Celebrity Deaths – G

by Michael RichComment — Updated August 3, 2023
celebrity deaths - Arthur Godfrey
Arthur Godfrey
1983
Jackie Gleason
Jackie Gleason
1987
Andy Gibb
Andy Gibb
1988
Sir John Gielgud
John Gielgud
2000
Maurice Gibb
Maurice Gibb
2003
L. Patrick Gray
L. Patrick Gray
2005
Curt Gowdy
Curt Gowdy
2006
Estelle Getty
Estelle Getty
2008
Henry Gibson
Henry Gibson
2009
Kathryn Grayson
Kathryn Grayson
2010
Peter Graves
Peter Graves
2010
Betty Garrett
Betty Garrett
2011
Michael Gough
Michael Gough
2011
Carl Gardner
Carl Gardner
2011
Ben Gazzara
Ben Gazzara
2012
Robin Gibb
Robin Gibb
2012
Don Grady
Don Grady
2012
Andy Griffith
Andy Griffith
2012
Art Ginsburg
Art Ginsburg
2012
James Gandoifini
James Gandoifini
2013
Andy Granatelli
Andy Granatelli
2013
James Garner
James Garner
2014
Leslie Gore
Leslie Gore
2015
Frank Gifford
Frank Gifford
2015
Joe Garagiola
Joe Garagiola
2016
John Glenn celebrity deaths
John Glenn
2016
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Zsa Zsa Gabor
2016
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Died 2020
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
2020

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

Zsa Zsa Gabor b. 1917 d. 2016 (in her sleep)
Hungarian Actress and Socialite – Moulin Rouge (1952), married nine times to mostly wealthy men

Magda Gabor b. 1918 d. 1997
Another Gabor – Eva and Zsa Zsa’s sister

Don Galloway b. 1937 d. 2009 (stroke)
Actor – Ironside

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

James Gandoifini b. 1961 d. 2013 (heart attack)
Actor – played Tony Soprano in “The Sopranos”

Joe Garagiola b. 1926 d. 2016 (in his sleep)
Baseball Player – MLB catcher and announcer and television host

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

James Garner b. 1928 d. July 19, 2014
Actor – Bret Maverick in Maverick(1957-’62) also Rockford Files (1974-’80)

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

Dick Gautier b. 1931 d. 2017
Actor – Hymie the Robot in TV series “Get Smart” (1965-’70)

Marvin Gaye b. 1939 d. 1984 (shot)
Singer – I Heard It Through The Grapevine

George Gaynes b. 1917 d. 2016
Actor – Commandant Eric Lassard in the Police Academy movies

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

John Paul Getty Jr. b. 1933 d. April 17, 2003 (heart problems)
Billionaire philanthropist

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

Sir John Gielgud b. 1904 d. 2000
Actor – Hobson in Arthur

Frank Gifford b. 1930 d 2015
Football player and television sportscaster – ABC’s Monday Night Football 1971-’97

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!”

Ruth Bader Ginsburg b. 1933 d. 2020 (pancreatic cancer)
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1993-’20)

Lillian Gish b. 1893 d. 1993 (heart failure)
Actress

Elizabeth Glaser b. 1946 d. 1994
(AIDS) Activist – Married Paul Michael Glazer

Ron Glass b. 1945 d. 2016 (respiratory failure)
Actor – Det. Ron Harris on “Barney Miller” (1975-’82)

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

John Glenn b. 1921 d. 2016 (peacefully)
WWII & Korean War Fighter Pilot. Marine Colonel. NASA Astronaut. Senator from Ohio (1974-99). Married for 73 yrs – first American to orbit the Earth (1962)

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

Sarah Goldberg b. 1975 d. Sept. 27, 2014 (heart ailment)
Actress – Sarah Glass Camden on “7th Heaven” tv series

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

Samuel Goldwyn Jr. b. 1926 d. 2015 (congestive heart disease)
Producer – Mystic Pizza (1988)

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

Lesley Gore b. 1946 d. 2015 (lung cancer)
Singer/ Songwriter – “It’s My Party” &: “You Don’t Own Me”

Eydie Gormè b. 1928 d. Aug. 10, 2013
Singer – worked with husband Steve Lawrence, “Blame It on the Bossa Nova”

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

Andy Granatelli b. 1923 d. Dec. 29, 2013 (natural)
Race Car Designer & Promoter – CEO of STP (motor oil company)

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

Tammy Grimes b.1934 d. 2016
Actress – Molly in “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” stage production

Sergei Mikhailovich Grinkov b. 1967 d. 1995 (heart attack)
Olympic figure skating champion

Ann Guilbert b. 1928 d. 2016 (cancer)
Actress – Millie Helper in The Dick Van Dyke Show and Yetta Rosenberg in The Nanny

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

William Guest b. 1941 d.2015 (congestive heart failure)
Gladys Knight’s cousin and one of the Pips

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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