)
Actor - Vernon Dursley in the "Harry Potter" films
Sergei Mikhailovich Grinkov b. 1967 d. 1995 (heart attack)
Olympic figure skating champion
Virgil "Gus" Grissom b. 1926 d. 1967 (Killed when their Apollo 1
command module had a flash fire on the pad)
One of the first seven, Project Mercury, astronauts
Lewis Grizzard, Jr. b. 1946. d. 1994
Author/humorist
David Groh b. 1941 d. February 13, 2008 (kidney cancer)
Actor - Rhoda's hubby Joe, on Rhoda
Eddie Guerrero b. 1967 d. November 13, 2005 (inconclusive)
WWE wrestler
Ernesto "Che" Guevara b. 1928 d. 1967 (executed by Bolivian
troops)
Revolutionary
Sir Alec Guinness b. 1914 d. 2000 (liver cancer)
Actor - Bridge on the River Kwai - also Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star
Wars
Woody Guthrie b. 1912 d. 1967 (Huntington's corea?)
Musician - This Land Is Your Land
Fred Gwynne b. 1926 d. 1993 (pancreatic cancer) Actor - Herman on
the Munsters
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