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

Karl Malden b. 1912 d. 2009 (natural causes)
Actor - Lt. Mike Stone on The Streets of San Francisco

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 mime

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

Dick Martin b.1922 d. 2008 (breathing complications)
Comedian- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Mary Martin b. 1913 d. 1990 (cancer)
Actress - Peter Pan, Sound of Music, Annie Get Your Gun, mother of Larry Hagman

Nan Martin b. 1927 d. 2010
Actress - known for her strong roles, played Mrs. Lauder on the Drew Carey Show

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

Al Martino b. 1927 d. 2009
Italian Singer & Actor, Johnny Fontaine in the Godfather movies

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

Billy Mays b. 1958 d. 2009 (heart failure)
TV Salesman for "as seen on tv" products including Oxi-clean

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

Rue McClanahan b. 1934 d. 2010 (stroke)
Actress, won an Emmy for portraying Blanche Deveraux on "Golden Girls"

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

Patrick McGoohan b. 1928 d. 2009
Actor - The Prisoner & Danger Man

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

Ed McMahon b.1923 d. 2009 (bone cancer)
Announcer/TV Host - sidekick to Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show for thirty years

Robert McNamara b. 1916 d. 2009 (natural causes)
Defense Secretary under both Presidents Kennedy and Johnson

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

Mitch Miller b. 1911 d. 2010
Singer, Conductor, Musician - "Sing Along with Mitch" TV Show 1961 - 1966

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

James Mitchell b. 1920 d. 2010 (pulmonary disease)
actor, dancer - portrayed Palmer Cortlandt on "All My Children" also was a ballet dancer

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

Ricardo Montalban b. 1920 d. January 14, 2009 (aging)
Actor - Fantasy Island

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

Anna Karen Morrow b. 1914 d. 2009 (aging)
Actress - portrayed Mrs Chernak on "Peyton Place"

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

Brittany Murphy b. 1977 d. 2009 (cardiac arrest??)
Actor and singer - Girl Interrupted, 8 Mile, Sin City also produced an award winning dance song

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