Henry M. Wade b. 1914 d. March 1, 2001
Dallas Prosecutor - the Wade in Roe v. Wade

Porter Wagoner b. 1927 d. October 28, 2007 (lung cancer)
Country Singer and Grand Ole Opry star

Jimmy Wakely b. 1914 d. 1982 (heart failure)
Country singer/actor

Jersey Joe Walcott b. 1914 d. 1994
Boxer - Heavyweight Champion

Nancy Walker b. 1921 d. 1992 (lung cancer)
Actress - Ida on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda, Bounty paper towel spokeswoman

George C Wallace b. 1919 d. 1998 (heart failure)
Governor of Alabama, Presidential candidate in 1968,1972 and 1976

Irving Wallace b. 1916 d. 1990 (pancreatic cancer)
Writer - The Prize, the Chapman Report and others

Jerry Wallace b.1928 d. 2008 (heart disease)
Muscian, 1950's country & western star

Lurleen B. Wallace b. 1926 d. 1968
Alabama Governor - Wife of George C. Wallace

Karl Wallenda b.1905 d. 1978 (fell!)
High wire circus performer

Eddy Waller b. 1889 d. 1977 (stroke)
Western Actor

Deborah Walley b. 1943 d. May 10, 2001 (esophageal cancer)
Actress - Gidget Goes Hawaiian

Wallis (Simpson), Duchess of Windsor b. 1896 d. 1986
King Edward VIII of England abdicated the throne for her

J. T Walsh b. 1943 d. 1998 (heart attack)
Actor - John Ehrlichman in Nixon

Bill Walsh b. 1931 d. July 31, 2007 (leukemia)
Legendary coach of the San Francisco 49ers

Ray Walston b. 1914 d. January 1, 2001 (lupus)
Actor - My Favorite Martian and Judge Henry Bone on Picket Fences

John Walton b. 1947 d. June 27, 2005 (plane crash)
Wal-Mart heir, Sam Walton's son

Sam Wanamaker b. 1919 d. 1993 (cancer)
Actor/director

Andy Warhol b. 1928 d. 1987 (complications of surgery)
Artist

Jack Warden b. 1920 d. July 19, 2006 (heart and kidney failure)
Actor - Crazy Like a Fox and Heaven Can Wait

Jack Warner b. 1892 d. 1978 (pulmonary edema)
Warner Brothers President

Earl Warren b. 1891 d. 1974
Chief Justice, US Supreme Court 1953-1969

Robert Penn Warren b. 1905 d. 1989
Writer - All the King's Men

Ruth Warrick b. 1915 d. January 15, 2005 (complications from pneumonia)
Actress - Phoebe Wallingford on All My Children

Harold Washington b. 1922 d. 1987
First Black Mayor of Chicago

Ethel Waters b. 1896 d. 1977 (heart disease)
Actress - Beulah

Muddy Waters b. 1915 d. 1983
Musician - I Got My Mojo Working

Thomas Watson, Jr. b. 1914 d. 1993
Made IBM B-I-G

Bernie Wayne b. 1919 d. 1993
Songwriter - Miss America theme and Blue Velvet

John Wayne (Marion Michael Morrison) b. 1907 d. 1979 (lung and stomach cancer)
Actor - The Duke

David Wayne b. 1914 d. 1995 (lung cancer)
Actor - Dr. Amos Wetherby on House Calls

Rudd Weatherwax d. 1985 b. 1915
Dog trainer - Lassie

Dennis Weaver b. 1924 d. February 24, 2006 (cancer)
Actor - Chester Goode onGunsmoke and Sam McCloud on McCloud

Sylvester "Pat" Weaver b. 1908 d. March 15, 2002 (pneumonia)
TV Pioneer, created Today show - father of Sigourney Weaver

Jack Webb b. 1920 d. 1982 (heart attack)
Actor - Sgt. Joe Friday on Dragnet

Caspar Weinberger b. 1917 d. March 28, 2006 (pneumonia)
Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan

Johnny Weissmuller b. 1904 d. 1984 (series of strokes)
Swimming champion and actor - Tarzan and Jungle Jim

Lawrence Welk b. March 11, 1903 d. 1992 (pneumonia)
Musician/Bandleader - The Lawrence Welk Show 1955-1982

Orson Welles b. 1915 d. 1985 (heart attack)
Actor/Director - Citizen Cane

Mary Wells b. 1943 d. 1992 (throat cancer)
Singer - My Guy

Vince Welnick b. 1951 d. June 2, 2006
Keyboard Player for the Grateful Dead

Dottie West b. 1932 d. 1991 (car accident)
Country Singer

Mae West b. 1893 d. 1980 (complications from stroke)
Actress and sex symbol

Gen. Wiliam Westmoreland b. 1914 d. July 18, 2005
Leader of the U.S. forces in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968

Jack Weston b. 1924 d. 1996
Actor - Max Kellerman in Dirty Dancing

Barry White b. 1944 d. July 4, 2003 (kidney failure as a result of high blood failure)
Singer - Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" and "You're the First, the Last, My Everything."

David White b. 1916 d. 1990 (heat attack)
Actor - Larry Tate on Bewitched

Lt. Col. Edward White II b. 1930 d. 1967
Astronaut - died in Apollo 1 fire

Jesse White b. 1917 d. 1997
Actor - the Maytag repairman

Reggie White b. 1961 d. December 26, 2004 (heart attack)
Defensive end for the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers from 1985-1998

James Whitmore b.1921 d. 2009 (lung cancer)
Actor, portrayed Will Rogers on stage

Richard Widmark b.1914 d. 2008
Actor, Director/ nominated for an Academy Award for Kiss of Death

Mary Wickes b. 1910 d. 1995 (complications of surgery)
Actress - Sister Mary Lazarus in Sister Act (1&2)

Richard Widmark b. 1914 d. March 24, 2008
Actor - How the West Was Won and Madigan
Simon Wiesenthal b. 1908 d. September 20, 2005
Holocaust survivor who devoted his life to hunting Nazi war criminals

Frank Wilcox b. 1907 d. 1974
Actor - John Brewster on the Beverly Hillbillies

Cornel Wilde b. 1915 d. 1989 (leukemia)
Actor - The Great Sebastian in Greatest Show on Earth

Roy Wilkins b. 1901 d. 1981
Civil Rights Leader

Billy Williams b. 1915 d. 1992 (brain tumor)
Actor - Kit Carson, father, with Barbara Hale of William Katt

Grant Williams b. 1930 d. 1985 (peritonitis)
Actor - Scott Carey in The Incredible Shrinking Man

Guy Williams b. 1924 d. 1989 (brain aneurysm)
Actor - Zorro and Prof. John Robinson on Lost in Space

Paul Williams b. 1939 d. 1973 (suicide - shooting)
Singer - Temptations, asked to leave band due to drinking problem

Roy Williams b. 1907 d. 1976
"The Big Moosketeer" on the Mickey Mouse Club

Ted Williams b. 1918 d. July 5, 2002 (heart failure)
Baseball legend - 2 time triple crown winner, Boston Red Sox

Tennessee Williams b. 1911 d. 1983 (accidental asphyxiation while drunk)
Writer - Streecar Named Desire, Glass Menagerie and more

Tex Williams b. 1917 . d. 1985
Country Singer/Songwriter

Boxcar Willie b. 1932 d. 1999 (leukemia)
Country singer

Noble Willingham b. 1931 d. January 17, 2004 (natural causes)
Actor - C. D. Parker on Walker, Texas Ranger

August Wilson b. 1945 d. October 2, 2005 (liver cancer)
Playwright - "Fences" and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom"

Dick WIlson b. 1916 d. November 19, 2007
Actor - Mr. Whipple of over 500 Charmin ads

Meredith Wilson, b. 1902 d. 1984(heart failure)
Composer - The Music Man, The Unsinkable Molly Brown and more

Carl Wilson b. 1946 d. 1998 (brain cancer)
Musician - The Beach Boys

Dennis Wilson b. 1944 d. 1983 (drowning)
Musician - The Beach Boys

Flip Wilson b. 1933 d. 1998 (liver cancer)
Actor/Comedian

Harold Wilson b. 1916 d. 1995 (cancer)
British Prime Minister, 1964-1970 and 1974-1976

Jackie Wilson b. 1934 d. 1984 (stroke)
Singer - Lonely Teardrops, Higher and Higher

Terry Wilson b. 1923 d. 1999
Stuntman/Actor - Bill Hawks on Wagon Train

Paul Winchell b. 192 d. June 24, 2005 (natural causes)
Ventriloquist - voice of Tigger in Walt Disney's "Winnie-the-Pooh"; "The Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney Show"

Walter Winchell b. 1897 d. 1972
Journalist

Paul Winfield b. 1941 d. March 7, 2004 (heart attack)
Actor - Sounder, King, Roots: The Next Generation

Edward Winter b. 1937 d. 2001 (Parkinson's disease)
Actor - Col. Samuel Flagg in M*A*S*H

Shelley Winters b. 1920 d. January 14, 2006 (heart failure)
Actor - The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue

Robert Wise b. 1914 d. September 14, 2005 (heart failure)
Producer/director - West Side Story and Sound of Music

Ed Wood b. 1914 d. 1978 (heart failure)
Dubbed worst director of all time

Evelyn Wood b. 1909 d. 1995
Speed reading guru

Natalie Wood b. 1938 d. 1981 (drowning)
Actress - Rebel Without A Cause, West Side Story - wife of Robert Wagner

Earl Woods b. 1932 d. May 3, 2006 (prostate cancer)
Father of golfer Tiger Woods, age 74

Georgie Woods b. 1927 d. June 18, 2005 (heart attack)
Legendary Philadelphia radio broadcaster,"The Guy With the Goods" on WDAS and WHAT

Rose Mary Woods b.1918 d. January 22, 2005
Secretary to Richard Nixon who took blame for 18 ½ minute gap in tapes

Sheb Wooley b. 1921 d. September 16, 2003 (leukemia)
Actor/songwriter - Pete Nolan on Rawhide, wrote "Flying Purple People Eater

Hank Worden b. 1901 d. 1992
Western actor

Fay Wray b. 1907 d. August 8, 2004
Actress - King Kong

Richard Wright b.1943 d. 2008 (cancer)
Muscian- keyboardist for Pink Floyd

Teresa Wright b. 1918 d. March 6, 2005 (heart attack)
Actress - Mrs. Miniver, Shadow of a Doubt, The Best Years of Our Lives

Jane Wyatt b. 1910 d. October 20, 2006
Actress - Margaret Anderson on Father Knows Best

William Wyler b. 1902 d. 1981
Director - Ben Hur, Roman Holiday, Funny Girl

Jane Wyman b. 1917 d. September 10, 2007
Actress - Angela Channing on "Falcon Crest") and 1st wife of Ronald Reagan

Tammy Wynette b. 1942 d. 1998 (blood clot - died in her sleep)
Country Singer

Keenan Wynn b.1916 d. 1986 (cancer)
Actor