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Bernie Mac b.1957 d. August 9, 2008
(pneumonia) Comedian/Actor - had his own sitcom
Douglas MacArthur b.
1880 d. 1964 U.S. General - Old soldiers never die?
Harriet
MacGibbon b. 1905 d. 1987 (pulmonary and cardiac failure) Actress - Mrs.
Drysdale on The Beverly Hillbillies
Gisele MacKenzie b. 1927 d.
September 5, 2003 (colon cancer) Singer, actress - Your Hit
Parade
Barton MacLane b. 1902 d. 1969 (cancer) Actor - Marshal Frank
Caine on Outlaws, Gen. Peterson on Bewitched
Harold Macmillan b. 1894
d. 1986 British Prime Minister, 1957-1963
Fred MacMurray b. 1908 d.
1991(pneumonia) Actor - Steve Douglas on My Three Sons
Gordon
MacRae b. 1921 d. 1986 (cancer of mouth and jaw) Actor/singer - Billy
bigelow in Carousel, father of Meredith
Meredith MacRae b. 1944 d. 2000
(brain cancer) Actress - Billie Jo Bradley on Petticoat Junction - Daughter
of Gordon and Sheila
Guy Madison b. 1922 d. 1996 (emphysema) Actor
- Wild Bill Hickok in movies and on TV
Lester Maddox b. 1925 d. June
25, 2003 (complications from a fall) Georgia Governor know for ax wielding
segregationist views
Jock Mahoney b. 1919 d. 1989 (car accident/stroke)
Actor - The Range Rider and Yancy Derringer
Norman Mailer b. 1923
d. November 10, 2007 Author - The Executioner's Song
Louis Malle b.
1932 d. 1995 ( Lymphoma) Director - Husband of Candice Bergen
Henry
Mancini b. 1924 d. 1994 (liver cancer) Composer - Pink Panther
Herbie Mann b. 1930 d. July 1, 2003 (prostate cancer) Jazz
flutist
Max Manning d. June 23, 2003 Baseball pitcher - Negro League
Hall of Famer
Jayne Mansfield b. 1933 d. 1967 (car crash) Actress
and sex symbol
Mike Mansfield b. 1903 d. October 5, 2001 Senator
from Montana - Senate's majority leader from 1961 to 1977
Mickey Mantle
b. 1931 d. 1995 (cancer) New York Yankees player
Pete Maravich b.
1948 d. 1988 (heart attack during a pick up basketball game) Basketball
player
Marcel Marceau b. 1923 d. September 22, 2007 Legendary
mine
Hal March b. 1920 d. 1970 Host - $64,000 Question
Nancy Marchand b. 1928 d. June 18, 2000 (lung cancer/emphysema)
Actress - Mrs. Pynchon on Lou Grant Show and Livia Soprano
Rocky
Marciano b. 1924 d. 1969 (plane crash) Boxer
HRH Princess Margaret
b. 1930 d. February 9, 2002 (complications of stroke) Younger sister of
Queen Elizabeth
Roger Maris b. 1934 d. 1985 (lymphatic
cancer) Baseball Player for New York Yankees
E.G. Marshall b. 1914
d. 1998 (heart failure) Actor - Lawrence Preston on the Defenders and
Arthur Thurmond on Chicago Hope
Thurgood Marshall b.1908 d. 1993
First African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Billy Martin b.
1928 d.1989 (car crash) NY Yankees manager
Dean Martin b. 1917 d.
1995 (acute respiratory failure) Singer/Actor - From the Rat Pack
Dean Paul Martin, Jr. b. 1951 d. 1987 (crashed his fighter jet)
Singer - Dino, Desi and Billy, son of Dean Martin
Mary Martin b.
1913 d. 1990 (cancer) Actress - Peter Pan, Sound of Music, Annie Get Your
Gun, mother of Larry Hagman
Ross Martin b. 1920 d. 1981(heart attack)
Actor - Artemus Gordon in The Wild Wild West
Strother Martin b.
1919 d. 1980 (heart attack) Actor - Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid
Lee Marvin b. 1924 d. 1987 (heart attack) Actor - Tim
Strawn/Kid Shelleen in Cat Ballou
Chico (Leonard) Marx b. 1887 d.
1961(heart attack) Actor/comedian - A Marx brother
Groucho (Julius)
Marx b. 1890 d. 1977 (pneumonia) Actor/comedian - A Marx brother
Gummo Marx b. 1893 d. 1977 Actor/comedian - A Marx brother
Harpo (Adolph Arthur) Marx b. 1888 d. S 1964 (complications from heart
surgery) Actor/comedian - A Marx brother
Zeppo (Herbert) Marx b.
1901 d. 1979 Actor/comedian - A Marx brother
James Mason b. 1909 d.
1984 (heart attack) Actor - Professor Humbert Humbert in Lolita
Raymond Massey b. 1896 d. 1983 (pneumonia) Actor - Dr. Leonard
Gillespie on Dr. Kildare
William H. Masters b. 1916 d. Feb. 16,
2001 Sexuality expert - half of Master and Johnson
Marcello
Mastroianni b. 1924 d. 1996 (pancreatic cancer) Actor - Marcello Rubini in
La Dolce Vita
Bob Mathias b. 1930 d. September 2, 2006
(cancer) Olympic decathlete and U.S. Congressman (1967-1975)
Walter
Matthau b. 1920 d. 2000 (cardiac arrest) Actor - Oscar Madison in the Odd
Couple
Victor Mature b. 1913 d. 1999 (cancer) Actor - Samson in
Samson and Delilah
Lois Maxwell b. 1927 d. September 29, 2007
(cancer) Miss Moneypenny in 14 James Bond films
Curtis Mayfield b.
1942 d. 1999 Actress -(complications from diabetes and quadriplegia caused by a
1990 onstage accident) Singer - Gypsy Woman
Ken Maynard b. 1895 d.
1973 (malnutrition) Western actor
Virginia Mayo b. 1920 d. January
17, 2005 (pneumonia and heart failure) Actress - The Secret Life of Walter
Mitty
Christa McAuliffe b. 1948 d. 1986 Teacher - Astronaut in the
Challenger crew
Lon McCalliser b. 1923 d. June 11, 2005 (heart
failure) Actor - Winged Victory
Mercedes McCambridge b. 1916 d. March
2, 2004 Actor - All the Kings Men, Giant
Eugene McCarthy b. 1916 d.
December 10, 2005 Presidential candidate (1968) and U.S. Senator
(1959-1971)
Joseph McCarthy b. 1908 d. 1957 U.S. Senator - Commie
witch hunter
Linda McCartney b. 1941 d. 1998 (breast cancer)
Singer/writer - Wife of Paul McCartney
Doug McClure b. 1935 d. 1995
(lung cancer) Actor - Trampas in the Virginian
Roddy McDowall b.
1928 d. 1998 (cancer) Actor - Cornelius in Planet of the Apes
Darren McGavin b. 1922 d. February 25, 2006 Actor - Carl Kolchak on
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Frank McGrath b. 1903 d. 1967 (heart attack)
Actor - Charlie Wooster on Wagon Train
John McIntire b.1907 d.1991
(emphysema and cancer) Actor - Christopher Hale on Wagon Train
Jim McKay b. 1921 d. 2008 (natural causes)Host of ABC's Wide
World of Sports ,best known for the line "the thrill of victory and the agony
of defeat"
Ronald C. "'Pigpen'" McKernan b. 1945 d. 1973 (liver
failure) Grateful Dead organist
Emily McLaughlin b. 1930 d. 1991
Actress - Nurse Jessie on General Hospital
Butterfly McQueen b.
1911 d. 1995 (fire) Actress - Prissy in Gone with the Wind
Steve
McQueen b. 1930 d. 1980 (heart attack after cancer surgery) Actor - Josh
Randall in Wanted: Dead or Alive
Margaret Mead b.1901 d. 1978
Antropologist/writer
Vaughn Meader b. 1936 d. October 29, 2004
(chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) JFK satirist
Audrey Meadows
b. 1926 d. 1996 (cancer) Actress - Alice Kramden on the Honeymooners
Golda Meir b. 1898 d. 1978 (Septicemia) Prime Minister of Israel
Arthur "Spud" Melin b.1925 d. June 28, 2002 Inventor - co-created
Hula Hoop and Frisbee, founded Wham-O
Sam Melville b. 1936 d. 1989
(heart failure) Actor - Officer Mike Danko in The Rookies
Johnny
Mercer b. 1909 d. 1976 Lyricist - Days of Wine and Roses,
Charade
Ismail Merchant b. 1936 d. May 25, 2005 (surgical
complications) Producer - With James Ivory; The Remains of the Day, Howards
End
Freddie Mercury b. 1946 d. 1991(AIDS) Singer - Queen
Burgess Meredith b. 1907 d. 1997 (Melanoma and Alzheimer's disease) Actor -
Mickey in Rocky
Melina Merkouri b. 1925 d. 1994 Actress - Member of
Parliament and Minister of Culture of Greece
Ethel Merman b. 1909 d.
1984 Singer/actress - Gypsy, Annie Get Your Gun
David Merrick b.
1911 d. 2000 Producer of Broadway plays - Hello Dolly!, 42nd Street, 110 in
the Shade
Gary Merrill b. 1915 d. 1990 (lung cancer) Actor - Bill
Sampson in All About Eve, married Bette Davis
Dale Messick b. 1906 d.
April 5, 2005 Cartoonist - Brenda Starr
Tammy Faye (Bakker) Messner
b.1942 d. July 20, 2007 (cancer) Fomer wife of TV preacher Jim
Bakker
Grace Metalious b. 1924 d. 1964 (liver disease) Writer -
Peyton Place
James A. Michener b. 1907 d. 1997 (kidney failure)
Writer - Tales of the South Pacific, Space, Hawaii
George Mikan b.
1924 d. June 1, 2005 (diabetes and kidney ailments) Basketball Center -
Minneapolis Lakers
John Milford b. 1929 d. 2000 (melanoma) Actor - a
hundred parts in a hundred shows
Ann Miller b. 1923 d. Jaunary 22, 2004
(lung cancer) Actress/dancer - On the Town, Easter Parade and Sugar
Babies Arthur Miller b. 1915 d. February 10, 2005 (heart
failure) Playright - Death of a Salesman;Married to Marilyn Monroe
1956-1961
Henry Miller b. 1891 d. 1980 (heart failure) Writer -
Tropic of Cancer
Roger Miller b. 1936 d. 1992 (throat cancer)
Singer - King of the Road, Dang Me, Chug-A-Lug
Donald Mills b. 1915
d. 1999 (pneumonia) Singer - The Mills Brothers
Harry Mills b. 1913
d. 1982 (pneumonia) Singer - The Mills Brothers
Sir John Mills b.
1908 d. April 23, 2005 Brisitsh actor - "Ryan's Daughter"; father of Haley,
Juliet and Jonathan Mills
Herbert Mills b. 1912 d. 1989 (pneumonia)
Singer - The Mills Brothers
Slobodan Milosevic b. 1942 d. March 11,
2006 Tyrant - Butcher of the Balkans
Sal Mineo b. 1939 d. 1976
(murdered/stabbing) Actor - Dov Landau in Exodus
Jan Miner b. 1917
d.February 15, 2004 (natural causes) Actress - Madge the manicurist in the
Palmolive ads
Vincente Minnelli b. 1903 d. 1986 Director/producer -
Father of Liza Minnelli, husband of Judy Garland
Cameron Mitchell b.
1918 d. 1994 (lung cancer) Actor - Buck on High Chaparral
Guy
Mitchell b. 1925 d. 1999 (complications after surgery) Singer/actor -
Heartaches by the Number
Martha Mitchell b. 1918 d. 1976 Wategate
gossip - Wife of Attorney General John Mitchell
Robert Mitchum b. 1917
d. 1997 (emphysema and lung cancer) Actor - Victor 'Pug' Henry in Winds of
War
François Mitterrand b. 1916 d. 1996 (prostate cancer)
Twenty-first president of the French Republic from 1981 to 1995
Art
Mix b. 1896 d. 1972 Western Actor
John Paul "Jay" Monahan b. 1956
d. 1998 (colon cancer) NBC legal analyst - Husband of Katie Couric
Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jeane Baker) b. 1926 d. 1962 (suicide?)
Actress - The Misfits
Montie Montana b. 1910 d. 1998 (stroke)
Western actor
Yves Montand b. 1921 d. 1991(heart attack) Actor
- Jean-Marc Clement in Let's Make Love
Hugo Montenegro b. 1925. d. 1981
(emphysema) Composer - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Elizabeth
Montgomery b. 1933 d. 1995 (cancer) Actress - Samantha Stephens in
Bewitched
George Montgomery b. 1916 d. December 12, 2000 Actor -
Matt Rockford in Cimarron City
Keith Moon b. 1946 d. 1978 (drugs)
Musician - The Who
Archie Moore b. 1913 d. 1998(heart failure)
Boxer
Clayton Moore b. 1914 d. 1999 (heart attack) Actor - The
Lone Ranger
Dudley Moore b. 1935 d. March 27, 2002 (pneumonia as a
complication of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) Actor - Arthur and
10
Garry Moore b. 1915 d. 1993 (emphysema) Actor/host - To Tell the
Truth, I've Got a Secret
Agnes Moorehead b. 1906 d. 1974 (cancer)
Actress - Endora, Samantha's mother on Bewitched
Henry Morgan b.
1915 d. 1994 Actor/panelist - I've Got a Secret
Pat Morita b. 1932
d. November 24, 2005 (natural causes) Actor - Arnold on Happy Days and Mr.
Miyagi in The Karate Kid
Greg Morris b. 1934 d. 1996 (cancer) Actor
- Barney Collier on Mission Impossible
Howard Morris b. 1919 d. May 21,
2005 (heart problem) Actor/director - Ernest T. Tubbs on the
Andy Griffith
Show
Morris The Cat, I. b. 1968. d. 1978 Cat actor known for 9
Lives commercials
Jim Morrison b. 1943 d. 1971 (drugs) Musician -
The Doors
Barry Morse b. 1918 d. February 2, 2008 Actor - Lt. Philip
Gerard on The Fugitive
Vic Morrow b. 1929 d. 1982 (Killed by helicopter
blade while filming Twilight Zone: The Movie) Actor - Sergeant Chip
Saunders on Combat!
Gary Morton b. 1921 d. 1999 (lung cancer)
Husband of Lucille Ball
Daniel Partick Moynihan b. 1927 d. March
26, 2003 (infection stemming from a ruptured appendix ) U.S. Senator from
New York
Mr. Ed b. in the 50s d. 1979 Animal actor - Mr. Ed
Edward Mulhare b. 1923 d. 1997 (lung cancer) Actor - Capt. Daniel Gregg
(the Ghost) in the Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Richard Mulligan b.1932 d. 2000
(colon cancer) Actor - Burt Campbell on Soap and Dr. Harry Weston on Empty
Nest
Audie Murphy b. 1924 d. 1971(plane crash) Actor - Most
decorated soldier in WWII, including Medal of Honor, starred in Whispering
Smith
Jan Murray b. 1916 d. July 2, 2006 Comic host - Treasure
Hunt
(Edward R. Murrow b. 1908 d. 1965 Journalist
Edmund
Muskie b. 1914 d. 1996 (heart attack) Vice-Presidential candidate with
Hubert Humphrey in 1968 |
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